The figure leapt from the box, almost lost its balance, the flag draped there tore in the air, the figure landed on its left leg, fell on its hands, and pressed itself up.

Squat-style lifters and leg-split lifters would both benefit enormously by practicing those variations providing that they remember to make alternate sets with the left and right leg to the front.

In February 2006, he suffered a stroke in Scarborough, and stated: " I hope to be back on my feet, or should I say my left leg, as soon as possible, but I know it is going to take some time.

In August 1919, at the age of nine, Capp lost his left leg in a trolley accident.

Shot in the leg and left shoulder on William Street 15 minutes before the rest of the shooting started.

Tim left Crowded House during the Woodface tour in November 1991, part-way through the UK leg.

Hence, for the lead this would be two counts with the weight on the left leg while the right leg moves, two counts with weight on the right leg while the left leg moves, followed by a quick step onto the left and then a quick step onto the right.

* Breaks: A step and hold action where the non-planted leg is extended fully and the planted leg is bent underneath the dancer for support ( hop onto left, leaving out the step ; hop onto right, leave out the step ; step left and step right )

" In the hierarchy of nubbiedom, the supremely rewarding self-sacrifice was the loss of a right leg and a left arm, because, so the theory went, ' afterward, you could still write your name and still have a foot to press the gas pedal of your Cadillac.

In the time of Playford's original manual, a woman's curtsey was similar to the modern one, but a man's honour ( or reverence ) kept the upper body upright and involved sliding the left leg forward while bending the right knee.

At the age of 77, Frederick III died at Linz when the amputation of his left leg caused him to bleed to death.

The things left unsaid they both felt deeply, and with a sigh they fell back on the well-stuffed pillows.

The actual surface becomes both ground and background, and it turns out -- suddenly and paradoxically -- that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in front of, upon, the surface.

He carried three guns -- one in the right trouser pocket, one under his left armpit, one in the left outside coat pocket -- and was equally lethal with both hands.

Then Robinson slammed a long double to left center to score both runners.

They had left both of his eyes uncovered.

One adult specimen had a left lower jaw showing a puncture wound and both healed and unhealed bite marks.

There are also a few parts of both medieval city walls left, most of them integrated into more recent buildings, but some others still visible.

Among Classical Greeks, amazon was given a popular etymology as from a-mazos, " without breast ", connected with an etiological tradition that Amazons had their left breast cut off or burnt out, so they would be able to use a bow more freely and throw spears without the physical limitation and obstruction ; there is no indication of such a practice in works of art, in which the Amazons are always represented with both breasts, although the left is frequently covered ( see photos in article ).

He left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed.

It has been claimed that in reading Arabic, the human brain processes Arabic script differently than alphabets, using mainly the left hemisphere, not both.

The nicotine molecule contains both pyridine ( left ) and pyrrolidine rings ( right ).

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

All cross stitch fabrics are technically " evenweave ", it refers to the fact that the fabric is woven to make sure that there are the same number of threads in an inch both left to right and top to bottom ( vertically and horizontally ).

Michael Kelly, a Washington Post journalist and critic of anti-war movements on both the left and right, coined the term " fusion paranoia " to refer to a political convergence of left-wing and right-wing activists around anti-war issues and civil liberties, which he said were motivated by a shared belief in conspiracism or anti-government views.

Many thousands of others, from both sides, left the island entirely.

This, however led to a stalemate in 2006 elections where both the left and the right each gained exactly 100 seats ; as many commenters point out, the earlier system would have given the right 3 – 4 seats majority.

The Lipponen cabinets set the stability record, and were unusual in the respect that both moderate ( SDP ) and radical left wing ( Left Alliance ) parties sat in the government with the major right-wing party ( National Coalition ).

Tiberius and Augustus had both left gifts to the army and guard in their wills, and upon Caligula's death the same would have been expected, even if no will existed.

Chris Rainey, the co-inventor of Microwriter, re-introduced Microwriting for PC and Palm PDAs with a standalone miniature chording keyboard called CyKey which caters to both left and right-handed users, being 9-keys.

At his death the latter left two sons, Theodebert II and Thierry II, both minors.

Fan favorites Kerry Wood and Mark DeRosa both left for the Cleveland Indians.

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The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

Going through the Imperial Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve center of the vast Ottoman Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St. Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A.D. on my left, and then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right -- the Executioner's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

As he left the bandstand to return to his office, the slender, sun-tanned Chief Executive paused along the way to shake hands with the members of the audience in wheel chairs forming the first row under the field tent set up for the guests.

Lincoln's foreign policy approach had been initially hands off, due to his inexperience ; he left most diplomacy appointments and other foreign policy matters to his Secretary of State, William Seward.

He was left in the hands of reactionary boyars and priests, who encouraged him to hate his father and wish for the death of the Tsar.

This second post he seems also to have left after a short interval, for he appeared again in Constantinople, and narrowly escaped death at the hands of the brothers of Eudoxia.

In doing so, Carnegie left mediation of the dispute in the hands of his associate and partner Henry Clay Frick.

When the outcome of the dealer's hand is established, any hands with bets remaining on the table are resolved ( usually in counter-clockwise order ): bets on losing hands are forfeited, the bet on a push is left on the table, and winners are paid out.

However, 800 captured askaris, regarded as traitors by the Ethiopians, had their right hands and left feet amputated.

The general rule for open connections is that moves of the leader's hands back, forth, left or right are originated through moves of the entire body.

Sensory and proprioceptive nerves in the hands and feet are often damaged, while pain nerves are left intact.

At the last moment, when his immense work was drawing to an end, he encountered a crowning mortification: he discovered that the bookseller, fearing the government's displeasure, had struck out from the proof sheets, after they had left Diderot's hands, all passages that he considered too dangerous.

A cardboard replica is left in its place, which is left standing after the original Dartmoor Prison sinks with all hands at the end of the episode.

Both hands-two dancers face each other and give hands right to left and left to right.

Changes ( starting right or left )-like the circular hey, but dancers give hands as they pass ( handing hey ).

Hands across-right or left hands are given to corners, and dancers move in the direction they face.

Slipping circle ( left or right )-dancers take hands in a circle ( facing in ) and chassé left or right.