The body as well as the skull was protected, but the nature and position of the defensive parts in different forms cannot yet be determined with certainty.
But the position of the animal was interesting to me; it was standing in the earth, and not lying on its side or back as a dead animal naturally would, indicating by this the manner of its destruction.
It is, of course, impossible for any one to reconstruct an entire animal from a single bone or a few teeth, yet such fragments indicate in a general way the nature of a lost creation and its position in the animal kingdom.
From the localities in which the bones have been found in Kansas, it must have wandered far from land; and that many kinds of fishes formed its food is shown by the teeth and scales found in the position of its stomach.
These and the powerful tail show that the monster could support itself on them as on a tripod, in an upright position, and this position must have been easily assumed in consequence of the massive hind quarters.
It is argued that the upright position of most of the skeletons found in situ seems to suggest that the creatures must have been mired in adhesive mud sufficiently firm to uphold the ponderous bones after the flesh had decayed.
Woodward that the creature was unable to bend its body into such a position as is shown there.
These specimens illustrate the conclusion, previously arrived at by Professor Huxley, that Dinosaurs, as a group, occupy a position in the great chain of animal life intermediate between reptiles and birds.
One of the most curious things in her new existence was her changed position among the pupils.
Mr. Barrow evidently did not intend to remain to listen to the story of Miss Minchin's grievances after he had made the position of his firm clear and related the mere dry facts.
Society has placed itself in a highly inconsistent position as regards its relation to alcohol.
Tears, threats of imprisonment, and loss of position do not have upon him their normal reaction.
Patients who invariably and promptly pay their bills are sometimes in a position where they can tell a doctor what to do; whereas it should be the doctor's unalterable resolution to retain the upper hand.
An understanding of this fact has placed me in an advantageous position for giving advice about whatever remains to be done when a patient is ready to leave my hospital.
Suppose you have a soldier in some such positionas shown in Fig.
The latch is operated by a small knob, and is thrown into position by a small spring.
One of a number of schemes employed for holding the sapling inposition is here shown.
The bait-stick should now be in such a position that the log above it will fall when the bait is tackled, and strike its victim on the head or neck with sufficient force to kill it.
The moving of the laths scarcely will be noticeable from the position of your audience.
These threads should be carried through the top of the stage framework and loops made in their ends should slip over the fingers of your hands, in which position they can be operated.
E, and the guard is fastened over the latch in the positionshown in Fig.
These lamps are shown in position in the illustration of the completed automobile (Fig.
It must be pasted in place and held in position until dry, to prevent it from slipping (see Fig.
Probably the only trouble you will have with the bit and bit-stock will be in holding the brace in a perfectly vertical position so as to bore a straight hole.
Figure 34 shows the position to take in grinding =Chisels=.
Show this to your prospective advertisers and let them pick out the space they wish, charging so much per inch, the rate varying according to the position the ad.
But in this case, however disagreeable a prospect it may open to Americans, Europe has an everlasting warranty against their becoming dangerous to her in the nature of men, the nature of her governments, and their position towards one another.
Let them have it," said Johnnie Big Duncan, whose whole family ever since the revival had taken a total abstinence pledge, although this was looked upon as a very extreme position indeed, by almost all the community.
It had been a bad day for nerves, and Mr. Bushy, as the boys called him, found it impossible to keep his tail in one position for more than one second at a time.
In a few moments the teams were in position opposite each other.
The opportunities for investment in his new position were many and alluring.
He was therefore placed in the paradoxical position of conviction by his own confession, under a plea of "Not guilty.
But, the more remarkable the personal character of Nat Turner, the greater the amazement felt that he should not have appreciated the extreme felicity of his position as a slave.
Then turning to the court, he skilfully availed himself of the point which had so much impressed the community: the intrinsic improbability that a man in his position of freedom and prosperity should sacrifice every thing to free other people.
Entered Agricultural Department, and in 1893 was appointed Stock Inspector, Waikato district, which position he still holds.
Appointed Assistant Master, Scotch College, which position he held until his health broke down.
He still thought it might hit Serendib, when it once more rotated, and that brought it in such a position that the waves must take it crash against the low steep cliff of the Unknown Island.
They sat down inside the cage and imagined the position the beast would be in when it approached them.
