It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.

It is most probable that Freud and the Oedipus complex never entered his head in the writing of this story.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

The main question raised by the incident is how much longer will UN bury its head in the sand on the Congo problem instead of facing the bitter fact that it has no solution in present terms??

`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.

At the head of the CDC is an unorthodox, 39-year-old amateur politico, Thomas B. Carvey Jr., whose normal profession is helping develop Hughes Aircraft's moon missiles.

The words ran crazily in his head: Mollie the Mutton is scratching her nose in the rain.

When the fate of the individual is visited on the group, then ( the warm sweet butter dripped from her raised trembling fork and she pushed her head forward belligerently ), ah, then the true bitterness of existence could be tasted.

To measure the volume of one of the combustion chambers in the cylinder head, install the valves and spark plug in the chamber and support the head so that its gasket surface is level.

This volume is added to the total volume of the combustion chamber and head gasket opening.

The only way to determine the final combustion chamber volume when such pistons are used is by measuring it with liquid while the cylinder head is bolted to the cylinder block and the piston is in top dead center position.

While assembled lid is still on design head, gently but firmly press it on plaster board.

A head is a handy thing to have and I installed one under a removable section of the port bunk.

The sink in the hinged panel above the bunk drains into the head and a five-gallon water tank is mounted on the bulkhead above the sink.

The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.

Other sceptics in the 1980s argued the photo was that of an otter or a diving bird, but after Christian Spurling's confession most agree it was what Spurling claimed – a toy submarine with a sculpted head attached.

Special chokes for turkey hunting, which requires long range shots at the small head and neck of the bird, can go as high as 1500 micrometres ( 0. 060 inches ).

Above the head of the secretary bird an arc of seven rays facetted Or and Orange, the two outer rays conkoined to the elevated wings.

The distinctive head feathers of the secretary bird crown a strong and vigilant head.

Tarquin's wife Tanaquil interpreted this as a sign that he would become king based on the bird, the quadrant of the sky from which it came, the god who had sent it and the fact it touched his hat ( an item of clothing placed on a man's most noble part, the head ).

Numerous nocturnal species have ear-tufts, feathers on the sides of the head that are thought to have a camouflage function, breaking up the outline of a roosting bird.

After Amy takes off and begins to head toward the sanctuary, Thomas hitchhikes a ride with a local group of hippies who take him to the bird sanctuary.

The Paleocene penguin ancestor Waimanu resembled loons in some aspects of its head and bill, but it was already flightless bird | flightless and used its feet for steering rather than propulsion

The bird was slaughtered by a thumb being pushed into its neck, and the head being wrung off.

His main symbol is the akpan bird, a trade gun ( flintlocks became the standard issue to the Dahomean army during his reign ), and a Dahomey Amazon striking her head against a tree ( a reference to a humorous war story stemming from one of his military campaigns ).

The Do-Do comes from behind the shield to bop Porky on the head and we see the shield immediately turn to return to the horizon with the bird riding it there ( with, consequently, the boing sound played in reverse ).

The American Dipper ( Cinclus mexicanus ), also known as a Water Ouzel, is a stocky dark grey bird with a head sometimes tinged with brown, and white feathers on the eyelids cause the eyes to flash white as the bird blinks.

The beak is surrounded by delicate vibrissae or " whiskers ", which the bird uses to sense the ground for navigation as it walks with its head lowered.

Xiuhtecuhtli was usually depicted adorned with turquoise mosaic, wearing the turquoise xiuhuitzolli crown of rulership on his head and a turquoise butterfly pectoral on his chest, and he often wears a descending turquoise xiuhtototl bird ( Cotinga amabilis ) on his forehead and the Xiuhcoatl fire serpent on his back.

Its head sometimes resembles that of a rain deity ; at other times, it is more like that of a bird of prey, perhaps the laughing falcon believed to be a harbinger of rain.

The dance begins with a bird picking up some grass and tossing it into the air, catching it in its bill, then progresses to jumping a metre into the air with outstretched wings, then stretching, bowing, walking, calling, and bobbing its head.

