It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

The three golden spheres were originally a symbol medieval Lombard merchants hung in front of their houses, and not the arms of the Medici family.

As a List of Ladies of the Garter | Lady of the Garter, Alexandra's Royal Standard of the United Kingdom # Consorts of the British monarch | banner of arms hung in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, during her lifetime despite the objections of Garter Principal King of Arms, Sir Albert Woods.

One went around and under his arms and hung on a spike on the back side of the post to prevent his body from slumping following the volley.

The armor in which he was clad was abundantly plated with gold and the ample adornments which hung from his cheek plates as well as his helmet and spear were not only purple, but in other respects befitting a king ... And he himself, sitting upon a very large horse, began to dance under arms skillfully between the two armies.

A guard room with a collection of arms and armour leads to the Chambre du Roi, richly hung with five Paris tapestries after designs by Simon Vouet, representing the story of Ulysses.

In the Middle Ages and renaissance, a rich tapestry panel woven with symbolic emblems, mottoes, or coats of arms called a baldachin, canopy of state or cloth of state was hung behind and over a throne as a symbol of authority.

The English Restoration with Charles II coming to power was generally well received in Beverley, and his royal coat of arms was hung in the Minster and remains there.

Above the crest or coronet, the knight's or dame's heraldic banner is hung, emblazoned with his or her coat of arms.

When a knight of the Order dies, his coat of arms is hung in the church and when the funeral takes place the church bells are rung constantly from 12: 00 to 13: 00.

Above the crest, the knight's heraldic banner was hung, emblazoned with his coat of arms.

Above the crest or coronet, the stall's occupant's heraldic banner is hung, emblazoned with his or her coat of arms.

In 2003 a memorial bearing the coat of arms of the late Rev Alfred Pryse Hawkins who served as Vicar there was hung.

Also known as Flemish, a style of brass chandelier with a bulbous baluster and arms curving down around a low hung ball.

In ancient Greece, trophies were made on the battlefields of victorious battles, from captured arms and standards, and were hung upon a tree or a large stake made to resemble a warrior.

His arms hung down stiffly by his body.

Antonio left first while his brothers hung the French coat of arms above the door of the Palazzo Barberini then went to France by sea.

Both the Polish and Russian badges hung from a red ribbon with white strips near its borders ( i. e., the colors of the Polish coat of arms and flag ), a ribbon which they shared with the modern Order of Polonia Restituta.

It was fashionable to wear the mandilion colly-westonward or Colley-Weston-ward, that is, rotated 90 degrees so that the front and back were draped over the arms and the sleeves hung down in front and behind.

The Hall was a large room hung with portraits of various famous judges and Serjeants-at-Law, with three windows on one side each containing the coat of arms of a distinguished judge.

The weapon was moved long distances via rail on a variant of a Schnabel car ; the whole chassis was hung between two huge pedestal-mounted swiveling arms fixed to five-axle bogies.

When a knight of the Order dies, his coat of arms is hung in the former royal burial church Riddarholmskyrkan in Stockholm, and when the funeral takes place the church bells are rung constantly from 12: 00 to 13: 00.

After 6 months of age or more, infants begin to resist being placed in cradleboards more vigorously as they become more mobile, and they are often placed in the cradleboard with their arms and hands free, so that they can play with objects hung from the cradleboard for their amusement.

He swayed like a drunkard, his arms milling in slow circles.

She grasped the chair arms and brought her thin body upright, like a bird alert for flight.

The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.

During the Cold War, the ČSLA was equipped primarily with Soviet arms, although certain arms like the OT-64 SKOT armored personnel carrier, the L-29 Delfín and L-39 Albatros aircraft, the P-27 Pancéřovka antitank rocket launcher, the Sa vz.

There is no set template for what such a vehicle will look like, yet likely features include a large dozer blade or mine ploughs, a large calibre demolition cannon, augers, winches, excavator arms and cranes or lifting booms.

Mussolini claimed that at the stage of supercapitalism, " a capitalist enterprise, when difficulties arise, throws itself like a dead weight into the state's arms.

Spiral galaxies, like the Milky Way, only produce new generations of stars as long as they have dense molecular clouds of interstellar hydrogen in their spiral arms.

Another frequent position is passant, or walking, like the lions of the coat of arms of England.

Coats of arms in the Netherlands were not controlled by an official heraldic system like the two in the United Kingdom, nor were they used solely by noble families.

The hammer is used in some coat of arms in ( former ) socialist countries like East Germany.

At the moment when she met the gaze of the judge, the beckoning of her arms seemed to hold the promise that if he preferred her over the other goddesses, she would present Paris with a bride of unmatched beauty, one like herself.

During their nomadic phase, the Lombards created little in the way of art that was not easily carried with them, like arms and jewellery.

Within Leonardo's own lifetime his fame was such that the King of France carried him away like a trophy and was claimed to have supported him in his old age and held him in his arms as he died.

Towards the end, however, there was a general slide away from the combined arms approach back to using the phalanx itself as the arm of decision, having it charge into the enemy lines much like earlier hoplites had.

It gets its name from a formerly prominent local family, the Mohunes, whose coat of arms included a symbol shaped like a capital ' Y '.

* Gustavo, a potato chip-shaped character whose long moustaches, named " Democracy " and " Stalin ", can be moved individually like arms

The tweezers have two heated tips mounted on arms whose separation can be manually varied by squeezing gently against spring force, like simple tweezers ; the tips are applied to the two ends of the component.

The well-preserved state of the shrine may be unique in Scandinavia: it was shaped like a platform with two " arms " of rocks having four erected poles in front of it where there was probably a wooden platform.

Wikipedia prefers SVG for images such as simple maps, line illustrations, coats of arms, and flags, which generally are not like photographs or other continuous-tone images.

* Footvolley: A sport from Brazil in which the hands and arms are not used but most else is like beach volleyball.

My arms are like the twisted thornAnd yet there beauty lay ; The first of all the tribe lay thereAnd did such pleasure take ; She who had brought great Hector downAnd put all Troy to wreck.

The storm is contracting into a rope-like tube and, like the ice skater who pulls her arms in to spin faster, winds can increase at this point.