He saw his frame arched forward, his back bent, his shoulders drawn together, the collar of his coat up to his poll behind, the entire position cramped and awkward.
They remained in this position for five minutes, hardly breathing, and afraid to move.
As the flake tumbled it presently lodged aslant the cutting, and it was in that position when Bevis fell on it.
He had gone some way when he saw a jack basking by a willow bush aslant from him, so that the markings on his back were more visible than when seen sideways, for in this position the foreshortening crowded them together.
When he had got the raft into the position he wished, Mark put the pole down and took his rod.
In a meadow or a cornfield the smooth surface lets the glance travel at once to the opposite hedge, and the shape of the enclosure or one at least of its boundaries is seen, so that the position is understood.
It took forty cherries to get it cut out properly, then they threw the other pieces aside, and placed the sails on the floor in the position they would be when fixed.
Therefore, he insisted on Bevis choosing a position in which he would habitually carry his gun when in the presence of game.
On the third, the poles were nailed across up to three feet high, and the rest prepared and left ready to be lashed in position with cords the last thing at night.
Next he had to practise the bringing of the gun to the shoulder--the act of lifting it--and to choose the position from which he would usually lift it.
There is no time to correct this in the act of shooting, so that the habit of a good position should be acquired that it may be avoided.
Knowing the position of the shoals, and where they could touch the bottom with the poles, and where not, they got along much quicker, and entered the channel in the weeds, which they had discovered beyond Pearl Island in the Pinta.
When this position is exaggerated, it looks somewhat pompous and idiotic, but it is the correct position for the trunk of the body, and when it becomes natural it looks natural.
In the other position, the correct one, the rider could at any moment take his hands from the handle-bar and not alter his position in any way.
In the most modern wheels the position of the rider is almost that of a pedestrian--that is, the pedals are almost under the saddle, so that he treads directly up and down.
It may, of course, be said that when a rider becomes tired with riding, the incorrect position is a great rest.
You can assume this position while sitting and reading this article by following this simple rule: Sit squarely on the chair.
Comfort is really the basis of all such positions, and while, to a certain extent, comfort is the result of habit, still a more upright position is more natural to one than to another rider.
The incorrect position shows a rider "leaning" on his hands and arms.
The important point to remember is, however, that you cannot assume the scorching positionand the upright road position on the same bicycle without putting on different handle-bars.
All this can be seen in the "correct position," and there can hardly be a question that this is the natural position for a man to take when he mounts his wheel for a run of a few miles.
A "scorching" position cannot be taken on a bicycle where the saddle and handle-bars have been arranged for the upright road position.
On the other hand, to start out for a pleasant afternoon run through the country for twenty-five miles in a scorching position is just as absurd as it would be if a man riding a horse in the Park for pleasure should assume the jockey seat.
The position of a man who is racing is, of course, quite different, and it has a parallel in horse-racing.
But Douglas fell back upon his old position that Congress had no right to intervene.
There were the attacks which each made upon the other's record; the efforts which each made to weaken the other's position before the people; and the contrary views which were advanced.
When he returned, he was in a position the most favorable for original and constructive statesmanship.
One of the reasons why the court was reconstructed was its opposition to the Democratic position on the franchise question.
Patiently working out the right and wrong of the fateful question Douglas dealt with so boldly, he came into the impregnable position of such as hated slavery and yet forbore to violate its sanctuary.
Friday, champing for action, left his post by the panel and dragged a long low cabinet to position under the hole.
He related the events of the last two days: Judd's attack on the Iapetus ranch, the subsequent fight and outcome, and finally his present position and intention of keeping the rendezvous.
I'll very likely be down to see you after this meeting, and perhaps with a visitor who will enable you once again to return to an honorable position on Earth.
And Cram, the master brain, of course, Physics and Electricity, although his encyclopedic knowledge encompassed every major subject, well fitting his brain for the position it holds.
Still, our lads did it, and got to the other side, only to find the position untenable.
A few miles farther north, at Graspan, another position had been taken by the Boers, and once again we drove them out of it.
Their motto is to take due care of themselves, and to attempt to creep through the enemy's strongest position would mean as much as suicide to them.
