Sentence examples for erect head from inspiring English sources
The author of Wild Asparagus and Five Black Guitars had eyes the color of Anatolian waters, and her hair, a sleek silvery blue, was brushed straight back, fitting her erect head like an airy cap..
The author of Wild Asparagus and Five Black Guitars had eyes the color of Anatolian waters, and her hair, a sleek silvery blue, was brushed straight back, fitting her erect head like an airy cap...
Rockatoos: A male palm cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus (right), woos a female with loud whistles, blushing red cheek patches, erect head crest feathers -- and with his unique rhythmic drum performances in trees, using a drumstick that he made himself.
Her shoulders moved as sensuously, her arms held up slightly, but sinuously, so that her erect head, that looked aside just now with a smile on the lips... so that she appeared to be heading for an unusually pleasureful union of some kind -- just where, no one knew - some sensual bower, some assignation.
Courting male European Gray Herons perform ritualized hunting movements, erecting head feathers, pointing their bills downward and clashing their mandibles together.
Hawthorne's wife, Sophia, had described the scene, with Thoreau executing "dithyrambic dances and Bacchic leaps on the ice," while Hawthorne "moved like a self-impelled Greek statue, stately and grave," and Emerson "closed the line evidently too weary to hold himself erect, pitching head foremost, half lying on the air".
We measured height in bare feet to the nearest 1 mm by using a stadiometer with the participant standing erect with head in the Frankfort plane.
The Haywain, which has left Spain for the first time in 450 years, seems to erect its head-spinning carnival of pride, greed and lust on top of a trite maxim: "The world is a hay-cart and everyone takes what they want from it".
Keep your back upright and your head erect.
Skull parts found near the cave's entrance suggest they erected their heads on poles as a rather gruesome memorial.
The army has split Nablus in half, erecting a head-high dirt barrier on one east-west main road and partially blocking the other road.
