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man and tilted
A very thin man, Fernández had a tilted, wavering batting stance that made it appear as if he might not be strong enough to hold his bat.
* miudinho: the man dances with his left side slightly tilted, his left hand on the woman's waist and her both her hands around his neck.

man and back
Clayton tried to call back the face of the man he had known.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Six hundred and forty acres, the old man back in St. Louis had said ; ;
Like a man making a deep dive, Greg took full breath and plunged back into the valley.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
It was nearly sundown and he went to the back of the wagon, half-swimming his way, for he was not a tall man.
The insurance man informed them that he had talked to Crumley who was all right and that he would watch the men's personal effects until they towed the rig back to town.
`` Billy Tilghman is too good a man to shoot in the back.
`` You know '', the lawyer said, `` it's difficult to talk like this about a man who can't answer back ''.
`` Mais non '', the Interior Ministry man coaxed, `` you may come back to Strasbourg, now, if you wish ''.
No matter how often a man goes back to the scenes of his youth and strength, they can never be recaptured again.
If a branch extended out too far, each man held it back for the next, and if they met a low overhang, each warned the other.
He whirled around, suddenly hot all over, finding the man who had been standing before him a few moments back, nailing him to the spot on which he now stood, open-mouthed.
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.
One man remarked that if he had a hundred pounds, he would give ninety of them to be back in England.
One old man told me that when he was a boy he was kicked in the head by a fractious mule and had his scalp laid back from the entire front of his head.
The steady roll of the drums had sounded behind him as he walked between the endless ranks of the men he had commanded, and each man about-faced and turned his back as the officer approached.
The big, paunchy man named Geely was on that side, half-turned in the seat toward his hatchet-faced companion so that his back partially rested against the closed door.
In a low voice, almost whispering, the man had asked Phil if he was happy with the way the landlord had been taken off his back.
He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.
Tillotson had reported the man to Gansevoort and an hour later, with back turned, had been attacked by Wilson, brandishing the weapon.
Go back where you can bring no harm, or I will go and get the old man from his bed so he can see your shame ''!!
`` Go back to that double-married man of yours who so parades his fine body among the young women.
Was B'dikkat a crazy slave to his own duty or was he a man who had hopes of going back to his own planet some day, surrounded by a family of little cow-people resembling himself??

man and head
The man seemed to sink a little as Ramey brought the tire iron down on his shoulder and it seemed that the blonde head was turning as he hit the man again, with his fist.
He saw a pint-sized man with a graying spade beard and an unusually large head.
Though Walter Ulbricht, by grace of Soviet tanks, may be head man in East Germany, that does not give him any right to usurp the government of East Berlin or to absorb that semi-city into the Soviet zone.
Wilson again went downtown to a different banker, an intelligent young white man who seemed rather sympathetic, but he shook his head.
In the audience a man named Ferguson lost his head and tried to rescue a little girl from the mob, on the same principle which had led Miss Harris to demand water.
When McFeeley was halfway to the door, the proprietor emerged -- a mountainous, dark man, his head thick with resiny black hair, his eyes like two of the black olives he imported in boatloads.
Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.
In news items a man is less often shot in the body or head than in the suburbs.
In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.
One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity by liquor and the excitement of the moment, performed a perfect swan dive out of the stands at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, landed squarely on his head on the concrete ramp below, and died at once.
There had also been a man who must have had St. Vitus or something, because he kept jerking his head.
the man put his at the head of Capt. Byron D. Rickards.
Each man can identify himself with the history and the death of Jesus Christ because Jesus Christ has identified himself with human history and human death, coming as the head of a new humanity.
Mercer stammered, not knowing what B'dikkat meant, and the two-nosed man answered for him, `` I think he has a nice baby head, but it isn't big enough for you to take yet ''.
According to E. A. Wallis Budge, " as a Pantheus, i. e. All-God, he appears on the amulets with the head of a cock ( Phœbus ) or of a lion ( Ra or Mithras ), the body of a man, and his legs are serpents which terminate in scorpions, types of the Agathodaimon.
The length of the compound head was equivalent to the distance between the planes of a man ’ s chest to his back.
In the centre stands a man in an officer's uniform with a bandage around his head.
Each civilian tile also has a Chinese name ( and common rough translation to English ): The 6-6 is tin ( 天 heaven ), 1-1 is dei ( 地 earth ), 4-4 is yan ( 人 man ), 1-3 is ngo ( 鵝 goose or 和 harmony ), 5-5 is mui ( 梅 plum flower ), 3-3 is cheung ( 長 long ), 2-2 is ban ( 板 board ), 5-6 is fu ( 斧 hatchet ), 4-6 is ping ( 屏 partition ), 1-6 is tsat ( 七 ) ( long leg seven ), and 1-5 is luk ( 六 ) ( big head six ).
A critical turning point comes when the King decides not to give money to a man who has committed theft but instead to cut off his head and also to carry out this punishment in a particularly cruel and humiliating manner, parading him in public to the sound of drums as he is taken to the execution ground outside the city.
In describing an unusual miniature fifth-century Greek bronze in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, that takes the form of a man on all fours with the foreparts of a pig, Dorothy Kent Hill expressed the artist's dilemma: how could an artist depict a man bewitched into a pig other than as a man with a pig's head?

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