Bear in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts, and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its
insertion into the skull.
How great a difference is made by the appropriate use of lengthening, may be seen in Epic poetry by the
insertion of ordinary forms in the verse.
But once, the mood was on him too deep for common regardings; and as with heavy, lumber-like pace he was measuring the ship from taffrail to mainmast, Stubb, the odd second mate, came up from below, and with a certain unassured, deprecating humorousness, hinted that if Captain Ahab was pleased to walk the planks, then, no one could say nay; but there might be some way of muffling the noise; hinting something indistinctly and hesitatingly about a globe of tow, and the
insertion into it, of the ivory heel.
On the contrary, when he saw more of Captain Wentworth, saw him repeatedly by daylight, and eyed him well, he was very much struck by his personal claims, and felt that his superiority of appearance might be not unfairly balanced against her superiority of rank; and all this, assisted by his well-sounding name, enabled Sir Walter at last to prepare his pen, with a very good grace, for the
insertion of the marriage in the volume of honour.
Volumnia, growing with the flight of time pinker as to the red in her face, and yellower as to the white, reads to Sir Leicester in the long evenings and is driven to various artifices to conceal her yawns, of which the chief and most efficacious is the
insertion of the pearl necklace between her rosy lips.
The gouty old admiral who had been finding fault, was completely won over by the singular man before him, and immediately moved the
insertion of Dr.
Theo's to tell her to use mauve
insertion instead of pink.
The mossless spots were places where repairs had been made by the
insertion of bright new masses of yellow straw.
Their text, again, is often interrupted by the
insertion of brief phrases explanatory of unusual words.
The face, horribly seared by the frequent application of the red-hot poker, and further ornamented by the
insertion, in the tip of the nose, of a tenpenny nail, yet smiled blandly in its less lacerated parts, and seemed, like a sturdy martyr, to provoke its tormentor to the commission of new outrages and insults.
Lecount's acknowledgment of the captain's anonymous warning was now on its way to
insertion in the Times.
For my own part, at every new view I take of the subject, I become more convinced of the reality of the obstacles which, we are authoritatively informed, prevented the
insertion of a provision on this head in the plan of the convention.