From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

Be sure that the landing foot is brought close to the hands and that only one foot lands at a time.

These boys acknowledged an introduction to anybody by gently pressing one of his hands in both of theirs, while they gazed, misty-eyed with care, into the eyes of the person they were meeting.

He carried three guns -- one in the right trouser pocket, one under his left armpit, one in the left outside coat pocket -- and was equally lethal with both hands.

`` About nine this morning Mrs. Buck phones me she's having trouble with one of her farm hands -- money trouble.

God placed Himself in men's hands when He sent Jesus Christ into the world as perfect God and perfect Man in one Being.

He was six feet one like his father, with big hands and a hairy chest, a man the weak and persecuted would turn to.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

No hands, for one thing.

Once, like you, I had one head, two hands, ten fingers on my hands.

Black sign language speakers prefer to use two hands opposed to one, for example: remember.

In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.

An example from France was a flattering anagram for Cardinal Richelieu, comparing him to Hercules or at least one of his hands ( Hercules being a kingly symbol ), where " Armand de Richelieu " became " Ardue main d ' Hercule ".

As if she were weighed down with old age and worn out by grief, she walked slowly and when she approached the actual entrance to the sanctuary made two genuflections ; on the third she sank to the floor and taking firm hold of the sacred doors, cried in a loud voice: " Unless my hands are cuff off, I will not leave this holy place except on one condition: that I receive the emperor's cross as guarantee of safety ".

" A charter from the reign of his son Edward the Elder depicts Alfred as hearing one such appeal in his chamber, while washing his hands.

Tolstoy defined art ( and by no coincidence also characterized its value ) as the following: " Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

The afflicted one is anointed with the sign of the cross on seven places: the forehead, the nostrils, the cheeks, the lips, the breast, the palms of both hands, and the back of the hands.

* On March 7, 1998, Daniel Rudolph, the elder brother of the 1996 Olympics bomber Eric Robert Rudolph, videotaped himself cutting off one of his own hands with an electric saw to " send a message to the FBI and the media.

The slugs flattened ten tires and silenced one of the inboard engines ; ;

For example, one population of a species of tropical lizards ( Tropidurus hispidus ) has a flattened body relative to the main populations that live in open savanna.

Young plants of A. fistulosum and A. cepa look very similar, but may be distinguished by their leaves, which are circular in cross-section in A. fistulosum rather than flattened on one side.

*" That " is signed by the same aforementioned " T " with the index fingers and immediately followed by one flattened hand tapping the head for a " hat ", thus the combination becoming " that ".

The gourds were flattened on one side, with a sound-hole cut into the flat side, before drying.

ELVES often appear as dim, flattened, circular in the horizontal plane, expanding glows around in diameter that last for, typically, just one millisecond.

In many varieties, the fruit is flattened on one or two sides.

However, claw-like nails are found in small-bodied callitrichids on all digits except the hallux or big toe, and in prosimians, which possess one or two laterally flattened toilet claws, used for grooming.

The body is flattened or cylindrical, with a single chitinous plate above, one at each side, and two or three on the underside.

At one point in the video, the tornado lifted and hurled a van and a couple of flattened pick-up trucks into the air.

As it was impractical to apply such pressure to the entire plate all at once, a steamroller approach was used which flattened only one very small area at a time.

Seedlings up to one year old bear juvenile leaves ; these are single ( not in pairs ), 2 – 3 cm long, flattened, with a serrated margin.

We see the outer-most ring as flattened on one side due to its colliding with the ambient interstellar medium.

If one were to step on an empty egg shell, its edges have to split in expansion before being flattened.

There is at least one known example of an early Model M reproducer also fitted with a flattened fishtail weight.

The pellicle of the ookinete is composed of three membranes: the plasma membrane, and the two linked intermediate and inner membranes which form one flattened vacuole located beneath the plasma membrane.

The fruit is bilobed, flattened, 40 to 50 cm long ovoid and pointed, and contains usually one but occasionally two to four seeds.

Holaspis is one of the few arboreal lacertids, and its single species, Holaspis guentheri, is a glider ( although apparently a poor one ), using its broad tail and flattened body as an aerofoil.

Borges may have found a reference to it in any number of places, one of the most likely being accounts of the excavations, of the Kharijites, or of the Ibadhis – considered by Sunnis, but not by themselves, to be Kharijite – who live in what is today called the M ’ zab, in the Pentapolis ( five cities ), some of the minarets of which look somewhat like obelisks with flattened tops.

The seeds are mostly small and somewhat flattened, with two narrow wings, one down each side of the seed ; rarely ( e. g. Actinostrobus ) triangular in section with three wings ; in some genera ( e. g. Glyptostrobus, Libocedrus ) one of the wings is significantly larger than the other, and in some others ( e. g. Juniperus, Microbiota, Platycladus, Taxodium ) the seed is larger and wingless.

The World of Tiers consists of a series of flattened cylindrical layers, or monoliths, stacked one on top of the next, with

A switch is a flexible rod, typically used for corporal punishment of the birching type, called switching after it, especially when using a single branch: multiple branches are rather called a rod, a less flexible single rod is rather called a cane, an inflexible one a stick ; a paddle is broader but hard and flattened.