| 单词 | supine |
| 例句 | Alexander found Pollard lying supine with his leg up in traction, his misery greatly assuaged by a leggy private nurse named Agnes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z With a snarl, he leaped over the supine body before him and launched himself at the two-legs. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He was lying supine, in just the trousers of his pajamas, a lighted cigarette in his right hand. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The thud of Ignatius’ fall had attracted Miss Trixie from the ladies’ room; she came around the files and tripped on the mountain of supine flesh. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay supine on her bed without a pillow, a glass of water within easy reach and, at her side, a book she knew she could not read. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z By the time I catch up to her, she’s lying supine, propped up on her elbows. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z I fell back, supine on the scuffed floor of the dance room, and stared up at the recessed lighting. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They dashed over to the figure lying supine near an overturned birdbath. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Then, on a sudden but apparently pressing impulse, he stretched out supine on the carpet. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z From my supine perch on the back of the police car, I noticed an older woman staring at me, shaking her head. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But the extensive dampness made Gregor sick and he lay supine, embittered and immobile on the couch. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z When his coughing spell was over and he saw his daughter stretched out supine on the moonlit ground, Dufarge put two and two together. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Lou unzipped the door, and a moment later a bearded man fell supine into his lap. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z God I loathe the way the press is depicted in these dramas: supine muppets, one step down the town hall steps in a dead-eyed scrum without a question worth asking between them. TV review: Blackout; Jamie's Summer Food Rave Up 2012-07-02T21:00:01Z But the twin apogees of Austenian aunts are, of course, are the supine Lady Bertram, welded to her sofa, and the ghastly Mrs Norris, in Mansfield Park. Literary aunts: the good, the bad and the ugly 2011-03-25T13:43:17Z In one image that often causes laughs in the audience, a man softly shoves a supine woman with his head and she rolls like a log. Dance Review: Jungle Gymnasts on a Farewell Tour 2011-07-11T22:45:25Z Sometimes this offering takes shape as a dance, or what Emory calls a “bathing ritual”: a series of swiping, folding, reaching gestures performed over the mannequin’s supine body. A Choreographer Who Bridges the Worlds of Dance and Nursing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z In one picture, three middle-aged men lie collapsed on top of their bicycles; in another, one of these men, supine and with his eyes closed, is still clutching his S.L.R. camera. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z At one point, three men lay supine in a row while Donna squatted over each of them. Donna Summer: 'the audience was groaning worse than I was' ? a classic interview from the vaults 2012-05-17T18:30:01Z One particularly attractive corner was occupied by a “chill chair,” a round chaise longue strewn with bright pillows, with enough legroom for supine TV viewing. Check In/ Check Out : Hotel Review: W Retreat and Spa ? Vieques Island 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z The Mr. Wood who lately had his very strong fingers laced around my neck as I lay supine on my steel bed, having lost my footing on the slick polished floor. My prison redemption 2012-10-03T22:23:00Z At times Doc tiptoes like Sylvester the cartoon pussycat; more often he’s supine and sleepy — but he’s all we’ve got as a relatively reliable guide through the proceedings. Review: Inherent Vice: Pynchon and P.T. Anderson Share a Joint 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The most bizarre attraction was a merry-go-round, where the ladies, in all their finery, sat on supine Chinese mannequins and the gents rode serpent-like creatures. An 18th-century Parisian garden of delight can teach us much about what not to do today 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z At times Doc tiptoes like Sylvester the cartoon pussycat, more often he’s supine and sleepy — but he’s all we’ve got as a relatively reliable guide through the proceedings. Review: Inherent Vice: Paul Thomas Anderson's Druggy Nights 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Having been supine for about 900 years, Rose isn’t particularly ambulatory, and the confusions of her new world leave her gaping. | 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes': A Fairy Tale, Updated Without Ambien 2011-05-23T21:11:06Z Get supine in this look with a French work in translation, or post up beside the fire with a George R.R. All dressed up and nowhere to go? Sweet relief! It's L.A. Library Foundation’s Stay Home and Read a Book Ball 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z She must writhe and stalk the stage in an unwieldy dress and sing in a variety of supine positions. How to Be Medea? Summon Your Anger and Despair, and Hit the Gym. 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Writers and intellectuals mostly approved, though some complained – Ai Weiwei among them – that Mo had been too supine in his dealings with the government. The best international cultural events of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:12Z Most of them, made supine by arrack cocktails and the prevailing air of lassitude, spent the day just slumbering and perspiring in the shade of flowering frangipani trees. