Sentences with phrase «of a twig breaking»

Indeed, for years, scientists have sought to better understand how humans and animals bridge the gap between hearing or observing a sensory clue that signifies a coming event, like the sound of a twig breaking in the forest as a bear approaches, and taking action, such as fleeing from the bear.

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It is too long to quote in full here, but one has only to think of a few of the powerful and particular images that situate the joy of the «swinger of birches» within the real and fallen world: the ice like broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.&broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.&Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.»

One of the Great Spirit's biggest gifts was the maple tree; one only had to break off a twig and the sweet syrup would flow.

Yes, he brought innovations and lessons with him that were unknown at that time, but once everyone else twigged on to them, he was exposed as a very ordinary manager incapable of breaking through a very limited glass - ceiling.

I watch her as she tells me the details of how she got up the tree, her legs are dangling and swinging freely, she is running her hands along the tree bark and picking at the moss and lichen, she reaches out to break a small twig from its branch.

Simply put a pound of broken pieces of twigs and stems into a large pot and cover with distilled water.

There were sketches (including a Star of David), cartoons, and taped - on items — battered ribbon bows, broken toy parts, dead pine twigs.

Set in rural Georgia in the 1960s, BREAKING TWIG is a coming - of - age novel about Becky (Twig) Cooper, a young woman trying to survive the physical and emotional abuse of her mother, Helen, a beautiful, calculating woman who can, with a mere look, send the meanest cur in Sugardale, Georgia running for its life.

«They break a twig in half, splay and soften the broken end and then rub it on their teeth, in effect, wiping the surface of their teeth clean,» Goldberg adds.

Many more belong to bare branches and twigs, some breaking the rough edges of a very rough rectangle, like the aftermath of a storm.

Flowers are blown by an unseen force, as plants collide both with each other and the edges of the frame, breaking apart into seeds, twigs, leaves, and petals.

For this series, «Bearing» (all works 2014), the artist cast broken fragments of twigs in bronze, then recombined and fused them together to create longer forms.

A couple of weeks ago we had a huge wind storm that covered our yard with broken branches and twigs.