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...sets out to put part of a story into a picture, his fancy slips cricket-wise into the subject, in small surprising lines that never reveal what they are about until they have done it. Some are firm lines with tiny hairs on them, like a cricket's thigh. Some are more delicate and hesitant, like timid creatures creeping from crannies. Some are wry and perverse, like a witch's pin or a bat's flight. None are straightforward or prosaic. Together, colored over and shaded in with pale washes, they create pictures of a world, half...
...Orient's big yield was announced from Batavia by Professor Heberlein of the Dutch Medical Service. At Trinil, in Central Java, near the spot where the Dutch medical missionary, Eugene Dubois, found two teeth, a thigh bone and the top of a skull...
...weeks later the terrible old man sent me a letter informing me that what I had eaten was part of the thigh of_ an executed murderess, which he had obtained through bribing the police. I need not add that I was sick to nausea for days and weeks afterwards...
Last week in London his mother, 81, slipped, fell, broke her thigh. Her two daughters, both invalids, were unable to go to her aid. Since Mrs. Shackleton is all but destitute, has no servant, she lay upon the floor for some hours until a friend chanced to hear her cries...
...Coach Davidson's regulars were out of the line-up. Miyakawa with an injured ankle, and Newell, regular backstop, with a bad thigh. The latter's substitute. Dewing, hit a home run into the University infield, scoring two men ahead...