Causing the blood to rush to the bird's head is supposed to calm its terror.
It was at times like this, full of calm and terror, Potter said, that he felt most connected to himself and his surroundings.
A Palestinian suicide bomber struck Thursday at a bus stop in this suburb of Tel Aviv, killing four people and breaking a relative calm in terror attacks against Israel that had lasted for more than two months.
"If this heinous crime can be done in a democratic system, what is the meaning of democracy?," asked Hilal Madni, a 39-year-old auditor who had travelled with 60 others from Delhi to "calm the terror in the minds" of the 27 Muslim families in Bishara.
The atrocity surprises the professor and shocks the reader: "The word 'operation' kept going through his mind; it calmed his terror somewhat as he sank back into darkness".
Your pony's worth his weight in gold: Then calm your terrors, Betty Foy! She's coming from among the trees, And now, all full in view she sees Him whom she loves, her idiot boy.
The language expert is beaten, knocked out and when he next wakes (crueller still!) his tongue is removed, accompanied by another mocking glimpse into his mind: "The word 'operation' kept going though his mind; it calmed his terror somewhat as he sank back into darkness".
Obama seeks to calm Americans on terror threat, but speech underscores challenges.
If nothing else, in that way that most days time passes by in bloated calm, or mortal terror, most of us can identify more with the person who died in pursuit of becoming the titleholder than any titleholder at the top.
And so, when it finally happened, because it was bound to happen, we all knew it was only a matter of time, we felt, in the midst of our curiosity and terror, a certain calm, the calm of familiarity, we knew what was expected of us, at such a moment.
"The Petit family," he wrote, "passed through their fear into the calm waters of abject terror".
