Once he spoke to his son, alluding to the newcomers with a groan: "They will quarrel over the land." "Don't bother about that, father," answered Jean-Pierre, stolidly, and passed,
bent double, towing a recalcitrant cow over his shoulder.
Bent double and trying to undercut without digging great lumps out is not as easy as it first seems.
One can be seen
bent double with laughter as the fallen man tries to get up off the floor.
We moved quickly, although Lou lagged slightly; she panted and grimaced and was all but
bent double with exhaustion.
Even when I climb into bed like Quasimodo, clutching my shoulder and
bent double after a day hunched over a computer screen, by dawn my spine is straight again.
At this stage of the story father and uncles, who witnessed the event, were
bent double in uncontrollable laughter!
He was further alarmed when he saw the Queen
bent double and clutching her stomach.
Hard repetitive work,
bent double half the time, which is when our back problems began.
Suddenly, a reel was screaming and one of the rods was
bent double. The sprint began from five different points around our partly dismantled campsite, but this time I was not accepting defeat!
"No, I'm f***," said the soldier, still
bent double with his head down.
Not long after Harper's rod
bent double and after another tussle he landed a cod almost identical to Foster's.
God's novel is filled with adventure, with superstitions and rationalism, demons and hobgoblins, dead geese which shriek and man-mountain milkmen with voices 'like a lion', a noble and ancient washerwoman
bent double beneath a bundle of bedlinen, and a poignant memory of motherhood in all its manifestations.