But then we were sold to a man in London who drove us with a bearing rein—a rein to hold our heads up unnaturally high and to keep them there, for hours and hours, until the pain was terrible.
A trolley car and a number of bicycles had stopped, too. Pedestrians looked in surprise at the proud pigeon disturbing the traffic. Now it perched on the water tank of the bus, tilting its neck and lifting its head high.
Had Melanie believed India and Archie, cut her at the reception or even greeted her frigidly, then she could have held her head high and fought back with every weapon in her armory.
My companions laughed at me in scorn; they held their heads high and hurried on; they never looked back nor rested; they vanished in the distant blue haze.
The servants imagined him to be a poor relation, and were not surprised that a strict man like their master, who held his head high in the world, should be ashamed of such a cousin and want to get rid of him.
But the reality, the net assessment of America that we passed on I can stand, hold my head up high and say, those were things that were good for the American people.