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The body lay in an awkward sprawl twelve or fifteen feet below the level of the tunnel floor.
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body and lay
A few yards beyond the group of men, a man's nude body lay face down on a patch of thick green dichondra.
The man stood near the bent levi-clad body of the Indian who lay face down almost under the car.
Already his cool body lay in the ground.
Another Yank parodied the familiar bedtime prayer: `` now I lay me down to sleep, the gray-backs o'er my body creep ; ;
Chairman Mills himself, who had been a Civil War colleague of Doubleday and a member of the honor guard for Doubleday's body as it lay in state in New York City, never recalled hearing Doubleday describe his role as the inventor.
But finding the sea guarded by a squadron of Octavian's ships, he retired to winter at Patrae while his fleet for the most part lay in the Ambracian Gulf, and his land forces encamped near the promontory of Actium, while the opposite side of the narrow strait into the Ambracian Gulf was also protected by a tower and a body of troops.
He had power to lay down a human sense of life for his spiritual identity in the likeness of the divine ; but he allowed men to attempt the destruction of the mortal body in order that he might furnish the proof of immortal life.
The following day his body was moved to the Washington National Cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel, where he lay in repose for 28 hours.
On March 30, his body was brought by caisson to the United States Capitol, where he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
Herodotus visited Egypt in the 5th century BC and recounts a story he was told about vaults under the pyramid built upon an island where lay the body of Cheops.
Peter abolished the patriarchate and replaced it with a collective body, the Holy Synod, led by a lay government official.
His body lay in state in the Rotunda of the U. S. Capitol, where Chief Justice Warren Burger eulogized him.
But we learn from Zonaras that at some " later " date his body was exhumed and reburied in or near the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, where Constantine and the rest of his family lay.
At around the size of a domestic chicken, kiwi are by far the smallest living ratites and lay the largest egg in relation to their body size of any species of bird in the world.
During the seven-day state funeral, Nancy, accompanied by her children and military escort, led the nation in mourning by keeping a strong composure, traveling from her home to the Reagan Library for a memorial service, then to Washington, D. C., where her husband's body lay in state for 34 hours prior to a national funeral service in the Washington National Cathedral.
Hansen's opinion was that a single body could not adequately explain the motion of Uranus, and theorised that two planets lay beyond Uranus.
The body lay within three coffins, the outermost of wood, the middle of lead, and the innermost of pine.
According to one story, while his body was lying in state, a thunderstorm developed during the night and lightning struck the church where his body lay, igniting the building.
The team to lay out the body shell design was led by Ferry Porsche's eldest son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche ( F.
The Tollund Man lay away from firm ground, buried under approximately of peat, his body arranged in a fetal position.
His body lay in state in the rotunda of both the United States Capitol and the Minnesota State Capitol, and was interred in Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.
In the Vigil of the Princes, Prince Albert and his three brothers took a shift standing guard over their father's body as it lay in state, in a closed casket, in Westminster Hall.
Edward's body lay at Wareham for a year before being disinterred.
body and awkward
In this case, the devil has taken over ( and consequently vamped up ) the body of a nerdy, socially awkward young woman attending the party.
Combined with their body shape this can make some species awkward on land, but they are stronger walkers than other marine and water birds such as grebes or petrels.
Jessica and her cheerleader friends search for Jessica's body while dealing with awkward social situations.
This is a societally awkward topic, as we have a tendency today to use inclusive and supportive language in discussing body form.
An accident ends with Fry's head being temporarily attached to Amy's body, causing much tension due to Fry's decision to break up and Amy's subsequent date, forcing Leela to step in and distract Amy's date to save Fry from an awkward situation.
People were once again amazed that such powerful vocals and thought-provoking lyrics could come from the body of an awkward child.
The PSA-sourced axles had very narrow tracks relative to the width of the body, which provided an awkward look, especially at the rear.
This could make movement and changing body position awkward.
The car's quirks ( the unusual original column-shift gearbox gate and awkward body roll at low speed ) are listed.
Flip Moran is killed, horribly burning to death and there is an awkward moment when his family arrive at the aerodrome and request to view the body.
While he might appear a bit awkward and clumsy, his oversized body hides a definite dexterity and fighting spirit.
Only just managing to bluff his way out of an awkward conversation with Galvatron, he soon resorted to the most basic of spying techniques – listening through an air vent as Galvatron revealed his plan to merge his body with the Earth itself.
