Pulling off her face mask, she carefully placed the spear gun across the stern, then lifted her wet hair from her back and squeezed out the water.

But it was in his eagerness for battle, his quick decision in action, and the stern will which sent his regiments to face the heaviest losses, that Condé is exalted above all the generals of his time.

The appearance of Guan Yu's face for the triads is usually more stern and threatening than the usual statue.

Oarsmen generally face the stern of the vessel, reach as far as they can towards the stern, and insert the blade of their oar in the water.

However, India continues to face stern challenges.

alt = A painting of a man with a stern expression on his face, wearing very dark clothing so that his pale hands show boldly.

The blades on the paddle need to be equidistant from each hand, and the power face of the blade, or scoop, should be facing your stern.

" He goes on to say, " His face was slender and mobile ; but there was a stern, sardonic expression to his features, which acted as a barrier between him and his fellows.

He wears a steel helmet and has dark deep-set eyes, broad square face, open mouth with square teeth and a full black beard ; his aura is one of stern aggression and forcefulness.

Goemon very closely resembles actor Seiji Miyaguchi's character, stern master swordsman Kyūzō, in the universally acclaimed film Seven Samurai, down to even Miyaguchi's famous elongated face.

Watson in her youth had an ordinate beauty but with a stern expression on her face.

When they do try something he tries to have a shout at Preston, only to find that Preston is made of stern stuff, hardly flinching when he is shouted at and always keeping a straight face, this annoys the Kommandant even more, but, he knows there is nothing he can do.

The first two series of The Power Game in 1965-6 chronicled his attempts to keep control in the face of opposition from the company's elderly founder Caswell Bligh ( Clifford Evans ), a stern, old-school patriarch who resents what he sees as Wilder's imposition on a family firm, and Bligh's ambitious but inexperienced son Kenneth ( Peter Barkworth ), who would prefer to be sole managing director, and free of his father's influence.

Around 3, 000 people ( SW estimate ) joined an illegal demonstration in the Malaysian city of Kuala Lumpur despite police warnings that any participants in a protest would face stern action.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

Sometimes he would grunt softly to some invisible onlooker beside him, sometimes he would look stern and moralistic as his pencil did what he disapproved.

Orders were issued for each ship to attach strong cables to the bow and stern of their neighbours, which would effectively turn the line into a long battery forming a theoretically impregnable barrier.

Furthermore, not all of his captains had followed his orders to attach cables to their neighbour's bow and stern, which would have prevented such a manoeuvre.

Mao Zedong would describe his father as a stern disciplinarian, who would often punish his son and other children – two boys, Tse-min ( b. 1896 ) and Tse-tan ( b. 1905 ), and an adopted girl – for any perceived wrongdoings, sometimes by beating them.

President Garfield wrote Grant a stern letter in reply that stated he would not be bound by party patronage and would appoint " men who represented any valuable element in the Republican party.

While on the bench, she was known as a tough but fair judge that would offer a stern lecture to youthful offenders, hoping to keep them out of trouble.

The tapestried bed-rooms – tapestry so much better than painting – not adorning merely, but peopling the wainscots – at which childhood ever and anon would steal a look, shifting its coverlid ( replaced as quickly ) to exercise its tender courage in a momentary eye-encounter with those stern bright visages, staring reciprocally – all Ovid on the walls, in colours vivider than his descriptions.

Typically each pier would carry a single transit shed the length of the pier, with ships berthing bow or stern in to the shore.

In both of these cases the mainsail extends aft of a line from masthead to stern, and so a permanent backstay would interfere with the operation of the sail.

Fore and stern castles would be added for defense against pirates, or to enable use of these vessels as warships, such as used at the Battle of Sluys.

" Overtaking " means approaching another vessel at more than 22. 5 degrees abaft her beam, i. e., so that at night, the overtaking vessel would see only the stern light and neither of the sidelights of the vessel being overtaken.

He is quite serious, stern, and mature – except whenever desserts are concerned ( then he would act like a five year old.