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Together, the congregants pray over Benny, who’s lain supine on the altar on a simple cloth. Review: Faith Found and Lost in ‘Free in Deed’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z The video begins with a view of clear sky glimpsed between buildings on a wide Manhattan street, as if you’re lying supine on the ground. Confronting the “Shocking” Virtual-Reality Artwork at the Whitney Biennial 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z The episode ended with Rick Grimes belowing from a supine position, trying hard to convince us in the audience that he actually cared for his wife. The Walking Dead Watch: Infiltration 2012-11-05T15:42:03Z Stu lays Fran's broken body supine and Supernatural Black Girl – who, by the way, is dressed in a shabby sheath straight out of the Depression Era – faith heals all her breaks and fractures. "The Stand" finale is aggravating confirmation that Stephen King still needs more Black friends 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z A supine mermaid lifts her tail in an aquatic yoga pose; a jaunty little rooster boy, perched on a speckled rock, leans down and extends his wings as if finishing a magic trick. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z These scenes provide a video game vibe — especially when Hutch is supine, driving backwards, into traffic in a white '72 Challenger with a 4.9 liter V8 engine. In the joyfully violent "Nobody," Bob Odenkirk channels his inner John Wick 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Now Jimmy is supine and Chuck is shopping for groceries. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 8: ‘What Have I Done?’ 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z At a recent battle scene rehearsal for “George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker,” Tenzin, lying stiffly on his back, stifled a giggle as Ines Gout — the Marie to his Prince — ran her hands above his supine form. The Soulful 11-Year-Old Princes of ‘The Nutcracker’ 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z I know the point is to get up and move around, but working in bed doesn’t have to mean being supine and stationary – I move around and stretch fairly constantly. Why you shouldn’t work from bed (and a guide to doing it anyway) 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Under the hypnosis of repetition, I watched a supine section of upright legs opening and closing and thought, “Flamingos!” DD Dorvillier Revisits Her Choreographic Archive 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Another soundtrack in the room suggests the process of digestion and, as if to underscore corporeality, additional projectors will waft images resembling red blood cells over the supine viewers. Pipilotti Rist, Provoking With Delight 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z For Jackson, that means being so laid back at times he’s almost supine; for Reynolds, whose character sustains more abuse than a crash-test dummy, it means reminding us that wisecracks are the best weapons. ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ Review: Three’s (Bad) Company 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z For generally healthy people, sleeping on your back, or in the supine position, may help with spine alignment, the experts said. How to choose the best sleeping position, and why it matters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z At night, the adults slept on the floor of the pistachio-green waiting room; when customers arrived, later in the evening, they would step over and around the adults’ supine bodies. The Delhi Walla’s Visions of a Possibly Vanishing India 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z She lies naked and supine, yet connected by cords to small anatomical, zoological and industrial images, including a fetus or baby, a snail and a rendering of the pelvis. Detroit museum roars back with powerful exhibit on Kahlo, Rivera 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z And, given Ms. Sheck’s penchant for ambiguity, does “lying,” which appears in a later stanza, mean telling a falsehood, or is it meant to refer to the state of being reclined or supine? ArtsBeat: Translators Get a Slam of Their Own at PEN Festival 2012-05-04T14:33:54Z Snow White in her glass coffin or Sleeping Beauty supine in her grim castle are no match for their more visceral sister, the Anatomical Venus. Resurrecting the Anatomical Venus: Death, sex and ecstasy intersect in 18th-century dissectible wax women 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z The supine object of her dramatic monologue becomes her sang-e sabur, the patience stone of Persian lore to which "you confess everything in your heart, everything you don't dare tell anyone". The Patience Stone by Atiq Rahimi 2010-04-23T23:07:00Z The women lay supine with dark powder outlines around their brows, looking a bit as if they were being prepped for cranial surgery. Skin Deep: For Well-Shaped Brows, Step Away From the Tweezers: Skin Deep 2011-09-21T21:54:09Z Then there was darkness, and when low light returned, the piano was surrounded with supine, motionless bodies: an encampment, or casualties. Vijay Iyer Performs at BAM Harvey Theater 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z The smell of roses emanating from the spa at Amanjena resort is so intoxicating that you’ll quickly find yourself supine in the steam room. | A Guide to Marrakesh, Part Four 2010-09-24T13:00:00Z There are specialized positions—sidesaddle, spread eagle—and identical poses whose names add nuance: prostrate, supine, decubitus, shavasana. Learning to Squat 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z All sorts: fear of pain; embarrassment; the fact that no woman likes lying supine while being probed with an instrument by a stranger. How to redesign the vaginal speculum 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Many of us found ourselves resting supine on the floor of the museum, partaking of a “lie-in” as we gazed upward at blurs of color and pretended the ’60s never ended. James Turrell Takes Up Curating, With a Show by His Hero 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z The video shows him pursued and desperate or supine and immobile, brought to the ground. The Playlist: Kim Gordon Vents and the White Stripes Unleash an Outtake 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Issued by US company, Provide Support, it is a 10-point guide to handling complaints, which fundamentally boils down to one supine dictum: the customer is always right. Restaurants: how to complain... without losing your cool 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z A woman, in the act of helping another woman off the floor, falls backward onto the floor herself; then the woman she assisted continues the pattern with yet another supine woman. Dance Review: Dagmar Spain/Dance Imprints at Danspace Project 2012-06-25T21:29:17Z Roberto Caldeyro-Barcia, a pioneering doctor in the field of childbirth, once wrote that “except for being hanged by the feet, the supine position is the worst for delivery.” ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Has Midwives Talking About That Birth Scene 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z An alternative version might be that the whole thing is a cosy conspiracy of mediocrity perpetrated by Oxbridge directors, venal producers and supine critics foisting their suspect taste on the culturally browbeaten theatre-going public. Find a play. Squat a building. Steal a van. Now make a show 2010-06-28T14:04:00Z His discomfort is compounded by the knowledge that even the most supine of his schoolfriends are out on the street protesting their outrage. A Delicate Truth by John le Carré – extract 2013-04-12T20:01:02Z Upon hearing the correct spelling of the word, she said “That was my first instinct!” and then she left the stage to meet her parents, where she went fully supine on the cry couch. Watching the Scripps National Spelling Bee 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Eventually two performers, Robert Durkston and Antwine Freeman, were shot; as they stretched on the floor, percussionists pounded drums, causing the supine dancers to twitch and jerk. Review: DanceAfrica Excels With Tradition. Why Go Beyond? 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z Men suspected her of being "an Amazon", she says, while feminists tore into her for her "supine, woebegone inclinations". Country Girl by Edna O'Brien – review 2012-10-12T21:55:03Z Inside was a supine figure in a stained shirt, jeans and black Converse sneakers tied with a tight bow. 20 years after Kurt Cobain died, what changed and what didn’t 2014-04-05T05:04:52Z Two women danced upright while the men lay supine; a couple covered space dramatically while the other couple waited immobile; two men made the action as the women rested. Dance Review: Take Unusual Music, Mix Contrasting Movements, Stir Well 2011-03-01T22:40:58Z But the supine position is not for everyone, such as people who have obstructive sleep apnea or snore. How to choose the best sleeping position, and why it matters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z The work was built like stop-motion animation in which five seemingly simple positions — standing, kneeling, sitting, lying prone and supine — and the lines and angles they create ask you to consider time. Your Week in Culture: Clive Owen, St. Vincent, ‘Marshall’ Before the Supreme Court 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z At the lowest moment of his humiliation, living in illness and squalor in a Paris flophouse, supine on his seedy bed but still attended by some of his faithful friends, Oscar Wilde vomits over himself. Mutant bears, flying heads and chainsaw duels: the best movie moments of 2018 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z “Curtain” features fragments of a white, supine, sand-and-plaster human statue on the left, like one of the fossilized corpses at Pompeii. Dance Review: Jonah Bokaer at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival 2012-08-02T21:53:05Z Under such circumstances, what we require is palliative literary care – the comfort of merely reading about the wild yonder, and the splendid folk who mastered it, while carrying wilfully on with our own supine dependencies. Will Self: the joy of armchair anthropology 2013-01-31T14:01:01Z With Saul lying supine in a biomorphic apparatus as viewers gaze from the sidelines, Caprice — using a multicolored controller — delicately probes Saul’s viscera, removing mysterious new organs that have grown inside his body. ‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: The Horror, the Horror 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z I lay supine for a while, staring up at a clear sky filled with stars. Personal Journeys: Scenes of India, From a Fort and a Camel 2014-03-28T17:24:40Z Less than a week later, she was supine on the floor of the Guggenheim Museum’s atrium, holding hands with Mr. Quinn as thousands of fake OxyContin prescriptions rained down from above. His Second Try at a Good First Impression Did the Trick 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s one of quiet Christmases, supine on the sofa. 'We felt complete': why I chose to have only one child 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z "To Have and To Hold" opens strikingly, with supine dancers piled on the benches as if on overloaded biers, but they soon roll, spring, slide and catapult to life. UW's Chamber Dance revives haunting 'Hold' 2011-10-14T17:23:04Z According to a Warhol-dedicated Web site, warholstars.org, Mr. Cutrone met Andy Warhol when the two collided on a stairwell at a party while simultaneously attempting to step over a supine Bob Dylan. Ronnie Cutrone, a Man of Another, Cooler City 2013-08-02T22:08:34Z The other thread is the party’s supine deference to its rich and corporate patrons. Column: The budget lie at the heart of House Speaker Johnson's Israel aid proposal 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z The bodies appear to be laid supine, but most bones have dissolved because of the acidic soil. The mysteries of a mass graveyard of early Indians 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z John Ryley said broadcasters had become "supine", "incurious" and "compliant" when it comes to the Royal Family. Broadcasters let Buckingham Palace censor Coronation coverage - ex-Sky News boss 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The normalization of Florida’s slavery whitewash has been abetted by a supine press. Column: The story behind that Florida school curriculum that whitewashed slavery keeps getting worse 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z A hinged support slowly elevates a supine patient into a partial sitting position. How a Toilet Plunger Improved CPR 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The soldiers left him supine and unresponsive at a construction site, saying they assumed he had fallen asleep. Israeli soldiers will not face criminal charges over death of Palestinian-American 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z In this test, the patient’s heart rate and blood pressure are monitored when they are supine and then as they stand in place for 10 minutes. Her Symptoms Suggested Long Covid. But Was That Too Obvious? