Pressed
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He stood
pressed
closely against the table, the press of the crowd behind him was so great that he had to press back against it if he did not want to push the judge's desk down off the podium and perhaps the judge along with it.
"So," called out K, throwing his arms in the air as if this sudden realisation needed more room, "all of you are working for this organisation, I see now that you are all the very bunch of cheats and liars I've just been speaking about, you've all
pressed
yourselves in here in order to listen in and snoop on me, you gave the impression of having formed into factions, one of you even applauded me to test me out, and you wanted to learn how to trap an innocent man!
Well, I hope you haven't come here for nothing, I hope you've either had some fun from someone who expected you to defend his innocence or else - let go of me or I'll hit you," shouted K. to a quivery old man who had
pressed
himself especially close to him - "or else that you've actually learned something.
The student briefly looked away from the woman to glance at K. over his shoulder but did allow himself to be disturbed, in fact he even
pressed
himself close to the woman and put his arms around her.
The odd thing about the picture was that this judge was not sitting there in dignified calm but had his left arm
pressed
against the back and armrest, his right arm, however, was completely free and only grasped the armrest with his hand, as if about to jump up any moment in vigorous outrage and make some decisive comment or even to pass sentence.
As he
pressed
it he glanced up to the clock.
They were probably
pressed
around the keyhole, perhaps they could even see into the room through the gaps in the planks.
The painter even seemed to misunderstand why K. remained at the edge of the bed and urged K. to make himself comfortable, and as he hesitated he went over to the bed himself and
pressed
K. deep down into the bedclothes and pillows.
K. staggered more than he walked, his handkerchief
pressed
over his mouth.
called out the painter with a laugh as the girls
pressed
in.
As K.
pressed
on the button for the second time he looked back at the other door, but this time it, too, remained closed.
Someone unlocked the door, but kept himself
pressed
against it as he called back inside, "It's him!", and only then did he open the door properly.
The businessman was sitting on the chair that K. had directed him to, he had extinguished the candle whose light was no longer needed and
pressed
on the wick with his fingers to stop the smoke.
K. looked down at the steps which,
pressed
close against the column, led up to the pulpit.
Whenever they passed under a lamp K. tried to see his companions more clearly, as far as was possible when they were
pressed
so close together, as in the dim light of his room this had been hardly possible.
Perhaps his parents were sat at the table whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all
pressed
against the door and listening.
Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand
pressed
against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by a steady and invisible force.
Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had pulled open a window, leant far out of it and
pressed
her hands to her face.
One side of his body lifted itself, he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air while those on the other side were
pressed
painfully against the ground.
It
pressed
down on his back a little, and he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too broad to get it all underneath.
That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his mind in his present state,
pressed
upright against the door and listening.
With his head and legs pulled in against him and his body
pressed
to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself that he could not stand all of this much longer.
He hurried up onto the picture and
pressed
himself against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot belly.
She answered him with subdued voice, and openly
pressed
her face into his chest: "Mother's fainted, but she's better now.
So he fled to the door of his room and
pressed
himself against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would disappear.
When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they stood
pressed
against each other.
He urged them and
pressed
them until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt.
His mother lay in her chair with her legs stretched out and
pressed
against each other, her eyes nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father with her arms around his neck.
All of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then
pressed
her face against her father's arm.
He
pressed
her hand as he spoke, and looking back, while in the act of closing the door, exclaimed, "Be true to your country - be American."
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