Mr. Ashcroft, who looked terribly weak and tired, "lifted himself off the bed," Professor Goldsmith recounted.
When she saw there was no one to defend her, preserve her from the Sheikh, when the Sheikh began to tire, she lifted a cup, prepared with poison, and, provoked, gulped it down".
The robotic parking attendant, called Ray, uses long arms like a forklift that slide around the tires and lift the vehicle off the ground.
Although I am somewhat of a "veteran racer" and have participated and won numerous obstacle races, including Rugged Maniac, RAID New York, and City Challenge, the idea of running without any hurdles to jump over, nets to crawl under, or tires to lift absolutely bored me.
At the musical's finale, a giant hydraulically powered tire lifts Grizabella into the sky.
On his most recent crash, last week, Mr. Bush executed what is known as an "endo" in mountain bike parlance -- a sort of reverse wheelie, in which the rear tire lifts in the air and the rider sails over the front.
However if the car's suspension is loose it keeps its tires on the ground better (watch a video of racing, and during sharp corners you can actually see the inside front tire lift off the ground) and having a tire lift off the road surface will decrease grip.
"I never thought I'd get tired of lifting feathers," sighs Michael Goldwasser, whose fiancée, Kim Koenig, owns the store, describing the labor-intensive process by which more than a thousand peacock plumes were affixed to the overhead pipes.
He was endless fun in the garden, constantly inventing games, never tiring of lifting us and throwing us from bike to swing and back again as we shrieked and gallivanted.
Some horses, having collapsed from exhaustion, drowned in ankle-deep mud, too tired to lift their heads high enough to breathe.