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z "They do not at the moment. They are too supine, too incurious, too compliant," he said. Broadcasters let Buckingham Palace censor Coronation coverage - ex-Sky News boss 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z His supine state Legislature, which makes virtually every DeSantis’ wish its command, has allotted $24 million to ship migrants — even those outside of Florida — from the southern border to other, mostly Democratic, states. Column: California is targeted by Ron DeSantis' latest human sacrifice 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z “But, anyone participating in the restraint would have been contributing to Otieno’s death by maintaining his prone body position, thus preventing him from becoming supine or upright” and able to breathe again, she added. Filing reveals new details in Irvo Otieno’s death at mental hospital 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z The supine Federal Communications Commission deserves plenty of blame for this. Column: Hate Fox News? Too bad — you still have to pay for it 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z Yet Europe has left unaddressed the corrosive, longer-term problem of defense industries in most E.U. countries that were left to atrophy after the Soviet Union’s collapse more than three decades ago, and today remain supine. Opinion | Ukraine smolders as Europe comes slowly awake 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z Plaintiffs in a shareholder lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court estimate that the package, granted by a “supine board,” could be worth nearly $56 billion, making it the “largest compensation plan in history.” Column: While workers struggled during the pandemic, CEO pay went up, up, up 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Once supine, I experienced the unique and briefly frightening sensation that my ears were traveling up very fast in an elevator while the rest of my body fell gently toward Earth. Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z All prone, supine and mechanical restraints — including hoods, blindfolds and handcuffs — are prohibited. ‘Literally kidnapping’: Teens taken against their will to boarding schools across US 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z An unfinished marble sculpture, Andromeda, lies supine, as if waiting for the artist’s return. In the Berkshires, smaller attractions pack a big punch 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z His father lies supine on the sodden ground ahead, dead and bloated in the downpour. He’s been called a deforester and killer. Now he’s called mayor. Prone describes a face-down orientation, and supine describes a face up orientation. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z The byproduct of Haiti’s institutional and security pandemonium is the death rattle of an economy that was already supine following years of misrule compounded by the pandemic. Opinion | A year after its president’s assassination, Haiti is in turmoil 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z In addition to its supine economy and related hunger and public health problems, the random chaos of daily life delivers trauma for many. Opinion | As chaos mounts in Haiti, the U.S. takes a tepid stance 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z “I saw a fog,” a supine man with tightly shut eyes said in the video. Ukraine’s Battlefield Is Haunted by Putin’s Chemical Weapons Legacy 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Inflated like a ball as it bobbed supine, the puffer looked as if it were playing dead. For marine biologist, Haitian gangs make work dangerous 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z A body that is lying down is described as either prone or supine. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Shimmering in gold, like a mosquito encased in amber, Mueller lay supine, arms crossed in front of her like an Egyptian pharaoh. Tales of a late, great It Girl: Cookie Mueller's stories live on in a new reissue 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z William Miller said it was clear that Butterfield was attacked by a shark when he viewed the body supine on the bodyboard on the beach, according to the autopsy report. Great white shark killed bodyboarder in Morro Bay 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z An incident report, also released by the sheriff's office, states that Saget was found by officers in a "supine position on his bed," and noted that no signs of trauma were seen. LISTEN: 911 call for Bob Saget's death released 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z “I jumped the barricade and found a girl who was passed out, supine and very clearly cyanotic, or blue,” said Morbidelli, a graduate student at Auburn University in Alabama. Astroworld organizers had extensive medical, security plans. Did they follow them? 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Again, if the body were supine or prone, to produce sagittal sections, the scanner would move from left to right or from right to left to divide the body lengthwise into left and right portions. