The feathered lance was still above his head.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

Kodyke was to head the dread company police.

From the way the wound in his head was itching, Dan knew that it would heal.

Johnson's left hand was pressed against the side of his head, red cheeks whitening beneath his fingers.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.

His advice, his voice saying his poems, the fact that he had not so much as touched her -- on the contrary, he had put his head back and she had stroked his hair -- this was all new.

Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.

He was disturbed by what had happened on the dive and by what he remembered of a conversation he had had the night before with the German, who had come out of the head while he was fixing himself a drink in the galley.

The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

It was the marine: head lifted, he strained and called.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

And, for the moment at least, the governor now found himself allied with the head of the Crittenden faction he had formerly opposed, and Pike was credited with a clear triumph over Woodruff.

But he had delayed accepting this job, and as he was leaving to come home to Papa in response to our telegram, he dropped a postcard to Miss McCrady, head of the Harvard Appointment Office, asking her please to write Northwestern authorities and explain the circumstances.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

It was unexpected, unexpected because Lilly walked with her head bent down, down, and her mark of friendship was to look into your face.

Lewis, at the head of the table, would leap up and move around behind the chairs of his guests making remarks that, when not highly offensive, were at least highly inappropriate, and then presently he collapsed and was put to bed.

Treves dissected Merrick's body and took plaster casts of his head and limbs.

He also asserted that certain parts of the body are innately superior to others ; according to this hierarchical arrangement, the abdomen should be dissected first because its organs are " the most confused and least noble ", followed by the thorax, and finally the head, which contains " higher and better organized " anatomical structures.

To alleviate extra pyramidal disorders, pioneer Russell Meyers dissected or transected the head of the caudate nucleus in 1939, and part of the putamen and globus pallidus.

The oldest known naturally mummified human corpse is a severed head dated as 6, 000 years old, found in 1936 at the site named Inca Cueva No. 4 in South America.

Bentham had intended the Auto-icon to incorporate his actual head, mummified to resemble its appearance in life.

During the French Revolution, the corpse was removed from its tomb, and the mummified front of his head, having been removed and replaced during the original embalming process, was stolen.

Seker was usually depicted as a mummified hawk and sometimes as mound from which the head of a hawk appears.

The bodies of members of the upper classes were mummified, equipped with a decorated coffin and a mummy mask to cover the head.

This crypt has for many years been sealed shut, which may explain the recurrent legends that it is merely a front to a more extensive subterranean vault containing ( variously ) the mummified head of Jesus Christ, the Holy Grail, the treasure of the Templars, or the original crown jewels of Scotland.

The mummified head of Thutmose II

• A mummified cat on display, surviving from approximately 150 BC, may originally have been a temple offering to the goddess Bastet, who was depicted with the head of a cat.

These include musical instruments, bronze and copper artefacts and jewellery, a funeral boat and a mummified cat's head.

A survivor, Ginny Field ( Amy Steel ), is pursued by Jason into the woods and finds his shack containing a shrine to his mother with the severed and mummified head of Pamela Voorhees atop a shrine, surrounded by numerous candles and mutilated corpses, including the body of Terry.

* Chief-The Chief of the Jivaro village is friendly towards the Hunts, and is eventually persuaded to sell them the mummified head of a warrior, for which John Hunt pays double the requested price.

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.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.

At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.

The words ran crazily in his head: Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose in the rain.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.

This volume is added to the total volume of the combustion chamber and head gasket opening.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

A head is a handy thing to have and I installed one under a removable section of the port bunk.

The sink in the hinged panel above the bunk drains into the head and a five-gallon water tank is mounted on the bulkhead above the sink.

The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.