He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.

A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.

There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.

He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.

Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.

This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.

He was big.

`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.

She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.

When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.

He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;

He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.

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.

He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

What a spectacle he was, caked with dirt and sweat and blood, filthy as a pig and naked as an Indian, kissing the finest, the sweetest, the bravest, and absolutely the prettiest girl in this whole wonderful world.

And there I was shacked up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson Street.

For five days now, they had been in port and that filthy stuff was still in the hold.

However, the classics had not refined his taste, for he was amused by setting itinerant scholars, who swarmed to his court, to abuse one another in the indescribably filthy Latin scolding matches which were then the fashion.

It was hot, filthy work.

Bacon has been accused of servility, of dissimulation, of various base motives, and their filthy brood of base actions, all unworthy of his high birth, and incompatible with his great wisdom, and the estimation in which he was held by the noblest spirits of the age.

According to the French police account, he shouted " You ’ re a filthy boche " and said he was acting in the name of 12, 000 persecuted Jews.

He was born in Tottenham, North London, England, the son of Cecelia Margaret ( née Newlove ) and Frederick Samuel Phillips, who worked at Glover and Main, manufacturers of cookers in Edmonton, London ; the " filthy, sulphurous " air of the factory gave him a weak heart and edema, leading to his death at the age of 44.

Lamarr later sued the publisher, saying that many of the anecdotes in the book, which was described by a judge as " filthy, nauseating, and revolting ", were fabricated by its ghost writer, Leo Guild.

In 1957, Samuel Roth, who ran a literary business in New York City, was charged with distributing " obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy " materials through the mail, advertising and selling a publication called American Aphrodite (" A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free ").

" About three hundred persons of both sexes filled the place ; their dress was so unkempt and so filthy that one would have taken them for a gathering of beggars.

I saw that he had short hair, cut short, I thought ; and I suddenly realized that his neck was oddly leathery and extremely filthy.

At Perpignan he was held nude in a tiny, filthy, lightless cell that he was never allowed to leave.

The conclusion, called " unnecessarily pat " by one critic, was compared by Litt with the " ultimate fantasy ending of 1980s movies – the heroine has lucked out without selling out, has kept her integrity but still ended up filthy rich.

Wilson thought the Truce of 11 July 1921 “ rank, filthy cowardice ” and hoped it would break down, so that an extra 30, 000 troops could be sent to crush Sinn Fein, and thought Lloyd George ’ s plan to withdraw from the interior and control major cities and ports (“ withdrawal and blockade ”) “ as ridiculous as it was impossible ”.

In 927, according to William of Malmesbury writing around 1120, Athelstan evicted the Cornish from Exeter and perhaps the rest of Devon: " Exeter was cleansed of its defilement by wiping out that filthy race ".

73 % had men and women sharing beds indiscriminately, 81 % were filthy and the average was 5. 5 persons to a bed.

In his memoirs he writes: " At this time I began to experience anger, envy and even hatred towards the landowner and especially towards his children-those young slackers who often strolled past me sleek and healthy, well-dressed, well-groomed and scented ; while I was filthy, dressed in rags, barefoot, and reeked of manure from cleaning the calves ' barn.

Their berthing was the worst on board, in a roach-infested, filthy and unventilated cargo hold.

By September newspapers were reporting that a scare campaign was being created, suggesting Te Whiti was fortifying Parihaka and preparing to invade New Plymouth, while the Taranaki Herald reported that the settlement was " in a horribly filthy state " and its inhabitants " in a deplorable condition " – a stark contrast to the situation a Wellington doctor discovered when he visited, writing that the place was " singularly clean ... regularly swept ... drainage is excellent ".

Eugene was in his pajamas and dressing gown, and on his large feet he wore yellow Turkish slippers that turned up at the toes.

Children in the areas where Agent Orange was used have been affected and have multiple health problems, including cleft palate, mental disabilities, hernias, and extra fingers and toes.

Knowing what he did was best for his country, but the tense posture of his feet and toes reveals his inner turmoil.

" He also made visits to his sister at Headingley, during which he visited the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, where he was " chiefly impressed by a pair of Charlotte Brontë's cloth-topped boots, very small, with square toes and lacing up at the sides.

Its feet and short claws were black while the webbed skin between the toes was brownish black.

“ The Itchi-Soretsu controversey was of no interest to outsiders, but it kept Nichiren theologians on their toes and forced them to define their positions with more clarity.

The wing membrane extended between the fingers and toes as webbing, and a uropatagium ( secondary membrane between the feet and tail ) was present, as well as a propatagium ( membrane between the wrist and shoulder ).

By studying the bones of the smaller toes ( as opposed to the big toe ), it was observed that their thickness decreased approximately 40, 000 to 26, 000 years ago.

Some questioned whether the country was overstretched, and in 1905 the British foreign minister said that the " empire resembles a huge, gouty giant with its fingers and toes extended all over the globe, which cannot be approached without eliciting a scream.

Aykroyd was born with syndactyly, or webbed toes, which was revealed in the movie Mr. Mike's Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live titled " Don't Look Back In Anger.

This method of origami design was developed by Robert Lang, Meguro Toshiyuki and others, and allows for the creation of extremely complex multi-limbed models such as many-legged centipedes, human figures with a full complement of fingers and toes, and the like.

In Pavlova's case this was extremely difficult, as the shape of her feet required her to balance her weight on her little toes.

The first Ming Emperor copied the Yuan ruling and decreed that the dragon would be his emblem and that it would have five toes ( or claws ) The four-clawed dragon was typically for imperial nobility and certain high-ranking officials.

The five toes rule was first enforced in AD 1336 ( Yuan the second year ).

Henry's naked and decapitated body could only be identified by his wife, thanks to a unique anatomical defect: on his left foot, he had six toes ( polydactyly ), which was confirmed at the opening of his tomb in 1832.

Adoni-Bezek was known to the Israelites as a king who removed the large toes and thumbs of kings he subjugated to render them harmless as warriors, presumably so they could no longer wield weapons or run.

When he was 14, he was attempting to steal a cement mixer from a construction site when it fell, crushing his toes ; this injury left him with a permanent limp.

When he puts the crown on, he is transformed-his eyes turn different colours, he gets big teeth and claws on his hands, his skin turns red and he was white socks with his toes sticking out.

She was pictured as a woman arched on her toes and fingertips over the earth ; her body portrayed as a star-filled sky.

On January 17, 2010, the golf course was the subject of a chupacabra sighting in which the unidentified dead animal was described as a " brown, earth-colored creature is hairless with oversized canines and elongated padded feet with inch-long toes tapered with sharp, curved claws.

After his toes were amputated, Roebling was diagnosed with tetanus and developed lockjaw.