Ba takes the form of a bird with a human head.

* Japanese traditions of celestial maidens Tennin ( apsara ), Hiten ( flying apsara ), Tennyo ( celestial maiden ) & Karyobinga ( bird body with angel head )

Bud Jones Taxidermy and Wildlife Museum-Visit with wildlife from North America and Africa featuring deer, bird, and fossil collections as well as a mounted elephant head.

It is sometimes portrayed as a god with a human body and a bird head.

In flight, the Red-throated Loon has a distinctive profile ; its small feet do not project far past the end of its body, its head and neck droop below the horizontal ( giving the flying bird a distinctly hunchbacked shape ) and its thin wings are angled back.

When an imprint must be bred from, the breeder lets the male bird copulate with his head while he is wearing a special hat with pockets on to catch the male bird's semen.

The latter hypothesis seems the more plausible evolution determinant as the surface area of the head is minute compared to the remainder of the body, thus the energy required in producing long hair for the express purpose of " optical " amplification of UV light reflected from the snow seems counterproductive ( however, it's very likely that the trait was sustained due to a nuanced combination of multiple influences, given that human hunting-skills and ingenuity were such by 50, 000 years ago that said benefits in terms of ' comfort ' could have alternatively been derived from constructing head and ear warmers of fur from prey, etc .).

The Tasmanian devil's large head and neck allow it to generate amongst the strongest bite per unit body mass of any extant mammal land predator, and it hunts prey and scavenges carrion as well as eating household products if humans are living nearby.

Eagles are large, powerfully built birds of prey, with a heavy head and beak.

Prey capture is facilitated by the impaling of the prey animal on the sharp teeth, after which the pike retreats to cover, turns the prey around, and swallows it, head first.

Many seabirds feed on the ocean's surface, as the action of marine currents often concentrates food such as krill, forage fish, squid or other prey items within reach of a dipped head.

The head of a mature snake can be quite massive and bulky in appearance, though like all snakes, they can expand their jaws to swallow large prey items.

It bobs its head when food is detected to gauge the distance, and plunges steeply down to seize its prey usually no deeper than 25 cm ( 10 in ) below the surface.

In many birds, the esophagus is largely a mere gravity chute, and in such events as a seagull swallowing a fish or a stork swallowing a frog, swallowing consists largely of the bird lifting its head with its beak pointing up and guiding the prey with tongue and jaws so that the prey slides inside and down.

Adults have a reddish brown plumage and a contrasting white head and breast which makes them easy to distinguish from other birds of prey.

Aquatic prey is obtained by diving or by swimming on surface with the head submerged, and terrestrial insects and their larvae are picked off vegetation.

The pelican then comes back to the surface and spills the water out of its throat pouch that had been caught in the plunge and then throw back their head to swallow the prey.

Dead or dying shortfin makos have been found with broken off swords in their head, revealing the potential danger of this type of prey.

Having seen prey the head is moved from side to side, so that the heron can calculate the position of the prey in the water and compensate for refraction, and then the bill is used to spear the prey.

An alternate explanation comes from the sport of falconry, where the word meant the hood placed over the head of a bird of prey to stop its desire to fly.

They hunt mainly at night, and as they have poor eyesight, they use sensory nodes on their head and body to detect minute changes in water pressure, allowing them to detect their prey.

Live fish are readily taken, with full submergence of the head, and the fish were usually carried at least two meters away, suggesting a feeding strategy to avoid letting aquatic prey escape back into water.

The whale's head may be used as a ram, perhaps to stun its prey, but that does not seem to account for the unusual properties of this substance.

For mammalian prey the ritual is generally the same: the Northern Hawk-Owl will eviscerate its ' prey, eats the head first ( especially for prey like the red squirrel, whose head is fairly large ), and then -- when tackling larger prey -- it will eat the organs and cache the remains ; with smaller prey, the owl will simply swallow the body whole.