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I have very bad posture.
Hesitated; swooped again; hesitated again; swooped once more
He who limps is still walking.
All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not.
He shifted his weight, and she saw he was leaning on a cane. It was hard to reconcile this infirmity with the muscled brute he appeared to be, but of course there was no way that strength could compensate for a partially missing limb.
Stiff shoulders humped over the writing-table, and the ache of a heart slow to move. A tortoise heart.
kneeling down in front of
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
I slouched, but this didn't help. Mary Hall stood
But the hobbledehoy, though he blushes when women address him, and is uneasy even when he is near them, though he is not master ofhis limbs in a ball-room, and is hardly master of his tongue at any time, is the most eloquent of beings, and especially eloquent among beautiful women.
With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.
Pete sat half up,
Frail but never weak.
A man who has a head and hands is seldom left long in a state of destitution.
The demented strutting of a dumb bird in the moonlight.
She was all slump and sag her spirit withering like a tuckering weed shambling for a way out
I like it when I strut.Strut-- Delta Burke
Some men live with an invisible limp,
stagger, or drag
a leg. Their sons are often angry.
The reality is: when you're slouched over, not only are you not using the full potential of your brain, but you look untrustworthy.
The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in his gait which inclined him somewhat to the left of a straight line.
How can I lean on you when you're lying down?
She was one of those invalids who has to lie down a lot, and sometimes can't lift a bread knife, but can shift a mahogany wardrobe if the fancy is upon her to see it in a different place.
crippled. He'd been better as soon as his hooves were trimmed.
What would a chair look like if your knees bent the other way?
I was growlin' one day 'cause I was so bent up and crooked; an'what do ye s'pose the little thing said? ... She said I could be glad, anyhow, that I didn't have ter stoop so far ter do my weedin' - 'cause I was already bent part way over.
stuttering over your words.
I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.'
It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."'
It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing.
He limps in his life like the lame man in the Proverbs, whose legs were not equal, for his praying is shorter than his preaching.
Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.
What flaw could you possibly find in his appearance?"
"His posture," Hannah muttered.
"What about it?"
"He slouches."
"He's an American. They all slouch. The weight of their wallets drags them over.
A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation.
Reclined legs don't get fed, they get limp like boiled spaghetti. Walk it out!
skinny as horsehair in a glass of milk
out. May propped the
Skinny as a fence post.
So limp of brain that for them to conceive an idea is to risk a haemorrhage. So limp of body that their purple dresses appear no more indicative of housing nerves and sinews than when they hang suspended from their hooks.
The oppressed grows weightless: doze/n th/rough c/and/or man/aged leg/ions stud/ents
I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.
Four grabs a bar with each hand and pulls himself up, easy, like he's sitting up in bed. But he is not comfortable or natural here
every muscle in his arm stands out. it is a stupid thing for me to think when I am one hundred feet off the ground.
(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.
shoulder cast climbed
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing.
An old man in poor health, like my rival, could not be expected to be so impressively feeble as a young actor in the prime of life. You see, he really had paralysis, and working within this definite limitation, he couldn't be so jolly paralytic as I was.
He was feeling buoyant, flexible. He wanted to go jogging. He stood. He couldn't go jogging. He called room service and ordered a basket of breads and pastries.
Stiff. That's why you're strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton
Katsa now sat calmly on the stomach of her vanquished foe. "He was handsome," said said.
Po moaned. "Was he beat-to-a-pulp handsome, or perhaps just push-down-a-flight-of-stairs handsome?"
"I would not push a seventy six year old man down a flight of stairs," said Katsa indignantly.
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.
scrambled to stand.
If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache
His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead,
Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;
this "gawky, stammering adventurer.
Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed.
A lot of people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it.
None though as bowed, small-boned, as my own peasant legs, which in their backward sway and inward turn, shaped by years of adherence to hostile terrains, possess a history of staying put.
For years I thought my father was a hunchback. Turns out he didn't know suspenders were adjustable.
Flabby, bald, lobotomized,
he drifted in a sheepish calm,
where no agonizing reappraisal
jarred his concentration on the electric chair-
hanging like an oasis on his air
of lost connections ...
Broad shoulders fit snugly under his white shirt, and taut muscles flex in his arm as he grips a tray. He's not a muscle-bound freak though, thank God. I don't like that "I have boulders in my biceps" look that a lot of guys seem to favor these days.
I am not stunted. I am vertically challenged. - Levet
this TBT if you: Stand a lot;
CLUN (n.) A leg which has gone to sleep and has to be hauled around after you.
At the present time he was a man of perhaps forty-five years of age, short and heavy-set, with a bullet-shaped head that rested on broad, ape-like shoulders. His thick torso and bulging paunch were supported by a pair of spindly legs that contrasted oddly with the upper portions of his beefy body.
He has a lower occipital proturbance!
A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
She sat, bent over, her head on her arms. She did not move, but the strands of hair, hanging down to her knees, trembled in sudden jolts once in a while.
inert and seemingly lifeless.
That's the way. Lay me down like a stone, O God, and raise me up like a loaf,' he muttered as he lay down, pulling his coat over him.
The Lame goes as farre as your staggerer.
[The lame goes as far as your staggerer.]
Don't limp in front of the lame.
Right leg gone? Her right leg? She couldn't see anything except the man hanging over and a gold-coloured ceiling, high, high above. "This is a hospital?" she asked.
"No, no. A dating centre.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.
lethargic meliorist;
My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.
(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.
This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.
Dinted
dimpled wimpled
his mind wandered down echoing corridors of
assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the
point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
That's put a strain on his left-hand knee.
Cripples are not the stuff of romance. Only Lord Byron, dragging his club foot, springs to mind as an exception to the rule, but such a failing in a man is regarded as interesting, even provocative, rather than disfiguring. Women must submit to a more exacting measure.
Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.
It's shrinkage! Hasn't she heard of shrinkage? -George Costanza, Seinfeld
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
He [Levi] made standing look vertical lying down.
He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.
prostrate body. He groaned when
He was lanky, wiry as an apostrophe mark, and dressed in clothes that appeared to have come from a beggar's bin.
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are spasmodic.
I've spent several years now with my head down.
He looked down at his hands - resting on his knees - flexing the fingers, the veins and sinews standing out clearly amidst the scars. Killer's hands, I thought, knowing they could choke the life from me in a few seconds.
Your posture can have a great deal of influence on your personal presentation and image, revealing your attitude toward yourself and others.
So exquisitely slopped that he didn't know if he was on land or at sea.
... leaning with her back bowed into the back of the chair, her head hanging down and her hands in her lap, very miserable as she would say herself, not even knowing what she would like, except to go out and get very wet, catch a particularly nice cold and have to go to bed and take gruel.
very acutely conscious
Crouching in position posing in perfect posture
On the rooftop of a gothic cathedral sits a monster
She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.
Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm!
with a firm hand under my chin. I stay there, my
Ortho Stice played with a kind of rigid, liquid grace, like a panther in a back-brace.
Limp along until your legs are spent,
and you fall flat and your energy is drained.
Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.
He walked with just such a limp as I have seen in footsore tramps.
Just stand. Bend. Balance.
2Now a man who was lame from birth