He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand, the stock bumping on the wood floor.

Johnson's fat hand, another bottle were protruding from the truck cab, and that self-proclaimed Baptist teetotaler, had a bottle at his own lips.

In one hand he gripped firmly a parasol though there had been no indication of rain.

His brown face looked gray from dirt streaks where his hand had come off the dusty pavement and rubbed across it.

The man had thrown the left hand over his eyes.

Dead fledgling birds, their squashed-looking nakedness and the odor of decay that clung to the hand when they had been buried in our graveyard in front of the purple flags.

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 ; ;

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

He was not sure what kind of a man he had in hand.

The room vibrated as if a giant hand had rocked it.

He had seen a dry, old, yellowing hand reach out, with that painful solicitude, to touch, to rearrange, to shift aimlessly, some object worth a pfennig.

On such occasions he had not had the courage to look at the face above the hand, whatever face it might be.

He recognized her because she was the one who, in a winter twilight, on the edge of camp, had once stopped him and reached down her hand to touch his fly.

Looking down the street after her, Adam saw that she had again stopped and again removed one hand from the basket.

From the moment that Hino had first walked into the mission to ask for a job, any job -- his qualifications neatly written on a piece of paper in a precise hand -- he had been ready to become a Christian.

Pa was on his side, looking at me, his eyes winking, the hand that had hit me a fist in the pillow.

Bobby Joe had been sitting close to her, touching her actually, and holding her hand from time to time, but it seemed at once that Howard sat much closer.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

I had no idea of what subjects one discussed when alone with a girl, or how one behaved: Should I hold her hand while walking or only when crossing the street??

We didn't even know them till about a month after we moved -- at that time, they had called on us, after I met Fran at a PTA meeting, and had taken us in hand socially.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Martin had to invent the word quanli to translate the Western concept of " rights " in the process of translating Henry Wheaton's Elements of International Law into classical Chinese.

There, from 1715 he rendered valuable assistance to a society that had been formed for translating the New Testament into French.

In fact, her first major literary work was translating into English Strauss ' Life of Jesus ( 1846 ), which she completed after it had been begun by another member of the Rosehill circle.

Prior to translating Averroes ' commentaries, Anatoli had occupied himself with the translation of astronomical treatises by the same writer and others ; but at the instance of friends he turned his attention to logic and the speculative works, realizing and recommending theimportance of logic, in particular, in view of the contemporary religious controversies.

Only the priests were present there, and they had the task of " translating " her utterances in plain speech.

The Germanic word probably had a wider meaning prior to the adoption of the Roman calendar, perhaps " succession series ", as suggested by Gothic wikō translating taxis " order " in Luke 1: 8.

Agricola had thought about translating the New Testament in his early years of study.

The founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann, when translating William Cullen's Materia medica, noticed Cullen had written that Peruvian bark was known to cure intermittent fevers.

Altan Khan had Thegchen Chonkhor, Mongolia's first monastery, built, and a massive program of translating Tibetan texts into Mongolian was commenced.

Pietro Carnesecchi, ( 24 December 1508 – 1 October 1567 ), burned by the Inquisition in 1567, who had known Valdés at Rome as " a modest and well-bred courtier ," found him at Naples ( 1540 ) " wholly intent upon the study of Holy Scripture ," translating portions into Spanish from Hebrew and Greek, with comments and introductions.

He had little interest in French literature and wrote everything in German, subsequently translating it into French with the help of a collaborator.

Steinhauer's missionary work had actually begun 15 years earlier in 1840 when he was assigned to Lac La Pluie to assist in translating, teaching and interpreting the Ojibwa and Cree languages.

Rogers had little to do with the translation ; his own share in that work was probably confined to translating the prayer of Manasses ( inserted here for the first time in a printed English Bible ), the general task of editing the materials at his disposal, and preparing the marginal notes collected from various sources.

Lefranc soon had reason to repent of his action, for the epigrams and stories circulated by those he had attacked made it difficult for him to remain in Paris, and he returned to his native town, where he spent the rest of his life gardening, writing poetry and translating from the classics.

With the support of the emperor, he established an institute at Yuhua Gong ( Palace of the Lustre of Jade ) monastery dedicated to translating into Chinese the scriptures he had brought back.

His interest in translating Christian texts had begun during his early education.

As well as translating many important texts, much of what was to become standard Arabic philosophical vocabulary originated with al-Kindi ; indeed, if it had not been for him, the work of philosophers like Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and al-Ghazali might not have been possible.

Lamont enlists the help of Bronowski, a linguist who had won renown for translating the Etruscan language and is looking for a new challenge.

In 1769 the Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple, whilst translating some Spanish documents captured in the Philippines in 1762, had found Luis Váez de Torres ' testimony proving a passage south of New Guinea now known as Torres Strait.

However, instead of translating POW's proposals into institutional plans for transformation, Wits reacted in a defensive manner and refused to acknowledge many of the criticisms that had been brought up by POW.

He spent the rest of his life translating and editing the scriptures he had collected.

Mr. Cockshutt of the Inner Temple had left a legacy of £ 300 to More to have three of his principal pieces translated into Latin, and More complied with the terms of the legacy by translating into Latin many more of his English works.

Ciardi had begun translating Dante for his classes at Harvard and continued with the work throughout his time there.