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Vice/engulfed
Hi
Stick-in-the-mud, a denigratory term, so lightly used; and how few of those
who used it ever knew what it meant. It meant lifting one
leg out of a vice, with an effort and a strain which took
your whole strength and being, and then putting it forward
a few inches – how long was a normal step? – feeling it
engulfed again. And haying done it once, do it a second
time, and a third.
Does "vice" mean "weakness"?
Does "engulfed" mean that when you put this leg back it gets back to the same thing, it's engulfed by weakness again?
Stick-in-the-mud, a denigratory term, so lightly used; and how few of those
who used it ever knew what it meant. It meant lifting one
leg out of a vice, with an effort and a strain which took
your whole strength and being, and then putting it forward
a few inches – how long was a normal step? – feeling it
engulfed again. And haying done it once, do it a second
time, and a third.
Does "vice" mean "weakness"?
Does "engulfed" mean that when you put this leg back it gets back to the same thing, it's engulfed by weakness again?
Top answer
Hi, Stick-in-the-mud, a denigratory term, so lightly used; and how few of those who used it ever knew what it meant. It meant lifting one leg out of a vice, with an effort and a strain which took your whole strength and being, and then putting it forward a few inches – how long was a normal step? – feeling it engulfed again.
- Hi, Stick-in-the-mud, a denigratory term, so lightly used; and how few of those who used it ever knew what it meant.
- It meant lifting one leg out of a vice, with an effort and a strain which took your whole strength and being, and then putting it forward a few inches – how long was a normal step?
- – feeling it engulfed again.
- And haying done it once, do it a second time, and a third.
- Does "vice" mean "weakness"?
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Hi,
Stick-in-the-mud, a denigratory term, so lightly used; and how few of those
who used it ever knew what it meant. It meant lifting one
leg out of a vice, with an effort and a strain which took
your whole strength and being, and then putting it forward
a few inches – how long was a normal step? – feeling it
engulfed again. And haying done it once, do it
Stick-in-the-mud, a denigratory term, so lightly used; and how few of those
who used it ever knew what it meant. It meant lifting one
leg out of a vice, with an effort and a strain which took
your whole strength and being, and then putting it forward
a few inches – how long was a normal step? – feeling it
engulfed again. And haying done it once, do it
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