Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog's that is going to get into a fight.

By lifting the seat upwards a little, the weight is taken off the neck and the back is kept rounded.

He raced by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the neck, but a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick twist she slipped the noose off.

Boyer is suffering from a stiff neck.

Now there is no reason in the world why a matchmaker in Ireland should happen also to be a talented soft-shoe dancer and gifted improviser of movements of the limbs, torso and neck, except that these talents add immensely to the enjoyment of the play.

The greatly elongated head is set on a short, thick neck, and the end of the snout bears a disc, which houses the nostrils.

Her whole body is made of highly advanced synthetic jelly silicon and with 60 artificial joints in her face, neck, and lower body ; she is able to demonstrate realistic facial expressions and sing while simultaneously dancing.

An abscess could potentially be fatal ( although this is rare ) if it compresses vital structures such as the trachea in the context of a deep neck abscess.

Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by Transantarctic Mountains close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea.

This is a key head, neck and spinal relationship.

One innovation is a metal bar called a truss rod, which is incorporated into the neck to strengthen it and provide adjustable counter-tension to the stress of the strings.

In fashion, the Bardot neckline ( a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders ) is named after her.

Torsion of the neck ( opisthotonos or torticollis ) is observed in severely affected animals.

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings.

Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir ’ s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

This crane is pale blue-gray in colour becoming darker on the upper head, neck and nape.

The smooth coat is marked with 10 – 15 vertical white-yellow stripes, spread along the back from the base of the neck to the rump.

There is another white chevron where the neck meets the chest.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

She munched little ginger cakes called mulatto's belly and kept her green, somewhat hypnotic eyes fixed on a light-colored male who was prancing wildly with a 5-foot king snake wrapped around his bronze neck.

She picked up the baby and nuzzled her fat warm little neck.

Yet even then we did nothing much but talk, and maybe neck a little.

Other shellfish of the coastal regions include little neck clams, sea scallops, blue mussels, oysters, soft shell clams and razor shell clams.

All living canids ( Caninae ) have a ligament analogous to the nuchal ligament of ungulates used to maintain the posture of the head and neck with little active muscle exertion ; this ligament allows them to conserve energy while running long distances following scent trails with their nose to the ground.

Some refer to this as a ' fitted ' neck, however it is a function of both the carefully cut precision neck and the case adjusted to fit with very little clearance.

Often the strings are raised a little higher off the neck than they would be for ordinary guitar playing.

In the horizontal approach, solid bars or " bullets " are more commonly used, and the grip is overhand: the hand is not wrapped around the neck, the index finger is nearest the bridge, the little finger nearest the nut, fingers pointing away from the chest.

The leaves grow directly from the above-ground shoulder of the root, with little or no visible crown or neck ( as found in rutabagas ).

Racquetball racquets, unlike many other types, generally have little or no neck ; the grip connecting directly to the head.

Thus Badakhshan reached out an arm into the Pamirs eastwards-bottle-shaped-narrow at the neck ( represented by the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush ), and swelling out eastwards so as to include a part of the great and little Pamirs.

Biographer Antonia Fraser writing in 1968 said Mary replied, " I may be a big woman, but I have a very little neck.

" This was apparently a tribute to the famously macabre jest made by Henry's French-educated second wife, Anne Boleyn, who had joked before her death that the executioner would find killing her easy because she had " a little neck.

During his search for Daniel Hall in the Norse land of Swartalfheim, the Corinthian, obviously with little effort, snaps the neck of a supernatural wolf with his bare hands, and later sees through the deceptions of the Norse god Loki and defeats the deity in single combat.

This gift pleased Gabrielle so much that she took to wearing the little keys on a chain around her neck.

His most common name is " Manikanta " because when the king Rajasekara Pandiya of Pandalam found little Ayyappan in a forest, there was a " mani " ( bell ) tied around his neck.

A cover in bad taste, for example, might be defined as holding the head a little higher so that the neck could be seen dripping blood from it, and moving the body over a little further so that the neck of the body could be seen to be bloody.

