Cinch

“ The wide band of woven horsehair, known as the cinch, is drawn up by the powerful purchase on the látigo strap until it deeply imbeds itself in the animal's belly, causing him to swell himself up like a toad to resist the pressure, and not unfrequently—especially if he sees that you are a stranger at the business—to commence a rearing, plunging, kicking, and biting performance, involving danger to life and limb. ”

“ Cinch, solemnly, "do you mean to tell me that this young woman can talk me into believing that I aint got bow-legs?"
Bob hesitated. He looked at Mr. Cinch long and seriously. Mr. Cinch took up his walking-stick and slowly lifted himself upon his feet.
"Look at them legs, Bob. You can shove a prize punkin through 'em without touching. Can this young woman make me believe them legs is straight? If she can, Bob, if she can, she don't need to buy no hoss, nor pay no coach-hire any more." ”

“ It chose your legs, and straightway your eyes, prompted by your diseased mind, began to tell you that your legs were bowed."
"Well, really!" cried Mr. Cinch, "how very plain you make it."
"It's plain enough to such as will see. Mat [Pg 261] ter, Mr. Cinch, does not act. Matter has no will. It doesn't feel, or get tired, or wear out or do any of the things attributed to it by thoughtless people. Matter is inanimate and takes form only as the mind, the soul, the Vital Force, wills that it shall. It responds to the soul. Therefore, if your legs are bowed, your mind is at fault." ”

“ Mr. Cinch made no reply, but he continued for several minutes to look ruefully down where he believed his legs to be, and then he resumed [Pg 254] his chair. Bob returned to his accounts and a heavy tide of business flowed in to engage their attention. Business was always well done in Mr. Cinch's office, and it suffered that morning no more than on any other morning, and yet there was a certain influence in the room which seemed to be affecting both him and Bob. ”

“ Cinch's manager, a bald-headed young man, with red eyes and a hopeful soul, who dexterously assisted his employer to alight, and aided him into the main office and into the huge arm-chair, so placed as to command a fair view of the entire establishment. From this arm-chair, Mr. Cinch rarely moved throughout the live-long day.
"Well, Bob," said Mr. Cinch, so soon as he had caught his breath, "how's things going?"
"Fair to middlin', sir, fair to middlin'. The regulars is 'bout the same, but the casuals is light."
"Well, a man can't always have things the way he wants 'em, Bob ”

“ Another method of fastening the cincha strap is as follows: Pass, the end through the upper ring to the rear; seize it with the right hand; place the fingers of the left hand between the outer folds of the strap; pull from the horse with the left hand and take up the slack with the right; pass the end of the strap underneath and draw it through the upper ring until a loop is formed; double the loose end of the strap and push it through the loop and draw the loop taut. The free end should be long enough to be seized conveniently with the hand. ”

“ Schinken, m., ‘ham,’ from MidHG. schinke, m., ‘thigh, ham,’ OHG. scincho, m., scincha, f., ‘tibia, thigh.’ They are related by gradation to the cognates adduced under Schenkel, to which Suab. and Alem. (and Bav.) Schunke, OFris. skunka, meaning ‘bone, thigh, ham,’ are also to be added as further graded forms. Its connection with Schiene is probable on account of the meaning. From the Teut. cognates Ital. (dial.) stinco (schinco) , ‘shin-bone,’ is borrowed.
Schinnen, plur., ‘dandruff, scurf,’ ModHG. only, from MidG. and LG.; connected with the cognates discussed under schinden; lit. ”

“ We may repeat that we know no single character, morphologic, physiologic, or biologic, by which a Cynips may invariably be recognized. A hairy thorax, complete parapsidal grooves, undivided foveal groove, hypopygial spine which is broadened nearer the tip; a monothalamous, fundamentally spherical, separable leaf gall, occurring on a white oak; and the maturing of the adult early in the fall with emergence delayed until the winter—this is a combination of characters that will distinguish most of the agamic forms. ”

“ AGAMIC AND BISEXUAL FEMALE.—In the agamic form generally rufous, rufous brown, and piceous in color, less often light brownish rufous or black, the abdomen usually darker than the thorax; the body of the bisexual female almost entirely black.
Head distinctly narrower than the thorax if the thorax is distinctly robust, nearly as wide as the thorax if the thorax is more slender as it is with most forms, distinctly wider than the thorax if the wings are short and the thorax consequently reduced ”