Jack was placed on a seat between his two guards, and in this position was driven through Pretoria and up to the Government Buildings, his slouch hat and general appearance attracting no attention.
But by dint of lifting a few more boulders into position Jack succeeded in constructing a few apertures through which he could see every part of the plain surrounding him.
When night fell Riley was almost able to support his weight on his legs, so rapidly were the effects of the snake-bite disappearing, and once Jack had hoisted him into the saddle he was able to retain his position there unaided.
Soon they were at the top of the heights, when they turned to the left, and after proceeding some two hundred yards came to a stop directly behind a battery of field-guns placed in a most commanding position to rake the flats below.
Without many batteries of powerful cannon the position was untenable, and after a heroic and stubborn resistance our brave soldiers withdrew slowly and in perfect order.
Francis stretched a blanket from one piece of the rock to the other, and kept it in position by means of stones.
Captain Asher was not at all satisfied with Dick's position in the college.
If you find that he had a position there, don't ask him any more questions, and drop the subject as quickly as you can.
You came in first, and I congratulate you as no living being can congratulate you who has not felt for a moment or two that it was barely possible that he might, in some period of existence, occupy the position which you now hold.
This beautiful and brilliant American girl, familiar with foreign life and foreign countries, would give him a position in diplomatic society which would be most desirable.
She was rather a slim girl, though tall enough; her hair was dark, her eyes were blue, and she sat on the back of a rustic bench with her feet resting upon the seat; this position she had taken that she might the better view the road.
After a few years he resigned his position in the company with which he had been so pleasantly associated in order to devote himself exclusively to his own work.
There were some people who said that he had taken the position of toll-gate keeper because of the house, and there were others who believed that he had bought the house on account of the toll-gate.
No matter-what Dick's position might be in the college, his salary should be as large as that of any other professor.
This proposal was considered good, and was acted upon; and, after riding about a mile, they gained the position which seemed the most desirable.
Muller began loading his gun; the lion looked over his shoulder, growled, and immediately returned to his former position within a few paces of Muller.
The change in the position of the lion occasioned our travellers and the party to walk round, so as to be able to watch the countenance of the animal, as everything depended upon the temper he might be in.
How my blood boils at the conduct of this scoundrel," said the Major; "admitting his first impulse to have been fear, yet to allow his comrade to remain in that position for so long a while covers him with infamy.
One thing I could not help remarking in your narrative, Swinton," observed the Major, "which is the position of the missionaries during this scene of terror.
By the advice of Swinton, they took up their position on a higher ground, where the horses had good footing, in case the buffaloes should charge.
The disclosure of Phillida's position opened up not the modicum of practical wisdom which she possessed but the floodgates of her eloquence.
But Phillida's position had been changed during dinner.
You're a doctor's wife, and you owe it to your position not to go out nursing.
This one is not decent enough for a man in your position to wear.
At present we have no vacancy suitable to you; for, of course, a man of your position ought not to be assigned to one of the lowest clerkships.
The offer, he added, was rather larger than would be made to any one else, as the officers of the bank preferred to have a stockholder in a semi-confidential position such as this would be.
I have a great mind to suspend payment for a while and let social position go to smash.
It involved a voluntary sacrifice of that position of social prominence and leadership which he had striven so hard to secure.
The speaker was incapable of making allowance for oriental excess in Bible language; it suited her position as an advocate to take the hyperbolic words of Jesus in an occidental literalness.
But what you have said to-day, about social position and so on, I hate.
Mrs. Hilbrough was clairvoyant and of prompt decision, but she lacked the commanding position for personal leadership.
It was not in the nature of things that a woman in Mrs. Hilbrough's position should refuse to entertain a baron.
After taking time to revolve the matter carefully, he wrote to the obliging Mr. Masters, suggesting that he would like to secure some position in the bank.
The Ruba'iyat is far longer than Gray's Elegy, but it occupies much the same position in English literature as this classic of meditation, because of the finish of its verse and a certain beguiling attraction in its thought.
Then came his short business life, full of eager, enthusiastic work for the former college associate who had offered him a position on the Board of Fire Underwriters.
Hers was no blind obedience; her reason for sacrificing herself gives us the true position of a woman as a helpmeet, and as a helpmeet in the performance of public duty.
