He thought of the jungles below him, and of the wild, strange, untracked beauty there and he promised himself that someday he would return, on foot perhaps, to hunt in this last corner of the world where man is sometimes himself the hunted, and animals the lords.

The country about Cambridge is flat and not particularly spectacular in its scenery, though it offers easy going to the foot traveler.

A very rough rule of thumb is that, under favorable conditions, you'll need 15 BTU's of cooling for every square foot of your house.

Care should be taken to see that the hands are placed on the floor before the kick starts and also that the landing foot is brought as close to the hands as possible.

Be sure that the landing foot is brought close to the hands and that only one foot lands at a time.

After a supper of unagi ( rice with eel -- eel which is raised in an ice-cold pond at the foot of Mt. Fuji ), I returned to my beautiful room to sleep as hard as possible to be ready for another busy day.

Make sure that the metal tube through which the wire passes is in the shape of an inverted `` L '', the foot of the `` L '' about three inches long, so that the puppet can hang directly under the light.

The representation of Aphrodite Ourania, with a foot resting on a tortoise, was read later as emblematic of discretion in conjugal love ; the image is credited to Phidias, in a chryselephantine sculpture made for Elis, of which we have only a passing remark by Pausanias.

The meat ( foot muscle ) of abalone is used for food, and the shells of abalone are used as decorative items and as a source of mother of pearl for jewelry and other decorative items.

He was closely pursued by Asahel, brother of Joab, who is said to have been " light of foot as a wild roe " ( 2 Samuel 2: 18 ).

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

Oh, that first foot on the lunar surface is super, Tony!

Lagopus is derived from Ancient Greek lago ( λαγως ), meaning " hare ", + pous ( πους ), " foot " and refers to the hair on its feet.

Aalen is situated on the upper reaches of the river Kocher, at the foot of the Swabian Jura which lies to the south and south-east, and close to the hilly landscapes of the Ellwanger Berge to the north and the Welland to the north-west.

Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

The old city of Aarau is situated on a rocky outcrop at a narrowing of the Aar river valley, at the southern foot of the Jura mountains.

The Dargāh Sharīf of Khwāja Mu ' īnuddīn Chishtī is situated at the foot of the Tārāgaṛh hill, and consists of several white marble buildings arranged around two courtyards, including a massive gate donated by the Nizām of Hyderabad and the Akbari Mosque, built by the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān.

For many this area is the highlight of any visit to Aberdour ; parking at the foot of Shore Road is usually at a premium.

This is also responsible for the name of the group ( from the, gills, akin to, windpipe ;, foot ).

In order to count as an intentional ball, the ball must be legally pitched, i. e., the pitcher's foot must be on the pitcher's rubber, the catcher must be in the catcher's box, and the batter must be in the batter's box appearing ready to take a pitch at the time the ball is thrown.

There is a third view that sees merit in both arguments above and attempts to bridge them, and so cannot be articulated as starkly as they can ; it sees more than one Christianity and more than one attitude towards paganism at work in the poem, separated from each other by hundreds of years ; it sees the poem as originally the product of a literate Christian author with one foot in the pagan world and one in the Christian, himself a convert perhaps or one whose forbears had been pagan, a poet who was conversant in both oral and literary milieus and was capable of a masterful " repurposing " of poetry from the oral tradition ; this early Christian poet saw virtue manifest in a willingness to sacrifice oneself in a devotion to justice and in an attempt to aid and protect those in need of help and greater safety ; good pagan men had trodden that noble path and so this poet presents pagan culture with equanimity and respect ; yet overlaid upon this early Christian poet's composition are verses from a much later reformist " fire-and-brimstone " Christian poet who vilifies pagan practice as dark and sinful and who adds satanic aspects to its monsters.

Particularly famous is the Pratt Mantle, relatively easy but a classic mantle ; the Pratt Overhang, a classic off-width, an adjacent John Gill face problem, and the forty foot Monkee Traverse.

* Camel kicks: ( done with the partners positioned side-by-side ) the same movement as the basic but where the non-planted foot kicks on each slow, and where the quick-quicks are done with one foot behind the other ( in tandem ).

To recover, Leads may initiate a well-known ( i. e. basic ) step with slightly exaggerated sideways shift of weight to force the Follow to free the required foot.

McKee and Ross also applied for and were granted two patents, one in 1984 for a basic adjustable binding system and the other in 1985 for a patent for their adjustable plate type foot strap system.

* A basic one-foot spin is an upright spin in which the skater rotates with one foot on the ice.

However, Schluter didn't just copy the Leedy design, he introduced several significant improvements: making the bars from aluminum instead of steel for a more " mellow " basic tone ; adjustments to the dimensions and tuning of the bars to eliminate the dissonant harmonics in the Leedy design ( further mellowing the tone ); and the introduction of a damper bar controlled by a foot pedal, enabling it to be played with more expression.

The initial syllable of either foot is called the ictus, the basic " beat " of the verse.

Characteristics that may identify a style include: timing, basic steps, foot patterns, body rolls and movements, turns and figures, attitude, dance influences and the way that partners hold each other.

