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legs and suddenly
Despite his cursing them as " slimy things " earlier in the poem (" Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / upon the slimy sea "), he suddenly sees their true beauty and blesses them (" a spring of love gush'd from my heart and I bless'd them unaware "); suddenly, as he manages to pray, the albatross falls from his neck and his guilt is partially expiated.
Nevada's Record Courier reported that, according to his wife, Malarchuk, who was hunting rabbits at the time, had rested the rifle between his legs and with its butt on the ground when it suddenly discharged.
Whenever it wants, it can return again to the walking position in two ways: first abruptly, by suddenly extending his body, but then it's lying on his back with his legs in the air, and second through gradual deceleration ( braking with his feet ) and slowly unrolling backwards in standing position.
On reaching the island of Pangsuy, he ventured — perhaps with overweening confidence in himself — too far away from the others, and was suddenly surrounded by a great number of armed natives, who, after killing him, carried away in triumph his head, arms, legs, and other members, even his entrails, leaving the mutilated trunk behind.
In 1953, his first London season as principal comedian, The Times reviewed him in the role of the Lord Chancellor: " Mr. Peter Pratt ... had a good delivery, a quiet manner, and a nimble pair of legs that contrasted suddenly and superbly with his dry demeanour.
Like his mother, and like Gerald, Rickie dies suddenly: his legs are severed when he tries to pull a drunken Stephen off some railroad tracks.
Lemon's dog ran ahead out of sight and suddenly began barking, and moments later ran back to the group with its tail between its legs.

legs and feel
Lambda, Mu, Xi, Nu, Gamma, and Alpha Ceti represented its head ; Omicron, Zeta, and Chi Ceti represented its body ; Eta Eri, Tau Cet, and Upsilon Cet marked its legs and feel ; and Theta, Eta, and Beta Ceti delineated its tail.
The purpose of these " minimalist shoes " is to allow one's feet and legs to feel more subtly the impacts and forces involved in running, allowing finer adjustments in running style.
Taub had been cutting sensory ganglia that supplied nerves to the monkeys ' fingers, hands, arms, and legsa process called " deafferentation "— so that the monkeys could not feel them ; some of the monkeys had had their entire spinal columns deafferented.
His appearance added to his mystique: his long legs made him appear taller, whilst a cast in his eye made people feel he was looking right through them.
The various reasons include: faster healing and easier cleaning of road rash, less pain during leg massage, aesthetics, vanity – by more clearly displaying leg muscles – fitting in with cycling peers, " feeling faster " without the feel of wind on body hair so less drag, a sense that Lycra cycling shorts " stick " to the skin better with shaved legs, and a sense that the absence of leg hair assists in preventing ingrown hairs in the upper thighs from tight-fitting Lycra shorts.
As in many harvestmen, the second pair of legs is longest in ricinuleids and these limbs are used to feel ahead of the animal, almost like antennae.
The legs are short, strong, are set far to the back of the body ( more so in the more aquatic species ), and have a leathery feel with a scaly texture.
While an inexperienced rider may feel more secure with a slightly too-short stirrup, in reality, it is actually easier to be thrown from the horse because the rider's legs act as a stabilizing agent, much in the same way the long pole of a tightrope walker balances the acrobat.
*" Restless legs feel similar to the urge to yawn, situated in the legs or arms.
When they feel stressed, they will release a musky odor from behind their legs.
They will not know where their arms and legs are without looking, but can, for instance, feel and locate a hot object placed against their feet.
He cannot feel his hands or legs.
Edward Taub, a psychologist, was cutting sensory ganglia that supplied nerves to the fingers, hands, arms, and legs of 17 macaque monkeys – a process known as " deafferentation " – so that the monkeys could not feel them.
Late in his life, he had to wear braces on his legs and to walk with a cane ; and he died after developing an infection in his legs because he was unable to feel the irritation and cutting caused by his leg braces.
" Getting that first call and running out to the mound ," said Marquis, " I promise you I didn't feel my legs at all.
Restless leg syndrome is a disorder in which patients feel uncomfortable or unpleasant sensations in the legs.
Patients feel like they have to move their legs to relieve the sensations, and walking generally makes the symptoms disappear.
[...] and he walked about until, as he said, his legs began to fail, and then he lay on his back, according to the directions, and the man who gave him the poison now and then looked at his feet and legs ; and after a while he pressed his foot hard, and asked him if he could feel ; and he said: " No "; and then his leg, and so upwards and upwards, and showed us that he was cold and stiff.
I was thinking, I hope they don't call on me because I can't feel my legs under me ... His work ethic is unbelievable.
A light push against the resistance of the central pivot screw then spreads the legs to the correct dimension and provides the required, consistent feel that ensures a repeatable measurement.
After the injection, Hildebrandt was temporarily unable to move or feel any sensation in his legs.

