 | 586 pages
...mad vortexes, and then suddenly Sxing themselves motionless, each upon her left «r right great-toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety...if you had suddenly pricked into the floor, by one o.' their points, a pair, or rather a multitudinous cohort, of mad restlessly jumping and clippinpscissors,... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...ballet girls, with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexes, and then...themselves motionless, each upon her left or right great-toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees — as if you had suddenly... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1852 - 914 pages
...mad vortexes, and then suddenly fixing themselves motionless, each upon her left or right great-toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety...had suddenly pricked into the floor, by one of their pointe, a pair, or rather a multitudinous cohort, of mad restlessly jumping and clipping scissors,... | |
 | 1852 - 336 pages
...ballet girls, with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexes, and then...themselves motionless, each upon her left or right great-toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees; — as if you had suddenly... | |
 | 1852 - 820 pages
...them, were perhapi little short of miraculous; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexo», and then suddenly fixing themselves motionless, each upon her left or right gro:it-too, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees — as if you had suddenly... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1857 - 584 pages
...perhaps little short of miraculous, whirling and spinning there, in strange, mad vortexes, «nd tlien suddenly fixing themselves motionless, each upon her...stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees, as If yon had suddenly pricked Into the floor, by one of their points, a pair, or rather a mnltitudinone... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 536 pages
...balletgirls, with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexes, and then...suddenly fixing themselves motionless, each upon her lefl or right great toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees, — as if... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 pages
...balletgirls, with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexes, and then...points, a pair, or rather a multitudinous cohort, of mad resfrlessly jumping and clipping scissors, and so bidden them rest, with opened blades, and stand still,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1876 - 406 pages
...ballet-girls with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexes, and then...themselves motionless, each upon her left or right great-toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees, — as if you had suddenly... | |
 | Edward Barrett - 1881 - 412 pages
...ballet-girls with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling and spinning there in strange mad vortexes, and then...themselves motionless, each upon her left or right great-toe, with the other leg stretched out at an angle of ninety degrees, — as if you had suddenly... | |
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I speak not of kings, grandees, or the like show-figures ; but few soldiers, judges, men of letters, can have had such pains taken with them. The very balletgirls, with their muslin saucers round them, were perhaps little short of miraculous ; whirling... 
