I started looking on the splintery truck bed for a piece of board, a dirt clod -- anything I could throw and with better aim than I had thrown the beer bottle.

`` He's a wrong-o '', said Runyon, `` and I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the Statue of Liberty ''.

For two hours they drove her from one strong point to another along the side of the Reef, trying to maneuver her onto the plain where they could get a good throw.

In baseball's earlier decades, a runner on second base could " steal " first base, perhaps with the intention of drawing a throw that might allow a runner on third to score ( a tactic famously employed by Germany Schaefer ).

Kernighan's term is used to indicate that WYSIWYG systems might throw away information in a document that could be useful in other contexts.

Deeply disturbed by the surge of militaristic nationalism in 1930s world politics, Chaplin found that he could not keep these issues out of his work: " How could I throw myself into feminine whimsy or think of romance or the problems of love when madness was being stirred up by a hideous grotesque, Adolf Hitler?

The bows of these machines already featured a winched pull back system and could apparently throw two missiles at once.

The bows of these machines already featured a winched pull back system and could apparently throw two missiles at once.

It could theoretically be used both in melee and as a thrown weapon, but warriors were forbidden in Shaka's day from throwing it, which would disarm them and give their opponents something to throw back.

" Rousseau, he wrote, " has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments ; and, as he scorns to dissemble his contempt for established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.

Alberti also claimed that he " excelled in all bodily exercises ; could, with feet tied, leap over a standing man ; could in the great cathedral, throw a coin far up to ring against the vault ; amused himself by taming wild horses and climbing mountains.

He could pole vault, put the shot, throw the javelin, and throw the discus.

But for this he was too late, and all that could be done was to throw troops into Placentia and hold the line of the Po.

Bradshaw scooped it up and rolled to his right, looking to pass, but Henderson wrapped him up before he could throw, while Hegman ripped the ball out of his hands and returned the fumble 37 yards for a touchdown, giving the Cowboys a 14 – 7 lead.

Rypien had several great targets to whom he could throw.

In a different example, one could consider javelin throw lengths, where the events typically are intervals like " between 60 and 65 meters " and unions of such intervals, but not " irrational numbers between 60 and 65 meters "

From ancient times, it was believed that porcupines could throw their quills at an enemy, but this has long been refuted.

Those who could throw off their armour swam across the river.

Tips were generally made from bamboo for its elasticity which could throw the bait further and more accurately.

He could pole vault 11 feet, put the shot 47 ft 9 in, throw the javelin 163 feet, and throw the discus 136 feet.

As he lowered himself on the chair behind his desk I wondered what this dapper, slightly ridiculous man could possibly have to do with the workings of the hall.

How could he comprehend her need when he himself was innocent??

No more could he defend himself against them.

there he could shave and scrub himself up for the evening.

By then Hez could see for himself, and so could the others.

Then he would realize they were really things that only he himself could think.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

So in these pages the term `` technology '' is used to include any and all means which could amplify, project, or augment man's control over himself and over other men.

It was, of course, a little boy's fantasy of winning his mother to himself, and replacing the father who could not give her the things she wanted -- a classical oedipal fantasy if you like -- but if it were only this the story would be banal.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Stevie could feel himself toppling.

How, for example, could a Voltaire understand the strange predicament in which a Rousseau would find himself when, soon after the furor of his first Discourse, he acquired still another title to fame??

No man ever had a better opinion of himself and indeed, with one so favored, flattery could hardly seem overdone.

In conclusion, he wished me well -- and as kindly and humbly as this humane gentleman could express himself, he asked to be remembered to my wife and children.

Sherry remained in his hotel suite, where he amused himself as best he could.

Says Clarence Thompson: `` We dealers must earn our mark-up by performing a service for the builder cheaper than he could do it himself ''.

Geely grunted and slid partly out, and Shayne's left arm snaked in around his neck to help him, while he set himself solidly on the roadway and swung his right fist to the big, gum-chewing jaw before Geely could straighten up.

He could feel himself falling in with it and being unable to get out.

The omission might look peculiar to outsiders, but Andy could not bring himself to go through the motions simply for the sake of appearances.

He climbed, as quickly as he could urge his body, up the two unbroken flights to the third floor, pulling himself along on a delicate balustrade, all that remained of the building's beauty.

Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene -- having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 -- left that august body ( voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen to run again last November ), as the oldest man ever to serve in the Senate.

Ezra Stiles Gannett, an honorable representative of the sanhedrin, addressed himself frankly to the issue in 1845, insisting that Parker should not be persecuted or calumniated and that in this republic no power to restrain him by force could exist.