Madame Lalaurie gestured with her riding crop toward the 20-year-old youth who was stomping and writhing with the king snake still draped over his bare shoulders.

One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.

He then draped him over the rough stand, explained that he was supposed to be recently dead, and was being held on his mother's lap.

Shot six or eight times the body was draped with Russell's pistol, belt, and cartridges.

The album's cover, which " shows lying on his back in bed with his ravishing wife's ample posterior in full view and one of her legs coyly draped over his private parts ," was considered to be too suggestive for most retailers, many of which were reluctant to stock the album.

However, it was not until 1896 that any recorded account referred to roses being draped on the Derby winner.

The great kilt was a full-length garment whose upper half could be worn as a cloak draped over the shoulder, or brought up over the head.

According to legend, it was draped around the Greek goddess Aphrodite when she rose from the sea, born of Ouranos's semen.

On the day of his funeral, 8 March 2002, his coffin was carried to St Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex and was draped in the flag of the Republic of Ireland.

King George V gifted to Victoria College a silver cup used by Queen Victoria when she was a child and the Royal Standard that had flown at Osborne House and was draped on the coffin of the Queen when she died there in 1901.

It was draped over the coffin of Lady Dai ( d. 168 BCE ), wife of the Marquess Li Cang ( 利蒼 ) ( d. 186 BCE ), chancellor for the Kingdom of Changsha.

At her funeral, Mary's coffin was draped in her personal Royal Standard of the United Kingdom # Consorts of the British monarch | banner of arms.

The statue was found in two large pieces ( the upper torso and the lower draped legs ) along with several herms ( pillars topped with heads ), fragments of the upper left arm and left hand holding an apple, and an inscribed plinth.

The Venus de Milo was found to have been carved from at least six or seven blocks of Parian marble: one block for the nude torso, another block for the draped legs, another block apiece for each arm, another small block for the left foot, another block for the inscribed plinth, and finally, the separately carved herm that stood beside the statue.

Sometimes a veil of this type was draped over and pinned to the bonnet or hat of a woman in mourning, especially at the funeral and during the subsequent period of " high mourning ".

For the occasion the chancel of the Abbey was draped in black from floor to ceiling and a funeral effigy of the earl dressed in scarlet breeches, a military buff-coat and Parliamentary robes was erected beneath a catafalque designed by Inigo Jones.

The Tabernacle during the Exodus, the wandering in the desert and the conquest of Canaan was a portable tent draped with colorful curtains called a " tent of meeting ".

In the center of this enclosure was a rectangular sanctuary draped with goat-hair curtains, with the roof made from rams ' skins.

Some of the skeletons are intact and draped with Franciscan habits, but for the most part, individual bones are used to create elaborate ornamental designs — as was popular at that period.

Due to his status as a veteran Marine, Whitman was buried with full military honors and was laid to rest in a casket draped with the American flag.

Gavin's stallion was in the barn and he tightened the cinches over the saddle blanket, working by touch in the darkness, comforting the animal with easy words.

Cabot turned back to the men and he was drunk with the thing they would do, wild to break from the cloying warmth of the saloon into the cold of the ebbing night.

Gavin's face was bloodless with excitement.

Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.

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

Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

The morning air was filled with the sweetish odor of new-spilled blood, the acrid stench of frightened horses, and the bitterness of burned powder.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

He was shaking with anger, his breath coming in long, painful gasps.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

He was a man in his late forties, with graying hair, of medium height ; ;

It was partially cemented by ages and pressure, yet it crumpled before the onslaught of the powerful streams, the force of a thousand fire hoses, and with the gold it held washed down through the long sluices.

The man was tall, thin, with a narrow face and a too-large nose.

The ground was covered with soft pine needles and the slope was gentle.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

She regarded them as signs that she was nearing the glen she sought, and she was glad to at last be doing something positive in her unenunciated, undefined struggle with the mountain and its darkling inhabitants.

Having persisted too long in deliberate ignorance and denial of the forces that threatened her, Pamela was relieved now to admit their potency and to be taking definite steps toward grappling with them.

Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

He was handsome, with his coal-black hair and eyes, his fine-chiseled features.

I walked around breathing the cold wine of the air until I found a park, and I sat down on a snowy bench where the light was dim and came from the sky.

Most people in Japan associate Sapporo with its rich miso ramen, which was invented there and which is ideal for Hokkaido's harsh, snowy winters.

Together, these observations suggested that Halley was in fact predominantly composed of non-volatile materials, and thus more closely resembled a " snowy dirtball " than a " dirty snowball ".

The snowiest winter has been the 2009 – 2010 winter season, with of snow The least snowy winter was the 1972 – 1973 season, with only trace amounts of snowfall.

The snowiest season was 1951-52, with, while the least snowy season was in 1933-34.

Already a foot of snow was on the ground at Bent's Fort, and the winter in the mountains promised to be especially snowy.

However, the winter of 2008-2009 was unusually cold and snowy, with over 50 inches of snow ( compared to an average of about 30 inches ) and days with temperatures below 0 degrees Fahrenheit in the morning.

The real origins of the name are thought to trace back to the 1st or 2nd century AD, when it was named ' Vintur ' after a Gaulish god of the summits, or ' Ven-Top ', meaning " snowy peak " in the ancient Gallic language.

Because the broadcast occurred on a snowy weekend, much of the United Kingdom was unable to get the newspapers until days later-the lack of newspapers caused a minor panic, as it was believed that this was caused by the events in London.

In November 1974 Sheehan was badly injured in a two-car accident on a snowy mountain road in western Maryland, caused by an uninsured motorist whose driving behavior was arguably criminal in nature.

In 1967, at the time of the first public inquiry there were discussions regarding an extension of the motorway across the Peak District National Park It was to provide a second motorway link across the Pennines to the south of the planned M62 and avoid the Snake and Woodhead passes, which are often closed in snowy weather.

The first game at Comerica Park was held on Tuesday, April 11, 2000 with 39, 168 spectators attending, on a cold snowy afternoon.

The trench coat was typically worn as a windbreaker or as a rain jacket, and not for protection from the cold in winter or snowy conditions.

Due to its architecture, Bruneval Barracks in Montgomery Lines was chosen as the location for snowy scenes in Kazan, Russia at the end of the 2009 James Bond film Quantum of Solace.

The snowy winter footage used for the opening and closing sequences was filmed at the Grand Canyon Railway between Williams, Arizona and the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

When Ma Chao had a dream, in which he was attacked by a pack of tigers in a snowy land, he consulted Pang De, who thought that it was a bad omen.

The game against Juventus was played in very bad, snowy conditions and ended in a 1 – 1 draw.

* October 29-Mount Hood was named on October 29, 1792, as Lt. Broughton observed its peak from Belle Vue Point at the southern tip of Sauvie Island during his travels up the Columbia River, writing A very high, snowy mountain now appeared rising beautifully conspicuous in the midst of an extensive tract of low or moderately elevated land ( location of today's Vancouver, Washington ) lying S 67 E., and seemed to announce a termination to the river.

He was also said to have killed a lion in a snowy pit.