He ground his teeth together.

The second capability is represented by our deployed ground, naval, and air forces in essential forward areas, together with ready reserves capable of effecting early emergency reinforcement.

Through satellite images and ground investigations, archaeologists have detected at least 8 main roads that together run for more than 180 miles ( ca 300 km ), and are more than 30 feet ( 10 m ) wide.

The main body of GC & CS, including its Naval, Military and Air Sections, was on the ground floor of the mansion, together with a telephone exchange, a teleprinter room, a kitchen and a dining room.

On the French side of the stream the ground rises to Offus, the village which, together with Autre-Eglise farther north, anchored Villeroi ’ s left flank.

Very finely ground cements are made from mixtures of cement with sand or with slag or other pozzolan type minerals that are extremely finely ground together.

His first aerodynamic experiments, an investigation of the air resistance of surfaces, was carried out by dropping the surface to be investigated together with a measuring apparatus down a vertical cable stretched between the second level of the Eiffel Tower and the ground.

Instead of placing the broom on the ground, and jumping together, the broom was placed in an angle by the doorway.

Additionally, because the entire Space Shuttle system, including ground and launch vehicle assets, was designed to work together as a closed system, and the specifications did not change, all of the certified systems and components served well in the roles for which they were designed.

He opposed Howard's policy on asylum-seekers, campaigned in support of an Australian Republic and attacked what he perceived as a lack of integrity in Australian politics, together with former Labor prime minister Gough Whitlam, finding much common ground with his predecessor.

In these assaults ... all the columns were levelled with the ground by the frequent strokes of the battering-ram, all the husbandmen routed, together with their bishops, priests, and people, whilst the sword gleamed, and the flames crackled around them on every side.

Lamentable to behold, in the midst of the streets lay the tops of lofty towers, tumbled to the ground, stones of high walls, holy altars, fragments of human bodies, covered with livid clots of coagulated blood, looking as if they had been squeezed together in a press ; and with no chance of being buried, save in the ruins of the houses, or in the ravening bellies of wild beasts and birds ; with reverence be it spoken for their blessed souls, if, indeed, there were many found who were carried, at that time, into the high heaven by the holy angels ...

The Canadian Alliance party ( as the Reform Party had become ), and some leading tories came together on an informal basis to see if they could find common ground.

He writes that it was: "... composed of twenty three boats, of great excellence and strength attached together by a long chain of iron as thick as a man's thigh, and this was moored on each side to an iron post as thick as a man's waist extending a distance of ten cubits on the land and planted firmly in the ground, the boats being fastened to this chain by means of big hooks.

In most cases, the studio's metal equipment racks are all joined together with heavy copper cables ( or flattened copper tubing or busbars ) and similar connections are made to the technical ground.

By putting them together in the direction of the arrows, they can be joined, usually with some grease applied to the ground glass surfaces.

By putting them together in the direction of the arrows, they can be joined, with some grease applied to the ground glass surfaces.

Additionally, in the production of ground beef, meat from multiple cattle is often ground together, enabling contamination from a single animal to contaminate an entire lot of ground beef.

The collective noun for group of geese on the ground is a gaggle ; when in flight, they are called a skein, a team or a wedge ; when flying close together, they are called a plump.

The two separate images are brought together on a ground glass viewing screen.

The magician, with the rearward portion of his feet held together, lifts the ' near ' foot off the ground, standing on only the front part of his ' far ' foot ( the one which is partially concealed ) while lifting the rearward part of the ' far ' foot and all of the ' near ' foot and keeping his ankles together.

Although they drew light ground fire they saw no signs of activity.

Finally, avoiding hummocks and seeking low ground, they intercepted the rain squall.

The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

There were not many chairs, so that some preferred to sit on the edge of the porch, resting their feet on the ground, and others liked to sit where they could lean back against the wall.

Put aircraft in `` bomb-proof '' hangars when they are on the ground.

After an earthquake in Japan in 1793 people on the coast at Tugaru were so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground.

In the vulnerable areas of the Pacific there should be restrictions against building homes on exposed coasts, or at least a requirement that they be either raised off the ground or anchored strongly against waves.

We have also developed techniques for recognizing and locating underground nuclear tests through the waves in the ground which they generate.

There is little optimism here that the Communists will be any more docile at the conference table than they were in military actions on the ground in Laos.

Most passengers didn't know what had happened until they got on the ground.

They were covered with tiny white blossoms, their scant roots clawing at the stony ground, and wild birds darted in and about and through them so they were nearly alive with the rustle and cry.

There was no reason to leave the comfortable quarters inside the ship, except that, faced with a possibility of sleeping on solid ground, they simply had to get out.

In the adult state they have tear ducts and movable eyelids and most species have ears that can detect airborne or ground vibrations.

On the surface of the ground or in water they move by undulating their body from side to side.

Winter annuals typically grow low to the ground, where they are usually sheltered from the coldest nights by snow cover, and make use of warm periods in winter for growth when the snow melts.

They do however have less mobility as they have less off-road capabilities because of the higher ground pressure.

To gain such authorisations, the pilots will have to demonstrate to an examiner that they can perform to those limits without endangering themselves, ground crew or spectators.

On bare ground or roads during the winter, various species of snakes and lizards bask in the sun, but they are rarely seen during the summer months.

This is quite common in vegetable or flower seedlings that were exposed to cold conditions, or vernalized, before they were planted in the ground.

: ... they began to pass marshes and the Nebel as fast as the badness of the ground would permit them.

With both sides seeking battle, they soon stumbled upon one other on the dry ground between the Mehaigne and Petite Gheete rivers, close to the small village of Ramillies.

Several arboreal primate species, such as Gibbons and Indriids, exclusively utilise bipedal locomotion during the brief periods they spend on the ground.

This they easily crossed because they knew where the firm ground and the easy passages in this region were to be found ; but the Romans in attempting to follow them were not so successful.