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 ).

* Bands ( neckwear ), two pieces of cloth fitted around the neck as part of formal clothing for clergy, academics, and lawyers

** The neck: the narrowest part of the chase, always located near the foremost end of the piece.

General surgeons are trained to remove all or part of the thyroid and parathyroid glands in the neck and the adrenal glands just above each kidney in the abdomen.

Although weakened by his torture, Fawkes managed to jump from the gallows and break his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the gruesome latter part of his execution.

Dinsdale emphatically states that this is a part of the animal underwater behind the neck.

A combination of these stories is given by the French traveler Pouqueville, who writes that when the cord was thrown over his neck, Osman ' had the presence of mind to slip it with his hand, and knock down the principal executioner ; on which his grand vizier seized him by the most sensible part of his body, when Osman fainted with pain, and was strangled.

A throat pouch extended from about the middle of the lower jaw to the upper part of the neck.

This is the most common cause of syringomyelia, where the anatomic abnormality causes the lower part of the cerebellum to protrude from its normal location in the back of the head into the cervical or neck portion of the spinal canal.

It is most usually observed in the part of the spinal cord corresponding to the neck area.

Noted children's book author H. A. Rey, in his 1952 book The Stars: A New Way to See Them, ( ISBN 0-395-24830-2 ) instead had the " bear " image of the constellation, much as Johannes Hevelius had done ( as far as the figure of the bear facing " left "), oriented with Alkaid as the tip of the bear's nose, and the " handle " of the Big Dipper part of the constellation forming the outline of the top of the bear's head and neck, rearwards to the shoulder.

When heating ( or cooling ) in a water bath the flask can be clamped by the neck to a stand or a hooped weight may be placed over the conical part of the flask to prevent it from floating in the bath.

While these prior instruments usually crushed the neck or used blunt force to take off a head, devices also usually used a crescent blade and a lunette ( a hinged two part yoke to immobilize the victim's neck ).

Thus Badakhshan reached out an arm into the Pamirs eastwards-bottle-shaped-narrow at the neck ( represented by the northern slopes of the Hindu Kush ), and swelling out eastwards so as to include a part of the great and little Pamirs.

A driver who does not discharge static by contacting a conductive part of the car will carry it to the insulated handle of the nozzle and the static potential will eventually be discharged when this purposely-grounded arrangement is put into contact with the metallic filler neck of the vehicle.

Jim reluctantly takes part in the fight and wins, subduing Buzz by holding his switchblade up to his neck.

A frieze of lions devouring ibexes and deer, incised with great artistic skill, runs round the neck, while the eagle crest of Lagash adorns the globular part.

But, the area in the upper part of the neck was called " Little Guinea " prior to the Yorktown campaign.

In vertebrate anatomy, the throat ( Latin gula ) is the anterior part of the neck, in front of the vertebral column.

In colour, the adult male gaur is dark brown, approaching black in very old individuals ; the upper part of the head, from above the eyes to the nape of the neck, is, however, ashy gray, or occasionally dirty white ; the muzzle is pale coloured, and the lower part of the legs are pure white or tan.

He wrote, " Now I wish folks could learn that there is another part of this neck of the woods beside Everglade.

Dry moats cut across the narrow part of a spur or peninsula are called neck ditches.

Bottomside is the lower part of the island and is the neck that connects the tail and head of the island.