The man brought one hand up slowly and the fingers fumbled across his face until he touched his mouth.

His open face seemed to promise a sort of innocence, until one looked into his eyes, which had no warmth in them but only alert intelligence.

His London contract was rescinded, and now, he explains cheerfully, as a bright smile lightens his intense, mobile face, `` I conduct only one hundred and twenty concerts ''!!

He seems, by some unconscious division of labor, to have given them that one function and no other, leaving communication to the rest of the face.

There was one time, however, when his face clouded and he suddenly blurted, `` Why did my brother commit suicide ''??

Daughter of a gypsy mother who taught her to dance, she is one of the few really beautiful girls in the New York Casbah, with dark eyes and dark, waist-length hair, the face of an adolescent patrician and a lithe, glimmering body.

Not seeing her dark intelligent face, one would have gauged the voice as that of a Westwood Village matron, ten years out of Iowa.

A Barrette Swiss pattern file is handy since its triangular shape with only one cutting face will allow you to work a surface without marring an adjoining one.

Spare sets of face panels simplify the change from one copy or message to another ; ;

As he pushed open the door he fell on his face, one of his comrades pulling him inside.

`` Moving one or two teeth can affect the whole system, and an ill-conceived plan of treatment can disrupt the growth pattern of a child's face ''.

Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.

Most people do not realize that the congregation, as a gathered fellowship meeting regularly face to face, personally sharing in a common experience and expressing that experience in daily relationships with one another, is unique.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

The largest hurdle the Republicans would have to face is a state law which says that before making a first race, one of two alternative courses must be taken: 1

Jim's fine young face was an expressive one, too ; ;

I felt my frozen sad face crumble, and I grinned a silly one I couldn't have helped.

On one occasion, Galba's mother-in-law gave Agrippina, in a whole bevy of married women, a public reprimand and a slap in the face.

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.

The army report that day contains only one phrase: “ All quiet on the Western Front .” As Paul dies, his face is calm, “ as though almost glad the end had come .”

* The resonator guitar or resophonic guitar produces sound with one or more metal cones ( resonators ) instead of the wooden soundboard ( guitar top / face ).

Practically all bulky housing products can now be ordered in standard units palletized or unitized for mechanical handling -- including lumber, asphalt shingles, glass block, face brick, plaster, lime, hardboard, gypsum wallboard and sheathing, cement, insulation sheathing, floor tile, acoustical tile, plaster base, and asbestos shingles.

Specialist acrylics have been manufactured and used for lino block printing ( acrylic block printing ink produced by Derivan since the early 1980s ), face painting, airbrushing, water color techniques, and fabric screen printing.

Regarding the shape of the breast, the study The Evolution of the Human Beast ( 2001 ) proposed that the rounded shape of a woman's breast evolved to prevent the sucking infant offspring from suffocating while feeding at the teat ; that is, because of the human infant's small jaw, which did not project from the face to reach the nipple, he or she might block the nostrils against the mother's breast if it were of a flatter form ( cf.

As a matter of safety, the face is typically made of thick lead glass so as to be highly shatter-resistant and to block most X-ray emissions, particularly if the CRT is used in a consumer product.

A quadrat is a block of type whose face is lower than the printing letters so that it does not itself print .).

Although Prior's character might not have existed, the facts that he makes Rivers face up to did – that something happened to him on the first floor of his house that caused him to block all visual memory and begin to stammer.

The design of the courthouse square followed that of the Shelbyville Square Plan which has lots arranged to face a central courthouse block.

The block goes face up on a table, with the paper or fabric on top.

When the region was broken into fault blocks and the were uplifted and tilted, the back slope of each block was a part of the previously eroded surface and the face of the block was a surface of fracture.

The Ore Mountains are a Hercynian block tilted so as to present a steep scarp face towards Bohemia and a gentle slope on the German side.

However, the United States has extradition treaties with a number of countries, including one with Canada ( with provisions to block extradition if the accused could face the death penalty )

Tuareg Berbers often veil the face to block dust.

One block from her home, she drove her Corvette into a fence, suffering lacerations to her face and breaking her nose.

And therein lies a problem that many microcap and nanocap traders face: with so little float available, thin volume and large block orders, there is a shortage of shares.

The HCS is distinguishable from the original Valencia by its grey rocker cover, the " mirrored " arrangement of the spark plugs ( they appear to " point inward " towards each other ), and the absence of a distributor drive on the rear face of the cylinder block.

Smith's procedure was to place the stone in a white stovepipe hat, put his face over the hat to block the light, and then " see " the necessary information in the stone's reflections.

The device frequently used to block the character's face was the back of the villain's chair, on which the M. A. D.

The blade of a cricket bat is a wooden block that is generally flat on the striking face and with a ridge on the reverse ( back ) which concentrates wood in the middle where the ball is generally hit.

The full face mask does not usually have a bailout block fitted, and this is usually attached to the diver's harness, with a single hose to supply the mask from main or bailout gas which is selected at the block.

Before the umbilical is connected to the helmet of full face mask, the umbilical should be blown through to ensure there is no dirt inside, and the non return valve on the bailout block must be given a function test.

* For scuba diving with a full face mask, a gas-switching block is sometimes used to supply different gas mixes to the second stage in the mask.