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Your eye is constantly in motion, moving around, looking at eyes, noses, elbows, looking at interesting things in the world.
They mix dye in these big barrels, and they submerge the silk into the liquid up to their elbows, but the dye is toxic.
The rest of it's taken up with "take your elbows off the table" and "pass the ketchup."
You know, if I want to tell the story of modern-day struggle, I would start with the armrest between two airplane seats and two sets of elbows fighting.
I think of heaven as a really comfortable cloud where I can just lie down with my belly down, like I was watching TV when I was a child, and my elbows up.
So of course I had to be interested in human rights, and equality and justice, and using my elbows!
Make sure all parts of your body, like your elbows and wrists, are supported, using ergonomic aids if you need to.
And the funny thing is, they met with girls and asked them what they wanted to see in dolls, and you can see, they have calves and elbows that bend so they can do superhero stuff.
Our backs are arched, our knees are bent, our toes are curled, our elbows are hyperflexed and our fingers are curved backwards.
A surgeon's elbows should be down at their sides resting comfortably.
When I was 19, I contracted a disease that resulted in the loss of both my arms at the elbows, both my legs below the knee, and left enough scars on my face to elicit jealousy in Freddy Krueger.
The first was Chaffed Elbows (1966).
She would clobber Jack with her elbows during the dance.
The movie's a broad spoof that winks at itself, actually it pretty much elbows itself in the ribs and guffaws, unlike the audience, which is likely sitting there furtively checking its collective watch every few minutes.
I'm a HUGE fan of the APHC radio show, but this is a poorly-written, meandering, boring movie that seems to be created solely so that GK can rub elbows with Hollywood royalty.
They will careen off into the darkest side of the political night, and end up in the dustbin of history, where they can rub elbows with those other yellows, the early-twentieth-century “Yellow Socialists” of the proto-fascist syndicalist Pierre Biétry.
In the years after 1945, Wiesel rubbed elbows with the greatest of the great.
Just as a weak China was not able to count on Wilson’s protection, a strong China will not be able to count on Trump to get out of its way – at least not without throwing a few elbows.
The fact that he distances himself so emphatically from the same Islamist movement with which he has on occasion rubbed elbows, is, at worst, vice’s tribute to virtue.
The US Is Exporting ObesityCAMBRIDGE – As US President Donald Trump’s administration throws sharp elbows in trade negotiations and systematically rescinds regulations introduced by President Barack Obama, one casualty is likely to be efforts to fight the global obesity epidemic.
And he owned up to his own crimes, declaring that his arms were “covered with blood up to the elbows.”
But failing that, Russia’s preference is to be pragmatic and cynical: a great power that elbows its way through the international system and carves out a sphere of influence in its neighborhood.
The elder had just thrown the line and, quite absorbed in his occupation, was carefully drawing the float from behind a bush; the younger one lay in the grass, leaning on his elbows with his fair tousled head in his hands, and with dreamy blue eyes gazing at the water.
He was sitting up with his long back bent, leaning his elbows on the bed and hanging his head.
And Serezha, leaning his elbows on the table, began to reflect.
She took her in her arms, dandled her, and kissed her fresh cheek and bare elbows; but at the sight of this child, she realized still more clearly that what she felt for her could not even be called love in comparison with her feeling for Serezha.
He turned over, and leaning on his elbows began looking at a herd of cattle in the distance approaching the river on the other side.
Separated by planks, hooked on to retain the fallen coal, they each occupied about four metres of the seam, and this seam was so thin, scarcely more than fifty centimetres thick at this spot, that they seemed to be flattened between the roof and the wall, dragging themselves along by their knees and elbows, and unable to turn without crushing their shoulders.
Then, descending from the cutting they squatted down, their elbows to their sides, their buttocks on their heels, in that posture so habitual with miners that they keep it even when out of the mine, without feeling the need of a stone or a beam to sit on.
With head protected by a fragment of blue wool, and hands and arms black to the elbows, she was screening beneath an old witch, the mother of Pierronne, the Brulé, as she was called, with terrible owl's eyes, and a mouth drawn in like a miser's purse.
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