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He ran on his plump sticks of legs, freezing now and again into the sudden startled attitudes which the camera had caught and held on the paling photographs, all carefully placed and glued and labeled, resting in the fat plush album in the bottom drawer of the escritoire.
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ran and on
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
Blood dripped down the front of his sweater, soaking into a dark streak of dirt that ran diagonally across the white wool on his shoulder, as though the bright V woven into the neckline had melted, running a darker color.
He saw the dark sweat spots flip in and out of sight under the patrolman's swinging arms and in the leather holster that swaggered and rolled at the side of his stocky body, the sun left a smoky shine on the narrow strip of blue metal that ran between the horned handles of his pistol.
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.
Inherently incapable of cooperating with others, he ran his own show regardless of how many party-line Democratic toes he stepped on.
It ran, this apocalyptic beast, on two thin legs, and its wings -- were they feathered arms??
The Bathyrans ran a check on Globocnik and had only to conclude that he was in a tug of war with Hans Frank and the civilian administrators.
The average reader of this magazine owns more than one gun ( we ran a survey to find out ) but he's always on the lookout for new and better arms.
Women actually began to appear unaccompanied in the stands, where they still occasionally ran the risk of coming home with a tobacco-juice stain on a clean skirt or a new curse word tingling their ears.
Narrow four-story buildings ran the length of the block like books tightly packed on a shelf.
The esplanade eliminates Grovers Ave., which on original plans ran through the center of the development.
Arkansas combined 280 yards rushing with 64 yards passing ( on 5 completions in 7 tosses ) and a tough defense to whip TCU, and A & M, with a 38-point bulge against Texas Tech ran up its biggest total loop play since 1950.
Troopers said the child ran into the path of a passing car a half-mile north of Calvary on Georgia 111 in Grady County.
When he was made a vice president only a year after the new sales job, a leading business magazine ran his photograph with a brief biography in a series on national business leaders of the future.
The Anniston players and their manager ran out on the field.
The series, adapting several of the best-known Poirot and Marple stories, ran from 4 July 2004 through 15 May 2005, and has since been shown in repeated reruns on NHK and other networks in Japan.
This relationship too, reportedly ran into difficulties early on.
This meant that although ROM applications ran at the same speed, there was a substantial speed decrease on applications running from RAM.
* In that era of carefully counting clock cycles and limited memory, it was inefficient to write speed-dependent programs that ran on a runtime interpreter.
AIX 6 was announced in May 2007 and ran an open beta from June 2007 until the general availability ( GA ) of AIX 6. 1 on November 9, 2007.
AIX PS / 2, first released in 1989, ran on IBM PS / 2 personal computers with Intel 386 and compatible processors.
With the introduction of the ESA / 390 architecture, AIX / 370 was replaced by AIX / ESA in 1991, which was based on OSF / 1, and also ran on the System / 390 platform.
ran and plump
The sides of the car did away with their previous plump appearance in favor of a new, lean look with a crisp new feature line that started on the front fenders and ran back through the doors, kicking up ahead of the rear wheels.
ran and sticks
Actors, suspended on cables, started rising out of the crowd and ran towards the globe, carrying glowing sticks meant to simulate the Olympic torch.
Police first used water cannons against protesters while they ran their sirens and yelled at protesters to get away from the square, then began attacking the protesters with batons and sticks.
ran and legs
The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.
A more precise measurement was made in the Hammar experiment ( 1935 ), which ran a complete MM experiment with one of the " legs " placed between two massive lead blocks.
Nurmi improvised new training methods in the army barracks ; he ran behind trains, holding on to the rear bumper, to stretch his stride, and used heavy iron-clad army boots to strengthen his legs.
Dyson ran directly toward the end zone, but his legs were wrapped up by Jones with about two and a half yards left to the goal line.
A hunter reported having seen a bear like creature, trying to kill one of his sheep, but after he fired his gun, the creature ran into a forest on 2 legs.
:" I see ", said the blind man to his deaf wife as their dog with no legs got up and ran away.
: and the man with no legs ran to call an ambulance.
The dresses were extremely tight around the corseted torso and the waist and upper legs ; Punch ran many cartoons showing women who could neither sit not climb stairs in their tight dresses.
Several other passengers ran forward to grab his arms and legs and help hold him pinned across a three-seat row with his head towards the window and legs towards the aisle.
For example, Palaeolagus, an extinct rabbit from the Oligocene of North America, had shorter hind legs than modern forms ( indicating it ran rather than hopped ) though it was in most other respects quite rabbit-like.
However, Quiquern is really just two sleigh dogs that ran away from the village and accidentally tied each other together, making them appear to be Quiquern with 8 legs and 2 heads.
With sufficient strength left, my legs bleeding and covered with burns, I ran to Fonds-Saint-Denis, six kilometers from Saint-Pierre.
In the fall of 1974, numerous sightings were reported in suburban neighborhoods of Dade County, Florida, of a large, ugly-smelling, hairy, ape-like creature, which ran upright on two legs.
It ran digitigrade, upright on its hind legs.
Like most small dinosaurs, Hypsilophodon was bipedal: it ran on two legs.
Paul Drayton, Richard Stebbins and Bob Hayes ran the other legs.
In the UEFA Europa League Stoke were drawn against Croatian side Hajduk Split and after two legs ran out 2 – 0 winners.
O ' Neill, coached by first base coach Jose Cardenal, had moved several steps towards center field and in spite of having played with injured legs for most of the series, ran the ball down and caught it to end the game and give New York the series lead.
However, in the first quarter McGahee ran up one of his blockers legs, and suffered a left hamstring injury.
They had a stiff tail, like the theropods, to help them balance as they ran on their hind legs.
He then ran from the scene with the crew in tow, arms akimbo, legs flailing while the occupier went to retrieve a white garment.
The roadway ran north from this intersection where M-109 made a 90 – degree corner through the south and east legs of a four-way intersection with M-209 and Dune Valley Road.
1.492 seconds.