It is, in effect, a long tube, with an elbow joint at the top and a similar one at the bottom.
Practically every one of these wounds could have been prevented by breast and body pieces and knee and elbow caps of armor.
This cuts off a considerable segment from the winding course of the Mississippi, which makes a large elbow eastward.
P'U-CHAU FU, close to the great elbow of the Hwang Ho (Klaproth).
Martini quotes something similar from a Chinese author about tribes in Yunnan; and Garnier says such loose practices are still ascribed to the Sifan near the southern elbow of the Kin-sha Kiang.
With my elbow on the sill of the open window I watched them awhile, listening with a boy's eagerness to what they had to say of the day's doings.
But he had little time to express his joy, because of the appearance of his wife at Honora's elbow with a tall man she had summoned from a corner.
Wetherell was not aware that people were coming into the gallery behind him; he was not aware that one sat at his elbow until a familiar voice spoke, directly into his ear.
She sat down on the flagstone with her elbow on her knee and her chin in her hand, and looked at him thoughtfully.
Sometimes she would look up and surprise his eyes fixed upon her, and one day she found at her elbow a long list made out in a painstaking hand.
He spoke quietly, leaning with one elbow against the side of his reading stand.
They stopped for lunch on a warm rock beside a singing waterfall, and at last they turned an elbow in the stream and with suddenly widened vision beheld the lake's sapphire expanse and the distant circle of hills.
I put out my hand, my weight went after, and I had crashed through a coating of ice up to my elbow in a pool.
Miltoun leaned hiselbow on the mantelpiece, and shading his face with his hand, said: "You know her story.
Both the tiny arms above the elbow were circled with dark marks, as if they had been squeezed by ruthless fingers.
Ferrand leaned over in his chair, an elbow on his knee, his favourite attitude when particularly certain of his point.
An anaemic waiter in a shirt some four days old, with grease-spots on his garments and a crumpled napkin on his arm, stood leaning an elbow amongst doubtful fruits, and reading an Italian journal.
His plan had the merit of all great plans, an almost brutal simplicity he would merely keep at her elbow till she got in, and get in quickly after her.
Miltoun placed his elbow on the table, and leaning his chin on his hand, regarded the champion of lost causes without speaking.
Bianca was leaning her elbow on the mantelpiece with her face turned to the wall.
In like maner I find, that from the elbow to the top of the midle finger is the 4.
Warner drove me; he was plainly disgusted, and he steered the livery horse as he would the Dragon Fly, feeling uneasily with his left foot for the clutch, and working his right elbow at an imaginary horn every time a dog got in the way.
When he had recovered he took me by the elbow and pulled me in front of the mirror.
The devil, in the old stories of diàblerie, was always sure to start up at the elbow of any one who nursed diabolical purposes, and only wanted a little backing from the foul fiend to carry his imaginations into action.
The rap which I had over the elbow the other day, is still tingling at the end of my fingers, and you must not be critical with my manuscript.
There is hardly an arm in that sleeve; the elbow would be difficult to find, and the construction of the waist and hips is uncertain; the drawing does not speak like Mr. Sargent's.
The book rested on the wide arm of his chair, his elbow near it, the hand supporting his forehead.
He wanted to have plenty of elbow room, he said, and to see all around him for miles.
Fleurange was listening with her elbow on the table and her eyes cast down.
He was seated, his elbow upon the arm of the chair, his head resting upon his hands, thinking; and the contraction of his features indicated an extraordinary tension of mind.
She was leaning her elbowupon it, her forehead on her hand, all palpitating and excited.
He noticed one day at his elbow a rough diamond and a garnet on a board.
The oldest known standard of length, the cubit, was the distance between the point of a man’s elbow and the tip of his middle finger.
This enraged the Minion to such an extent that he raised up on hiselbow and threw stones at the Smith.
He raised up on hiselbow and discovered our boat far out at sea.
He remained near the hearth, his elbow resting on the mantel-shelf.
He placed them at my elbow and continued to wander up and down the room, stopping now and then beneath the picture.
You lose, Jim," said Monte at his elbow before the cast was made.
The men ranged along the bar, elbow to elbow; the bartenders served and, with a nod toward the man who stood treat, poured their own red wine.
Had I been at your elbow I should have suggested a touch or two about dear old George Sand, holding out through the darkness at Nohant, but even there giving out some lights that are caught up in her letters of the moment.
He sat down by the table, leaned his elbow upon it, and rested his brow on the palm of his hand, so that his face was shaded from the light.
I came upon Cornelius suddenly, as he sat in the back-parlour by the open window; his elbow on the sill, his brow resting on the palm of his hand.
A glow had sprung to his face, and as he spoke he leaned his elbow on the table, and closing his eyes inhaled the delicious aroma of his cigar.
Mr. Bleeker, with an untouched glass of sherry at his elbow and an unlighted cigar in his hand, sank back into the placid after-dinner reverie which is found in the rare cases when old age has encountered a faultless digestion.
The ranche we are going to belongs to Mr. Robinson, and used to be called the Elbow Ranche, but has lately changed its name to the Chippenham, in accordance with the idea of calling the ranches hereabouts after the great English hunts.
We are following the sweeping bends of the Elbow river, which lies below us in a cool green ravine, full of trees, in pleasant contrast to the brown hills around.
Motors were lined up four deep on all sides, and I was obliged to elbow my way through the crowds of gapers, refugees, and officers that thronged the street.
Every day in the week, and Sundays included, it is usually so crowded with buyers and sellers that one has to elbow one's way, and literally serve one's self.
Sir Humphrey leaned his elbow on the mantel-shelf, and adjusted his pince-nez with his unoccupied hand.
If it is, you may take your elbow off the shelf, and try not to look as if you were gazing at a chipmunk in a cage.
