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...spine arches...
...porch during a summer storm, and warped as the wooden floor of the Maine antique shop where I bought it; a first edition of Ruskin's Unto This Last, small as a wallet, the cardboard covers exposed like a dilapidated wall; d'Annuzio's poems (1901), elegant in a spine of maroon ribbed leather; Edmund Gosse's life of Coventry Patmore, also a first edition; Arthur Symons' London: A Book of Aspects, "privately printed for Edmund D. Brooks and his friends" in Minneapolis (1908), in which the pages remain brittle as parchment; and a Bohn's Standard Library Edition...
...power of Kundalini Yoga, Lee said, also comes from the "energy coiled at the base of the spine, which, when released, expands one's awareness...
Though she professes that public speaking makes her nervous, it seldom shows: her remarks are made in neatly polished prose, delivered in a soft, low voice unhurried and convincing in its earnestness. She talks often of George: "A gentle man with a spine of steel...
...expert. During the tree-climbing episodes, the camera peers up from a low angle, the sun making dainty little flares in the lens. During a confrontation in the drawing room of Pinny's Boston home, a clock ticks loudly, a desperate device intended to lend a little spine to the sponge cake theatrics. As for the unfortunate actors, they are all nonprofessionals and are likely to remain...