Word: cramping
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Tutors Must Not Cramp Brilliance...
...channel swimming with a time of eleven hours five minutes. Stalking into a tiny bar in St. Margaret's he had his double whisky and talked about the trip. Champagne, he said, had helped him. He had felt a little seasick but that had passed. Then a cramp took hold of his belly but he rubbed it away. He ate some lumps of sugar dipped in brandy. Once a wave swept him off into the darkness (he left Gris-Nez, France, at 8:27 P. M.) and he did not sight the smack again for 15 minutes...
...deal dutifully with many matters of transient and undisputed consequence. Moreover, history is but the gradient leading up to Mr. Wells' deepest concern, the future of mankind after its scientific emancipation. In his pseudo-scientific novels, several of which he laid in that far future, he felt the cramp of plot and character relations. So while he calls his latest creation* a novel, it stays little closer to the usual kind of thing meant by that term than did James Joyce's Ulysses...
...Monday the only piece of metal I had in my pocket was a nickel medallion of Karl Marx. I had eaten a bit of bread in the morning and I did not know where to go to sleep that evening. I wandered about in desperation, and presently-cramp in the stomach preventing me from walking any longer-I sat down on the pedestal of the statue of William Tell, which stands in the Pare de Montbenon. My appearance must have been terrible during those terrible moments, for the people who came to inspect the monument scrutinized me with suspicion, almost...
...little changed. It is a story that relates how God sends Death into the world to get a reckoning from Everyman, and how Everyman beseeches all friendly shapes for aid who have attended him until that time, and how all forsake him. Fellowship bids him farewell; Kindred has a cramp in his toe-he cannot go with Everyman; and as for Good Deeds, his last love, she is so faint that she can hardly stand. Knowledge alone will help him over the way that he must go. Knowledge is as good as her word. She takes Everyman to Confession...