The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.

I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.

There was a shattering, cracking sound as the concrete started to buckle, the air filled with dust and flying debris, and everyone in the room -- men and women hit the floor and used the desks as turtlebacks, as ordered.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

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.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

And there I was shacked up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson Street.

The plank floor was slimed beneath Watson's boots.

a pile of wire cages for mice from his time as a geneticist and a microscope lying on its side on the window sill, vertical steel columns wired for support to the open ceiling beams with spidery steel cantilevers jutting out into the air, masonry constructions on the floor from the time he was inventing his disastrous fireplace whose smoke would pass through a whole house, visible all the way up through wire gratings on each floor.

Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.

The fixed wooden scaffold was removed, and, so as to reach all the frieze, one of pipe, on wheels, built up from the floor.

To solve the problem of the wheat grains spilling on the floor and getting underfoot, a ball of maple syrup boiled to candy consistency was invented to hold the grains.

The large statue on the first floor is believed to be the statue of Pompey at the base of which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death ( if so, the statue once stood in the senate house ).

For three or four years in the mid-1950's, this complaint was heard rumbling up from the Senate floor whenever there was a dull legislative afternoon.

He was fuzzy in his mind and, for a moment, helpless on the lobby floor, but he was conscious, and free of the weight of Roberts' body.

On the third floor one of the two windows was lighted ; ;

He was dead before his body made contact with the floor.

After Captain Docherty sent Arleigh Griffith for Hoag he was able to complete his detailed inspection of the third floor and to receive a report from his man covering the floors above before Griffith returned, buoyed up by a brief stop for another glass of champagne.

A second later she came behind the wheel and backed off the anchor line until it was set in the ocean floor.

She was ' hiding ' on the floor of the back seat, the soft curves of her back and hips -- rousing lines.

Alec's first impression of the lobby was gloomy, Victorian dignity -- black walnut and red plush, a black and white tiled floor, and Persian rugs.

Lewis could let his eye caress The Prince's divan, covered with a rose-pink and silver Turkish cloth, or admire the lovely tapis, interwoven with gold, that spread across the floor.

Inside, the walls are covered with blue and white tile, the floor with red and cream carpets.

Taking the path behind the Throne Room to the building directly beyond it, the Portrait Gallery, I went right at the end of it, through a garden to a small building at the back -- a sitting room furnished with low blue divans, its floor covered with carpets, its ceiling painted with gold squares and floral designs.

> and steps covered with the same dark gray carpet that's on the floor.

* Illuminated rotating disco balls covered with small mirrors are used to cast moving spots of light around a dance floor.

Fragments of mosaics from the first church are visible on the floor, which is usually covered by water after heavy rains ( together with the crypt ).

* The Palazzo della Ragione, with its great hall on the upper floor, is reputed to have the largest roof unsupported by columns in Europe ; the hall is nearly rectangular, its length, its breadth, and its height ; the walls are covered with allegorical frescoes ; the building stands upon arches, and the upper storey is surrounded by an open loggia, not unlike that which surrounds the basilica of Vicenza.

The sea floor is covered with pebbles, gravel and sand.

Cousin Itt, as so named by the television series producer, ( spelled as " Cousin It " in the movies and the pinball game ), who frequently visited the family, was short-statured and had long hair that covered his entire body from scalp to floor.

The Hundertwasserhaus apartment block in Vienna has undulating floors (" an uneven floor is a melody to the feet "), a roof covered with earth and grass, and large trees growing from inside the rooms, with limbs extending from windows.

The house floor and church is covered with hay, reminding worshippers of the stable in which Jesus was born.

* ( He's got ' em ) covered like the rug on your floor: Really good one-on-one defense.

Another result of this drama was Jeckyll who, so shocked by the first sight of ' his ' room, returned home and was later found on the floor of his studio covered in gold leaf ; he never recovered and died insane three years later.

It covered 490 ft² ( 45. 5 m² ) of floor space and weighed 17, 300 lb ( 7, 850 kg ).

Detailed photographs of the floor show that it is covered in a criss-crossing array of cracks and small hills.

In San Francisco, the floor plans of " marina style " houses often include a central patio, a miniature version of an open courtyard, sometimes covered with glass or a translucent material.

First Man, First Woman, and Great-Coyote-Who-Was-Formed-in-the-Water covered the floor of the hogan with a perfect buckskin.

Many residential buildings are heavily covered by CCTV and are staffed by security guards, while railings or bars on lower floor windows are commonplace.

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Within its borders, Saratoga includes lush redwood forests, foothills suitable for wine grapes and sunny valley floor in Asia once covered with prune and apricot orchards, now with suburban homes, schools and churches.

Inside, the floor is covered with linoleum, and the walls are paneled and crowded with artwork for sale.

On February 25, 1970, Oliver Steindecker, Rothko ’ s assistant, found the artist in his kitchen, lying dead on the floor in front of the sink, covered in blood.

The platforms are on the top floor, separated from the monorail lines with fencing and covered with a large canvas roof.

This documented the poor quality of these castle facilities ; prisoners in Norwich Castle lived in a dungeon, with the floor frequently covered by an inch of water ; Oxford was " close and offensive "; Worcester was so subject to gaol-fever that the castle surgeon would not enter the prison ; Gloucester was " wretched in the extreme ".