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She banged her shin against the edge of the bed, and it really hurt.
In an organ, or flute, the air, which is driven through the pipe, strikes against the edge of the lips of the instrument in its passage, and by being accumulated there, is condensed, and this condensation produces waves or pulses in the air.
In the latter case the work is done by pressing the glass against the edge of a minute copper wheel.
He ran in, and in a small room between the closet and bedchamber he found the King on the floor, who had cut the right side of his face against the edge of a bureau, and who after a gasp expired.
This, humoured by me, Begone, devil!--Officious devil, begone!--startled the dear creature: who, snatching up hastily her head from the chair, and as hastily popping it down again in terror, hit her nose, I suppose, against the edge of the chair; and it gushed out with blood, running in a stream down her bosom; she herself was too much frighted to heed it! They may compress two years of a child's history on one side of a ruled half-sheet of foolscap paper, if they cause each successive line to stand for a successive month, beginning from the birth of the child; and if they economise space by laying, not the 0-inch division of the tape against the edge of the pages, but, say, the 10-inch division.
The armies of the young sunrise in mountain-lands neighbouring the plains, vast shadows, were marching over woods and meads, black against the edge of golden; and great heights were cut with them, and bounding waters took the leap in a silvery radiance to gloom; the bright and dark-banded valleys were like night and morning taking hands down the sweep of their rivers.
This wheel (Fig. 34) is milled at the edge like a shilling, and when I turn it rapidly so that it strikes against the edge of the card fixed behind it, the notches strike in rapid succession, and produce a musical sound.
e of voice, as though to himself, his eyes keen and brilliant as ever, in spite of the marks of sleeplessness and fatigue visible in the rest of the face, though only visible there since he had allowed himself the repose of his cigarette and arm-chair. "Are yo' comin' to dine at the 'Peterloo' to-night, Mr. Wharton?" said Wilkins, as Wharton handed him a cup of coffee; "but of coorse you are-part of yower duties, I suppose?" While Molloy and Casey were deep in animated discussion of the great meeting of the afternoon he had been sitting silent against the edge of the table-a short-bearded sombre figure, ready at any moment to make a grievance, to suspect a slight. "I'm afraid I can't," said Wharton, bending forward and speaking in a tone of concern; "that was just what I was going to ask you all-if you would make my excuses to-night? Quentin, was here!" Ormiston exclaimed. "But she is not, and won't be, alas." "Well, then, who remains?" As the doctor spoke he pressed his fingers against the edge of the table, leaned forward, and looked keenly at Ormiston.
Sophy. [Leaning against the edge of the circular table, gripping Muriel's hand.] Just for your sake, darling. [In a low voice.] I almost wish I could come across him in some quiet little shady spot- Muriel. [Looking up at Sophy, horrified.] What! The Psammead had blown itself out to about three times its proper size, and now it collapsed like a pricked bubble, and with a deep sigh leaned back against the edge of its sand-pool, quite faint with the effort. 'There!' it said in a weak voice; 'it was tremendously hard - but I did it.
There was no green to be seen, and no sign of the people except these beehive-like roofs, and the outline of a Dun that stood out above them against the edge of the sky.
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