Before the hour came, however, the move was decided to be too dangerous, and we changed our position to one nearer the forts.
In half an hour the battle of Champion Hills was won, and the victorious Union army was shortly in a position to compel the surrender of the key to the Mississippi River.
I eased his position as best I could, but all that night, with many another wounded soldier, blue and gray, he was left on the desolate battlefield.
I knew its position, its chief officers, knew, in fact, the position of every brigade in Hood's army.
Now this corps was to form the left of Grant's forces, cross a deep river in the darkness, and assault the nearly inaccessible position of Bragg's army.
Our boys shall all sing this song," he said; "and as for you, I shall give you a position on my staff.
On the 15th of June the enemy got one big gun in a position to rake from our left the ravine in which my regiment was lying.
All that night we who were on the picket line could hear the Rebel field batteries taking position on Missionary Ridge, to fight us on the morrow.
At last, recovering myself, I explained that I had enlisted expecting to fight, and not to fill some easy position with the trains.
Some of the troops did heavy fighting, but the Rebels only fell back to their great position on the Ridge.
The hypothesis as to the date and position of the anticipated eclipse becomes the material of forming a method of future conduct.
His position may be compared to that of a man considering jumping across a ditch.
Moreover, experience, not content with its proper position of subordination, was the great foe to the acknowledgment of the authority of reason.
The relationships of our present social life are so numerous and so interwoven that a child placed in the most favorable position could not readily share in many of the most important of them.
Otherwise, it is neither giving nor taking, but a shifting about of the position of things in space, like the stirring of water and sand with a stick.
But he may be left in the position which exposes him later on to influences which will lead him to do even worse things.
With respect to the former, it omits the primary position of active response which puts things to use and which learns about them through discovering the consequences that result from use.
This reconstruction must relegate purely literary methods--including textbooks--and dialectical methods to theposition of necessary auxiliary tools in the intelligent development of consecutive and cumulative activities.
Those who are in a position to make their wishes good, will demand a liberal, a cultural occupation, and one which fits for directive power the youth in whom they are directly interested.
He knows the conditions under which a given habit works, and is in a position to introduce the changes which will readapt it to new conditions.
To the eyes of others, the student may be in a position of complete physical quietude, because his energies are confined to nerve channels and to the connected apparatus of the eyes and vocal organs.
The wind blows about the sands of the desert; the position of the grains is changed.
The position of correlative conjunctions with relation to the elements they connect.
The position of participles in relation to the words they modify.
She was still in the sameposition when Queen Catharine sent to ask if she would not like to go with her and the whole court on a pious visitation to the hawthorn of the Cemetery of the Innocents.
No, sire, I have waited for you a week; only yesterday I heard that your majesty was to try a horse this morning, and I took my position at the gate of the Louvre.
Suddenly the armed figure rose and stepped forward as Maurevel drew back, so that from the position of threatener, the latter now became the one threatened, and vice versa.
Henry, realizing the superiority of hisposition and anxious to make the most of it.
Yes," said Francois, "the positionis unsafe, I know.
Your bearing is modest, your position both high and interesting, and the kindness you have always shown to those of the faith will incline them to serve you.
That is fine; and provided the tailors, the embroiderers, and the jewellers make haste, your Majesty will be in a position to hold this audience within six weeks.
Sad indeed is the position of a prince whose fortune is limited by the boundary of the paternal estate or by a man in a career for honors!
On the altar lay the Book of Fate, and during the night, which had been very clear, Rene had studied the course and the position of the stars.
The probability is that the difficulties of his position led him to attempt a compromise of which he speedily repented.
This verse must have been revealed before Muhammad felt himself secure in his new position at Medina.
In her unique position she might have rendered priceless services, but it was not to be, and he hastened to extricate himself from a position which threatened disaster to his central scheme.
She was about to sink back again into her old position when she felt strong arms about her, and capable hands loosened her dress and pulled off shoes and stockings.
Are we in so strong a position as to be able with impunity to destroy our hostages?
Part saint, part conspirator, he had enough of the busybody in his composition to make his position as arch manipulator of Royalist plots a thoroughly congenial one.
He's got them now, and I 've no fancy for a snug position between the upper and the nether millstone.
