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After they had finished eating, Melissa took Sprite the kitten under her arm -- `` so that Auntie Grace can teach it about the whistle '' -- and climbed into the station wagon beside her mother.
Pain shot up Curt's arm clear to the shoulder, but Jess seemed hardly aware that he had been hit.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
As Sir Giles Overreach ( how often had he had to play that part, who did not believe a word of it ), he raised his arm and declaimed: `` Where is my honour now ''??
Harry Hawk still had his arm raised towards the wings.
Harry Hawk had not shifted position, but he at last lowered his arm.
I had my arm behind his back.
Alex explained that they had been out for a stroll before breakfast while the doctor edged around behind him, attempting to hide the protuberance at his left side behind Alex's arm and back.
In spite of the hundred things he had on his mind, Winston went and put his arm around her waist.
Five subjects ( 12% ) did not change until they had been told that some people have something happen to their arm, what that something was, and also were given a demonstration.
They felt that they too could counteract the upward arm movement by a voluntary effort after they had once experienced the reaction.
One subject spontaneously asked ( after her arm had finally risen ), `` Do you suppose I was unconsciously keeping it down before ''??
She had felt that her arm wanted to go up in the first trial, but had consciously prevented it from so doing.
Dave had the latch under his thumb now and he removed his arm from his wife in order to pull the door open.
As she reached Dave and felt his arm go around her, felt him pull her to the safety of his person, she knew with the certainty of despair that something bad had happened to Lauren.
When Kitti was alive -- and he remembered the pressure of her hand resting lightly on his arm -- she had been the center of his life.
By then, the stranger was thanking Haney profusely and had one arm around his shoulders as if he were an old friend.
The woman ( she must have been a tiny baby when Hetty and Delia had stood arm in arm, watching great age grow small ) answered the nod with her own.

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He had the black numerals on his arm, so he had been branded in a concentration camp.
It has been hypothesized that the portion of the brain responsible for processing stimulation from amputated limbs, being deprived of input, expands into the surrounding brain, ( Phantoms in the Brain: V. S. Ramachandran and Sandra Blakeslee ) such that an individual who has had an arm amputated will experience unexplained pressure or movement on his face or head.
However in July 1797 he had lost an arm at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and had been forced to return to Britain to recuperate.
One stretch of shoreline was found to have been breached by the tsunami wave, representing approximately 10 percent of the eastern arm.
The Finnish Civil War would probably have started at that point had there been enough weapons in the country to arm the two sides ; instead, there began a race for weapons and a final escalation towards war.
Salzedo's technique generally calls for the arms to be held horizontally and emphasises the role of aesthetic hand and arm gestures after the string has been plucked: " Each of the thirty-seven tone colors and effects of the harp calls for a gesture corresponding to its sonorous meaning.
Once the punch has been evaded, the boxer " weaves " back to an upright position, emerging on either the outside or inside of the opponent's still-extended arm.
Automatic rifles ( such as the Browning Automatic Rifle ) were designed to be a high duty cycle arm for support of other troops, and were often made and deployed with quick change barrel assemblies to allow quick replacement of over heated barrels to allow for continued fire, and may have been operated by both the person actually firing the weapon as well as an additional crewman to assist in providing and caring for ammunition and the barrels, similar to a reduced version of a squad weapon ( above ).
Rollie Fingers was lost for the whole season with a torn muscle in his throwing arm, beloved slugger Gorman Thomas struggled badly offensively and was traded to the Cleveland Indians, and their ace, Pete Vuckovich, was revealed to have had a torn rotator cuff that had been plaguing him since 1981 and only pitched in 5 games in 1983.
Also, the original code-breaking operation of the State Department, MI-8, run by Herbert Yardley, had been shut down in 1929 by Secretary of State Henry Stimson, deeming it an inappropriate function for the diplomatic arm, because " gentlemen don't read each other's mail ".
In 1999, Viacom bought out United Television's interests, and handed responsibility for the start-up network to the newly acquired CBS unit, which Viacom bought in 1999 – an ironic confluence of events as Paramount had once invested in CBS, and Viacom had once been the syndication arm of CBS as well.
Since the early 1980s, an elegant solution has been the near-frictionless air bearing linear arm which requires no tracking drive mechanism other than the record groove itself.
* Bagpipe / Bladderpipe: Believe to have been invented by herdsmen who thought to use a bag made out of sheep or goat skin and would provide air pressure so that when its player takes a breath, the player only needs to squeeze the bag tucked underneath their arm to continue the tone.
He had a broken arm and had been attacked by polar bears.
Unlike the other SS antagonists, Deathshead does not believe in the occult and would prefer to arm the Nazi war machine using advanced technology, but has been ordered to provide his creations to Operation Resurrection by Himmler himself.
Most of the southern Casamance arm of the country has been classified by the World Wildlife Fund as part of the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion.
The ghost of Anne Boleyn, beheaded in 1536 for treason against Henry VIII, allegedly haunts the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula, where she is buried, and has been said to be walking around the White Tower carrying her head under her arm.

