"Hip" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... disturbed: my hip-bones pressed unpleasantly on the hard bench; and every now and then I awoke with a start, hearing the same despairing voice in my dreams. The place was always quiet, nevertheless,—the disturbances having ceased, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 45, July, 1861 • Various
... effect, that it seemed only to lend additional fuel to her displeasure. Forgetting her occupation in her anger, she left off bathing Darrell's wrist; and, squeezing his arm so tightly that the boy winced with pain, she clapped her right hand upon her hip, and turned, with flashing eyes and an inflamed ...
— Jack Sheppard - A Romance • William Harrison Ainsworth
... at his observatory before he perceived the worthy captain coming round the corner from the Rue Gros-Chenet, his head in the air, his hand on his hip, and with the martial and decided air of a man who, like the Greek philosopher, carries everything with him. His hat, that thermometer by which his friends could tell the secret state of its master's finances, and which, on ...
— The Conspirators - The Chevalier d'Harmental • Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
... a play is supposed to be the work of the poet, imitating or representing the conversation of several persons; and this I think to be as clear as he thinks the contrary." There he has the baronet on the hip; and gives him a throw. He then makes bold to prove this paradox—that one great reason why prose is not to be used in Serious Plays is, "because it is too near the nature of converse." Thus, in "Bartholomew Fair," or the lowest kind ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... to Bradford who suffered excruciatingly that night with inflammatory rheumatism in the hip-joint. ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin
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