O'Neill nodded, pointed to the thick, stained barrel and told Canseco, "When you hit one just right, it sounds different".
Over the years — I'm 39 — my arms have grown too long, my thighs too thick, my barrel chest too beasty.
IT is easy to mistake Alex Reznik for one of the thick-necked barrel-chested bodyguards who stalk the corridors of the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow, Russia's most glamorous hotel.
Coarse, septate, branched hyphae, which had thick-walled, barrel-shaped arthroconia along with empty-appearing cells, were seen, consistent with the hyphae of C. immitis (6 ).
It has an adjustable Kevlar stock, a thick stainless steel barrel, a mounted telescopic, day/night scope and is bolt action, rather than semiautomatic, like other sniper rifles.
That was where he learned how to fight, how to hot-wire a car with a piece of foil, how to pick locks, and how to make a zip gun using a snapped-off automobile radio antenna, which, in those days, was just thick enough to barrel a.22-calibre bullet.
Or when he praises "thick crackers in barrels and crates.... Italian marble soda fountain counters, oak telephone booths...
The bat is a smooth rounded stick of solid or laminated wood, not longer than 42 inches (107 cm) or thicker at the barrel end than 2.75 inches (7 cm), tapering to the handle end.
Alomar picked up one of Piazza's bats in spring training and liked the feel of it, because it was an ounce or two heavier, its barrel thicker, and it forced him to keep his weight back.
The walls were 1.2 m thick and the barrel-vaulted buildings rose as high as 16.1 m.