legs and heavy
A workbench had a heavy top and sturdy legs, but how did you attach sturdy legs to a heavy top so that the whole thing didn't wobble like a newborn calf and ultimately collapse when you leaned on it??
A moose's body structure, with a large heavy body suspended on long spindly legs, makes these animals particularly dangerous when hit by passenger cars with low ground clearances.
While reducing the cargo reshipment rates for New Zealand industry, this is seen by some as a heavy blow for local competitors, who, specialised in coastal shipping only, are less able to achieve the costs savings of large lines – these can generally operate profitably even without cargo on New Zealand-internal legs of their routes, and are thus able to underbid others.
Nurmi improvised new training methods in the army barracks ; he ran behind trains, holding on to the rear bumper, to stretch his stride, and used heavy iron-clad army boots to strengthen his legs.
They have wormlike bodies of 3 to 4 meters in length with two tentacular arms that end in fine tentacles for manipulation and two tentacles that end in paddles that can be used for heavy lifting ( including acting as " legs ", lifting the front of the creature off the ground in a humanoid-like stance ).
* Aching, heavy legs ( often worse at night and after exercise ).
Symptoms of advanced cervical cancer may include: loss of appetite, weight loss, fatigue, pelvic pain, back pain, leg pain, swollen legs, heavy bleeding from the vagina, bone fractures, and / or ( rarely ) leakage of urine or faeces from the vagina ( rarely ).
The heavy legs are yellow with large, powerful dark claws, and the prominent large, high-arched, deep beak is a bluish-gray.
They are heavy insects with a body length of up to 100 mm ( 4 in ) excluding their lengthy legs and antennae, and weigh about 20 – 30 g. A captive giant weta ( Deinacrida heteracantha ) filled with eggs reached a record 70 g, making it one of the heaviest documented insects in the world and heavier than a sparrow.
Despite being large and heavy, Blastoise can still move well on either two legs or all fours.
foot ), and is a reference to the heavy legs and feet typical of these terrestrial birds.
This bird resembles a plover, but has very long grey legs and a strong heavy black bill similar to a tern.
On a western saddle, they are very heavy, three to four inches wide on the side closest to the horse, and even wider, expanded into a decorative " fender " on the outside ( which also protects the rider's legs from the sweat of the horse ).
Closely associated with the American Old West, the Dutch oven of tradition is a heavy cast iron pot, traditionally made with three short legs and a concave cover for holding hot coals on top.
# " my arms and legs are heavy and warm " ( repeat 3 or more times )
For this reason, where traffic is heavy, the junction may incorporate flying junctions on some, or all, or the legs of the triangle.
Five legs was considered safest but were too heavy.
The Groningen standard calls for a correct horse ; heavy, with the legs about half the horse's height, and a rectangular frame, with the body from point-of-shoulder to point-of-buttock about 10 % greater than the height of the horse at the withers.
They are a bit like Dwarves in stature and endurance, stumpy, clumsy-limbed ( with short, thick legs, and fat, " gnarled " arms ), had broad chests, fat bellies, and heavy buttocks.
Uniquely among its genus, the long, heavy bill is completely black ; the legs and feet, on the other hand, are orange as in most of its relatives.
She was known, especially later in her career, for her distinctive appearance, which reflected a studio-era ideal of glamor: massive black bouffant hair, heavy makeup with a slash of crimson lipstick, and fashions that emphasized her lithe figure and long dancer's legs.

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