Sentences with phrase «walking stick on»

Pleasant in person, he often banged his walking stick on the ceiling if we boys made too much noise.

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When I walked into Hallmark and saw «Sweet Darts,» darts inscribed with the words «I'm Stuck On You,» I smiled.

Either he doubles down, sticks to the low - production model and hopes the unpredictable Eurasians kiss and make up, or he scales up production and competes on price, walking away from a marketing strategy that made Potash Corp. one of Canada's most successful, and profitable, companies.

Multiple Quora users suggest walking to work if you can, taking the stairs, walking around the office when you're stuck on a problem, getting outside and walking during lunch, and walking home again.

If you're gearing up for a major recruitment effort or simply want to entice your current employees to stick around, it's worth taking a walk on the benefit wild side.

Ridiculing Obama's efforts to engage the international community, Huckabee said, «There was once a time when our foreign policy was, «Walk softly and carry a big stick»... Our new policy is, walk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how well we're getting on.&raWalk softly and carry a big stick»... Our new policy is, walk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how well we're getting on.&rawalk softly and carry a great big olive branch, or maybe even a bag of Stay Puft marshmallows so that when we build around the campfire we can sing «Kumbaya» and have a lovely time holding arms and talking about how well we're getting on.»

A California walking stick insect that has evolved to produce individuals with two distinct appearances — an all - green form that camouflages well with broader leaves and a form with a white stripe running down its back that blends better with needle - like leaves — can markedly affect its broader ecological community when the appearance of the bug is mismatched with the plant it's living on.

It shows Washington clasping a walking stick in one hand, with the other reposing on a bundle of fasces (the Roman symbol of republican liberty).

The very next day I got my husband to drive me back to the parish, and I hobbled around on walking sticks because I remember saying to myself, «I am not going to let anyone say, «See, it's a woman, she can't hack it» or «She's black, she can't hack it».»

He answered: «Man, who in infancy crawls on all fours, who walks upright on two feet in maturity, and in his old age supports himself with a stick.»

«As I was walking verrry slooowly to the cafe this morning, sticking to the shadiest side of the street, I focused on all those toxins and impurities exiting my body.

Nothing new under the sun You insist on your lies having wings to fly You are still a pigeon The entire MO behind the atheist is to throw out as many lies and see what sticks Debating is the atheists game Satan impregnated Eve with Cain I know you atheists to be fools Christians are on these articles to ensure Jesus Christ's truth is posted Start your walk with Jesus Blinded by satan's lies Test from God.

It is not a law of nature that young doctors who give up practice in the city for a quiet life in the country are unambitious or that everyone who leaves a walking stick in the room of someone on whom he has called is absent - minded.

She, beside me walking with her secret joys, motioned her two gloved hands airborne toward a stick out on the lake beyond the boys, a dark branch balanced at the dam's ledge, in the roar and plunging of that river on whose cascade into noise it seemed to hesitate, poised there at the edge of more.

I can totally see how walking into gyms can turn someone into a calorie counting maniac stuck on a hamster wheel of beauty perfection.

I was stuck at home today, and just before leaving to walk out in the rain for a long, cold, wet trek to get some lunch, I decided to poke around and see what we had on hand.

Stuck in traffic, doing dishes, the morning walk, or spending too much time on Netflix.

we've been stuck on doing those stairway walks lately, which are amazing!

Ok times were different then, but I now have to wear splints on my feet every night, just so that I am able to get around using 2 walking sticks.

If you wana stick around till the summer you might just walk away with the prem medal, this is on condition you don't become a bad apple in the dressing room.

For his part, Slade is walking into a difficult job after resigning at Brisbane Road on account of Orient's poor start to the League One season and speculation over his future, with Cardiff stuck in lower mid-table following defeat to previously winless Blackpool on Friday night.

With the Cherries 5 - 0 to the good, an elderly gentleman left his position on the terraces behind the goal, entered the field of play and proceeded to whack Allen across the backside with his walking stick, leaving the keeper with a bruised bottom.

Its hard to believe that manu lost 6 - 1 to man city, take nothing away from man city but every club uses manu as a measuring stick to compare themselves too, I really wish it was arsenal that gave that drubbing, I remember not long ago I was watching arsenal lose to manu by that you know what scoreline and my father (a manu fan) walk away, when it was 3 something becoz he couldn't watch a far one sided match, so I guess he is feeling what we are feeling that day, manu is always a side that neva lose by a huge margin no matter what, but tell you da truth I don't like man city becoz I do nt like a side that will spend and replace every single player and still have classy players on the bench, they can say that we won that and this but that becoz of the huge wages that we are paid, I just don't like football to be won by having money to spend there should be a mixture of everything good, middle and work in progress players.

