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Some way away a thing like a trolley cable, drawn and loaded with chunks of lax meat, was running up the slope of the cavern floor.
That he was still accepted with lax tolerance by some of the more thoughtless matrons of the fashionable set was due to his family name.
In this sense the family, once founded, endured unchanged till the male stock of its founder died out; only the bond of connection must of course have become practically more lax from generation to generation, until at length it became impossible to prove the original unity.
Even the lax morality of a most degenerate age condemned him for calmly sitting down to decorate with the graces of rhetoric and antithesis an atrocity too deep for the powers of indignation.
In any case, it is clear that the author, though as a rule somewhat lax in his craftsmanship, was here aiming at psychological truth.
Roman morals, which formerly were very strict, began to grow more lax, and in general the Roman civilization showed signs of decay.
In a smart and brilliant speech he poked rare fun at the dinner-debating members who were so ready to participate in the festivities of the society and so lax in attending the discussions.
Two of these galleries were reserved entirely for the ladies who were admitted to the performance, and no man, upon any pretext whatever, was permitted to enter them; an arrangement which appears to be strikingly at variance with the lax morality of the time.
His hat fell off, his head was not nice to look at, and his body flopped lax and rolled out of sight behind the bulwarks.
Hamilton trusted so completely to the scouting party, and to the seemingly impassable state of the country, that his watch was very lax.
They knew that in spite of it foreign society was lax; that the discipline of the confessional was often exercised with a light rein.
There is little doubt that the women's suffrage movement tends to socialism, and, also, paradoxical as it may at first seem, to lax marriage laws and easy divorces.
Then, quite suddenly, her bosom gave a quick heave, her lips parted, trembling, her eyes blinked, her whole attitude became lax.
Bread that consists of two-thirds bran and one-third white flour is eminently laxative; but it is generally supposed that this age is lax enough in its hold of truth.
The regulations relating to the exclusion of the physically or mentally tainted are far too lax, and will bring their own punishment.
She did not know that Billy and his band felt exactly like boys who have successfully eluded a too lax teacher, and that they would have yielded without argument to the bark of a trained sheep dog.
They may be drawn towards or away from each other, they may vibrate like reeds or strings, and they may become lax or tense in the direction of their length.
Even if he had not known them, it would have made little difference, because our sentries were so lax that the camp was always swarming with strangers.
He raised his chubby hand to his forehead, but all the muscles of it were lax, and the fingers loosely curved; at the same time he drew back his left foot and kicked up the heel a few inches.
As a matter of fact, social supervision is often so lax that obscene moving pictures and cards that are driven out of the large cities are exhibited without protest in the small towns.
The authorities are lax in this matter, as in the matter of exits; the crush in getting out of most of the playhouses is abominable.
Almost without exception, the tribes where syphilis is rare or unknown refuse sexual intercourse with strangers, while those among whom such disease is prevalent are morally lax.
When we make it lax in its restraints and requisitions, it becomes merely nominal, and its laws are never enforced and obeyed.
Most of the Songs of Adieu are marred by their excessive sentimentality of feeling and by the commonplace character of their weak and lax form.
The new fireman was young and not yet lax enough to break the rules of the Company against having tramps in the engine; so he turned down my offer to shove coal.
Another sat against a tree, his head fallen slightly forward, his lax arms allowing his hands to droop plaintively, palms upward and half spread, as though he sat in utter weariness.
There was a loud report that seemed to tear his brain to broken shreds, his arms dropped lax at his sides, the revolver fell, its muzzle burying itself in the sand.
This system, so injurious of itself, has been powerfully seconded by the lax and indiscriminate manner in which convict servants have been assigned to the various settlers.
Therefore, no matter how keenly alert the teacher's mind may be, no matter how skillful his analysis of an important truth may be if his class sit with flagging interest and lax attention.
Her hands lax in her lap, her blue eyes quietly intent upon the view, she lay back in her chair with as much confident unconcern as she might have shown in an opera box.
She whispered breathlessly, moistening lips suddenly dry, and conscious that Spike's lax form had stiffened to painful alertness.
Money could do much in those days of lax discipline, and the man who could pay and could give need have very few wants unsatisfied.
It was not pleasant naked, for its bones looked at once fragile and coarse, and its flesh was lax, and in its clothes it was squalid, for it was always being sick or dribbling.
It is by violence that an imperfect and provisional state of things is shattered, and what was lax is put into action again.
