One of Greg's bombs hung up, and he was miles from the target before he could get rid of it.

It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.

Bicycle gear-sets he had once used as the basis of the design for the Camden Cycly Company plant hung on a rope in one corner, and over his desk, next to several old and dusty hats, was a clean pair of roller skates which he occasionally used up and down in front of his house.

Under the circumstances, I had difficulty keeping up with the conversation on the phone, but when I hung up I was reasonably certain that Francesca had wanted to remind me of our town meeting the next evening, and how important it was that Hank and I be there.

I started to say something else appropriate, but the man had hung up.

Rourke confirmed the appointment over the phone and hung up.

Conrad hung up and sat on the small telephone-booth bench, massaging his right leg.

He hung up.

He dialed it and listened to it ring ten times before he hung up.

As she hung up, she saw through the hall's open window the purple-black flying of the cowbirds' wings, and heard their grotesque singing.

At last, led to the Hippodrome of Constantinople, he was hung up by the feet between two pillars, and two Latin soldiers competed as to whose sword would penetrate his body more deeply, and finally his body, according to the representation of his death, was torn apart.

As a result, the subscalar CPU gets " hung up " on instructions which take more than one clock cycle to complete execution.

Even adding a second execution unit ( see below ) does not improve performance much ; rather than one pathway being hung up, now two pathways are hung up and the number of unused transistors is increased.

Chiang's portrait hung over the gate of the Forbidden City before Mao's portrait was set up in its place.

Further to the west, Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily, in the care of King Cocalus of Kamikos on the island's south coast ; there he built a temple to Apollo, and hung up his wings, an offering to the god.

The Russian flagship, the battleship Tsesarevich, which had her nets deployed, had at least four enemy torpedoes " hung up " in them, other warships were similarly saved from further damage by the Russian navy's proper use of torpedo nets.

When a program was ready it was hung on a length of line strung up near the paper tape reader.

Regan became so angry with Nancy that he hung up on her during a 1987 telephone conversation.

The jury acquitted Barger on the RICO charges with a hung jury on the predicate acts: " There was no proof it was part of club policy, and as much as they tried, the government could not come up with any incriminating minutes from any of our meetings mentioning drugs and guns.

A brace of pistols, holstered on belts, hung from a peg, along with ammunition pouches.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

Marsyas could not do this with his instrument ( the flute ), and so Apollo hung him from a tree and flayed him alive.

As it hung there empty, a swarm of bees entered it and filled it with honeycomb.

Taking and developing the landscape style of Lucas Cranach the Elder, he shows the hilly landscape of the Danube valley with thick forests of drooping and crumbling firs and larches hung with moss, and often dramatic colouring from a rising or setting sun.

As Lord Blake observed: " The true relationship between the three cannot be determined with certainty ... there can be no doubt that the affair usage damaged Disraeli and that it made its contribution, along with many other episodes, to the understandable aura of distrust which hung around his name for so many years.

As was the case with the Liberal Party for most of the 20th century, the Liberal Democrats face constant questioning about which of the other two parties they are closer to, in particular about which they would support in the event of a hung parliament.

Newton discusses a bucket filled with water hung by a cord.

The 2010 general election resulted in a hung parliament ( Britain's first for 36 years ), following which the Conservatives ( led by David Cameron ), which had won the largest number of seats, formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats in order to gain a parliamentary majority, ending 13 years of Labour government.

At Moscow, Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls ; and, in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

Passengers from boats with a yellow flag hung would not be allowed to disembark at any harbor for an extended period, typically 30 to 40 days.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

These were also hung over the shoulder of the drummer and typically played with two drum sticks.

The band was charged with " distribution of harmful matter to minors ", but the trial ended with a hung jury.

In August 1987, the criminal trial ended with a hung jury.

Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.

Stating that he hung out with the " band nerds " in high school, he started a ska band.

At her funeral on 28 April, the coffin was taken to Westminster Abbey on a hearse drawn by four horses hung with black velvet.

Each brass handle and hinge shone for his reward, and he knew how to get at the dust in the china flowers and how to take down the long glass drops which hung from the chandelier.

Whenever he deigned to appear at the studio he was `` hung over '', uncooperative, rude and insulting.

Mr. Blatz had been at least sober enough to remember to telephone and he turned out to be the greatest boon that had come into Mr. Crombie's life since he moved to Highfield, in spite of the fact that he didn't work very fast or very long at a time, and he didn't like to work at all unless Mr. Crombie hung around and talked to him.

The price tag hung from the belt and he pulled it off as he entered the chartroom and looked at it curiously.

She hung it in a sacred grove at Tegea as a dedication to Artemis.

Professor Henry Higgins sings, " Look at her, a prisoner of the gutters / Condemned by every syllable she utters / By right she should be taken out and hung / For the cold-blooded murder of the English tongue.

For several seasons, national flags of the players represented at Fulham were hung from the roof.

In 1865, an unknown employee at the Ghirardelli Chocolate Company discovered the Broma process of separating cocoa butter from cocoa solids ( namely, that if chocolate is hung in a bag in a warm room, the butter will drip out naturally over time ).

All ancient doors were hung by pivots at the top and bottom of the hanging stile which worked in sockets in the lintel and sill, the latter being always in some hard stone such as basalt or granite.

As a last mark of respect, Collyer ordered that Syn be buried at sea, rather than have his body hung in chains.

He completed painting his last major work, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère ( Le Bar aux Folies-Bergère ), in 1882 and it hung in the Salon that year.

In Chretien de Troyes's Perceval, Gawain carries Escalibor and it is stated, " for at his belt hung Excalibor, the finest sword that there was, which sliced through iron as through wood " (" Qu ' il avoit cainte Escalibor, la meillor espee qui fust, qu ' ele trenche fer come fust .").

During this time, the Tories and Labour had exchanged places at the top of the opinion polls on numerous occasions, and by the time of the election most opinion polls were showing a slim Labour lead, which most observers predicted would translate into a hung parliament or a narrow Labour victory at the election.

" At this time, one of those disciples happened to be the current English ambassador, though his initiation into Jahangir's inner circle of disciples was devoid of religious significance for Roe, as he did not understand the full extent of what he was doing: Jahangir hung " a picture of him self set in gold hanging at a wire gold chain ” round Roe's neck.

The portrait was hung at the entrance of his exhibitions, promoting his rustic image.

Movie theaters in the Soviet Union showed newsreels and clips of Chiang, at Moscow Sun Yat-sen University Portraits of Chiang were hung on the walls, and in the Soviet May Day Parades that year, Chiang's portrait was to be carried along with the portraits of Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and other socialist leaders.

The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.

It hung in the rafters at the headquarters of the Royal Scottish Archers in Edinburgh.