erectness

• “This expansion frees the respiratory muscles and all the vital organs, gives man command of the elemental action of his body as a whole; that is, his erectness expresses higher emotions and experiences.”

  How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions

• “The qualities that seem to have attracted Karin Boye in these poems are the ones associated with emotional and spiritual directness, or 'erectness' or 'straightness' - rakhet.”

  Karin Boye - a biographical profile - 5

• “And the boy, lean and lithe, sunbeaten and browned, skin-clad and in hair - fringed and hair-tufted MUCLUCS that showed the wear of the sea and rough work, coolly withstood her advances, his body straight and stiff with the peculiar erectness common to children of savage people.”

  THE STORY OF JEES UCK

• “It had a very similar erectness as the NASA rocket in the photo.”

  This One's For The Ladies

• “Although small in stature, her slimness and the erectness of her carriage gave her the appearance of greater height.”

  "The Golden Girl of Munan" by Harl Vincent, part 5

• “The supple erectness of her figure was gone, as though she had been broken by cruel exercise; as though there were no longer any reason for being beautiful, and supple, and erect.”

  The Man of Property

• “Instead of the weak, anaemic body and the shifty eyes of the average prisoner, he saw a man whose face and form blazed energy and power, and whose vigorous erectness no wretched clothes or conditions could demean.”

  The Financier

• “But he had no basket of tools, and he was not walking with the old erectness, looking keenly round him; his hands were thrust in his side pockets, and his eyes rested chiefly on the ground.”

  Adam Bede

• “Adam, as he pressed her arm to his side, walked with his old erectness and his head thrown rather backward as if to face all the world better.”

  Adam Bede

• “From behind a pile of goods emerged a customs-house officer, a dark green, dusty figure, of military erectness.”

  Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories

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