The school being situated close to a large city, and the discipline extremely lax, temptation which I was not in any way fitted to resist surrounded me from the day of entrance.
Allowed a degree of liberty which mamma never accorded me at home, I availed myself of the lax regimen of my grandmother, and roamed at will about the beautiful country adjacent.
Noble walked on, not at once examining her little gift, but carrying it absently in fingers still lax at the end of a dangling arm.
It is practically an axiom that no woman who is lax in her relations with men is safe from the danger of the disease, or can long remain free from it.
They have very lax ideas about drunkenness and sexual irregularity, but they have very strict ideas about the sacredness of social obligations within the groups to which they belong.
Amidst the abuses and excesses of that epoch of lax discipline and indistinct theology, the point of breaking was supplied by a practice of very recent growth.
He had a younger brother with inordinately long arms, like a great lax ape, a cheerful, grinning, harmless creature as I remember him.
It has always been the avowed policy of autocracies to atone for the lack of political freedom by lax regulations in regard to moral matters.
It is a common complaint against French historians that they are too lax about their authorities, and too heedless about giving us chapter and verse for their assertions.
Danton, the possible dictator, the impure man ready to adjust compromises with the enemies of liberty, lax in conscience and in action, Danton too was down.
Also, as if dreading that lax laws might lead to a carnival of crime, the legislators restricted the operation of the new and lenient statute to three years.
It was a lax enough watch, and it was clear that guard duty at the wicket was not so dull a matter as one might have imagined.
The meager resources of the lax confederacy were already strained to the utmost, and the capture of a ship laden as this one was reported to be, would be of incalculable service.
In many ways it had been strict, and in many ways lax; but one of the scruples I had always carried about with me was on the subject of gambling.
The prisoner's chief grievance then was the robbery of his food by the officers, and as the discipline was lax a mutiny would be the result.
Nor is this difficult to effect in a country where the ends of justice are not satisfied unless a life is given for a life, where magistrates are venal, and the laws of evidence lax.
Though rattle-brained, much given to gallantry, and somewhat lax in morality, they are not knaves or monsters; they do not inspire disgust.
He is to them a traitor, he is one who plays the game unfairly, one who is willing to fill his belly by means to which they will not resort, lax and fantastic as is their social code.
He lives very often in a burrow, called an earth, belonging to somebody else, for he has very lax morals concerning property, and a great idea that right is established by possession.
We take no lax view of life and its responsibilities, but we refuse to magnify death into the one thing worth living for or thinking about.
There was a splash of purplish crimson beneath either eyelid, but for the rest the face was of the yellow of a week-old bone; the eyelids were puffy, and the lips were lax.
The firm, strong, honest, and just control is respected by servants, and is much preferred to the irresolute one, even when the latter overflows frequently in lax kindness.
Management was lax or rigid, according to the temper of the moment; and no object was contemplated by those who had power, except to render its exercise subservient to their private views.
In this connection may be noted also the influence of frontier conditions in permitting lax business honor, inflated paper currency and wild-cat banking.
They are going out too far in social life, they are too lax in the question of amusements, they are too thoughtless on the subject of dissipation.
It stood empty and waiting during a lax minute, while the responsibility of guarding was shifted; but perhaps being carelessly beached, though there was no tide on the strait, it drifted away.
A campaign of forty days was too short, the discipline of a national militia too lax, to efface from their minds the feelings of civil life.
I was at first shocked at his opinions and open acknowledgment of his very lax morals, and though in the latter respect he might not have been much worse in reality than others in the mess, I observed that by degrees some of them, especially Pearson, began rather to tight shy of him.
And raising both hands above his head he brought them down upon the table with the lax inertia of utter collapse, and fell forward upon his extended arms, his face buried in the squalid heap beneath.
It leads to hasty, ill-assorted matches, to an unwillingness to yield to each other's peculiarities, to a weakening of the family ties, to a lax morality.
They have no scruples of conscience hindering them from complying with whatever is proposed; they are of any form of religion, have lax or correct morals, according to the occasion.
"Discussions in regard to stricter or more lax practices have never led to divisions nor issued in official pronouncements of distinctive developments of confessional position."
What is sound and good in the Council will crumble; the proposed union is a great victory for the lax portion of the General Synod and a pitiable defeat for the Council.
His belly nearly reduced to its natural size, still made a prodigious quantity of water, his appetite very good, habit of body rather lax, and his complexion ruddy.