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z This is hardly germane today, with a frequently supine Congress eagerly shedding discretion to the executive. Opinion | Don’t let Trump’s ‘privilege’ claim thwart the Jan. 6 investigation 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z "Cobras are not very active at night. Every time we dropped a cobra on the supine dummy, it slithered to the floor and went into a dark corner of the room," Mavish Kumar said. When a cobra became a murder weapon 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z With a lawn of supine students stretched out before her, Heuer assumes the role of tour guide on a virtual journey that’s fanciful, yet detailed and cinematic. Expanding the consciousness among the dead: Hypno-yoga at Hollywood Forever 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z "News reporters covering the Council meeting were a sketch of supine immobility, a confession of the futility of expression without independence," Kucinich writes. The saga of Dennis Kucinich: When one man stood up to corporate power — in 1970s Cleveland 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Burgos tossed the mask inside a locker, then returned to a supine Harrison, just as the school’s athletic director entered. The Protector 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z In the instant before he reached the edge of the jump, he lay on his back, then launched into a full back flip with board grab from a supine position. Zeb Powell Is Looking for the ‘Next Me’ 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z In a recent interview, Journey said he believed the NRA board “has become supine and acquiescent” to LaPierre and his lawyers and staff, and said that he worries about the organization’s future. NRA leaders defend bankruptcy petition in court hearing, saying the move is necessary to protect the gun lobby’s existence 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z This meant that he was spending between nine and 17 hours each day in a supine state. Long spaceflights and endurance swimming can 'shrink the heart' 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z In an interview, Journey said he believed the NRA board “has become supine and acquiescent” to LaPierre and his lawyers and staff, and that he worries about the organization’s future. NRA faces internal woes as it girds for new gun control fight 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z "Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch led a global debate while others in our industry were silent or supine as digital dysfunctionality threatened to turn journalism into a mendicant order," said Mr Thomson. Facebook to pay News Corp for content in Australia 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z “Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch led a global debate while others in our industry were silent or supine as digital dysfunctionality threatened to turn journalism into a mendicant order.” Facebook strikes News Corp deal to license news from Australian media outlets 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z A doctor applies pressure to the painful spot while the supine patient lifts both legs off the table or sits up. A woman’s laborious search uncovered the probable cause of her searing abdominal pain. Getting a doctor to help was much harder. 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The evening session is Manchester United, fresh off giving David Silva and Adnan Januzaj a good hiding, take on the often supine form of Newcastle. Premier League team news and Merseyside derby buildup – live! 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z When firefighters found him, he was "in a supine position on a blanket" inside the shed. Fire that killed Zappos founder Tony Hsieh possibly caused by 'carelessness,' 'intentional act': officials 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z The 25th Amendment is a nonstarter, but not only because an invertebrate vice president and supine Cabinet will not initiate it. Opinion | There’s no time to impeach Trump. Censure him instead. 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z To one side, an enormous white figure of Robert E. Lee lying supine under sculpted drapery. Richmond sculptor Edward Valentine created many of the statues that defined Lost Cause mythology. Now his family’s museum is confronting the legacy. 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z Capitol and landed here Tuesday morning, as workers rolled the statue off a truck and left it supine, on a wooden pallet, in storage space at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. Removed from U.S. Capitol, Lee statue will be put in context at Va. museum 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z This stretch, also known as “supine pigeon” in yoga, opens up the hips, relieves pressure in the lower back and counteracts too much sitting and poor posture. Rest Better With Light Exercises 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z For Mr. Trump it is the rule: fill influential positions with sycophants who lack even the minimal standing needed to satisfy the generally supine Republican majority in the Senate. Opinion | Even Republicans found a Trump nominee too bigoted. Trump appointed him anyway. 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z Now we would have to add his unexplained, and thus far inexplicable, supine acquiescence to Russia’s reported bounty payments for the killing of U.S. servicemen in Afghanistan. Opinion | In just one month, Trump commits a whole new set of potentially impeachable offenses 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z Given Trump’s reckless lying and the supine nature of most Republican officeholders, it is imperative that the Nov. 3 result be obvious that evening. Opinion | The nation is in a downward spiral. Worse is still to come. 