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A hand on the anchor line may telegraph a series of jerks and jolts, indicating the anchor is dragging, or a smooth tension indicative of digging in.
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He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.
He approached the horse and laid a hand on the stallion's quivering neck.
The hall, on the other hand, appeared lifeless and deserted on these long waterfront afternoons.
Now, Mis-ter McBride '', said Lord, and he laid a firmly restraining hand on the field boss's arm.
Hogan reappeared, stopped on the hotel porch, lifted a hand in signal.
No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.
He came to the edge of the veranda, peered down at them with his hand on his gun.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
Less assured than the tall, wide-shouldered man in the lead, Cobb followed alertly, a hand on his gun butt.
Greg slapped his hand across the switches that turned on the guns and gun camera and gun sight.
But with her hand softly on his cheek for a last moment, she closed the door and he went back down the hall and into his bed excited, expectant, and finally faintly grinning with the feel of her hand against his mouth.
The marine spun, clapping a hand high on his chest, and dived forward.
Awkwardly with one hand Matsuo got the cap back on the water bottle.
First he barely touched the blade on the hand which shaded the eyes.
He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.
While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
Despite this danger, however, we are informed on every hand that ideas, not machines, are our finest tools ; ;
No Jew was on hand to boycott his financially struggling theater.
Research, on the other hand, has shown many stepmothers to be eminently successful, some far better than the real mothers.
As a consequence of the tensions thus produced in his thoughts and feelings, he wrote on the one hand sketches of idealized hunting trips and on the other an anecdote of the village of Hardscrabble, Arkansas, where no one had ever seen a piano ; ;
Alone, rejected on every hand, divorced, and in financial trouble, he leaped from an eleventh-floor window of the Abbey Hotel in 1937.
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The anchor cable would have been lost overboard, but Philip Staffe was on hand to sever it with his axe.
On the other hand, it is quite possible for this anchor to find such a good hook that, without a trip line from the crown, it is impossible to retrieve.
If you anchor one end of a ribbon or string and hold the other end in your hand, you can create transverse waves by moving your hand up and down.
To tighten the line with respect to a load attached to the standing part, grasp the standing part with one hand inside of the loop and pull towards the anchor object.
Grasp the hitch with the other hand and as slack develops within the loop slide the hitch away from the anchor object, taking up the slack and enlarging the loop.
Windlass shanty: Modern shanties were used to accompany work at the patent windlass, which was designed to raise anchor and was operated by the see-saw like action of pumping hand brakes.
On the other hand, such breaks are now common on 24-hour news channels which often have an anchor available for live interruption at any time.
belays, on the other hand, require a belayer, belay anchor, and points of protection.
One way to determine whether an antique pendulum clock has an anchor or deadbeat escapement is to observe the second hand.
The anchor increased the accuracy of clocks so much that around 1680 – 1690 the use of the minute hand, formerly the exception in clocks, became the rule
This is usually followed with the introduction of a news anchor, who welcomes the viewer to the broadcast and introduces the story at hand.
* Corps badge: Although there were numerous variants, the Corps badges of the 1915-1991 era all consisted of the Crest of the Arms of the Cape of Good Hope Colony, i. e. the figure of Hope with her left hand resting on an anchor and her right hand or elbow resting on Table Mountain, with an inscribed scroll below.
The hand, or manus, which ancestrally was composed of five digits, is reduced to three digits ( digit II, III and IV or I, II, III depending on the scheme followed ), which serves as an anchor for the primaries, one of two groups of flight feathers responsible for the wing's airfoil shape.
After locking the rope in the belay device with one hand, the belayer can tie a prusik to the rope with the other hand, and then use the prusik loop to transfer the load to a fixed anchor.
Rather than surrender, Gaspar chained the anchor around his waist and leapt from the bow, shouting " Gasparilla dies by his own hand, not the enemy's!
On March 10, 2007, Jeni was found by his girlfriend, Amy Murphy, who was a newscaster / weather anchor and reporter for KTTV in Los Angeles ; she reportedly found him, with. 38 caliber pistol in hand, with an apparent self-inflicted handgun wound to the face, in the bedroom area of his West Hollywood, California condominium.
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Mike took the bayonet from Dean's hand and slashed the picket line.
It expanded from hand screw machines to automatic screw machines, from simple formed-tooth gear cutting machines to gear hobbing machines and a large contract gear manufacturing business, from rudimentary belt-driven universal milling machines to a broad line of elaborately controlled knee-type and manufacturing type milling machines.
Slowly he pulled out the hand throttle until the boat was moving at little more than a crawl, and watched Elaine rapidly spin from one station to another, tune in the null, then draw in a line on the chart.
The systems used in AAC include gestures, hand signals, photographs, pictures, line drawings, words and letters, which can be used alone or in combination to communicate.
Tiberius took Agrippina by her hand and quoted the Greek line: “ And if you are not queen, my dear, have I then you wrong ?”
But he did not just speak straight out of these books but took a distinctive personal line in his consideration, and brought the mind of Ammonius ' to bear on the investigation in hand.
On the other hand, nylon thread is more suited to peyote stitch because it is softer and more pliable than fishing line, which permits the beads of the stitch to sit straight without undue tension bending the arrangement out of place.
On the one hand, Bernard Bolzano ( 1817 ) had been aware that any bounded sequence of points ( in the line or plane, for instance ) has a subsequence that must eventually get arbitrarily close to some other point, called a limit point.
With one hand, move the ruler on the paper, turning and sliding it so as to keep point A always on line N, and B on line M. With the other hand, keep the pencil's tip on the paper, following point C of the ruler.
Ineligible receivers may receive a forward hand off only if they are 1 yard behind the line of scrimmage and facing their own goal line.
On the other hand, the pro-government camp considered them to be in compliance with the legislative intent of the Basic Law and in line with the ' One country, two systems ' principle, and hoped that this would put an end to the controversies on development of political structure in Hong Kong.
The human misery of crowded industrial cities, as well as, on the other hand, the new possibilities created by science, brought changes that would shake European civilization, which had, until then, regarded itself as having a continuous and progressive line of development from the Renaissance.
The present day folk dances in the Balkans consist of dancers linked together in a hand or shoulder hold in an open or closed circle or a line.
* on certain coastlines, a depth sounding from echo sounder or hand lead line.
Mills also had a hand in IPC's line of Horror comics aimed at girls such as Chiller.
Generally the left wing is favored by the right-handed majority of writers because the feather curves away from the sight line, over the back of the hand, although because of the modern scarcity of substantial quills this is rarely a consideration as the curvature is not actually so pronounced as to cause any difficulty in the writing process.
There are examples of tresillo-like rhythms in some African American folk musics such as the hand clapping and foot stomping patterns in ring shout, post-Civil War drum and fife music, and New Orleans second line music.
On 30 April, after two weeks of fierce combat, which included prolonged artillery exchanges and even hand to hand combat, unable to overcome San Juan's first line of defense, Abercromby withdrew.
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