At 160 pounds, Lily was no small ankle-biter of a dog.
Small, ankle-high, tip-toe-friendly streams became perilous chest-high rivers after the rains -- I waited for the water to recede.
The foot was either placed parallel to rotation axis of the platform, which during vibration caused an up and down movement of the heel and a small ankle tilt in directions of pronation and supination, or orthogonal to rotation axis to induce an up and down combine with a tilt in directions of plantar flexion and dorsi flexion.
The gait pattern in this group was characterized by the largest knee flexion at initial contact and during the loading response phase, the smallest ankle swing plantarflexion compared to the other clusters, reduced plantarflexion at initial contact and during loading response phase, reduced ankle adduction in swing phase, and reduced ankle range of motion in the transverse plane.
They may not be not connected to myths that make them sound like they are so dangerous, but phrases like, "Yappy little ankle biter," "Small dogs are always more aggressive than big dogs" or "It's always the small dogs that bite," are contributing to the misconceptions and negative assumptions about Chihuahuas.
The kicker crumpled in self-defense, his helmet colliding with Small's ankle.
Herr, whose MIT lab has built a small, motorized ankle exoskeleton that broke new ground by showing that it could actually improve walking performance, laments the military's preoccupation with big, bulky designs.
There are hints, however, of modernism creeping into women's fashions: Skirts may be full but they expose the ankles; small hats replace those turn-of-the-century extravaganzas, and women are even shown in ski clothes.
I thought for just a minute about what could be causing those itchy welts on my ankles: small black wild boar ticks, leeches, black flies, elephant ants, fire ants, poisonous butterflies, at least a zillion kinds of mosquitoes.
This spring, as China's top leaders alarmed by declining grain production -- have exhorted farmers to plant more rice, wheat and corn, Meng Qingchang has tended his small field of ankle-high wheat, knowing he cannot possibly answer the government's call.