His interviews with stars are characterized by his patronizing attitude, often bizarre questions about obscure matters, and awkward body language.
The use of knees or other body parts is thought of as poor technique as it requires a subsequent, and often awkward, move to return the climber to the standing position.
The horse-collar is particularly dangerous due to the awkward position of the player getting tackled, who will often fall backward in a twisting motion with one or both legs trapped under the weight of his body.
Shot in an awkward, distant style ( as contrasted with the claustrophobic close-ups of the rest of the film ), Tomas stoically helps the police cover Jonas's body with a tarp, then stands guard while waiting for the " van " to collect the body, which arrives shortly.
body and twelve
For the next twelve days, Achilles mistreats the body, but it remains preserved from all injury by Apollo and Aphrodite.
Achilles, moved by Priam's actions and following his mother's orders sent by Zeus, returns Hector's body, and promises Priam a truce of twelve days to allow the Trojans to perform funeral rites for Hector.
At the free end of the body is a mouth opening surrounded by one to twelve thin, mobile tentacles.
The upper house of Parliament, called the Council of Iroij, is an advisory body comprising twelve tribal chiefs.
This institution is the governing body of the Judiciary, integrated by the president of the Supreme court, twenty members appointed by the King for a five-year term, among whom there are twelve judges and magistrates of all judicial categories, four members nominated by the Congress of Deputies, and four by the Senate, elected in both cases by three-fifths of their respective members.
Her body consisted of twelve tentacle-like legs and a cat's tail while four to six dog-heads ringed her waist.
The doctor then dumps his body down a chimney, and this leads to yet another tale in the cycle, which continues with twelve tales in total, leading to all the people involved in this incident finding themselves in a courtroom, all making different claims over how the hunchback had died.
During the twelve years he served in the Senate, he became the leader of the Democrats in that body.
This timeframe was usually limited to the twelve months following the death of the physical body ; once this period elapsed, necromancers would evoke the deceased ’ s ghostly spirit instead.
When he examined Tom McLaury's body, he found a single shotgun wound: twelve buckshot wounds on the right side under his arm, between the third and fifth ribs.
Hummingbirds feed in many small meals, consuming many small invertebrates and up to twelve times their own body weight in nectar each day.
Achilles sheared off his hair, and sacrificed horses, dogs, and twelve Trojan captives before placing Patroclus ' body on the funeral pyre.
" He went on to explain that, while the there was no large body of timber nearby, coal will be furnished at twelve cents a bushell and cheep lumber, poplar, walnut, and oak will also be brought in by the railroad.
Variations do exist, but a typical ocarina is an enclosed space with four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body.
On April 26, 1847, twelve pastors representing 14 German Lutheran congregations met in Chicago, Illinois, and founded a new church body, the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States.
The latter are those organs which perform functions in the body independent of the outside world, being the hands, feet, kidneys, gall, intestines, stomach, liver, pancreas, and spleen ; and they are, accordingly, subject to the twelve signs of the Zodiac.
The twelve heavenly spirits having failed to accomplish their release, the Saviour came in a heavenly body which appeared to be like that of other men, and through His doctrine and His apparent death released the souls of the men from the influence of earthly matter.
Admiral Yi responded with a letter written "... I still have twelve warships under my command and I am still alive, the enemy shall never be safe in the Western Sea ( the Yellow Sea being the closest body of water to Hanseong ).
Candidates for the presidency must be approved by the Council of Guardians, a twelve member body consisting of six clerics ( selected by Iran's Supreme Leader ) and six lawyers ( proposed by the head of Iran's judicial system and voted in by the Parliament ).
The pair produced a twelve page fashion advice section within the Littlewoods catalogue and made a booklet called The Golden Rules, which was distributed to all Littlewoods customers with fashion advice to suit a range of body shapes.
Through a survey about different body shapes conducted amongst women, Constantine and Woodall were able to discover the twelve most common women's body shapes.
Prior to writing The Body Shape Bible, Woodall and Constantine conducted a survey on women that helped them to identify the twelve most common body shapes, which they have featured in the book and given names such as ' apple '.
After sunset, people travel to a beach or any accessible body of water ( e. g. river, lake or even bathtub ) and, at midnight, fall backwards into it seven or twelve times.
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