So, and much so universally, the world of his dread and his unconscious worship wagged over Sir Willoughby Patterne and his change of brides, until the preparations for the festivities of the marriage flushed him in his county's eyes to something of the splendid glow he had worn on the great day of his majority. That was upon the season when two lovers met between the Swiss and Tyrol Alps over the Lake of Constance. Sitting beside them the Comic Muse is grave and sisterly. But taking a glance at the others of her late company of actors, she compresses her lips.
compressed conversations.
The adjective compressed has 4 meanings:
Meaning #1: pressed tightly together
Synonym: tight
Meaning #2: reduced in volume by pressure
Meaning #3: (biology) flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
Synonym: flat
Meaning #4: pressed into less space
Thalia, muse of comedy, holding a comic mask - detail of “Muses Sarcophagus”, the nine Muses and their attributes; marble, early second century AD, Via Ostiense -
Louvre
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