Honest I could feel the hair stand up on the back of my neck like a dog's that is going to get into a fight.

By lifting the seat upwards a little, the weight is taken off the neck and the back is kept rounded.

He raced by within twenty feet of her, roped her around the neck, but a lioness' neck is short and thick and with a quick twist she slipped the noose off.

Boyer is suffering from a stiff neck.

Now there is no reason in the world why a matchmaker in Ireland should happen also to be a talented soft-shoe dancer and gifted improviser of movements of the limbs, torso and neck, except that these talents add immensely to the enjoyment of the play.

The greatly elongated head is set on a short, thick neck, and the end of the snout bears a disc, which houses the nostrils.

Her whole body is made of highly advanced synthetic jelly silicon and with 60 artificial joints in her face, neck, and lower body ; she is able to demonstrate realistic facial expressions and sing while simultaneously dancing.

An abscess could potentially be fatal ( although this is rare ) if it compresses vital structures such as the trachea in the context of a deep neck abscess.

Physically, Antarctica is divided in two by Transantarctic Mountains close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea.

This is a key head, neck and spinal relationship.

One innovation is a metal bar called a truss rod, which is incorporated into the neck to strengthen it and provide adjustable counter-tension to the stress of the strings.

In fashion, the Bardot neckline ( a wide open neck that exposes both shoulders ) is named after her.

Torsion of the neck ( opisthotonos or torticollis ) is observed in severely affected animals.

The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a longer neck and scale length, and four, five, six, or eight strings.

Freyja is so wrathful that all the Æsir ’ s halls beneath her are shaken and the necklace Brísingamen breaks off from her neck.

The mood of the story is fashioned from the start through names of the participants: Naomi, which means " my gracious one " or " my delight ," later asks to be called Mara, " the bitter one "; her two sons are Mahlon, " sick ", and Chilion, " weakening " or " pining " and Orpah, meaning " mane " or " gazelle ", is from the root for " nape " or " back of the neck ", appropriate for the daughter-in-law who turns her back on Naomi and returns to her people.

This crane is pale blue-gray in colour becoming darker on the upper head, neck and nape.

The smooth coat is marked with 10 – 15 vertical white-yellow stripes, spread along the back from the base of the neck to the rump.

There is another white chevron where the neck meets the chest.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

The massive skull of Albertosaurus, perched on a short, S-shaped neck, was approximately 1 metre ( 3. 3 ft ) long in the largest adults.

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The neck and legs were short, and the head and wings small.

Despite its long neck and legs, the giraffe's body is relatively short.

Along the animal's neck is a mane made of short, erect hairs.

Intermittent short " deep sleep " phases while lying are characterized by the giraffe bending its neck backwards and resting its head on the hip or thigh, a position believed to indicate paradoxical sleep.

They are described as bipedal humanoids, with long legs, short torsos, and improbably flexible neck vertebrae.

All short track skaters must have speed skates, a spandex skin suit, protective helmet, protective eye ware, shin pads, knee pads, neck guard ( bib style ).

For long track skaters the same equipment should be worn as short track racers but with the exception of a helmet, shin pads, knee pads, and neck guard which is not required.

Alexander Beatson, who published a volume on the Fourth Mysore War entitled View of the Origin and Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun, described Tipu Sultan as follows: " His stature was about five feet eight inches ; he had a short neck, square shoulders, and was rather corpulent: his limbs were small, particularly his feet and hands ; he had large full eyes, small arched eyebrows, and an aquiline nose ; his complexion was fair, and the general expression of his countenance, not void of dignity ".

After a short and restless sleep one evening, Mendelssohn found himself incapable of moving and had the feeling of something lashing his neck with fiery rods, his heart was palpitating and he was in an extreme anxiety, yet fully conscious.

With its short thick head, long ears, thin limbs, small narrow hooves, and short mane, the mule shares characteristics of a donkey ; in height and body, shape of neck and croup, uniformity of coat, and teeth, it appears horse-like ; the mule comes in all sizes, shapes and conformities.

In the absence of the forensic findings of 1560, it was often assumed that a simple accident could not be the explanation — on the basis of near-contemporary tales that Amy Dudley was found at the bottom of a short flight of stairs with a broken neck, her headdress still standing undisturbed " upon her head ", a detail that first appeared as a satirical remark in the libel Leicester's Commonwealth of 1584 and has ever since been repeated for a fact.

