Stretched
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He went down frowning to his rooms, and taking a seat beside Yashvin, who sat with his long legs
stretched
out on a chair drinking brandy and seltzer, ordered the same for himself.
So he
stretched
a point and said they would hardly find anything there.
Even Laska, sleeping curled into a ring on a corner of the hay heap, got up reluctantly, and lazily
stretched
and adjusted first one hind leg and then the other.
The players, having chosen their partners, took their places on the carefully levelled and rolled croquet lawn, on the two sides of a net
stretched
between two small gilded pillars.
In Moscow he sometimes noticed some grey hairs; fell asleep after dinner;
stretched
himself; walked slowly upstairs, breathing heavily; felt dull among young women, and did not dance at balls.
At the sight of the tender and the rails, and under the influence of conversation with some one he had not met since the catastrophe, he suddenly remembered her; that is, remembered what was left of her when; like a madman, he ran into the railway shed where on a table,
stretched
out shamelessly before the eyes of strangers, lay the mangled body still warm with recent life.
She
stretched
herself, she fidgeted her two hands in the red hair which covered her forehead and neck.
Stretched
on their sides they hammered more loudly, with the one fixed idea of filling a large number of trams.
They were beginning to unfasten him when Bataille, who had just been unharnessed, approached and
stretched
out his neck to smell this companion who lay on the earth.
On a square sign-board nailed above the door, one read in yellow letters: A l'Avantage, licensed to Rasseneur.Behind
stretched
a skittle-ground enclosed by a hedge.
Already the father and mother had
stretched
themselves out in the depths of their large easy-chairs.
On the Marchiennes side the road unrolled its two leagues of pavement, which
stretched
straight as a ribbon soaked in cart grease between the reddish fields.
In the dining-room the mother and children stood motionless, dazed by the sudden heat, and very constrained beneath the gaze of this old lady and gentleman, who were
stretched
out in their easy-chairs.
The lady and gentleman were silent, softly
stretched
out, and gradually wearied and disquieted by the exhibition of this wretchedness.
Then he saw one by one the voluptuous noses of all the girls of Montsou rising up around him, while he had to be careful not to knock against the limbs
stretched
out level with the paths.
She called all the miners her children; and grew tender at the thought of the flood of beer which she had poured out for them during the last thirty years; and she boasted also that a putter never became pregnant without having first
stretched
her legs at her establishment.
She would hasten without looking at him, and in ten seconds was undressed and
stretched
beside Alzire, with so supple and snake-like a movement that he had scarcely taken off his shoes when she disappeared, turning her back and only showing her heavy knot of hair.
But Mother Brulé thought this cowardly of her son-in-law; she was among the enraged, lean and erect in the midst of the group, with her fists
stretched
towards Montsou.
They all turned, and in the rush took the right-hand road, which
stretched
far away through the fields.
And the women, in this savage rivalry, struggled and
stretched
out their rags, as though each were trying to get a morsel of this rich girl.
The abuse increased, while the dead man,
stretched
on his back, gazed motionless with his large fixed eyes at the immense sky from which the night was falling.
He
stretched
out his arm at random.
" Without replying, Chaval, after a few minutes' stupefaction, moved on the ground and
stretched
his limbs.
And he remained with neck
stretched
out, his vague beast's memory perhaps recalling the things of the earth.
A stone having bounded back and struck the old soldier with the stripes beneath the belly, his cheeks turned green, and his weapon trembled as he
stretched
it out at the end of his lean arms.
Fists were
stretched
towards him, mothers spitefully pointed him out to their boys, old men spat as they looked at him.
The other
stretched
out an icy hand.
With his bleeding head
stretched
out, he still sought for some crack with his great troubled eyes.
The flood was drowning his mane, and his cry of distress never ceased; he uttered it more hoarsely, with his large open mouth
stretched
out.
They
stretched
themselves out again, and the hours continued to pass by.
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