In the beginning, there is battle between fire and water--the world revolving headlong in the hooked claws of its flames, and the expanses of water which it drives back in clouds.
My forehead strikes the lamp, which is hooked on the wall; it is out, oozing oil, and it stinks.
With their dislocated gestures and point-like heads they were but lightly hooked to the wire.
This one, whom we had not seen at first, hung in the air with dangling arms against the sheer wall, hooked on to a beam by the bottom of his trousers.
He had only just time to belay it round the cleat to avoid its being jerked out of his hand, so fast was the creature they had hooked now traveling.
From this limb hung "cooking hooks," consisting of green branches with hooked ends at one extremity to hang over the long timber, and a nail driven in the other from which to hang the pots.
A pleased smile lifted the corners of his mouth toward the great, hooked nose.
He had run down the guilty man, had discovered and hooked together the facts that made retribution almost an accomplished thing.
How was Morley hookedup with the hidden phase of the affair?
Once I hooked a bunch of those old dry cells to an auto horn and it really sounded loud in the house.
When the binder needed a repair job underneath, we threw a chain over the top of the binder and hooked one end to the frame and the other end to the tractor.
He cut the tongue off short, hooked it behind his truck and hauled cottonseed to the oil mill at Hamlin from gins in Hamlin and from gins in small towns near Hamlin.
So I hooked Old Nig to a large log and told him I'd have to find out where to put it.
It was almost dinner time when Mama and I hooked her to the old buggy to take Papa his dinner.
The use of hookedweapons to pull down the foes' shields and helmets was also taught to Hother by Gewar.
By night the foot of the bed rested on two heavy legs; by day the frame with its bed furnishings was hooked up to the wall, and covered with homespun curtains or doors.
A pair of double hooked and pegged mittens would last for years.
Setting this crazy bark afloat, I seated myself in the stern with the paddle, while Hollingsworth sat in the bows with the hooked pole, and Silas Foster amidships with a hay-rake.
Hollingsworth at first sat motionless, with thehooked pole elevated in the air.
There are two usual forms of the t, the hooked and crossed, and the barred, and they are equally valuable and characteristic.
The hooked r is equally rich in varying forms, and the letter forms an interesting study.
Its formation must be carefully noted as in f, o, hooked r and w.
The crossing of a hooked t, like the dotting of an i, is so mechanical an act that it often reveals important evidence.
Officers and noncommissioned officers armed with the saber, when mounted, return saber without using the left hand; the scabbard is hooked up on dismounting.
The clasp consists of two parts, generally symmetrical, one of which can be hooked into the other.
Conan stood looking down at her, his thumbs hooked in his girdle.
Conan stood near him, legs braced apart, thumbs hooked in his girdle, narrowly watching the assembled warriors.
Should one be hooked too large for the fisherman to manage, the man in the next boat comes to his assistance, and receives a quarter of the fish for his trouble.
The women of this section wear this ornament, which is called kodachimani (hooked jewel), even after marriage.
The fish was hookedbut not landed, and this insufferable argument-monger was the cause of it.
The iron bed is hooked to the wall and folds up against it; the mattress and blankets hang over it.
When my shelf table is hooked up there is not room enough for the chair to be placed anywhere conveniently.
Thereupon the legserpent gave his hooked nose such a bite, that his teeth met through it--but it was hardly thicker than the bowl of a spoon; and then the vulture knew that he was in the grasp of his enemy the snake, and yielded.
He had a very thin, prominent, hooked nose, and a quantity of loose skin under his chin and about the throat, which came craning up out of his neckcloth.
Weston felt for the lamp, and contrived to light it, though he wasted several matches in the attempt; but he felt greatly tempted to disregard the dictates of humanity when he hooked it in his hat.
It was here she had hooked a big trout, and there she had, under his directions, run a canoe down an easy rapid.
He said they hooked onto his shoulders an' he just wanted a chance to tell her how comfortable they was.
Gripping her fish tightly, she bends in her slow flight and paralyzes it by a single blow in the spine from her hooked beak.
Then he reached out to grasp the second top with his fore paws, hooked his hind claws firmly into the first, and lay there binding the tree-tops together, while the wind rose and began to rock him in his strange cradle.
He may be hungry, but he will not set his huge hooked talons on the earth.
As the wind shook the shutter, the rod scraped against the socket that held its hooked end.
His especial aversion was a gaunt old woman with a bighooked nose and a pair of startlingly large, sad-looking eyes.
He slung the air tanks over his shoulder and hooked them to the suit.
Those ships have been put out in orbit, where we're hooked on to one of them.
Banjo twanged the instrument into tune, hooked the toe of his left foot behind the forward leg of his chair, and struck up a song which he judged would please the young ladies.
Banjo hitched the shoulder strap of the instrument from which he took his name with a jerking of the shoulder, and settled it in place; he took up his fiddle box and hooked it under his arm, and offered Mrs. Chadron his hand.
Skull with a very large and deeply hooked rostrum, and the nasal and maxillary processes of the praemaxilla converging anteriorly; the front region inflated into a sub-conical prominence of cancellous tissue.
The digits are very strong, they being armed with hooked nails.
He passed one end along to his master who hooked it to the bridle-rope at the bow before referred to.
The other end washooked to the bridle in the stern, so that the ring in the centre came close to Nigel's elbow.
The hooked steel wire plaited round the end of the whip cut out a whole patch on the skin of the savage beast, but it did not move.
The elderly gentleman smiled, hooked his arm within Master Boltay's, and, in the heartiest manner, invited him to go with him into the house as they must have a long conversation together.
Catching sight of a hooked iron contrivance protruding from the left sleeve of the man’s coat, Mrs Verloc’s mother lost suddenly the heroic courage of these days.
Mrs Verloc, having hookedher arm into his, was trying to drag him into Brett Street again.
Sir Ethelred opened a wide mouth, like a cavern, into which the hooked nose seemed anxious to peer; there came from it a subdued rolling sound, as from a distant organ with the scornful indignation stop.
From the head, set upward on a thick neck, the eyes, with puffy lower lids, stared with a haughty droop on each side of a hooked aggressive nose, nobly salient in the vast pale circumference of the face.
