She made this sacrifice as a matter of religious etiquette; as a thing necessary just now, but by no means to be wrested into a precedent; no, a week or two would
limber up her piety, then she would be rational again, and the next two dollars that got left out in the cold would find a comforter--and she could name the comforter.
As the
limber gunners went to the rear, his horse trod in a rabbit hole and came down, throwing him into a depression of the ground.
But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long,
limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
"I reckon," Wade analysed laboriously, "it's because I'm gettin' less able all the time and he's growing so fast--him
limber an' quick, and me all thumbs.
While Captain Van Horn, taking advantage of the calm to exercise the boat's crew with the fire-arms and to
limber up the weapons, was passing out the Lee-Enfields from their place on top the cabin skylight, Jerry suddenly crouched and began to stalk stiff-legged.
"I used to sneak out of my window when I was a boy, so I need not disturb the aunts, and now I rather like it, for it's the shortest road, and it keeps me
limber when I have no rigging to climb.
I had no ropes, and could hit on nothing wherewith to make ropes; none of the abundant creepers seemed
limber or strong enough, and with all my litter of scientific education I could not devise any way of making them so.