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Although Captain Du Petit Thouars had lost both legs and an arm he remained in command, insisting on having the tricolour nailed to the mast to prevent it from being struck and giving orders from his position propped up on deck in a bucket of wheat.
" He notes that a tall human is consistent with the figure's height but also notes that for a tall human " he shoulder breadth however would be difficult to achieve without giving an unnatural appearance to the arm swing and shoulder contours.
Jessie escapes the handcuffs by slicing her arm open all the way around on a broken glass and giving herself a degloving injury in order to lubricate her skin enough for the cuffs, which were made for men and not women and thus almost loose enough for her to slip out normally, to slide off her right hand.
During birth, Sheen's left arm was crushed by forceps, giving him limited lateral movement of his left arm, which is three inches shorter than his right.
This is because during each full rotation, each arm would be parallel to the wind twice ( facing into and away from the wind giving identical readings ) and perpendicular to the wind twice.
In both the UK and the US Decca took up the LP promptly and enthusiastically, in 1949, giving the British arm an enormous advantage over EMI, which for some years tried to stick exclusively to the old format, thereby forfeiting competitive advantage to Decca, both artistically and financially.
Some hydraulic platforms are articulated, which allows the arm to bend in one or more places, giving it the ability to go " up and over " an obstacle ( such as a building roof ).
Some tenders have an elevated extended extinguishing arm called a Snozzle, giving a possibility to raise a water / foam cannon into the height of approximately.
The opening titles of Harry Worth featured the comedian stopping in the street to perform an optical trick involving a shop window ( raising one arm and one leg which were reflected in the window, thus giving the impression of levitation ).
Any fin must attach directly on to the rear part of the wing, giving a small moment arm from the aerodynamic center, which in turn means that to be effective the fin area must be large.
many true and faithful Christians, because of the testimony of enemies, rivals, slaves and other low people — and still less appropriate — without tests of any kind, have been locked up in secular prisons, tortured and condemned like relapsed heretics, deprived of their goods and properties, and given over to the secular arm to be executed, at great danger to their souls, giving a pernicious example and causing scandal to many.
In order to remove the tribe, they sent a group called the Goose Creek Men to arm the Savanna ( also known as the Savannah ) Indians, a Shawnee tribe, who defeated the Westo in the Westo War of 1680 giving the Westo a time period of about 20 years in the area of Augusta, Georgia.
: Their very silence might have been the mark of something grave – their silence eked out for her by his giving her his arm and their then crawling up their steps quite mildly and unitedly together, like some old Darby and Joan who have had a disappointment.
It was between this match and the third Test that Brearley broke his arm, giving Boycott the captaincy.
* James MacLachlan, who flew with an artificial arm, had his Hawker Hurricane adorned with a picture of his amputated arm giving a V sign
Nor am I talking about giving the economy a mere shot in the arm, to ease some temporary complaint.
He says a prayer that Randolph taught him from a story from his tribe and throws his arm in the air, giving Willy the signal to jump.
Despite giving their teams the advantage of accommodating a player with a weak arm, a left fielder with an above average throwing arm can easily compile many assists.
Smythe suggested that the Canadiens ' owners, the Canadian Arena Company, hire Irvin as coach, even though he knew it was giving the Leafs ' most bitter rival an instant shot in the arm.
Tezuka's Tezuka Zone allows him to focus the effects of one of Muga's doors,, into his left arm, preventing the loss of stamina, and giving him the ability to return balls with twice the strength, or spin, that they were hit with.

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