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Usage examples of strapping.

Owing to a complete lack of local anaesthetics he had been taught to conduct eye operations with no analgesia at all, a procedure that involved strapping down and gagging the patient, forcing their eyes open and simply hacking away.

The teacher, Ms Pinkney, a strapping, jolly woman with long red hair gathered up in a tortoiseshell comb, and dressed in a bright pink and yellow Lycra outfit which clung to her as if she had been poured into it, greeted me cheerfully and confidently.

Strapping the blood-pressure cuff to his arm, she touched his cheek, pursing her lips.

When my knee got strong enough to lighten the strapping, and limber enough to climb cautiously up the ladder to repoint the chimney, I spent an hour every afternoon in the woods.

Charles and his companion, a strapping young underkeeper, evidently anxious to distinguish himself, waited, listening intently in the intervals of silence.

Juilin continued to slip abovestairs and was seen by Suroth, which earned him a strapping hung up by his wrists from a stallpost in the stables.

Strapping on his autopistol and several waterproof ammo pouches, he nodded to Rock, Sun Ra, and Tex.

That minor chore taken care of, he moved along the stations, backmost first, working quick and quiet, replacing the used sweet-sheets with new, strapping fresh sheets to the board at each occupied station.

But the slap and the blessing stood him friend, says Mr Vincent, for to make up he taught him a trick worth two of the other so that maid, wife, abbess and widow to this day affirm that they would rather any time of the month whisper in his ear in the dark of a cowhouse or get a lick on the nape from his long holy tongue than lie with the finest strapping young ravisher in the four fields of all Ireland.

Yours be the glory to discover, by personal experience, how long the kneepan can resist the terrible strapping down which you impose, in how short time the well-developed muscles of the throat can be reduced to mere threads by the constant pressure of the stock, how high the heel of a boot must be to make a short man tall, and how tight the Russian belt may be drawn and yet have wind enough left to sustain life.

She had struggled to get to her knees and scream, but Krebs must have felt her movement because his hands were suddenly at her ankles, strapping them to the foot-rail along the floor, and she knew that she was lost and suddenly the tears were pouring down her cheeks and she was praying that somehow, somebody would be in time.

Tom was right, it was like Spiderman climbing a wall, only instead of suction pads my hands had hooks and my feet had loops of nylon strapping.

John McCabe was a strapping Scotsman with arms like cabers and a look that would frighten even the fiercest dog.

After strapping on a waist pack with tools, Micah loaded up with coils himself and led the way.

Strapping Hawaiian policemen, lepers, khaki-clad, were also shooting, as were Portuguese, Chinese, and kokuas--the latter are native helpers in the Settlement who are non-lepers.