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"Flex" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a German, among other sensational feats, such as breaking coins with his fingers, used to flex his muscles and break a dog-chain that had been fastened round the biceps of his right arm. While he was performing at the Aquarium, in London, he issued a challenge. Sandow, then a youth without reputation, accepted the challenge, went upon ...
— The Miracle Mongers, an Expos • Harry Houdini
... side. The arms being longer than the Chimpanzee, it does not stoop as much in walking; like that animal, it makes progression by thrusting its arms forward, resting the hands on the ground, and then giving the body a half-jumping, half-swinging motion between them. In this act it is said not to flex the fingers, as does the Chimpanzee, resting on its knuckles, but to extend them, making a fulcrum of the hand. When it assumes the walking posture, to which it is said to be much inclined, it balances its huge body by ...
— A Book of Natural History - Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. • Various
... unconscious? It could not have been very long, Ross decided, as he opened his eyes on dark, heard the small sounds of the ship. He lay very still, trying to remember, to gather his wits before he tried to flex his arms. They were held tight to his sides by strands which no longer seemed slimy, but were wrinkling as they dried. There was an odor from them which gagged him. But there was no loosening of those loops in ...
— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton
... of the finger cots should be sewed closed, protecting the fingers from injury and keeping out dirt. While the leather is still soft and damp, place the tips on the fingers and press them home. At the same time flex them strongly at the joints and try to keep them bent there. Such angulation helps not only in holding the bowstring, but keeps the tip from coming off under pressure. When dry, these leather stalls should be numbered according to the finger to which they belong, coated lightly ...
— Hunting with the Bow and Arrow • Saxton Pope |
Words linked to "Flex" : curl, gnarl, incurvate, crook, flash, crank, turn, move, tip, arc, arch, bend, unbend, change shape, twist, show off, stoop, angle, cower, fawn, cringe, flexure, bow, tilt, indent, draw in, crouch, swank, slant, dent, double, shrink, double over, crawl, lean, replicate, deform, flexion, grovel, convolute, double up |
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