While the two were reclining in their chamber, Venus wishing to discover if the Cat in her change of shape had also altered her habits of life,
let down a mouse in the middle of the room.
'
Let down,
let down thy petticoat That lets thy feet be seen.'
For the strain constantly kept up by the windlass continually keeps the whale rolling over and over in the water, and as the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the scarf, simultaneously cut by the spades of Starbuck and Stubb, the mates; and just as fast as it is thus peeled off, and indeed by that very act itself, it is all the time being hoisted higher and higher aloft till its upper end grazes the main-top; the men at the windlass then cease heaving, and for a moment or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if
let down from the sky, and every one present must take good heed to dodge it when it swings, else it may box his ears and pitch him headlong overboard.
And when she came to the meadow, she sat down upon a bank there, and
let down her waving locks of hair, which were all of pure silver; and when Curdken saw it glitter in the sun, he ran up, and would have pulled some of the locks out, but she cried:
The boy cautiously
let down the window a little way.
Agafea Mihalovna went out on tiptoe; the nurse
let down the blind, chased a fly out from under the muslin canopy of the crib, and a bumblebee struggling on the window-frame, and sat down waving a faded branch of birch over the mother and the baby.
Don Quixote had got so far with his song, to which the duke, the duchess, Altisidora, and nearly the whole household of the castle were listening, when all of a sudden from a gallery above that was exactly over his window they
let down a cord with more than a hundred bells attached to it, and immediately after that discharged a great sack full of cats, which also had bells of smaller size tied to their tails.
But when she
let down her hair, which she did now and then, for she was vain of it, you saw that it was long and dark and curly; and her eyes had remained young and vivacious.
"Won't your father miss you, and look for you, and
let down another rainbow for you?"
'Twas the work of but a few moments more to open the gates,
let down the bridge, and admit the rest of the band; and they lot inside the town so quietly that none knew of their coming.
I had done this, and had
let down my sheets, when a movement below turned my heart to ice.
The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and
let down the bar.