He was a sickly child, and his figure was high-shouldered, his head too large for his body.

The 1920 Allen 43 was a handsome craft, featuring bevel-sided touring coachwork and a high-shouldered radiator.

To people who didn't know her she was a gawky, badly dressed kid whose arms were too long, whose legs were a little too bony.

It is thought that the group evolved in the seas, but was forced into temporary pools and hypersaline lakes by the evolution of bony fishes.

The largest bony fish ever was Leedsichthys, which dwarfed the beluga sturgeon, ocean sunfish, giant grouper, and all the other giant bony fishes alive today.

A significant evolutionary milestone during the Silurian was the appearance of jawed and bony fish.

The inside edge of the claw was rounded and not unusually sharp, which may have precluded any sort of cutting or slashing action, although only the bony core of the claw is known.

The first proto-turtles are believed to have existed in the late Triassic Period of the Mesozoic era, about 220 million years ago, and their shell, which has remained a remarkably stable body plan, is thought to have evolved from bony extensions of their backbones and broad ribs that expanded and grew together to form a complete shell that offered protection at every stage of its evolution, even when the bony component of the shell was not complete.

To the rear of the skull was a relatively short, bony frill, adorned with epoccipitals in some specimens.

Additionally, the front ends of the animal's jaws were toothless and tipped with bony nodes, both upper and lower, providing a rough margin that was likely covered and lengthened by a keratinous material to form a cropping beak for biting off twigs and shoots.

The " Bertillonage " system was based on the finding that several measures of physical features, such as the dimensions of bony structures in the body, remain fairly constant throughout adult life.

A similar arrangement was found in primitive tetrapods, but, in the evolutionary line that led to reptiles ( and hence, also to mammals and birds ), the intercentrum became partially or wholly replaced by an enlarged pleurocentrum, which in turn became the bony vertebral body.

This clade is sometimes called " Osteichthyes ", but since that name literally means " bony fish " and traditionally is a paraphyletic group that excludes tetrapods, the name Euteleostomi was coined as a substitute.

His long and " bony face, well made ", was marred by the loss of his two front teeth and " two or three scars on his head ".

Dr. Morrie Kricun, a professor of radiology, concluded that there was no evidence of bony syphilis on Cope's skeleton.

The soft clay of the piece-molds used to produce the Shang to early Zhou bronzes was suitable for preserving most of the complexity of the brush-written characters on such books and other media, whereas the hard, bony surface of the oracle bones was difficult to engrave, spurring significant simplification and conversion to rectilinearity.

It was the first genus of sauropod known to possess armour of bony plates embedded in its skin.

It was an ornithischian dinosaur with bony dermal plates covering the top of its body, and it may have had spikes along its side as well.

This hypothesis is suggested by the fact that the bony nasal cavity extends to the peak of the ram, thus implying that the nasal chamber was greatly elevated, possibly creating a resonating chamber.

The limb was initially wrapped in wool, especially over any bony prominences.

In 1784, the breed was described as " 15 hands () high, short and compact with bony legs, often light sorrel in color, gentle, tractable, strong " and with " shoulders loaded with flesh ".

The name was coined because they were superficially shark-shaped, with a streamlined body, paired fins, and a strongly upturned tail ; stout bony spines supported all the fins except the tail-hence, " spiny sharks ".

Two individuals had survived previous scalping incidents, and were in the process of healing which was indicated by the bony re-growth of their skulls, and a third individual had survived a head injury as indicated by “ a healed depressed fracture in the frontal ” ( Willey 1982 ).

The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

And there was a house ; ;

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;

It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

In his mood, it was the best way to handle him ; ;

This, he was sure, was the way they would act ; ;

His aim was hurried ; ;

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.

Alfred was dressed for his trip to the hospital.

The figure was so theatrically dressed, that it was as though a character from some other play had blundered into this one.

It was the doctor, dressed and ready for the expedition to the market, and Alex was obliged to prepare himself in haste.

Times Square, when I ascended to it with my fellow subway travellers ( all dressed as if for a huge wedding in a family of which we were all distant members ), was nearly impassable, the sidewalks swarming with celebrants, with bundled up sailors and soldiers already hugging their girls and their rationed bottles of whiskey.

The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.

He was dressed in a manner Esquire might suggest for the outdoor man's country weekend.

Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.

His chelas were required to assume the matsyendra posture dressed in hand-woven diapers while he read aloud from Rig-Veda and an assistant guru examined their purses in another room -- nothing was stolen ; ;

* The Halloween special, titled " Bungholio: Lord of the Harvest ( Butt-O-Ween )," involved them attempting to trick-or-treat in ridiculous costumes -- i. e. Beavis dressed up as a giant "' nad " by wearing underpants on his head and Butt-Head becoming nachos by pouring hot cheese-sauce over his head, although at one point he said he was dressed up as a dumb-ass.

He was dressed in a costly suit made of Frankish cloth with golden threads, and he wore a belt with a costly buckle.

Wearing a light colored suit and a bright tie, he was dressed more for some gala occasion than for a funeral.

In 1917, Chaplin imitators were widespread enough for the star to take legal action, and it was reported that nine out of ten men attended costume parties dressed as Chaplin.

Because the surface of laterite is uneven, it was not suitable for decorative carvings, unless first dressed with stucco.

The funky street scene still holds some urban flair, but was dressed up recently with Victorian streetlights, benches and bus stops.

Aged women, priestesses, dressed in white sacrificed the prisoners of war and sprinkled their blood, the nature of which allowed them to see what was to come.

The soldiers were amused that Gaius was dressed in a miniature soldier's uniform, including boots and armor.

Chiang was popular among many people and dressed in plain, simple clothes, unlike contemporary Chinese warlords who dressed extravagantly.

the ' good ' Superman, ultimately triumphant, ( is ) dressed as Clark, thus implying that he is the more valid personality ( as well as the one Lana loves )" and expresses annoyance that " Something could have been made of this, but sadly nothing was ".