“ The older meaning, ‘cheek’ (Gothic kinnus, feminine, ‘cheek’) , has been preserved in Kinnbein, ‘cheek-bone,’ in Old High German chinnizan, Middle High German kinnezan, ‘molar tooth,’ Old High German kinnibaccho, ‘jawbone’; compare Anglo-Saxon čin, English chin, Anglo-Saxon činbân, English chin-bone, Modern Dutch kin, feminine, ‘chin’; Old Icelandic kinn, ‘cheek.’ Compare Greek γένυς, feminine, ‘chin, jaw, jawbone,’ also ‘edge of an axe, axe,’ γένειον, neuter, ‘chin, jaw,’ γενείας, feminine, ‘chin, beard’; Latin gena, ‘cheek,’ dentes genuini, ‘molar teeth’ ”

“ This posture elevated her chin. I was about to say something, but just then I saw under that chin another crimson mark, the slenderest of slender lines, as if the finest knife-point dipped in blood had been drawn clear across the throat by a nervous hand. I durst not say to myself what I was reminded of by that. Not even to think of it at all. I half-feared that I had become insane, rubbed my forehead, and kept repeating: 'Oh! it is only her bonnet-strings tied too tightly, that is all!'
'I would not trust myself with questioning her then. ”

“ MALE.—Differs from the bisexual female of the same species in having the compound eyes a little larger, protruding further beyond the cheeks; the antennae almost uniformly dark or at least darker on the basal segments, with one more segment than in the female, the third segment a little longer than in the female and with a suggestion of a curve; the abdomen small, elongate triangulate, moderately long petiolate; the legs often darker in some small part; the wings at least relatively longer than in the female; the spotting in the cubital cell lighter or heavier than in the female ”

“ Whoever carries the "chin close to neck" is all right from top to toe, and will walk well. Strange to say, the chin is the pivot on which the whole body turns in walking.
"Miss Howard, please stand here before us. Now push your chin forward after the manner of most girls in walking. There, girls, don't you see, her shoulders are wrong, hips wrong, wrong everywhere? ”

“ Hypopygial spine of agamic forms large but not extending much further than the lateral lobes of the hypopygium; the spine distinctly broad, in some instances very broad, a broadened area usually nearer the tip than the base of the spine (in most wingless forms of the subgenus Acraspis the spine is of uniform width for its whole length) ; sometimes the dorsal point, sometimes the ventral point of the spine extends furthest; much of the spine punctate and hairy, the tip bearing a tuft of long, yellowish hairs ”

“ DIMPLES IN THE CHIN An oval, well-rounded chin is one of the most important elements of formal beauty, and is a characteristic trait of humanity; for man is the only animal that has a chin. Lavater distinguishes three principal varieties of chin: the receding chin, which is peculiar to lower races and types; the chin which does not project beyond a line dropped from the lips; and the chin which does project beyond that line. Of all parts of the face the chin has the least variety of form and capability of emotional expression. ”

“ Scarcely allied to Schiene and Schinken, for the secondary meaning of Modern High German Schiene (Middle High German schine) , ‘narrow wood or metal plate, strip,’ as well as Old High German scina, ‘needle,’ points to a Gothic *skinô, feminine, ‘narrow piece of bone or metal.’ Of the primitively history of the cognates it can only be said, however, that by inference from Anglo-Saxon scîœ, sceó, ‘shin,’ the root must be skī̆. From Teutonic are derived Italian schiniera, ‘greaves for a horse,’ and probably also Italian schiena, French échine, ‘spine,’ with their Romance cognates. ”

“ Wings always 1.50 times the body length, cells always clear (except fora trace of a blotch at base of cubitus) ; hypopygial spine rather broad, rather drawn out ventrally. Entirely Old World species.Subgenus Cynips, 4 Wings from 0.14 to 1.60 times the body length, wing cells clear or spotted, spines various. Entirely American species.2 2. Hypopygial spine rather broad, but drawn out ventrally (see figs. 175-190) ; wings normally 1.60 times the body length, or much reduced in length; with a heavy patch and sometimes spots in cubital cell. ”

“ This icy vapor turned to a penetrating rain and at the same time a cloud of fetid odor. The Queen made the beautiful Princess sit beside her; and they turned toward Chambord quickly and in silence. They soon heard the horns recalling the scattered hounds; the huntsmen passed rapidly by the carriage, seeking their way through the fog, and calling to each other. Marie saw only now and then the head of a horse, or a dark body half issuing from the gloomy vapor of the woods, and tried in vain to distinguish any words. At length her heart beat; there was a call for M. de Cinq-Mars. ”

