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 ).

Syn evaded capture while at the same time making sure that Imogene and Squire Cobtree's son Dennis ( who had fallen in love with Imogene ) would have a happy life together ( they were eventually married ), but was murdered in revenge by the mulatto, who then mysteriously managed to escape, leaving Syn harpooned through the neck.

The round neck resonator guitars are normally played in the same fashion as other guitars, although slides are also often used, especially in blues.

This elongation largely takes place after birth, as giraffe mothers would have a difficult time giving birth to young with the same neck proportions as adults.

Full length sizing of cartridges is often thought to greatly shorten case life by work hardening the full length of the case, which can cause the case neck to split, although some studies show that the number of reloads possible with a case is essentially the same for either full length sizing as for neck sizing only if the issue is one of neck hardening.

At the same time, Casca produced his dagger and made a glancing thrust at the dictator's neck.

With the sliding technique originating from the cut off neck of a glass bottle, bottlenecks usually still have the same tubular shape and a length of one to three inches, and glass still remains a popular material.

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.

Watercolour by the same artist purporting to show three thugs in the process of strangling the traveller: one holds the feet, another the hands, while a third tightens the ligature around the neck.

These include the Otto Erdesz ' cutaway ' viola, which has one shoulder cut out to make shifting easier ; the ' Oak Leaf ' viola, which has two extra bouts ; viol-shaped violas such as Joseph Curtin's ' Evia ' model, which also utilizes a moveable neck and a maple-veneered carbon fibre back, to reduce weight: violas played in the same manner as cellos ( see vertical viola ); and the eye-catching " Dalí-esque " shapes of both Bernard Sabatier's violas in fractional sizes-which appear to have melted-and David Rivinus ' ' Pellegrina ' model violas.

However, in some breeds, such as the Sebright, the rooster has only slightly pointed neck feathers, the same color as the hen's.

The same effect was seen in other veins of the body, except the veins in the neck.

This treatment regimen is the same as that used for all xerostomia patients, such as those undergoing head and neck radiation therapy which often damages the salivary glands, as they are more susceptible to radiation than other body tissues.

Her breast, neck and face glow in the same light that models her hands.

Although it was the second modern US body armor that was able to stop rifle caliber rounds and still be light enough to be worn by infantry soldiers in the field, it still had its flaws: " it was still heavier than the concurrently issued PASGT ( Personal Armor System for Ground Troops ) anti-fragmentation armor worn by regular infantry and ... did not have the same degree of ballistic protection around the neck and shoulders.

Instead of everyone falling the same standard distance, the person's height and weight were used to determine how much slack would be provided in the rope so that the distance dropped would be enough to ensure that the neck was broken, but not so much that the person was decapitated.

The first insigne was in fact a larger, cut-and-engraved silver medallion, essentially a square of metal with a loop cut integrally with the body of the square from the same sheet of silver, in order to allow for suspension from one or two ribbons worn around the member's neck in the manner in which the older fraternities ( and the Freemasonic bodies on which the collegiate societies were in part patterned ) wore their own insignia.

Daspletosaurus shared the same body form as other tyrannosaurids, with a short, S-shaped neck supporting the massive skull.

In Australia, Highway to Hell was released with a slightly different album cover, featuring flames and a drawing of a bass guitar neck superimposed over the same group photo used on the international cover.

The Grey ( which occupies the same ecological niche in Eurasia as the Great Blue Heron ) has very similar plumage but has a solidly soft-gray neck.

On September 1 of the same year, Weidmann hired a chauffeur named Joseph Couffy to drive him to the French Riviera where, in a forest outside Tours he shot him in the nape of the neck and stole his car and 2500 francs.

One of the characteristics of a brittle failure is that the two broken parts can be reassembled to produce the same shape as the original component as there will not be a neck formation like in the case of ductile materials.

Evil's henchmen, and when caught he reveals the existence of a secret volcano lair ( due to an inability to withhold the answer when asked the same question three times ), but is prevented from divulging its location because of Mini-Me shooting him in the neck with a dart.