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 that a hand to be removed is capable of receiving—to get it press'd a hair breadth of one side out of her way.

Whilst this was doing, how could she forget to make him sensible, that it was her leg (and no one's else) at the bottom of the sentry-box, which slightly press'd against the calf of his—So that my uncle Toby being thus attacked and sore push'd on both his wings—was it a wonder, if now and then, it put his centre into disorder?

—The duce take it! said my uncle Toby.