This was also a corpse -- a male, judging from the coral arm bands, the tribal scars still discernible on the maggoty face, the painted bone of the warrior caste which still pierced the septum of the rotting nose.

Then the fact that the lower channel line was pierced had further forecasting significance.

Their design was miraculously frustrated – according to the Aeginetan version, the statues fell upon their knees – and only a single survivor returned to Athens, there to fall victim to the fury of his comrades ' widows, who pierced him with their brooch-pins.

), however, they are currently banned by the FIE, following a 2009 incident in which a visor was pierced during the European Junior Championship competition.

This " stall system " ( fixed bookcases perpendicular to exterior walls pierced by closely spaced windows ) was characteristic of English institutional libraries.

The pope sat briefly on two " pierced chairs " at the Lateran: "... the vulgar tell the insane fable that he is touched to verify that he is indeed a man " a sign that this corollary of the Pope Joan legend was still current in the Roman street.

The earliest was the bow ard, which consists of a draft-pole ( or beam ) pierced by a thinner vertical pointed stick called the head ( or body ), with one end being the stilt ( handle ) and the other a share ( cutting blade ) that was dragged through the topsoil to cut a shallow furrow ideal for most cereal crops.

Consisting of a wooden palisade at first, it was later replaced with a brick and stone wall, pierced by 14 gates ( later increased to 18 ), where roads entered the city.

When the angel departed, Francis was purportedly left with wounds in his hands, feet, and side as if caused by the same lance that pierced Christ ’ s side.

In order to preserve eggs, a tiny hole was pierced and the contents extracted.

Henry was carried to the Château de Tournelles, where five splinters of wood were extracted from his head, one of which had pierced his eye and brain.

The sharp head of the spear pierced right through the plates and through his body, stabbing him beyond rescue ; thus was that chieftain struck down to death.

When hit, even iron armour was quite pierced through.

Impalement was a method of torture and execution whereby a person is pierced with a long stake.

On her upper right arm was a large tattoo of the name Parron, for her late stepbrother who died in a boating accident, arching over a large tattoo of a pierced heart.

The King ’ s arm was pierced by an arrow and he died later from his wounds.

Fearing a curse that targeted male children, young Ramachandra was brought up as a girl for the first few years of his life, including having his nose pierced and being made to wear a nose-ring ( nath in Marathi ).

The town was surrounded by a mud wall with a circumference estimated at six miles ( Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911 ), pierced by six gates, and protected by a ditch five feet deep, filled with a dense growth of prickly acacia, the usual defence of West African strongholds.

During the 10th century, an entrance was pierced through the north-eastern wall, some way above the external ground level, and steps from the north and from the east were built up to it ( one set of steps for entering, the other for leaving ).

In the late 14th century, under the Mamluks, two additional entrances were pierced into the western end of the south western side and the kalah was extended upwards to the level of the rest of the enclosure.

This passage to the caves was sealed at some time after Saladin had recaptured the area, though the roof of the circular room was pierced, and a decorative grate was placed over it.

Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

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.

In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

His face was split by a vermilion streak, his eyes were pools of white ; ;

It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

He had looked over my forms and was impressed by what he had seen there ; ;

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

The building was dwarfed by the scene outside.

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.

Even Hague was repelled by the machinelike deadliness that was Kodyke.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

She was sure she would reach the pool by climbing, and she clung to that belief despite the increasing number of obstacles.

It was secured by an oversized padlock.

The rustling problem was by no means solved.

Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

Russ ran through the bills and named an amount it was highly unlikely any cowpuncher would come by honestly.

The truth was, the puncher was both bewildered and dismayed by his own mixed luck.

When it was followed by a second, whining even closer, Cobb swerved sharply aside into a depression.