To account for such oddities and evidence that she was ill, it was suggested in 1956 by Ian Aird, a professor of medicine, that Amy Dudley might have suffered from breast cancer, which through metastatic cancerous deposits in the spine, could have caused her neck to break under only limited strain, such as a short fall or even just coming down the stairs.

Many Vulcans are skilled in a self-defense technique known as the " Vulcan nerve pinch " or " neck pinch ", which targets a precise location on the neck, rendering the victim unconscious ( sometimes instantly, sometimes after a short delay depending on the subject ).

The Exotic has a compact, rounded, powerfully-built body with a short, thick " linebacker " neck.

Batman defeats Joker in a violent showdown, breaking his neck but stopping just short of killing him.

:... a monstrosity of a man, a pygmy, fat-headed and like a mole as to the smallness of his eyes ; disgusting with his short, broad, thick, and half hoary beard ; disgraced by a neck an inch long ; very bristly through the length and thickness of his hair ; in color an Ethiopian ; one whom it would not be pleasant to meet in the middle of the night ; with extensive belly, lean of loin, very long of hip considering his short stature, small of shank, proportionate as to his heels and feet ; clad in a garment costly but too old, and foul-smelling and faded through age ; shod with Sicyonian shoes ; bold of tongue, a fox by nature, in perjury, and lying a Ulysses.

The lion ( Panthera leo ) is a large carnivorous feline of Africa and northwest India, having a short, tawny coat, a tufted tail, and, in the male, a heavy mane around the neck and shoulders.

It all seemed -- if one could have peeked in at him through one of his windows -- as though this broken-nosed man with the muscular arms and wrestler's neck was merely the caretaker trying his hand at the boss's work.

Both are 6 feet tall and weigh between 195 and 200 pounds, but Mantle, incredibly muscular ( he has a 17-1/2-inch neck ), looks bigger.

The largest and tallest of the galloping hounds, in general type he is a rough-coated, Greyhound-like breed ; very muscular, strong though gracefully built ; movements easy and active ; head and neck carried high, the tail carried with an upward sweep with a slight curve towards the extremity ".

Although Ken is thought to stand 6-feet tall in accordance with Barbie's 1: 6 scale, Yale University psychologist, Kelly Brownell, stated that to size up to what Barbie looks for in a mate, " a man would have to grow 20 inches taller and add nearly 8 inches to his neck circumference, 11 inches to his chest and 10 inches to his waist to resemble the muscular Ken.

It had a short tail, powerful legs, muscular neck and long canines.

The neck of the standardbred is muscular and should be slightly arched, with a length of medium to long.

:" Tried on more than 1, 400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints — charley horse, tennis elbow, stiff neck, torticollis (' wryneck '), whiplash injury, muscular rheumatism, and muscle pain resulting from slipped disks ".

Heck cattle have a comparatively small and short head, while aurochsen had an elongate large head sitting on a muscular neck.

Amitriptyline is prescribed for chronic muscular pain in the arms, legs, neck and lower back.

The topline is level, muscular neck set on fairly high, and the loins and haunches are broad and powerful.

The neck is muscular, having developed from the breed's use against larger game.

They have a thick muscular neck supporting their short head.

The breed has a powerful, arching neck ; well-muscled, sloping shoulders ; a short, wide back ; and a muscular, broad croup.

They can include respiratory signs ( gasping, coughing ), nervous signs ( depression, inappetence, muscular tremors, drooping wings, twisting of head and neck, circling, complete paralysis ), swelling of the tissues around the eyes and neck, greenish, watery diarrhea, misshapen, rough-or thin-shelled eggs and reduced egg production.

Only the males have horns and they also have a more muscular neck than females.

The neck is crested and muscular with a clean cut throat and jaw.

Tics can be either muscular ( alter normal motor function ) or vocal ( alter normal speech ) in nature and most commonly involve the face, mouth, eyes, head, neck or shoulder muscles.

The neck should be muscular, arched, and carried proudly.

The neck is long, clean, and muscular, and fits well into the shoulders.

It has a slightly-arched and muscular neck, long, sloping shoulders, a deep but not overly broad chest, a short, compact back, and a muscular croup with powerful hindquarters.