At its most basic purpose, left-foot braking can be used to decrease the time spent between the right foot moving between the brake and throttle pedals, and can also be used to control load transfer.

Among them, these three species show all the basic leg and foot colours found in the shanks, demonstrating that this character is paraphyletic ( Pereira & Baker, 2005 ).

Among them, these three species show all the basic leg and foot colors found in the shanks, demonstrating that this character is paraphyletic ( Pereira & Baker, 2005 ).

The basic movement is the same to either side, where one foot moves to the outside lifting up just before the first beat ( i. e. the right leg moves slightly to the right ) and leg is kept as straight as a pole.

Gait training, posture training, and teaching these patients the basic principles of off-loading can help prevent and / or stabilize foot complications such as foot ulcers.

In this method the front foot moves forward and the rear foot drags up to get back to the basic position.

However, a very effective and cheap way to prevent foot odor is with sodium bicarbonate ( a mildly basic white salt also known as baking soda, bread soda, cooking soda, bicarbonate of soda, sodium bicarb, bicarb soda, or simply bicarb ).

Variation and ornamentation of the basic steps was applied in three ways: ( 1 ) ad libitum variation on the frequency and order of the basic figures, ( 2 ) ad libitum variation of the step-pattern and ornamental foot and hand movements, and ( 3 ) special variant choreographies ( menuets figurees ) created by dancing masters for special occasions, for particular pupils, or for published manuals ( these often required specially composed music to fit the choreographies ) ( Sutton 1985, 125 ).

Other models included were the Interstate ( 1991 – 1996 ) this was a basic version with no rear adjustable foot rests, a very basic radio, no intercom and other changes to make it a more basic large bike.

A 2005 study of Royal Australian Air Force recruits that tracked the recruits over the course of their basic training found that neither flat feet nor high arched feet had any impact on physical functioning, injury rates or foot health.

The basic scooter design consists of an aluminum frame, 98 mm polyurethane wheels, and a hinged fender over the rear wheel, which is pushed down by the foot to act as a spoon brake.

The Homeric poems arrange words in the line so that there is an interplay between the metrical ictus — the first long syllable of each foot — and the natural, spoken accent of words.

Note how the word endings do not coincide with the end of a metrical foot ; for the early part of the line this forces the natural accent of each word to lie in the middle of a foot, playing against the natural rhythm of the ictus.

In poetry, a monometer is a line of verse with just one metrical foot, exemplified by this portion of Robert Herrick's " Upon His Departure Hence ":

In the Western poetic tradition, meters are customarily grouped according to a characteristic metrical foot and the number of feet per line.

They are classified according to their position within the pada ( metrical foot ): ādiprāsa ( first syllable ), dvitīyākṣara prāsa ( second syllable ), antyaprāsa ( final syllable ) etc.

Traditionally, English poets employ iambic pentameter when writing sonnets, but not all English sonnets have the same metrical structure: the first sonnet in Sir Philip Sidney's sequence Astrophel and Stella, for example, has 12 syllables: it is iambic hexameters, albeit with a turned first foot in several lines.

Williams commented that the ' variable foot ' was a metrical device to resolve the conflict between form and freedom in verse.

* Dactyl ( poetry ), a metrical foot consisting of one long syllable and two short

* Molossus ( poetry ), type of metrical foot

Elizabethan poems often contained iamb, a metrical foot of two syllables, one short ( or unstressed ) and one long ( or stressed ).

An anapaest ( also spelled anapæst or anapest, also called antidactylus ) is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.

An iamb, or iambus, is a metrical foot used in various types of poetry.

In poetry, a spondee is a metrical foot consisting of two long syllables, as determined by syllable weight in classical meters, or two stressed syllables, as determined by stress in modern meters.

An amphibrach is a metrical foot used in Latin and Greek prosody.

A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry.

* Tribrach ( poetry ), a metrical foot of three short syllables.

A trochee or choree, choreus, is a metrical foot used in formal poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed one.

Trochee comes from the Greek τροχός, trokhós, wheel, and choree from χορός, khorós, dance ; both convey the " rolling " rhythm of this metrical foot.

The foot is a purely metrical unit ; there is no inherent relation to a word or phrase as a unit of meaning or syntax, though the interplay among these is an aspect of the individual poet's skill and artistry.

In dactylic hexameter, a caesura occurs any time the ending of a word does not coincide with the beginning or the end of a metrical foot ; in modern prosody, however, it is only called one when the ending also coincides with an audible pause in the line.

The rhyme is constructed of quatrains in trochaic tetrameter catalectic, ( each line made up of four metrical feet of two syllables, with the stress falling on the first syllable in a pair ; the last foot in the line missing the unstressed syllable ), which is common in nursery rhymes.

A dactyl is a term used in formal English poetry to describe a trisyllablic metrical foot made up of one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones, which can be notated as ¯ ˘ ˘.

A siir or cheer is a type of metrical foot that roughly corresponds to an iamb.