At first they were only feathers and dark indistinguishable faces and bodies, hunched over their horses' heads.

Their heads were in the air sniffing.

But all the reports of this first embassy show that the two Savoyards were the heads of it, for they were the only ones who were empowered to swear for the king that he would abide by the pope's decision and who were allowed to appoint deputies in the event that one was unavoidably absent.

Weeks ago he saw a business upturn in the second quarter of this year while his colleagues in the Cabinet were shaking their heads in disagreement.

Even at this short distance they were only vague shapes, setting up the machine gun on a small knoll so that it could fire above the heads of the rest of the patrol.

If it could be shown that judgments of good and bad were not judgments at all, that they asserted nothing true or false, but merely expressed emotions like `` Hurrah '' or `` Fiddlesticks '', then these wayward judgments would cease from troubling and weary heads could be at rest.

Most of the letters were written in the hubbub of camp, on stumps, pieces of bark, drum heads, or the knee.

Sometimes soldiers wrote letters while bullets were whizzing about their heads.

They were said to be `` on their heads '' when grazin'.

Ulyate made no comment but his face showed what he thought of poking ropes over lions' heads with poles, and of course these were the lions of fifty years ago, not the gentler ones of today, and this one was angry, with good reason.

But he was convinced that the realities of power -- military, economic and ideological -- were the decisive factors in the struggle with the Communists and that these could not be talked away at a heads of government meeting.

There were several missions which demanded instant attention but Helva had been of interest to several department heads in Central for some time and each man was determined to have her assigned to his section.

The heads of the main Abbasid leaders were cut off.

Their heads were preserved in salt, and identifying tags pinned to their ears.

In the 2010 comedy Marmaduke two Afghan hounds appear in the dog park and are shown to resemble high school girls watching the more athletic dogs as if they were " jocks " and are also shown to be " air heads ".

Sewing needles were special to the sewer and were custom made, often with a detailed end that had animal heads.

Japanese mercenaries were hired to deal with the orang kaya, forty of whom were beheaded with their heads impaled and displayed on bamboo spears.

24-pin print heads were able to print at a higher quality.

Under the duke were three aristocratic families, whose heads bore the title of viscount and held hereditary positions in the Lu bureacracy.

Two men murmured with their heads together at the end of the bar, while the sleek-headed bartender absently polished a glass.

As the convocation of heads of governments and permanent Commonwealth staff and experts, CHOGMs are the highest institution of action in the Commonwealth, and rare occasions on which Commonwealth leaders all come together.

For Rush's 2010 tour, Lee is using 2 × Orange AD200 bass heads together with 2 × OBC410 4x10 Bass Cabinets.

When he refused, the Sultan instantly ordered the decapitation of Notaras, together with that of his son and his son-in-law ; and their three heads … were placed on the banqueting table before him ”.

In an aqueous system, the polar heads of lipids align towards the polar, aqueous environment, while the hydrophobic tails minimize their contact with water and tend to cluster together, forming a vesicle ; depending on the concentration of the lipid, this biophysical interaction may result in the formation of micelles, liposomes, or lipid bilayers.

There Connery launched an attack single-handedly against the gang members, grabbing one by the throat and another by a bicep and cracked their heads together.

Oswald's head was interred in Durham Cathedral together with the remains of Cuthbert of Lindisfarne ( a saint with whom Oswald became posthumously associated, although the two were not associated in life ; Cuthbert became bishop of Lindisfarne more than forty years after Oswald's death ) and other valuables in a quickly made coffin, where it is generally believed to remain, although there are at least four other claimed heads of Oswald in continental Europe.

The " absence of any unifying principle drawing together the different heads of economic tort liability has often been remarked upon.

It is safer to only clip the joints that need holding together to stop them falling apart and to purposefully leave one or more unclipped ; preferably those that are connected to lightweight, small objects like stoppers, thermometers or wash heads, that are pointing vertically upwards and not connected to other items of glassware.

; Czech Republic: In Czech Republic, the huspenina or sulc ( from German Sülze ) is made from pig's heads and / or legs boiled together, chopped, mixed into their own broth, poured into a rararara and left in the cold to solidify.

If individuals touch their heads together before falling asleep they can “ share dreams .”

They are placed on the heads of the newlyweds and are held together by a ribbon of white silk.

The ships ride here so close, and as it were, keeping up one another, with their head-fasts on shore, that for half a mile together, they go cross the stream with their bolsprits over the land, their bowes, or heads, touching the very wharf ; so that one may walk from ship to ship as on a floating bridge, all along by the shore-side: The key reaching from the drawbridge almost to the south-gate, is so spacious and wide, that in some places ' tis near one hundred yards from the houses to the wharf.

In the meantime, a bloody brawl between Murray and Sammy Capulet catches the attention of Detective Ernie Scalus, who gathers the heads of the two families together and declares that they will be held personally accountable for any further breaches of peace.

As their disembodied heads roll and totter together, Helen sardonically asks Madeline, " Do you remember where you parked the car?

He heads and prepares the sessions and, together with the Lord Mayor, represents the city.

" So the real thing is, let's get some really wise heads together and figure out how you want to deal with the interim and long-term storage.

On 17 August Bragadin was flayed alive and his corpse hung on Mustafa's galley together with the heads of the Venetian commanders, Astorre Baglioni, Alvise Martinengo and Gianantonio Querini.

To protect the structure from ice floes an ice-breaker consisting of a pier of 30 iron screwpiles 23 feet long and five inches in diameter were screwed down into the bottom and interconnected at their heads above the water reinforcing them together.

Although often confused to be the same river in the city centre, they are quite separate until they join together towards the east of the city to form the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation which heads out towards Maldon before flowing into tidal waters at the Blackwater Estuary.

The flowers are collected together into single rounded heads that terminate long peduncles.

In this meeting, they stayed together for a while, with lowered heads and departed without exchanging a single word.

However, Quiquern is really just two sleigh dogs that ran away from the village and accidentally tied each other together, making them appear to be Quiquern with 8 legs and 2 heads.

Let us, the inhabitants of the Cape Colony, be swift to recognize that we are one people, cast together under a glorious flag of liberty, with heads clear enough to appreciate the freedom we enjoy, and hearts resolute to maintain our true privileges ; let us desist from reproaching and insulting one another, and, rejoicing that we have this goodly land as a common heritage, remember that by united action only can we realize its grand possibilities.