However, when the arms-crossed position is accompanied by a slight tilt or twist of the body such that the right side of the body is not a mirror image of the left side, it shows that the person is feeling dominant. They may also lean slightly backward as they take this position. When...
Crossing over to where she sat, he stood with folded arms, looking her squarely in the face. There was a hard look in his eyes, a determined expression around his mouth. He was in one of his obstinate, ungovernable tempers, and Laura knew at once by his manner that a critical moment ...
McCarthy uses “cradled” to show us how much Billy is affected by the death of this magnificent creature in his arms and how he is in awe of it. McCarthy also uses the phrases “what already ran among the mountains at once terrible and of a great beauty” and “the wind itself is...
Then he lifted me in his strong arms and kissed me, and strode out of the house. We listened in silence as he went down the steps, and until his footsteps died away on the path. Then the gentleman rose and pulled a cord hastily. The negro came in. “Put the lad to bed, Breed,...
According to Michinaga Ōnishi, the executive officer of MS14 that struck a mine, the US Navy auxiliary tugboat's crewmembers, whose strong arms rescued the Japanese sailors who had spent half an hour in the water, were very kind. They gave up their beds so the rescued Japanese sailors ...
Clyde said, "You want to hit me, huh? I kind of like you when you're sore: that's the kind of girl you are," which made Grady light in his arms when he lifted and kissed her. "You still want me to say it?" Her head slumped on his shoulder. "Because I will," he said, ...
He watches me sleep and picks me up in his arms like I was a tiny boy and carries me out to the end of the dock. (p.404–405) In this respect, water, to Martin, is a paradoxical symbol of the past and present, life and death, sadness and happiness. Eden, the lonely and ...
cavalry crossing a ford1 in “drum-taps” (1865, lg 1871) 5 a line in long array, where they wind betwixt green islands, they take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sunhark to the musical clank, behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,...