Little things began to tease me, notably the ache of my swollen wrists, and the intolerable cramp in my legs.

" Beautiful, joy-steeped, pleasure-filled days these were for the couple, who had been cramped for life's smallest necessities so many meager years.

Then no more Th' expansive atmosphere is cramped with cold, But, full of life and vivifying soul, Lifts the light clouds sublime and spreads them thin, Fleecy and white, o'er all-surrounding heaven; Forth fly the tepid airs, and, unconfined, Unbinding earth, the moving softness strays.

Johnny was accustomed to add, as he told the story to the young rabbits that lived down in the pasture, that he had to spurt around the field a few times after the race was over just to limber up his legshe was so cramped from sitting around waiting for the dogs.

" He dropped to the ground and eased and stiffened his knees to get out the cramp of long riding.

In the living-room sat Mrs. Earle, her chin cramped on her high bosom, while she mournfully studied his colored picture-book of the Rhine.

Feeling the cramping of Southern life, she became restive under the privations and indignities which were heaped upon free persons of color, and at length she and her husband broke up their home and sold out at a pecuniary sacrifice to come North, where they could breathe free air and have educational privileges for their children.

The alluvial strip of land which in them stretched from a quarter of a mile to a mile from the lagoon to the slopes of the hills, here was cramped to the barest strip.

They forced me into the chair and bound me there with lashings and a cramp about the head; and then one took a red-iron from the fire upon the floor, and tried it a little way from his hand to prove the heat.

The world does not understand the Love that is selfless because it is engrossed in the pursuit of its own pleasures, and cramped within the narrow limits of perishable interests mistaking, in its ignorance, those pleasures and interests for real and abiding things.

As to the first question, I would say that the gist of the dispute between the Central Powers and the world can be written easily without undue cramping in an ordinary handwriting upon a postcard.

And the desk itselfa huge spread of cleared surfacean enormous blotting pad, an ink well that was indeed a wellall just what he had so often longed for as he sat cramped at little desks where an attempt to work meant overflow and chaos of books and papers.

There are others which may be considered accidental: such are the tall and irregularly shaped trees which have been cramped by growing in a dense forest that does not permit the extension of their lateral branches; such also are the pollards which have been repeatedly cut down or dwarfed by the axe of the woodman.

The dwellers in such districts are cramped into the vice of their environment.

"There are two more of those devils and they'll be back before we get the cramp out of our muscles.

The operator, when wearied by standing, might sit astride this canvas saddle, with his legs cramped under him, while he spied out the land with his eyes, which would then be just above the top of his wicker nest, and while he spoke over the telephone.

"It prevents cramp after sitting so long," one would say to the other.