"Sense of balance" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... up. It seemed to him that claws rather than fingers grasped him. He stood erect, swaying. His sense of balance had been lost without his realizing it. It came back, very slowly. But he saw nothing. Clawlike hands—or handlike claws—pulled at him. He felt himself turned and pushed. He staggered. He took steps out of ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... Neither stout nor thin, his figure is admirably made, with ample fulness in the proportions, while every motion is agile; he leaps a ditch with the easy grace of a wild animal. Whatever his attitude, he seems to have an instinctive sense of balance, and this is very rare in men who are given to thought. Though a dark man, he has an extraordinarily fair complexion; his jet-black hair contrasts finely with the lustreless tints of the neck and forehead. He has the tragic ...
— Letters of Two Brides • Honore de Balzac
... a Japanese landscape is so beautiful that one appreciates the innate sense of balance, which modifies the confusion—rules ...
— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford |
