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As his feet slowed, he felt ashamed of the panic and resolved to make a stand.
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feet and slowed
The shredded plastic countermass is quickly slowed by air resistance and is harmless at a distance more than a few feet from the breech.
The way was narrow and steep, and spring rains slowed the march as tramping feet churned the roads into mud.
After continuing to rise to about 220, 000 feet ( 67. 1 km ), the SRBs begin to fall back to earth and once back in the atmosphere are slowed by a parachute system to prevent damage on ocean impact.
The jet slowed down, pitched up by 40 degrees, rose 1, 000 feet ( 300 m ), stalled, and crashed into a residential neighborhood, bursting into flames.
feet and felt
When her hand touched his, fire went through Jack and he felt weak, but he managed somehow to get her on her feet.
The sharp wind slapped at him and his feet felt like ice as the snow penetrated the holes of his shoes, his only ones, now patched with folded parchment.
Always troubled by poor circulation in his feet, he experimented with various combinations of socks and shoes before finally adopting old-style felt farmer's boots with his sheepskin flying boots pulled over them.
It was so pretty and artless that she felt like a child again and would have enjoyed running out barefoot to play on the wet grass with all the growing things, but Doaty never permitted bare feet and she was decidedly not a child but une femme d'un certain age.
" Fellow poet and critic Glyn Jones believed that any traces of cynghanedd in Thomas ' work was accidental, although he felt Thomas consciously employed one element of Welsh metrics ; that of counting syllables per line instead of feet.
Fox felt moved to invite Cromwell to " lay down his crown at the feet of Jesus "— which, however, Cromwell declined to do.
He'd also formed a blueprint for the prospective league's operations, which included early television exposure, heavy promotion in home markets, and owners willing to absorb years of losses — which he felt would be inevitable until the league found its feet.
The resulting explosion produced a shock wave that was heard and felt for over 5 miles, and a fireball over 1, 000 feet in diameter.
The lack of felt indicates these were likely also the shoes taken from the feet of the dead Wicked Witch of the East ( since the soles are visible in the film ), hence their nickname: the " Witch's slippers ".
The original toy cost $ 0. 98, and contained hands, feet, ears, two mouths, two pairs of eyes, four noses, three hats, eyeglasses, a pipe, and eight felt pieces resembling facial hair.
In this case the cold air will first be felt by ones feet as a result of the outside air propagating as a gravity current along the floor of the room.
But he must have felt the ground was being cut from under his feet when he was supplied with translations of some of the most questionable passages from the writings of Theodore.
The hands and feet appeared to be swollen, were cramped up and felt quite hard.
There are six winks of each colour, which begin the game in the corners of a felt mat measuring 6 feet by 3 feet.
St. Clement, the patron saint of felt hatmakers, is said to have discovered wool felt when he filled his sandals with flax fibers to protect his feet.
One day, while Bhai Gonda was repeating the Japji, he felt as though clinging to the Guru ’ s feet.
A prefect reported this as the school had strict rules about being in other pupils ' cubicles, but Woolf felt that he had not broken the rules because he did not have his feet inside the cubicle at the time.
* Legs and feet pointed in a particular direction: the direction where more interest is felt
Spectators initially felt their feet becoming warmer ; one of them ran to the back of the stand for a fire extinguisher but found none.
Certain brands of foam pads put raised plastic sections under the directional buttons to allow them to be more easily felt by a player's feet, so as to help keep him centered on the pad.
This is not entirely consistent with his claim that after 10 hours, he felt his feet go cold ; the cockpit floor was awash with gasoline leaking from the unrepaired tank.
Before the oil crisis felt weighed about 15 pounds per square ( one square = 100 square feet ) and hence the asphalt-impregnated felt was called " 15 #" or " 15 pound felt ".
feet and ashamed
" Brack's protest sticks in his throat ; " ashamed, he looked at his feet, and then he nodded.
All throughout his life — even when he was a great man with the world at his feet — he was to feel this gap: something at the bottom of his heart of which he was aware, and ashamed, but which he did not understand ... We do not have to dabble in a place which he preferred to keep secret.
:" When you strip naked without being ashamed, and take your garments and put them under your feet like little children and tread upon them, then will see the child of the living.
feet and panic
When stricken by worry or panic, Humphrey runs desperately in place, with his feet seemingly headed in all directions.
Paresthesias of the hands and feet are common, transient symptoms of the related conditions of hyperventilation syndrome, often open mouth, and panic attacks.
Back on his feet, Duke founded the Dr. Whoopee condom company to cash in on AIDS-induced panic, but lost control of it following a bad financial deal with John Gotti.
Meer reflected on replaying the game fifteen years after its release, " The panic and terror of facing 90 degrees away from your enemy, and knowing that you can't do a damn thing about it before your lower intestine spills onto your feet, is still something pretty special.
They flopped limply along, half with their webbed feet and half with their membranous wings ; and as they reached the throng of celebrants the cowled figures seized and mounted them, and rode off one by one along the reaches of that unlighted river, into pits and galleries of panic where poison springs feed frightful and undiscoverable cataracts.
feet and resolved
Euripides sometimes ' resolved ' the two syllables of the iamb (˘¯) into three syllables (˘˘˘) and this tendency increased so steadily over time that the number of resolved feet in a play can be understood to indicate the approximate date of composition ( see Extant plays below for one scholar's list of resolutions per hundred trimeters ).
Knowing this fundamental truth, I have resolved to offer my saranagati at your lotus feet alone that rest at the banks of Vegavathi river.
In 1809 town magistrates resolved to improve the main street at a moderate expense by lifting the pavement and making a gravel road around each side of the street, the outer edge of which was to be 44 feet from the edge of the houses.
feet and make
If a child watched its progress he whispered, `` Hay, hay, load of hay -- make a wish and turn away '', and then stared rigidly in the opposite direction until the sound of the horses' feet returned no more.
Meanwhile, he had this miserable cold, and as he leaned against the refrigerator, watching the rain make sandy puddles at his feet, the doctor's prescription for lots of sun seemed like a hollow mockery.
As his shoes became unusable, he had no need to make new ones, since his toughened, callused feet made protection unnecessary.
Armadillos ( mainly Dasypus ) make common roadkill due to their habit of jumping three to four feet vertically when startled, which puts them into collision with the underside of vehicles.
At best, the technique is only effective at extremely close ranges of five to ten feet, since the recoil would make it hard to keep both weapons straight, and using the sights on the guns is next to impossible.
The hellbender has a few characteristics that make it distinguishable from other native salamanders — these include a gigantic, dorsoventrally flattened body with thick folds travelling down the sides, a single open gill slit on each side, and hind feet that have five toes each.
* Leverage ( where one partner-usually the lead-exploits the development of compression or connection to shift their follow's weight or to ' ground ' ( develop ' compression ' downwards, with the contact their feet make with the floor ) themselves more thoroughly before initiating movement );
The usual method of erecting two or three concentric palisades, each 12 to 20 feet ( 4 to 7 m ) high, created a formidable obstacle to attackers — especially since, as some of the English observed in the 19th century, the thigh-thick logs planted into the earth to make the palisades often took root at the bottom and grew foliage at the top, so that the defenders occupied virtually a living wall of wood.
Riders with larger feet ( US size 10 +) may have problems with narrower boards, as the rider's toes and / or heels may extend over the edge of the board, and interfere with the board's ability to make turns once it is set on edge, or ' get hung up on the snow.
Characteristically 10 cm or more in width, they're often fitted with cable bindings to provide general sturdiness and to make it easier to extract one's feet from deep snow banks, in case it should be impossible to reach the bindings by hand.
Nagaras are large war drums that make a thundering sound and measure about 2 to 3 feet in diameter ; they are played with two sticks.
Some even bring their bicycles to a complete stop, balanced upright with both feet still on the pedals ( a track stand ), in an attempt to make the other rider take the lead.
For example, a course designer might set up a line so that there are six and a half strides ( the standard measure for a canter stride is twelve feet ) between the jumps, requiring the rider to adjust the horse's stride dramatically in order to make the distance.
Its webbed feet, though not used to propel the animal through the water, allow it to make fast turns and sudden moves in the water or initiate swimming.
He also had the head of the Colossus of Nero adjacent to the Colosseum replaced with his own portrait, gave it a club and placed a bronze lion at its feet to make it look like Hercules, and added an inscription boasting of being " the only left-handed fighter to conquer twelve times one thousand men ".
If he / she can make it to shore (" dry feet "), he / she is permitted to make a case for political asylum.
In order to make seagulls act on cue and perform aerobatics, Mark Smith of Escondido, California built radio-controlled gliders that looked remarkably like real seagulls from a few feet away.
Having finished the main trains, proceed next to make a small train in every furrow of the field if the ridges formerly have not been less than fifteen feet ( 4. 6 m )
Finn's feet carve out the channels between the Calf of Man and Kitterland and between Kitterland and the Isle of Man, while the buggane's feet make an opening for the port at Port Erin.
Trogons are difficult to study as their thick tarsi ( feet bones ) make ringing studies difficult.
* When " landing ," the performer will make a point of hitting the ground hard with the feet, and bending the knees to convince the spectators that the performer's feet were higher in the air than they actually were.
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