25 adjectives to describe gymnastics

If we were not blind, we should know that whenever a child decides for himself deliberately, and without bias from others, any question, however small, he has had just so many minutes of mental gymnastics,just so much strengthening of the one faculty on whose health and firmness his success in life will depend more than upon any other thing.

Attacks of sore throat due to improper methods of breathing and of using the voice should be treated by judicious elocutionary exercises and a system of vocal gymnastics, under the direction of proper teachers.

He laid his hand over his mouth and went into such convulsions of silent laughter, all the time writhing and twisting his lean body into such contortions that in watching his extraordinary gymnastics over the head of my unconscious vis-à-vis, and wondering if the boy ever could untie himself, I forgot my suffering.

If you be addicted to light gymnastics you will find it beneficial to practise a few movements daily, both before taking your first lesson and as long as you may continue to ride.

Sometimes these beloved creations of genius performed rather curious gymnastics on being placed in the boiling greasesuch as twisting on one side, throwing a limb entirely over their heads, &c.; while not unfrequently a leg or an arm was found missing when boiled to the requisite degree of hardness.

Now then, everybody, how is that for high!" (Slow curtain, relieved by eccentric gymnastics by the COMIC YANKEE.) BOY IN THE AUDIENCE.

This was the real key to her facility in languages, history, music, drawing, and calisthenics, as her professor called female gymnastics.

Presently the "Antipodal Brothers" begin their fraternal gymnastics.

Practice gymnastics, but let them be gymnastics in the service of the soul, in the service of noble thoughts and generous sentimentsdivine gymnastics for the service of God.

"I have an exercise healthful and good, For tuning the nerves and digesting the food Graceful gymnastics for stirring the blood Without the gross purpose of use Ant, let me tell you 'tis not a la mode To plod like a pilgrim, and carry a load, Perverting the limbs that for grace were bestowed, By such a plebeian abuse!

The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption.

But setting aside the claims of the system of applied gymnastics, which Ling and his followers have so elaborated, it is enough to answer, that the one great fundamental disorder of all Americans is simply nervous exhaustion, and that for this the gymnasium can never be misdirected, though it may be used to excess.

You laughed at me at first, but I've improved marvellously.' Bruce was walking about doing very mild gymnastics, and occasionally hitting himself on the left arm with the right fist.'

A group of young folks, surcharged with all sorts of animal magnetism, with some capacity for belief and much more for fun, used to gather about a light pine table every evening, and put it through a complicated course of mystical gymnastics.

This sort of thing took all the nautical gymnastics that I was master of, and entirely occupied my mind, so that I found myself whistling while I worked.

So he stood in the centre of the room and went through a series of odd gymnastics.

In fine, here is the grand law of organic gymnastics: The triple movement, the triple language of the organs is eccentric, concentric, or normal, according as it is the expression of life, soul or spirit.

This is the course of passive gymnastics, which excites so much alarm and resistance in the ignorant Franks.

There are others still, who, while sloth is sapping the primitive energy of their natures, expect to scale the fortresses of knowledge by leaps and not by ladders, and who count on success in such perilous gymnastics, not by the discipline of the athlete, but by the dissipation of the idler.

Practice gymnastics, but let them be gymnastics in the service of the soul, in the service of noble thoughts and generous sentimentsdivine gymnastics for the service of God.

After the dance was over sundry gymnastics followed, and the evening was wound up by an exhibition of the Ombres Chinoises, in which the soldiers seemed to take very great delight.

"A man of your age and weight getting up to kiddish gymnastics" "Don't," he said, and looked agonised.

How long it will last in the hands of others than the projector remains to be seen, especially as some of his feats are more exhausting than average gymnastics; but, in the mean time, it is just what is wanted for multitudes of persons who find or fancy the real gymnasium to be unsuited to them.

Does the fraternal supply of brotherly gymnastics exist in consequence of a presumed demand for the article by the public?

Tell me seriously, do you think there is virtue in these cool subtleties of feeling, in these cunning mental gymnastics, which consume the marrow of a man's life and leave him hollow inside?

25 adjectives to describe  gymnastics