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z “We don’t want to be seen as supine because of economic dependency,” he said. Under Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand pivots on how to deal with China 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z “In my opinion, the complications of him being restrained, on the ground in a supine position by multiple people, is ultimately what led to his death,” Brown said. Three staff members charged in death of black teenager restrained after throwing sandwich 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z “In my opinion, the complications of him being restrained, on the ground in a supine position by multiple people, is ultimately what led to his death,” said Dr. Ted Brown, who performed the autopsy. Michigan youth center staffers charged after death of restrained black teen ruled homicide 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “In my opinion, the complications of him being restrained, on the ground in a supine position by multiple people, is ultimately what led to his death,” Brown told MLive. Medical examiner rules teen’s youth facility death homicide 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z So he must have been lying supine, not prone. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Don’t amplify conspiracy theories 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Lobner said that even in an ordinary nuclear submarine, clearances in the battery compartment are so narrow that a routine inspection often requires shimmying through in a prone or supine position. A Deep-Diving Sub. A Deadly Fire. And Russia’s Secret Undersea Agenda. 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z They play sudoku, fret and sing, while around them kids run among the supine pale bodies. Beyond the beach of doom: what made Lithuania art's world champions? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The broadcast cuts to an overhead shot of Fury supine on the floor, a still form with arms outstretched and right knee tilted upward in the shape of a crucifix. Wilder-Fury I: the seven moments that defined their gripping first fight 2020-02-22T05:00:00Z The skeleton was supine, its skull rested on a pillar. Here Lies the Skull of Pliny the Elder, Maybe 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z A theory of executive supremacy, a supine legislature, and a credulous, adoring segment of the population – which does not need to be a majority – are the ingredients that authoritarianism is made of. Impeachment was a health-check for American democracy. It is not well | Andrew Gawthrope 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z But enough of them were either fawning or supine, so he still didn’t really need to break sweat. Boris thought being PM would be a triumph – but it's all downhill from here 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Now we're going to learn that he can kill the Constitution and leave his bloody fingerprints all over it, and the supine Republicans in the Senate will let him get away with it. Donald Trump is the O.J. of American politics — and we know how that story ends 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z I say taken down – but in fact, the statue was already supine, having been sawn off at the ankles, and daubed with the instruction “take away”. The curious case of the ever-vandalised Zlatan Ibrahimovic statue | Marina Hyde 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Augustus was now supine and forlorn, still not eating, and I wondered how he would manage till Monday. The Strangeness of Grief 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z The play, on third-and-5, left Lawrence in need of a trainer’s attention as he lay flat on his back — and the Tigers looked equally supine. Trevor Lawrence Puts Clemson Back in the National Championship Game 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z Perhaps the most depressing reflection sparked by both books is on the supine nature of otherwise intelligent observers in the face of the coarse brutalities of dictatorships. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The actions of supine U.S. corporations — most conspicuously the NBA, but scores more — reflect a mistaken extrapolation. Opinion | If China’s demography will determine it’s future, we have nothing to worry about 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Trump is still more likely to be an informed electorate than a supine and fearful U.S. Opinion | Trump’s conviction in the Senate is unlikely — but possible 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In operating room 12 a body lay supine on the table, butterflied. A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Rooftop Reds is a gift of a roof bar, where hammocks perched between potted grapevines offer supine views of Downtown Brooklyn. A Very Full Day at Snug Harbor on Staten Island (and Where to Eat and Drink Nearby) 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Another man lay supine on the golf path, which was littered with loose acorns and bark. 6 Injured in Lightning Strike at PGA Tour Championship in Atlanta 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z The harvest of the Koch brothers’ innovation is an American political system that lies supine at the feet of moneyed interests. Column: David Koch's real legacy is the dark money network of rich right-wingers 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The fact that some of the usually supine Republicans in Congress spoke out against Trump’s slurring his opponents’ patriotism pointed out that many Americans – perhaps a majority – oppose his efforts to divide the country. Trump and the Squad both want the same thing – and Pelosi is in the way | Geoffrey Kabaservice 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z But wouldn’t Trump, whose only interest is self-interest, find other ways to resist, to keep the distracting circus going and continue to win support from supine Republicans? Opinion | Give Trump an ultimatum on his stonewalling 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z Consider today’s supine behavior of most congressional Republicans, which stirs fragrant memories of the vigorous obedience of many members of the U.S. Opinion | Impeachment would be a debacle 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z The very sight of an articulate Republican who hasn’t been terrorized into submission going out and making a case against Trump will highlight the woefully supine state of the rest of the Party. Bill Weld’s Presidential Run: Finally, a Republican Tells the Truth About Trump 