In one scene, the young Sheik unbends a sword that his father Valentino played both parts has bent. ❋ Scott Eyman (2010)
You lin bend Gumbob into this shapes but he unbends immeediatelike. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The rod unbends, propelling the line forward, and the tip then also stops abruptly. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Today sun burns, flat grass unbends, and minnows betoken the seeming return of all that was swept away. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Contract the muscles you are about to stretch on the back of your right leg by pulling your right heel toward your hips or by kicking your leg toward the floor as the person assisting you unbends your leg or lifts and straightens your leg toward your head. ❋ Bob Cooley (2005)
True talk should have more body and blood, should be louder, vainer and more declaratory of the man; the true talker should not hold so steady an advantage over whom he speaks with; and that is one reason out of a score why I prefer my Purcel in his second character, when he unbends into a strain of graceful gossip, singing like the fireside kettle. ❋ Unknown (2005)
The other inmate of the house is a beautiful and attractive terrier called “Rags,” a Skye dog, who unbends “in the bosom of his family,” but ordinarily is as imposing in his demeanour as if he, and not his master, represented the dignity of the British Empire. ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)
When he pities the animals, who are worth more than ourselves, their executioners, when he pities the elementary existences, the plants and trees, those exquisite creations, he unbends and pours out his heart. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The mind never unbends itself so agreeably as in the conversation of a well-chosen friend. ❋ Ray Woodward (N/A)
Satin drapery, mysteriously underlaid with lace, and floating in bewitching chasteness over a fairy-like bed, makes more voluptuous that ravishing form calmly sleeping -- half revealed among the snowy sheets, and forming a picture before which fancy soars, passion unbends itself, and sentiment is led away captive. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Perhaps there is an intellectual composure in his manner, which may, in some passages, be said to approach to the reserved and prosaic; but he unbends from this graver strain of reflection to tenderness, and even to playfulness, with an ease and grace almost exclusively his own; and connects extensive views of the happiness and interests of society with pictures of life that touch the heart by their familiarity. ❋ Various (N/A)
Thus, instead of acting like the sanative tea, which softens, smoothes, and unbends the two constringed fibres, the vitriolic salts of this mineral water but more contract the fibrillæ, by operating like so many wedges, which ultimately tear, rend, or divide the tender filaments. ❋ Hugh Smith (N/A)
'Tis at such times that the heart spontaneously unbends itself -- that the fancy tranquillizes its thoughts -- and that memory awakens her ❋ Various (N/A)
The unpleasant part of all this is that the young women he so condescendingly selects as partners for the dance greet him with seeming rapture, though in their hearts they must feel humiliated by his languid hauteur, and many older people beam upon him almost fawningly if he unbends so far as to throw them a careless, disdainful word! ❋ Unknown (1918)
He thinks of nothing else save when, as an intellectual exercise, he unbends if I call upon him and ask him to advise me on one of my little problems. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1917)
