Hez looked up at the high face of Emigrant Rock, official signboard for the Raft River turnoff, and gloated, `` Seems funny that them Burnsides never took time to leave their John-Henry up thar ''.

There was something about his face that disturbed me and it took several seconds to realize what.

He took Grand Duke Cosimo I as model for Neptune's face.

Meanwhile, in a November 15, 1953 game against the 49ers, Otto Graham took an elbow from linebacker Art Michalik that put a gash on his face requiring 15 stitches.

# Contempt " in the face of the court " ( not to be taken literally ; the judge does not need to see it, provided it took place within the court precincts or relates to a case currently before that court );

Reports of dinosaur-like creatures in Africa caused a minor sensation in the mass media, and newspapers in Europe and North America carried many articles on the subject in 1910-1911 ; some took the reports at face value, others were more skeptical.

Schiaparelli observed what he took to be linear features on the face of Mars, which he thought might be water channels.

He also took on issues like the uses of medicine in terminally ill persons, medical lies in face of grave illness, and the rights of family members to make decisions against expert medical advice.

As the ailing, elderly al-Bakr became unable to execute his duties, Saddam took on an increasingly prominent role as the face of the government both internally and externally.

In the case of the aforementioned Lemmy, for one photo the editors simply took a picture of a man wearing a baseball cap and drew a crude approximation of Lemmy's facial hair and warts on his face ( as well as writing " Motörhead " on the cap ).

Glycerius took up residence at Salona, which in 475 saw the arrival of Julius Nepos, who had retreated to Dalmatia in the face of a coup by Magister militum Orestes ; he was still in Salona when, in 476 Orestes ' son, the usurper Romulus Augustus, was deposed by Odoacer, King of the Heruli.

Reviewers took notice of Burton: " He has all the qualifications of a leading man that the British film industry so badly needs at this juncture: youth, good looks, a photogenic face, obviously alert intelligence, and a trick of getting the maximum of attention with a minimum of fuss.

She took to wearing elaborate veils and heavy makeup, which was described by gossips as having her face " enamelled ".

Carrie Fisher, in an appearance on the UK TV show Bring Back Star Wars, said she hated her character's hairstyle ; she felt it made her face look rounder, and it took two hours every day to style.

In the West, with the decline of imperial power from the 4th century onwards in the face of the barbarian invasions, sometimes Christian bishops of cities took the place of the Roman commander, made secular decisions for the city and led their own troops when necessary.

After the group left Isengard, Pippin took the palantír from a sleeping Gandalf, looked into it, and came face to face with Sauron himself.

There is no way to verify the figures reported by Roman historiographers, but if they are taken at face value, the scale of the witch-hunts in the Roman Republic in relation to the population of Italy at the time far exceeded anything that took place during the " classical " witch-craze in Early Modern Europe.

Designed as an economical face by the British type team of Dave Farey and Richard Dawson, it took advantage of the new PC-based publishing system at the newspaper, while obviating the production shortcomings of its predecessor Times Millennium.

After Lantz took over production in 1929, the character's look was changed to some degree over the following years: Oswald got white gloves on his hands, shoes on his feet, a shirt, a " cuter " face with larger eyes, a bigger head, and shorter ears ( pictured left ).

In the Western Conference Finals, the Spurs would face the Phoenix Suns, and took control early, winning the first 2 games on the road.

After centuries of fighting defensively in the face of Islamic pressure, Italians, Catalans and Occitans took offensive action.

Browne took photos of Arnett's bloodied face, and while the police smashed his camera, the film survived.

According to Aeschylus, Orestes saw Electra's face before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead ; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge.

Sweat bubbled out on Jess's swarthy face.

Then, with a glory that almost wiped out the deep, downward sags in her careworn face, Matilda leaned over the wheel and shouted to Hez, who was stumbling along in the heat and the dust on the opposite side of the wagon `` Pa!!

With Rod on his way and Matilda visiting with Mrs. Jackson while they searched out familiar names on the face of the cliff, Harmony settled on the edge of the grub box, to ease the pressure of her swollen body on her bone-weary legs, and worried about all that might have happened to Sally.

His face was dark as the sky above it as he stood on the wing and waited for his pilot.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

A few yards beyond the group of men, a man's nude body lay face down on a patch of thick green dichondra.

He was looking out on the dark waters of the Lake when I came upon him and without wasting words I smacked him hard across the face.

In the bedroom before the husband and wife find their way to the bed, the lights go on: `` In dull domestic radiance I watch her staring face, still blind, Start wincing in obedience To dirty waters, counters, pots and pans, Waiting below stairs, in her mind ''.

This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

There was nothing in particular on the man's face.