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The possible good news is that these two confirmation votes might bring us closer to the day when supine senators grow weary of being embarrassed and embarrassing. Opinion | The Cain and Moore nominations are two more tests for Republicans to fail 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z With the supine Mitch McConnell as his mouthpiece, Trump announced that he will declare a bogus national emergency to secure full funding of his wending wall. Declaring a national emergency over the wall? This won't end well for Trump | Walter Shapiro 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z In “The Visible World,” a pelican-like bird appears to offer a giant raspberry to a nude woman with weirdly distorted body parts, supine on a rock in a turbulent sea. Dana Schutz’s Paintings Wring Beauty from Worldwide Calamity 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z Earth’s surface, in his abstracted, horizon-less photographs, does look like a massive supine dragon or an impossibly immense dinosaur, some reptilian beast with cracked, rough-hewn skin and eyes about to open. Documenting the Disappearing Glaciers of Iceland 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The next moment, I was supine, in a different place entirely, as if I had dropped through a trapdoor. ‘A crunch. A rip. Pain spread like a stain’: my lifetime of back trouble | Maggie O'Farrell 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Later, Kavanaugh asked whether the state had planned to make any special accommodations for Bucklew’s condition, such as whether he would be lying supine on a gurney or with his head elevated. Kavanaugh joins liberals in tough questions on execution plans for man with rare condition 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Swinton calls him “a natural yes-sayer,” always “setting things in motion, then repairing to a supine position of almost adolescent languor.” Luca Guadagnino’s Cinema of Desire 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Willkie rescued his new party from isolationism; Trump, seventy-six years later, converted its foreign policy into a supine, Russophilic reincarnation of America First doctrine. Can the G.O.P. Ever Reclaim Wendell Willkie’s Legacy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Yoga instructors lead classes in parks dotted with supine figures in sleeping bags. The best and worst of America: farewell to a city of dreamers and squalor 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The condition, known as orthostatic hypotension, is caused by a sharp drop in blood pressure when rising from a supine position. Dizziness on Standing May Be a Risk Factor for Dementia 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z It may well be that the US state department proves less supine than the president. Trump shows he trusts an ex-KGB agent more than US intelligence 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z That fact is making even the supine GOP Congress get restive as Trump's willy-nilly tariffs on China, Canada and the EU are starting to bite their own constituents and as those partners retaliate. Republicans finally turn on Trump — at least on the trade war — but still won’t confront him 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z “The event will affect everybody,” Said said, looking up from his supine customer. Morocco seeks two World Cup upsets: On the field in 2018 and in bids for 2026 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z She ended up alone, supine and lifeless as the backdrop was dismantled revealing those fragmented composer monuments from the park. Beethoven rolls over at the Ojai Music Festival 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Instead of doing its job, he concluded, Congress under the leadership of his party today “is utterly supine in the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the White House daily.” Marco Rubio’s Reboot for the Trump Era, and What It Tells Us About Republicans’ President Problem 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, he said, “Congress is utterly supine in the face of the moral vandalism that flows from the White House daily.” Trump’s war of attrition against Mueller bears fruit among Republicans 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z The talk is of overhauling a supine judiciary and strengthening parliamentary oversight. At last, a cause to unite all Malaysia’s ethnic groups 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z While it would be harsh to be critical of Swansea for their hiding against Manchester City, but their supine performance at the Hawthorns spoke volumes. Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z “When Bucklew is supine, gravity pulls the hemangioma tumor into his throat which causes his breathing to be labored and the tumor to rupture and bleed.” Missouri execution halted over fears prisoner would face extreme suffering 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z For Trump to fire Mueller, or engineer his removal, would only risk inflaming, potentially, the otherwise compliant, supine congressional Republican majority. Opinion | Firing Mueller would only make things worse for Trump 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Unless Mattis or supine GOP legislators raise some roadblocks, this troika is heading for trouble. Beware new Trump-Bolton-Pompeo troika 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The film is crawling with images of supine, scraping and bowing Indians serving the empire – keeping the manicured lawns pristine green, the marble floors gleaming, the furniture polished. Empire strikes back: why former colonies don't need Britain after Brexit | Griffith Review 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z More surprising is the supine acquiescence, bordering on complicity, of western democracies. As Vladimir Putin steals the Russian election, our leaders are shamefully silent | Simon Tisdall 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Caromed, on its descent, off Kearse’s left groin, then his right, as he lay supine. A hero, until he wasn’t: Jermaine Kearse relives his spectacular Super Bowl catch that faded into history 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z Germany’s politics is no longer the stuff of soporific speeches and a supine parliament – the shift reflects a more fragmented society and a more assertive electorate. Why the once-durable Merkel may not last much longer | Anne McElvoy 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Not because of the result — a 4-0 defeat — or even because of the manner of West Brom’s performance, the sort of supine surrender which Pulis’s very presence is supposed to mitigate. At West Brom, Tony Pulis’s Game of Substance Goes Out of Style 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z She was in her car, waving at him to move it, so he climbed in and reclined the seat until he was nearly supine. 