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| 63 | 418 | The View more quotes about lifting">lifting of the head exposes the throat nicely for its encirclement. |
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| 63 | 415 | As we were already chained by the neck to the rings on the back of the wagon, and thus, in a sense, were already leashed, the command was essentially one to prepare for a "behind the back" binding of the master's choice. |
| 63 | 416 | The turning of the head in a particular direction introduces a uniformity into the command. |
| 63 | 417 | For example, if a line of slaves were given such a command, it would be unaesthetic if some of the slaves turned one way and some another. |
| 63 | 418 | The lifting of the head exposes the throat nicely for its encirclement. |
| 63 | 419 | That the lifted head is turned to the left has an affinity with a number of other practices, the shackling of the left ankle, or the left wrist, the heeling of a master on the left, and so on. |
| 63 | 420 | One heels on the left, presumably, to avoid any possible interference with the master's weapon hand, which, in most cases, is the right hand. |
| 63 | 421 | I have never seen a girl heel on the right, but I suppose it could be done. |