"Compressing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which also serves as their table. They have their rice on plates, or sometimes upon clean leaves. They eat with their fingers, dipping the hand when necessary into the common stock of salt or common dish of meat or vegetables. They eat with the right hand, compressing the rice into portions of ...
— Children of Borneo • Edwin Herbert Gomes
... practice a little maneuver he had learned of compressing his muscles and forcing a little unwilling water into his eyes. So, at the end of his pretty little speech, he raised two gentle, imploring eyes, with half a tear in each of them. To be sure, Nature assisted his art for once; he did ...
— The Woman-Hater • Charles Reade
... chat with Miss Henrietta,' Mr. Batty said, 'and afterwards perhaps she would like to see my flowers.' He disappeared with extraordinary skill, with the strange effect of not having left the room, yet Mrs. Batty sighed. Charles had wandered back to the piano, and his mother, after compressing her lips and whispering, 'It's a mania,' drew Henrietta into the depths ...
— THE MISSES MALLETT • E. H. YOUNG
... the young man's mind, until, amid the shouts of brake-men, the vociferous solicitations of the baggage-man, and a general air of bustle and preparation, the train thundered into the Grand Central Station. Something seized Brent's heart like a great compressing hand. He was frightened for an instant, and then he was whirled out with the rest of the crowd, up the platform, through the ...
— The Uncalled - A Novel • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... in both hands, spanning her knees, leaned forward, and after a preliminary compressing of her lips and knitting ...
— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte
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