Keyes attributed the seeds of the personal growth system he would later develop to an experience he had with a stern English teacher in ninth grade.

) The whale was harpooned and lanced to death and either towed to the stern of the ship or to the shore at low tide, where men with long knives would flense ( cut up ) the blubber.

He would deliver stern diatribes to criminals, but his sentences were usually moderate, even when he was personally offended by the crime.

An observer would find it difficult to know exactly whether the stern or the bow was in view ; and it would be equally difficult to estimate whether the observed vessel was moving towards or away from the observer's position.

Notable as an early engagement of Confederate Colonel Thomas J. Jackson and his Brigade of Virginia Volunteers, nineteen days before their famous nickname would originate, this brief skirmish was hailed by both sides as a stern lesson to the other.

DeMille, an AFRA member but a stern opponent of closed shops, refused to pay because he believed it would nullify his opposition vote.

Swedish coastal defence ship | pansarskepp HMS Gustaf V with the current navy ensign, and the greater coat of arms in the stern.

On the day of the funeral, Peter sent Alexei a stern letter, urging him to take interest in the affairs of the state.

In 1723 his father matriculated him into the stern Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia, which imposed the tonsure and monastic habits on its students.

He was asleep under the stern of the rotting Argo when it fell on him, killing him instantly.

After a stern lecture by Nephi, where he reminds them of the prophecies and offers them a choice, they tie him up and leave him to die in the desert.

A fire of pistols, or muskets, opening from the stern gallery of the San Josef, I directed the soldiers to fire into her stern ; and calling to Captain Miller, ordered him to send more men into the San Nicolas ; and directed my people to board the first-rate, which was done in an instant, Commander Berry assisting me into the main chains.

Welk's insistence on wholesome entertainment led him to be a somewhat stern taskmaster at times.

It also objected to the appointment of the Duke of Wellington as Prime Minister, condemning him as ‘ a Field Marshal whose political career proves him to be utterly destitute of political principle – whose military career affords ample evidence of his stern and remorseless temperament .’

But the just harmony of qualities, the exact temper between the stern and the humane virtues, the habitual observance of every law, not only of moral rectitude, but of moral grace and dignity, distinguish him from all men who have been tried by equally strong temptations, and about whose conduct we possess equally full information.

Moreover, the early balloon and leaflet operations initiated by the National Committee for Free Europe during Nagy's first term as Hungarian prime minister ( 1953 – 1955 )— namely " Operation Focus "— arguably antagonized Nagy and spawned a stern neutralism ( later, hostility ) toward him among U. S. diplomats and RFE broadcasters during the crisis.

There, his powerful stage voice and commanding presence landed him numerous supporting roles, usually as the stern or pompous character with such roles as a banker, a State Governor, or a land baron.

The woman gives him a stern look and he sighs.

Despite the persuasions of others, who wished him to take to one of the larger vessels, Gilbert stayed put and was observed sitting in the stern of his little frigate, reading a book.

In throwing something to your companion, you will need no more force to get it to him whether he is in the direction of the bow or the stern, with yourself situated opposite.

A stern, often draconian, disciplinarian, he served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Thomas Quiwonkpa, the Commanding General of the Armed Forces of Liberia, and accompanied him into exile in 1983, after Quiwonkpa was accused of plotting a coup against Doe.

There can be little doubt of Hawthorne's disdain for the stern morality and rigidity of the Puritans, and he imagined his predecessors ' disdainful view of him: unsuccessful in their eyes, worthless and disgraceful.

A stern Protestant, he exacted heavy contributions from the Catholic cities which he took, and his repeated victories caused him to be regarded by German Protestants as the saviour of their religion.

His prodigious talent for war along with his reputation as a stern disciplinarian, earned him the title " The Iron Marshal ".

" and for him to answer, " Up along the top ridge "-before there was a big burst of flaming hydrogen from a point he estimated to be about one-third the ship's length from the stern.

His independent nature and his stern rectitude earned him the appellation " The Cato of the United States.