She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her
uplifted arm.
At the moment I was as
uplifted as the others, for the chance had come at last, with what we all regarded as a prodigious salary, but I was wanted in the beginning of the week, and it suddenly struck me that the leaders were the one thing I had always skipped.
Shaking this off with a gasp and a struggle, I uplifted myself upon the pillows, and, peering earnestly within the intense darkness of the chamber, hearkened-- I know not why, except that an instinctive spirit prompted me--to certain low and indefinite sounds which came, through the pauses of the storm, at long intervals, I knew not whence.
"And Ethelred, who was by nature of a doughty heart, and who was now mighty withal, on account of the powerfulness of the wine which he had drunken, waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit, who, in sooth, was of an obstinate and maliceful turn, but, feeling the rain upon his shoulders, and fearing the rising of the tempest, uplifted his mace outright, and, with blows, made quickly room in the plankings of the door for his gauntleted hand; and now pulling therewith sturdily, he so cracked, and ripped, and tore all asunder, that the noise of the dry and hollow-sounding wood alarmed and reverberated throughout the forest."
and Ethelred uplifted his mace, and struck upon the head of the dragon, which fell before him, and gave up his pesty breath, with a shriek so horrid and harsh, and withal so piercing, that Ethelred had fain to close his ears with his hands against the dreadful noise of it, the like whereof was never before heard."
"I've always thought I should love to go to Seville," he said casually, when Athelny, with one hand dramatically uplifted, paused for a moment.
There were portraits of men with large, melancholy eyes which seemed to say you knew not what; there were long monks in the Franciscan habit or in the Dominican, with distraught faces, making gestures whose sense escaped you; there was an Assumption of the Virgin; there was a Crucifixion in which the painter by some magic of feeling had been able to suggest that the flesh of Christ's dead body was not human flesh only but divine; and there was an Ascension in which the Saviour seemed to surge up towards the empyrean and yet to stand upon the air as steadily as though it were solid ground: the uplifted arms of the Apostles, the sweep of their draperies, their ecstatic gestures, gave an impression of exultation and of holy joy.
Straight through the throat and chest under the
uplifted jaw of the jaguar it went--through heart and lungs.
The PS25 charge will allow residents to "arrange for up to 10 household items or 20 bags of rubbish to be
uplifted" - including furniture, carpets and electrical items - while North Lanarkshire's website notes: "If you have a large volume of materials to be
uplifted, a council officer will carry out a home visit to decide if it is possible for our crews to uplift and assess the time required."
A Stirling man suffering from a debilitating lung condition expressed frustration this week at the delay in having his bins
uplifted.
The project is being executed phases wise and in the initial phase a portion of Saddar Road and RA Bazaar has been
uplifted beautifying and developing the old esthetic look of bazaar areas of Peshawar Cantonment.On Saddar Road the existing footpath has been widened, area extended and renovated with beautiful design of coble tiles.
The
uplifted time and its related
uplifted amount can be seen in
Lloyd Peter Lopez vows to stop the region's Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-7) should the agency push through with its planned mojon placement at the disputed
uplifted coastal area in this town.
No longer simply places for urban residents to be
uplifted by the harmony and beauty of nature, during the Progressive era parks became sites for structured play and the promotion of ethnic and civic identity.
