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| 20 | 919 | She lay on her back, and, whimpering, View more quotes about struck">struck down, in misery, stinging the palms of her hands, bruising her small heels. |
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| 20 | 916 | The Sa-eela, of course, is not the sort of dance which could be performed by a free woman. |
| 20 | 917 | Peggy, then, was back from the table, on the tiles, on her back, and sides, and knees, and then prone, and then again supine, and then writhing, as though in frustration and loneliness. |
| 20 | 918 | I observed the dancer, closely, the striking of her small, clenched fists on the tiles, the scratching of her fingernails at their smooth surfaces, the turning of a hip, the flattening of a thigh, the lifting of a knee, the turning of her head, the piteous scattering of her hair from side to side. |
| 20 | 919 | She lay on her back, and, whimpering, struck down, in misery, stinging the palms of her hands, bruising her small heels. |
| 20 | 920 | She might have been in a cell, locked away from men. |
| 20 | 921 | She then rolled to her stomach, and rose to her hands and knees, and, head down, remained for a moment in that posture. |
| 20 | 922 | It is at this moment that the music enters a different melodic phase, one less physical and frenzied, one almost lyrical in its poignancy. |