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His right hand was cut off, his teeth and hair were pulled out, one of his eyes was gouged out, and, among many other sufferings, boiling water was thrown in his face, punishment probably associated with his handsomeness and life of licentiousness.
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right and hand
He held a cigarette in his right hand.
The fingers of his right hand twisted into a claw, but he didn't reach for the gun.
Johnson unwired the right hand door, whose window was, like the left one, merely loosely-taped fragments of glass, and Johnson wadded himself into a narrow seat made still more narrow by three cases of beer.
He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.
`` Time for books '', she yelled, jingling a little five-and-dime store bell in her right hand.
When her right hand was incapacitated by the rheumatism, Sadie learned to write with her left hand.
For if Serenissimus made the sign of the Cross with his right hand, and meant it, with his left he beckoned lewdly to any lady who happened to catch his eye.
Less respect for the legal conventions was displayed by Castro's right hand man, Che Guevara, who edified the Inter-American Economic and Social council meeting in Montevideo by reading two secret American documents purloined from the United States embassy at Caracas, Venezuela.
Thus, in the immemorial way -- in the way of the right hand that knows and the left that does not -- was the stage set for tragedy at Bari.
All right, now I'll give you a hand ''.
William A. Martinelli, chairman of the Citizens Group of Johnston, transferred the petitions from his left hand to his right hand after the council voted to accept them at the suggestion of Council President Raymond Fortin Sr..
-- and His exaltation to the right hand of God.
Every detail of the service merits careful attention -- the hymns, the sermon, the ritual, the right hand of fellowship, the introduction to the congregation, the welcome of the congregation.
You know that I could hold right here in my hand the little chunk of uranium metal that was the heart of the bomb that dropped on Hiroshima.
It gave her the right to sit down beside me, back straight, one hand out on the handle.
The statue originally held the bow in its left hand, and a cup of pouring libation in its right hand.
Computerized sources, on the other hand, are able to calculate the right ascension and declination of the " epoch of date " to the exact instant of observation.
The red bars mark the pivot element ; at the start of the animation, the element farthest to the right hand side is chosen as the pivot.
The videos on the right hand side of the page highlight the different ways to sign the word about.
The left hand side is not a function of while the right hand side is not a function of.
where the proportionality sign indicates that there might be a phase on the right hand side.
right and was
It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.
I found a trooper once the Apache had spread-eagled on an ant hill, and another time we ran across some teamsters they'd caught, tied upside down on their own wagon wheels over little fires until their brains was exploded right out o' their skulls.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
She was glad, completely and unselfishly glad, to see that things were working out the right way for both Sally and Dan.
An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??
It was fun for me, all right.
Maybe Lou was only unconscious, but right then I thought he must be dead.
`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
It was simply a matter of curiosity, a natural right to examine.
It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.
Back in the house a hoodlum named Red Buck, sore because Billy had been allowed to leave unscathed, jumped from a bunk and swore he was going after him to kill him right then.
But they never said anything, so he figured it was all right.
It was our hope to educate him and to give him his freedom when the right time came, for he was a bright and friendly youth who seemed worthy of our interest.
He was right.
The air, he said, was just right ; ;
To their leaders the Constitution was a compact made by the people of sovereign states, who therefore retained the right to secede from it.
This right of the State, its upholders contended, was essential to maintain the federal balance and protect the liberty of the people from the danger of centralizing power in the Union government.
right and cut
One good way to cut your labor waste is to make sure you are using just the right number of men in each crew.
Before Roberts could move inside to cut upward toward his face, he slammed his right fist into Roberts' belly.
The chief Roman road linking the provincial capitals of Cologne and Mainz cut right through the fort where it joined the fort's main road ( now, Römerstraße ).
After the play and scoring of the hand has concluded, the deal is rotated and the second deck is moved by the next dealer from his left to his right, cut by the previous dealer and dealt ; the partner of the new dealer shuffles the first deck continuing the process.
This way that Teutonic forces in Prussia on the right bank of Vistula were cut off from the supplies form Western Europe.
After having his left hand cut off and right eye put out, Corum escapes by moving into another plane of existence, becoming invisible to the Mabden.
Before long, bills weren't being paid, authors ' advances and royalties were delayed, budgets were cut back, and most of Donald's time was spent trying to soothe authors and agents who were indignant, and had every right to be, at the way they were treated.
** Rhythm ( 10 %) — Does the cut occur " at a moment that is rhythmically interesting and ' right '" ( Murch, 18 )?
The 90th Light was then to veer north to cut the coastal road and trap the defenders of the Alamein box ( which Rommel thought was occupied by the remains of 50th Infantry Division ) and the Afrika Korps would veer right to attack the rear of XIII Corps.
The right of Dartmoor commoners to cut peat for fuel is known as turbary.
The injuries included a V-shaped, cut on top of his head ; a possible laceration at the back of the head ; ligature marks on the neck where a sinew cord was found ; a possible wound on the right side of the neck ; a possible stab wound in the upper right chest ; a broken neck ; and a fractured rib.
The cut on the right of the neck may have been the result of the body becoming bloated, causing the skin to split ; however, the straight edges to the wound suggest it may have been caused by a sharp instrument such as a knife.
While building a studio off his house in Granada, Lee cut off the tip of his finger on his right hand.
A perfect faro shuffle, where the cards are perfectly alternated, is considered one of the most difficult sleights by card magicians, simply because it requires the shuffler to be able to cut the deck into two equal packets and apply just the right amount of pressure when pushing the cards into each other.
In the latter enhanced version there appears a separation of material or large cut on the right arm of the creature and a mysterious object or deformity above the breasts.
The papal vestments were torn from his body, the three fingers from his right hand that he had used in consecrations were cut off and the corpse was thrown into the Tiber ( later to be retrieved by a monk ).
After the shuffle, the dealer will offer a cut to the player on their right, then distribute the cards.
Prosecutors argued that a woman on the verge of suicide would not have been in the right state of mind to cut through steel netting.
In 1538, Vesalius wrote Epistola, docens venam axillarem dextri cubiti in dolore laterali secandam ( A letter, teaching that in cases of pain in the side, the axillary vein of the right elbow be cut ) which demonstrated a revived venesection, a classical procedure in which blood was drawn near the site of the ailment.
The cards are cut by the player on dealer's right before dealing.
Each cable between the modules was a twisted-pair, cut to a specific length in order to guarantee the signals arrived at precisely the right time, and minimize electrical reflection.
In 1910, Egon Neumann of Germany discovered that a block of TNT, which would normally dent a steel plate, cut a hole right through it if the explosive had a conical indentation.
The flat cut into the right wafer indicates its doping and crystallographic orientation ( see below )
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