Matthew 18: 6 " But he that shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be drowned in the depth of the sea.

Both Robert and his little sister Janet had piano lessons ; Smith said that Janet " was a piano prodigy, so sibling rivalry made me take up guitar because she couldn't get her fingers around the neck.

When Jones too drew away, she returned to a thorn bush in the neck of land running into the gully, crouched low and waited as before.

The neck of the case, if it becomes too brittle, will be incapable of standing the strain of resizing, expanding, crimping, and firing, and will split during loading or firing.

" The strings run in two divided ranks making it a double harp, they do not end in a soundboard but are held in notches on a bridge making it a bridge harp, they originate from a string arm or neck and cross a bridge directly supported by a resonating chamber making it a lute too.

They originate from a string arm or neck and cross a bridge directly supported by a resonating chamber, making it a lute too.

:... a monstrosity of a man, a pygmy, fat-headed and like a mole as to the smallness of his eyes ; disgusting with his short, broad, thick, and half hoary beard ; disgraced by a neck an inch long ; very bristly through the length and thickness of his hair ; in color an Ethiopian ; one whom it would not be pleasant to meet in the middle of the night ; with extensive belly, lean of loin, very long of hip considering his short stature, small of shank, proportionate as to his heels and feet ; clad in a garment costly but too old, and foul-smelling and faded through age ; shod with Sicyonian shoes ; bold of tongue, a fox by nature, in perjury, and lying a Ulysses.

He suffered from a very painful and distressing complaint, having perpetually suppurating sores on his neck and body, and was far too ill and feeble to do more than sign the documents presented to him by Cardinal Giuseppe Albani, who ruled the Papal States as autocratically as though he had himself worn the triple crown.

His enlarged head was too heavy to allow him to sleep lying down and, as Merrick put it, he would risk " waking with a broken neck ".

Director Bruce Beresford, too, said the transformation was so believable to him that he could feel his skin crawling up the back of his neck the first day of filming with Duvall.

Nelson and Gaba were too young to entertain a serious relationship although, according to Gaba, " we used to neck for hours.

Specifically, the horse armor was usually sectional ( not joined together as a cohesive " suit "), with large plates of scales tied together around the animal's waist, flank, shoulders, neck and head ( especially along the breastplate of the saddle ) independently to give a further degree of movement for the horse and to allow the armor to be affixed to the horse reasonably tightly so that it should not loosen too much during movement.

* Infections in the posterior pharynx can irritate the nerves supplying the neck muscles and cause torticollis, and these infections may be treated with antibiotics if they are not too severe, but could require surgical debridement in intractable cases.

A suit that is too tight is very uncomfortable and can impair circulation at the neck, a very dangerous condition which can cause blackouts.

Interestingly, Eddie Cochran replaced his neck pick-up on his Gretsch with a P90 too.

For example, the sett of a tartan ( about 6 inches ) may be too large to fit upon the face of a neck tie.

The New Drop design was not very effective as the drop was too short to break the neck cleanly.

They are also used for items too large to be removed from a narrow neck bottle.

The lightweight demand helmets in general use by surface supplied divers are integrally ballasted for neutral buoyancy in the water, so they do not float off the diver's head or pull upwards on the neck, but the larger volume free-flow helmets would be too heavy and cumbersome if they had all the required weight built in.

The strings are too high to contact the surface of the neck, so frets, if present, are only for reference and are often replaced by markers.

The entire skull and neck are considered to be most likely from a drepanosaurid because the skull and neck are too big compared to the dorsal vertebrate of Protoavis.

He had an interminable neck that sprouted from a collar that was much too large ...

Electrolarynges may be used immediately post surgery with an oral adapter ( the neck being too tender immediately post surgery ).

In this first test, the stabilizer parachute was deployed too soon, catching Kittinger around the neck and causing him to spin at 120 revolutions per minute.

The disk prevents the worm from going too deep into the cork, forces the cork to turn with the turning of the crosspiece, and thus breaks the adhesion between the cork and the neck of the bottle.