He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

The seventh man was Red Hogan, a wiry little puncher with a wild streak and a liking for hell-raising.

Haney felt like shrinking out of sight, but he was already trapped in the corner with the wiry, dark little man.

An early description of Suleiman, a few weeks following his accession, was provided by the Venetian envoy Bartolomeo Contarini: " He is twenty-six years of age, tall, but wiry, and of a delicate complexion.

Many critics opined at that time that Gretzky was " too small, too wiry, and too slow to be a force in the NHL ".

Hughes, a tiny, wiry man with a wizened face and a raspy voice, was an unlikely national leader, but during the First World War he acquired a reputation as a war leader — the troops called him the " Little Digger "— that sustained him for the rest of his life.

According to a former stage colleague Rice was " tall and wiry, and a great deal on the build of Bob Fitzsimmons, the prizefighter.

At eighteen, the small, wiry, pale Carmichael was living in Indianapolis, trying to help his family ’ s income working in manual jobs in construction, a bicycle chain factory, and a slaughterhouse.

Chiang on the other hand was slight and wiry and often played sarcastic anti-hero to Lung's standard archetype.

In Union Jack number 53, in a story titled " Cunning Against Skill ", Blake picked up a wiry street-wise orphan as an assistant who was known only as " Tinker " until the 1950s.

A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.

Singled out for kudos for this attribute was " Finland's wiry old peasant President, Kyösti Kallio — 73 years old and full of sisu ( courage )— last week thought up a new scheme to get supplies for his country.

He was a small man, wiry, and had one eye.

In 1939, DuPont began marketing nylon monofilament fishing lines ; however, braided Dacron lines remained the most used and popular fishing line for the next two decades, as early monofilament line was very stiff or " wiry ", and difficult to handle and cast.

Editors ' first album, The Back Room, was described as having a wiry and raw sound, which led it to being famously dubbed ' dark disco ' by the NME.

Dr. John E. Mack, claims in his book Abduction that " I have myself studied a 1 / 2-to 3 / 4-inch thin, wiry object that was given to me by one of my clients, a twenty-four-year-old woman, after it came out of her nose following an abduction experience.

* Jerry Madden: Jerry Madden is a wiry, good-looking youth whose brother was a teammate of the Hardys on their school's varsity football squad.

He was only 1. 6m ( 5 feet 2 inches ) in height, which was under average for that time, but had a strong wiry frame.

Mr. Mackey was inspired by Parker's real-life school guidance counselor ; Parker, who provides the voice for Mackey, said the real-life counselor was similarly thin and wiry and that Parker's voice for Mr. Mackey is an exact, unexaggerated version of how his counselor spoke.

A Discourse Concerning the Beauty of Providence ( 1649 ) took an unfashionable line, namely that divine providence was more inscrutable than current interpreters were saying.

He was described by Red Skelton's producer John Guedel as " an odd little kid ," likable, shy, introspective, mysterious, and inscrutable.

Damo Suzuki was a very different singer from Mooney, with a multilingual ( he claimed to sing in " the language of the Stone Age ") and often inscrutable vocal style.

The instrument was not intended to provide merely for the exigencies of a few years, but was to endure through a long lapse of ages, the events of which were locked up in the inscrutable purposes of Providence.

He espoused the belief that Hitler was the gift of an inscrutable divine providence sent to rescue the white race from decadence and gradual extinction caused by a declining birth rate and miscegenation.

In a 1988 interview with the Seattle Times, he referred to the " inscrutable, slanty Korean eyes " of Korean shop owners and was quoted as saying, " You know what side I'm on.

The Westminster Confession, after stating the doctrine of election, adds: “ The rest of mankind, God was pleased, according to the inscrutable counsel of His own will, whereby He extendeth or withholdeth mercy as He pleaseth, for the glory of His sovereign power over His creatures, to pass by, and to ordain them to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the praise of His glorious justice .”

While the Question puzzles over her inscrutable and violent nature, she confesses that the O-Sensei was " the one man I am certain I would not harm if he kissed me.

In spite of the scriptural disclaimer against the employment of inscrutable terms, nearly all parties perceived that the Manifesto was a subtly Anomoean document.

He argues, in his evolutionary argument against naturalism, that the probability that evolution has produced humans with reliable true beliefs, is low or inscrutable, unless their evolution was guided, for example, by God.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

Kid Boyd was unusually silent, Rankin watchful, a few paces apart.

Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.

Brassnose was strangely silent.

L. M. Birkhead challenged him to name one and he was silent.

It was a strained, silent lunch.

At the very end, when the audience was silent and breathless, a collection was taken and then slowly everyone filed out.

Eugene was not entirely silent, or openly rude -- unless asking Harold to move to another chair and placing himself in the fauteuil that creaked so alarmingly was an act of rudeness.

All about me there was a hectic interplay of meetings taking place, like abrupt, jerky scenes in old silent movies, joyous greetings and beginnings, huggings and kissings, enthusiastic forays into the festive night.

He could tell them his fears of being involved, he could explain what had happened in the old neighborhood and how Mae had misunderstood and how she had held it over him -- the scene was complete in his mind at the moment, even to his own jerkings and snivelings, and Ferguson's silent patience.

He was silent again, possibly listening to the sounds in the squadroom.

The sudden silence was too silent.

It was silent in the stone alley.

I was silent.

The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.

She was silent for a while, then said, `` Why are you so unhappy ''??

At two that morning, he was still walking -- up and down Peony, up and down the veranda, up and down the silent, moonlit beach.

Upon reaching the desired speed, the automatic equipment would cut off the drive, and the silent but not empty vessel would hurl towards the star which was its journey's end.

In a culture that set a high value on oratory and public performances of all kinds, in which the production of books was very labor-intensive, the majority of the population was illiterate, and where those with the leisure to enjoy literary works also had slaves to read for them, written texts were more likely to be seen as scripts for recitation than as vehicles of silent reflection.

However, there is also evidence that silent reading did occur in antiquity and that it was not generally regarded as unusual.