Today he can bend himself into seemingly impossible physical positions.
Ibn Saʿūd bent himself to the task of regaining the whole realm of his ancestors.
Mr. Mitchell began to bend himself to his character, and vice versa.
Mark Jackson, as an eightysomething waiter, has an uncanny ability to bend himself backwards at a right angle, and to slide down walls.
"There's something within me, so what is it!" Two months later he bent himself to the study of drawing and painting as others would bend to the plough.
He's tall and lanky, and while he wears bookish horn-rimmed glasses, he was gleefully hyperactive onstage: climbing on his monitors, crooking his arms, jumping around, twitching, crawling, pumping his hips and bending himself into any angle he pleased.
(And what child doesn't like to bend himself into a pretzel?) Each position is described in a clean, direct manner, showing children, for example, how to stick out their tongues, hands on knees, just like a lion: "King of the jungle / Roaring so loud / Make the woods rumble".
A thief known as the Cobra because of his flexible body and very short legs, he is a tubular creature in a striped garment who can scuttle across the boards like a caterpillar and bend himself into a perfect croquet hoop.
He was got up with such care, and was so stiff, that he could hardly bend himself; being obliged, when he glanced at some papers on his desk, after sitting down in his chair, to move his whole body, from the bottom of his spine, like (the puppet character) Punch".