“ Last in our review of the objects above named, the chin, in its ideal form, completes the spiritual expression of the mouth, that is, assuming it is not wholly absent, as in the case of animals, or only retained in a retreating and meagre condition as in works of Egyptian sculpture, but as rather lengthened out even beyond the degree which is usual, receiving thus in the rounded fulness of its arched curve, more particularly where we have shorter underlips, yet further increase of size. To sum up in fact a full chin conveys the impression of a certain satiety and repose. ”

“ Hardly had the old man mounted another horse, which one of his men brought him, and drawn his sword, when, without awaiting his order, all these ardent youths, preceded by Cinq-Mars and his friends, whose horses were urged on by the squadrons behind, had thrown themselves into the morass, wherein, to their great astonishment and to that of the Spaniards, who had counted too much upon its depth, the horses were in the water only up to their hams ”

“ Chin is composed of 斤 chin an axe-head, a Chinese pound weight (= 11⁄3 lb. av., probably adopted from the weight of the axe-head) as phonetic, and the contraction of an obsolete word 辵 cho (辶 in composition) meaning to go on and stop as radical. The latter is commonly seen in characters dealing with movement, and is popularly known as the walking radical.
Hsi is composed of 羽 yü feathers as radical and 白 pai white, and seems to have been associated with young birds practising flight. ”

“ This young Cinq-Mars, my friend, will be a mere puppet. He will think of nothing but his ruff and his shoulder-knots; his handsome figure assures me of this. I know that he is gentle and weak; it was for this reason I preferred him to his elder brother. He will do whatever we wish."
"Ah, my lord," said the monk, with an expression of doubt, "I never place much reliance on people whose exterior is so calm; the hidden flame is often all the more dangerous. Recollect the Marechal d'Effiat, his father." ”

“ A short petticoat (or kilt) worn by men; also in the same sense as cingula and cingulum, a girdle. Cinctus gabinus was a particular manner of arranging the toga, by throwing one end over the head, and fastening the other round the waist like a girdle. As an adjective, cinctus was applied to any individual of either sex who wore any kind of belt or girdle. (See Discinctus.)
Fig. 160. Cineraria.
Cinerarium, R. (i. e. a place of ashes) . A niche in a tomb, sufficiently roomy to hold an urn of large size, or a sarcophagus. ”

“ The horse's resting his chin on his breast.—Although few horses are disposed by nature to do this, it is not the less necessary, when it does occur, to practise on them all the flexions, even the one which bends down the neck. In this position, the horse's chin comes back near the breast and rests in contact with the lower part of the neck; too high a croup, joined to a permanent contraction of the muscles that lower the neck, is generally the cause of it. ”

“ With respect to the skull of Cinclus, our space will not permit us to enter upon the engaging part of the subject as to the mode of formation of this part of the skeleton in the adult from the many segments found in the cranium of the chick, it being enough for us to say that the usual bones ossify, unite, and leave the ordinary ones free, as the pterygoids, the ossa quadrata, and the lower jaw. The superior mandible is drawn out into a sharp point, and the bony nostril on either side occupies considerable space, being long and elliptical in outline ”

“ The baseball stitch, if well done, can bring the selvages of two breadths together in a flat seam (pl. 5,d) . The Chincha types range from very loosely drawn to tightly drawn threads.
Running and double running stitches (pl. 8,b, c) , never very carefully executed on the plain-weave specimens, fasten down all the patches, hems, and occasionally the edges of lapped seams in which one breadth is extended conspicuously over another. Specimen 16-1229 has such a seam with a six-inch overlap. ”

“ The chin is formed by the under lip, and the termination of the jaw-bones, and it denotes sensuality in man, according as it is more or less flexible, smooth, or clear: it discovers what his rank is among his fellows. The chin forms the oval of the countenance; and when, as in the antique statues of the Greeks, it is neither pointed nor indented, but smooth, and gradually diminishes, it is then the keystone of the superstructure. With apologies to Herder for much of the foregoing, thus endeth this brief dissertation on Physiognomy. ”

“ Honey came over and put her head on Skinner's shoulder.
"Are n't we the great little conspirators, you and I?" said Dearie, as he stroked Honey's glossy hair.
"Yes, each one conspiring all alone by himself against the other." ”