The statue fell in 224 BC: if it had straddled the harbor mouth, it would have entirely blocked the harbor.

Pope Vigilius fled to the safety of Syracuse ; when he sent a flotilla of grain ships to feed the city, Totila's navy fell on them near the mouth of the Tiber and captured the fleet.

Upon hearing these words, Umar slapped his sister so hard that she fell to the ground bleeding from her mouth.

As I was looking upward a piece of hail fell into my mouth, which I unknowingly swallowed.

When Burgoyne's army approached, and General Schuyler with his forces fell back from Fort Edward to the Islands at the mouth of the Mohawk, the people on this side of the Hudson took refuge in Lansingburgh.

( He said that he had been running with a curtain rod in his mouth at the Beale Hotel in Kingman, and when he fell, it pierced the roof of his mouth.

Although Ricci initially reacted by putting her hands over her mouth in surprise, she quickly fell back into character.

A few days after the battle Brown outflanked the British defences along the Chippawa River and the British fell back to Fort George near the mouth of the Niagara on Lake Ontario.

We whose names are here underwritten: having been called to give our counsels to Mr. Orlando Gibbons ; in the time of his late and sudden sickness, which we found in the beginning lethargical, or a profound sleep ; out of which, we could never recover him, neither by inward nor outward medicines, & then instantly he fell in most strong, & sharp convulsions ; which did wring his mouth up to his ears, & his eyes were distorted, as though they would have been thrust out of his head & then suddenly he lost both speech, sight and hearing, & so grew apoplectical & lost the whole motion of every part of his body, & so died.

It fell into the Pontus Euxinus to the northeast of the mouth of the Ister ; the distance between them being, according to Strabo, 900 stadia ( Strab.

The culminating battle would be for the forts below New Orleans ; when they fell, the river would be in Federal hands from its source to its mouth, and the rebellion would be cut in two.

Soon after drinking the Tonga, the man fell into a dull brooding, he stared vacantly at the ground, his mouth was closed firmly, almost convulsively and his nostrils were flared.

Because of the limited gain change abilities of the autopilot, as the weight of the vehicle fell the corrections applied by vectoring the engines were more vigorous ; at lighter weights and even on ground tests the engines were seen not to be entirely rigid as the mouth of the chamber moved slightly after the corrections were applied by the hydraulic rams.

My mouth just fell open ... there was so much color, so much movement ... and the orchestra!

Edmund immediately covered her mouth with a chloroform rag and she fell to the floor, unconscious.

Soon, several shots rang out and the victim fell to the floor with blood ( ketchup ) flowing from his mouth.

The last shot of the American Revolutionary War was reported to be fired on this day, as a British gunner on one of the departing ships fired a cannon at jeering crowds gathered on the shore of Staten Island, at the mouth of New York Harbor ( the shot fell well short of the shore ).

His mouth was open, his neck corded with the strain of his screams.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

His arms hung like empty shirt sleeves, and his mouth was slightly open.

After what seemed several seconds, the open mouth grew dark inside then blood began to ooze from it.

A northern ambassador, willing to keep his mouth shut and his ears open, could learn a lot that would stand him in good stead at the Curia.

He breathed now with his mouth open, showing a whitely curving section of lower teeth ; ;

his mouth hung slightly open.

Juanita stopped just inside the open door, her hand to her mouth.

I got hold his mouth open ''.

`` His mouth is open ''.

It was so utterly unexpected that Marty stood for several moments with his mouth hanging open foolishly after it had happened.

Casey heard the click of the distant receiver before he could open his mouth, and it took him no more than three seconds to make his decision.

Therefore to Helva, the problem that she couldn't open her mouth to sing, among other restrictions, did not bother her.

The rounded shapes of the gaps and the lip-like edges carved into the stone surrounding them create a semblance of a fully open mouth, for which the Casa Batlló has been nicknamed the " house of yawns.

The highly successful metal pressure tube anemometer of William Henry Dines in 1892 utilized the same pressure difference between the open mouth of a straight tube facing the wind and a ring of small holes in a vertical tube which is closed at the upper end.

It was the following insult directed at Lord Percy by Edmund Blackadder: " The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long since departed, hasn't he, Percy?

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

If the receiving partner has wounds on his genitals, or if the giving partner has wounds or open sores on or in his or her mouth, or bleeding gums, this poses an increased risk of STD transmission.

" As he Emperor Alexios I knew that the Pisans were skilled in sea warfare and dreaded a battle with them, on the prow of each ship he had a head fixed of a lion or other land-animal, made in brass or iron with the mouth open and then gilded over, so that their mere aspect was terrifying.

The doctor attempted to examine the inside of Himmler's mouth, but the prisoner was reluctant to open it and jerked his head away.

An alternate explanation is in the process of uncuffing an inmate, Bogart was struck in the mouth when the inmate wielded one open, uncuffed bracelet while the other side was still on his wrist.

* Quidding, a dental problem sometimes found in horse teeth where the animal drops partially chewed food while chewing, or chews with the mouth open

Composed by Jonathan Wolff, it consists of distinct solo sampled bass synthesizer riffs which open the show and connect the scenes, often accompanied by a " percussion track " composed of mouth noises, such as pops and clicks.

** a smaller limnetic species — with a smaller mouth — that feeds on the small plankton in open water