When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

She opened the boxes with a tear in her eye and a sad smile on her face.

West Germany will face the crucial tests that lie ahead, on Berlin and unification, with a coalition government.

Here in the cool darkness Mr. Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight.

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

Mr. McKinley, for all his sprawling and his easy familiarity, was completely alert to his son, eyes always on the still face, jumping to anticipate Scotty's desires.

A sudden thought wiped the smirk from his face.

Cineaste also credited Beban for his intense performance, commenting on the fight sequence in which Beban's character " seethes with murderous determination " as the camera focuses on his face in an extreme close-up: " Beban's sudden transformation from amiability to wrath recalls the first glimpse of Spencer Tracy after nearly being lynched in Fritz Lang's Fury.

The BJP's stand on economic policies saw a sudden volte face in the mid nineties from support of swadeshi products to the embracing of free market ideas.

The initial reaction should the spray be directed at the face, is the completely involuntary closing of the eyes ( sometimes described as leading to a disconcerting sensation of the eyelids " bubbling and boiling " as the chemical acts on the skin ), an instant sensation of the restriction of the airways and the general feeling of sudden and intense, searing pain about the face, nose, and throat.

The actor remembers, " so when he's supposed to slap me around and stay far from my face, all of a sudden, whap!

For evolutionary and physiological reasons Kafers do not need permanent high intelligence but rather intelligence in crisis and develop a sudden increase in intelligence in the face of pain or fear.

:' Tis dusk, with sudden light, distilled From one sweet face, the world is filled ; The tumult of my heart is stilled — For thou art come, Sabbath my love!

However, the biggest threats we face nowadays are rarely sudden events, but slow, gradual processes, such as environmental changes.

On other occasions the player would face sudden detection by warships and be forced to act quickly to escape.

These slides were preceded by slides that caused either positive emotional arousal ( i. e. bridal couple, a child with a Mickey Mouse doll ) or negative emotional arousal ( i. e. a bucket of snakes, a face on fire ) for a period 13 milliseconds that participants consciously perceived as a sudden flash of light.

Since serene detachment is valued, conflict and sudden displays of anger are eschewed in Thai culture and, as is many Asian cultures, the notion of face is extremely important.

His brother was one of a number of Canadians illegally renditioned to Syria to face torture in the years following the September 11 attacks, ostensibly because of interest in Amer, although officials would never give any reason for their sudden interest and accusations against el-Maati.

When his curiosity was satisfied, he was ready to drive away, Hryniewiecki who was leaning against the railing with a parcel in his hands, turned to face the Emperor and before any one could stop him, he shouted: " It is too soon to thank God yet, Alexander Nikolaevich ," and raised both arms and made a sudden movement.

After a fierce game, Peter and White face off in a sudden death match to determine the winner.

This is why the poem speaks not of an ideal life but of a concrete one: the angle of a window, the resonance of streets, cities and rooms, the shadow cast by a wall, a sudden face, the silence, distance and brightness of the stars, the night ’ s breath, the scent of linden and of oregano.

The Cylons of the 1978 / 1980 series are not the mechanical foils seen throughout the series, but an advanced reptilian race who created the robots ( who were referred to as Cylons within the show ) to serve them, maintain their vast empire and to man their military forces in the face of a sudden population drop that eventually led to the Cylons ' extinction — seemingly overnight.

Sarasvati was seized by a sudden desire to see her husband's face for the last time.

On the sudden death of Potemkin he was despatched to Jassy to prevent the peace congress there from breaking up, and succeeded, in the face of all but insuperable difficulties, in concluding a treaty exceedingly advantageous to Russia ( 9 January 1792 ).

It is different from the French white plan ( plan blanc ), which is designed to face a sudden and unpredicted rise of the activity of a hospital.

Barnes calls Ransom, breathless with fear and on the brink of telling him that Forrester is a killer, when a sudden calm comes over her face, and she instead murmurs something inconsequential and hangs up.

* Quick, sudden, sometimes wild jerking movements of the arms, legs, face, and other body parts

The French white plan ( plan blanc ) is, in France, the emergency plan to face a sudden increase of activity in an hospital, such as a massive arrival of casualties due to an accident or a disaster ( who may come by their own means to the emergency department or are evacuated by a red plan ), an epidemic or a lasting climatic event that becomes deadly for fragile people such as a heatwave.

The sudden about face rejection by the London and Birmingham Railway and the ultimate signed agreement between Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Cooke to allow for Cooke to set-up shop along Brunel's Great Western Railway is revealed in this extant letter dated 30 May 1838, written by Cooke to Mrs. Sophia Macnamara Brunel Hawes.