All along the roadside, people walked with bales of sticks on their heads and jugs of water on their backs.

The sand isn't white (but who cares really) and in many spots contains a lot of tiny sticks / brush (not the kind that would hurt anyone, but somewhat uncomfortable for toddlers to walk on).

She scoured the ground for an appropriately sized stick to «stuff» in the hole and walked on, bag «fixed».

I can not stand being stuck inside all day so one of our Christmas traditions is to go out for a long walk in the forest on Christmas Eve, this year we're going to try the Stick Man trail at Alice Holt, which I'm very excited about.

Go on walks and look at bugs, sticks, and rocks.

Putting your little ones in a safety harness may not be ideal but it may be the safest way to make sure you all stick together, especially if they are at the age where they insist on walking on their own.

Some «belly crawlers» don't progress to being «four on the floor» crawlers and stick with the method of getting around until they learn to walk.

Has a National Park's passport, collects walking stick pins, watches parks documentaries on repeat, the whole 9.

Toddlers who hit upon this style early on often stick with it for months or years, even after they learn to walk.

The Cyclone at Coney Island got stuck at the top of its track today, marring its season debut and forcing passengers to walk down the tracks to safety, according to images and accounts posted on social media.

«I think the governor's approach can be fairly summarized as: Walk softly, carry a big stick,» de Blasio said, addressing a group of community and business leaders in lower Manhattan on Wednesday.

The work went relatively smoothly, and on 8 October 2007 his adviser, Michael Ortiz, walked out of the room in which he just completed his defense, stuck out his hand, and said: «Congratulations, Dr. Elsayed.»

Everybody waited while Katlyn, still stuck inside the bubble, learned to walk on the floor of her sterile isolation room and to play through the protective window with a visiting dog named Toffee.

If walking sticks lived on sandy surfaces, would they be as hidden from their predators?

A FEW months ago, Evelyn Hilton was able to ditch the walking stick she had relied on since 2014 and stand on her own two feet again.

At the Africa Centre for Holistic Management in Zimbabwe, about 12 miles south of Victoria Falls, Savory takes his wooden walking stick and traces marks on the ground.

The few apes left hang on in increasingly restricted habitats (orang - utans in Asia, gorillas in Africa) and are stuck with odd specialisations (knuckle walking, large brains).

It was a plant eater that walked on two legs and was about four feet long with a curved beak and odd horns sticking out from the middle of its cheeks.

Back on campus at McGill University in Montreal, I became a part - time curatorial assistant at McGill's entomological museum, which had me delivering educational talks to school kids, cataloging specimens, and taking care of live cultures of such creepy - crawlies as giant walking sticks from Papua New Guinea and Madagascar's hissing cockroaches.

They watched birds from the beginning of the nest - building process, and discovered that the parakeets carry sticks to the nest site by landing on the lines, and then walking to the spot where the line meets the pole, instead of flying there directly.

But turn the laser on, and the mice take on qualities of «walkers» from The Walking Dead, pursuing and biting almost anything in their path, including bottle caps and wood sticks.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have discovered that cells can «walk» on liquids a bit like the way geckos stick to other surfaces.

With it came a temple (the small mountain she climbed each day), a set of rites (a song she sung combining positive affirmations from her favorite authors, followed by meditation and reading at the summit), and a hallowed set of clothes and talismen that accompanied her on the journey (a walking stick, a leather belt for strapping things to, a headscarf or large brim hat, a white blouse and flowing skirt to protect her sensitive skin from the sun but also conjure up her days as a farm girl, and a spiritual text to extract a message from).

Instead, stick to some basic rules, like eating an array of fruits and vegetables; finding well - sourced foods, like organic dairy and produce, and grass - fed meats; and aiming for 30 minutes of brisk walking on most days.

So imagine that you're walking through the forest, and you're feeling calm, and you're feeling at peace, and then you look down at what you think is a stick on the ground that starts to move, your autonomic nervous system is going to kick you into the sympathetic, fight or flight, response.

I highly recommend you stick to walking, hiking or the elliptical trainer for weight vest cardio workouts to avoid the extreme impact of running with a weight vest on.

«I walked and went to a gym off and on, but never stuck to a consistent routine,» says the 64 - year - old.