Their bodies writhe and they raise and lash their tails which makes it difficult for the predator to avoid contact with their poison-producing granular glands.

As Eversley put it: " Their minds were defeated before their bodies.

Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-living jelly-like substance, sandwiched between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell thick.

Their bodies are covered by coarse black hair, except for the face, fingers, toes, palms of the hands and soles of the feet.

Their bodies are about long, and their tails are about long.

Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.

Their bodies are soft and unsegmented.

Their bodies were dressed in paper and a digging stick for planting put in their hands.

Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance 2 months later in July, during the search for 3 civil rights workers – Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.

Their bodies are then hung by their heels in the public square of Milan.

Their bodies were never recovered.

Their bodies comprise two parts ; their front is voluminous and is tipped with a large " mouth " and a row of five round to oval-shaped features on each side which have been interpreted as gills-or at least openings in the vicinity of the pharynx.

Their paper indicated a high voltage discharge device had been constructed that emitted a horizontal, collimated beam, with sharp borders, of short impulses of a repulsive force field that could penetrate different bodies without any noticeable loss of energy.

Their bodies are large, sturdy, and muscular and are described as having a " cobby " build.

Their models suggested that, at the end of the planet formation period, several satellite-sized bodies had formed that could collide with the planets or be captured.

" Their bodies are fantastically painted with charcoal dust, red clay, and chalk.

Their bodies are well adapted to the aquatic habitat where they spend most of their lives.

Their bodies are slender and mid-way between the Oriental and foreign types, with long necks.

In Acts 7: 16, it is said that " Their ( Jacob and his family ) bodies were brought back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a certain sum of money.

Their bodies are laterally compressed, permitting easy movement through the hairs or feathers on the host's body ( or in the case of humans, under clothing ).

Their bodies had been crushed beyond recognition but he completed the gruesome task by correlating their identities to their positions ( loci in Latin ) at the table before his departure.

Their bodies are brought on stage, and the chorus mourns them.

Their bodies would be left dangling until they had been submerged three times by the tide.

Their bodies have segmented sections which makes them move in a wave-like form.

Their lack of eyes, a morphology not well-suited for swimming, and their fossils found in association with other benthic trilobites all suggest a benthic ( bottom-dwelling ) mode of life.

Their lack of sight does not hinder their ability to get any and all food before it hits the bottom.

Their reliability as indicators of consciousness is disputed, however, due to numerous studies showing that alert human subjects can be induced to behave purposefully in a variety of ways in spite of reporting a complete lack of awareness.

Their dominance exposed a lack of balance among AAFC teams, which the league tried to correct by sending Browns players including quarterback Y. A.

Their application was refused due to the lack of a major motorsport event held wholly within Monaco's boundaries.

Their popularity seems to be partly due to the fact that their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as " hits " ( see Nostradamus in popular culture ).

( Their lack of starships was noted when, in one DS9 episode, a high-ranking official from the Order had to " hitch a ride " with a Cardassian warship for transportation.

Their lack of magisterial powers made them independent of all other magistrates, which also meant that no magistrate could veto a tribune.

Their lack of activity is possibly a defence against predation ; trogons on all continents have been reported to shift about on branches to always keep their less brightly coloured backs turned towards observers, whilst their heads, which like owls can turn through 180 degrees, keep a watch on the watcher.

Their tops lack the know-how, never do they get down into the dirt and learn the hard way.

Their most characteristic feature is the conspicuous white-feather ring around the eye, though some species lack it.

Their ears, which lack pinna, are located on the sides of their head.

Their flowers lack the fragrances so sought after in their relatives the Boronia.

Their family name is a reference to their apparent lack of intelligence, and their cross-eyed appearance may be a parody of generic soldiers being unable to shoot a hero in various franchises.

Their collective cultures are known as " Creole ", though many non-Louisianans do not distinguish between the two groups, or do not recognize the distinctions made in the New Orleans area between the original white colonists whose offspring were the original first born in Louisiana and Creoles that were a mixture of people of European ancestry and slave populations ( or free men and women of color ) and whose skin was mulatto for lack of a better descriptor.

Their antennae lack a scaphocerite, the flattened exopod of the antenna.

Their political relationship provided stability, continuity, experience and authority to a party that was beginning even then, to severely lack a solid second-rung.

Their advice and guidance is particularly important for junior officers, who begin their careers in a position of authority but generally lack practical experience.

Their failure to attend Senghor's funeral made waves as it was deemed a lack of acknowledgement for what the politician had been in his life.

Their main complaints against the Mulroney government were its alleged favouritism towards Quebec, lack of fiscal responsibility, and a failure to support a program of institutional reform ( for example, of the Senate ).

Their lack of valves, seals and glands makes them comparatively inexpensive to maintain.

Their relative lack of control is clearly demonstrated by the use of " pony " horses to lead the race horse and jockey to the track, the use of assistants at the starting gate to load the horses, and the availability of outriders ( all with much longer stirrups ) to assist the jockey at the end of a race or in the event of an accident.

Their eyes are wide-set and lack true eyelids.

Their metamorphosis from the larval stage is incomplete, so that the adults retain gill slits ( although they also have lungs ), and lack eyelids.