Garrison's was his going out on business for an hour or more at a time, and leaving the school in charge of one of the older boys, who would exercise the authority thus conferred upon him in a lax and kindly, or severe and cruel manner, according to his disposition.
He had the slinking air of the convict, and his form, so despairing in its lax lines, appealed to Lee with even greater poignancy than his face.
Watson was a pious young man of sterling integrity, while the others were more lax in their religious opinions and principles.
Floyd, as an ardent Southerner, was using the last lax days of the Buchanan Government to get the army posts ready for capitulation whenever secession should have become an accomplished fact.
At the lax German Court Gretchen soon forgot her austere upbringing, and entered into the round games and charades with untold abandon!
The moment, however, that society emerges from the early pressure of the environment and is tolerably secure against primary evils, morality grows lax.
While lax inspections caused a few buyers to visit the warehouses, the presence of these buyers led many of the planters to bring their tobacco to the warehouses most frequented by the buyers.
Hence, there grew up lax ideas of commercial morality, which were fostered by the carelessness in money matters among the nobility and aristocracy.
No joy can be truthfully reported till just this side of the High Street, where there were three girls with linked arms dancing in lax and cheerful oblivion, one of them quite drunk.
Nor must it be imagined that gay manners and lax morals were less general amongst the veterans than amongst the youngsters of the bar.
In the past, as you know, ideas were lax upon the question of slavery, and I inherited those ideas; but I can answer for my father, that his great idea was to lead a patriarchal life surrounded by his slaves, who in their way were well treated and happy.
Many of his contemporaries had a morality quite as lax as his: but very few among them had his talents, and none had his hardihood and energy.
It was charged against me later that I was lax in this Burns affair and, because of my own infatuation for men of parts, took too little thought for the temptation to which I exposed my daughter.
She had had to own that the unaccustomed exercise was a good thing, giving a fineness and a firmness to outlines that had been a shade too lax.
In practice, however, it is likely that lax enforcement of the contracts resulted in a substantial diminution of the obligations of many workers.
Indeed, not only marriage, but any further intimacy between the pair would be rendered impracticable, for upon this point the religious law, lax enough in many particulars, was very strict.
Walker admits that "the fortunes which have been made are seen to have been the result of dealings in stocks and in titles, the consequences of which, if involving wrong, are rightly charged against the lax legislation which has made such operations possible."
Any doubts which she may at present entertain regarding the question of the necessity, are, in part at least, effects of her lax views respecting the question of the liability, and of her consequent belief that anything well divided is sufficient to discharge it.
It is incumbent on us loyally to fulfil the obligations that we have assumed; to see that we do not, by a lax administration of justice, encourage unprincipled men in violating Chinese law.
That is, he has decided standards, rules, habits and requirements, and he clings rigidly to them in the transaction of his business, regardless of how lax the business itself may be.
That a little speech awaited them could be seen from the force and fury of the gaze which the indomitable woman bent upon the lax and half-unconscious figure she beheld thus sheltered and conveyed.
These, as nearly as he could tell, were still shattered in; there were fires in the courtyard, and sentries were on the wall, but their watch was lax, and the two below were not discovered.
A neighbor who does not reach his standard of moral excellence in character and action he pronounces lax in principles and delinquent in life.
He would sit down by the blazing hearth, listening with an outward interest to her acquired formulae of life, and then, after perfunctory assent or lax denial, retire to his own seclusion over a book.
It was Tommy who had neglected to light his lamp, as the night, though dark, was clear and starry and municipal regulations were lax.
As rigidly as the text of the Bible was maintained intact in the very minutest details, so lax was the treatment of the Talmud, which was at the mercy of individual whim.
He had undeniably lost his head and was gambling heavily, tempted perhaps by the lax morality of the camp and the license of good times.
In this instance, heredity claimed its vindication; to the daughter descended the loveliness of person and also the lax principles which characterized the mother.
His beauty, his wit, and his money enabled him to insinuate himself into the rather lax society of fashionable watering places and other public resorts.
Not for a moment was it supposed that this was aught but the subterfuge of one who had been lax in his duty and who sought to save himself from the consequences of that laxity.
I know that a lawyer gets credit for possessing but lax notions on the score of honor, but you can scarcely suspect that I should be guilty of underhand work toward you.
Fergus stood looking down at him: the silent face upturned, very white, very boyish, very beautiful, the soft hair tumbling about his temples, the lax arms spread out among the leaves.