10,000 people died waiting for a disability decision in the past year. Will he be next? 2017-11-19T05:00:00Z It was much more likely that I was on my back, or “supine.” Perspective | A show and tell-all: Readers remember grade school indignities 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z It’s all very well thrashing a supine Arsenal but, however devastating they can be going forward, they appear to lack the defensive resolve for a genuine title challenge. Premier League truly starts now – so how do the title contenders measure up? | Jonathan Wilson 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z And even this supine Republican Congress would not tolerate his summary firing. Opinion | The latest evidence of Trump’s unfitness may be the most revolting 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Comey may have sat still and not moved his facial muscles, but he was supine in the face of illegality, ignorance and impudence. Profiles in Poltroonery 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z They can pass legislation that’s less supine to corporations and for-profit charter school companies, and more responsive to public schools and the statewide majority that voted for Amendment 2. Florida editorial roundup 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z A previously supine British press pack is suddenly shouting about why she is not willing to attend the debate. How UK prime minister Theresa May fumbled her own election 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z President enabled by a spineless and supine Congress that fails to exercise its oversight powers isn’t a weak executive at all: he is a potential despot. Donald Trump’s Craven Republican Enablers 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z For the non-surgeon, I would claim, the sight of a dead human being, supine, spatchcocked, heart removed, would be a life-changing horror. A matter of life and death: William Boyd on the rise of the surgeon-memoir 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Animals were then placed in a supine position, and the extremities secured to a gauze-covered platform with tape. A distinct role for Lgr5+ stem cells in primary and metastatic colon cancer : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z An authoritarian and erratic leader, a chaotic Presidency, a supine legislature, a resistant permanent bureaucracy, street demonstrations, fear abroad: this is what illiberal regimes look like. Holding Trump Accountable 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z So I find inspiration on my feet or supine, then I’m ready to sit at my desk and put it all down. Jake Arnott: ‘I fear the sack every day from the best job I’ve ever had’ 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The question is whether an opportunistic and supine Congress will. Opinion | Trump, like Nixon, is incapable of change 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z To reduce the risk of those deaths, the academy recommends positioning of babies supine in bed, using a firm sleep surface, sharing a room without sharing a bed, and avoiding soft bedding and overheating. Florida Woman Charged in Death of Infant in ‘Co-Sleeping’ Case 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Mice were placed in a supine position, and the extremities secured on a heating pad with tape to maintain body temperature at around 36 °C. Body temperature was checked using a rectal probe. A distinct role for Lgr5+ stem cells in primary and metastatic colon cancer : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z So if Congress promises to be supine, what of the supreme court, surely the ultimate restraint? Will Donald Trump destroy America? 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z There are lots of people sitting down for his set, but it’s not all stoned abstraction for supine satisfaction. Iceland Airwaves festival day four – Björk's the star in her home country 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Remain, who didn’t put up posters or show any passion for their cause, were supine in the face of their rhetoric. A few months ago, I woke up to Brexit. Here's my advice to US voters | Stephen Moss 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z The other graves contained men and women buried supine, and some of the bones showed damage like that of other sacrifice victims from the era. Ancient tombs in Peru hint at human sacrifice and link to legendary flood 2016-09-10T04:00:00Z Before imaging, mice were anaesthetized by isoflurane inhalation, placed in a supine position, and their colons evacuated of stool using a gavage needle. A distinct role for Lgr5+ stem cells in primary and metastatic colon cancer : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Unlike the sun-worshiping foreigners, oiled and supine, Brazilians tend to be up and about, engaged in all manner of athletics. Tourists really don’t know how to fit in at Rio’s famous beaches 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Ms. Shinn could not bring herself to speak before the audience, fixing her gaze instead on her son’s supine profile as pastors, poets, friends and relatives paid tribute. At a Funeral Home in Brooklyn, the Hard Business of Goodbye 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Millions saw Sterling, supine in a parking lot, as multiple shots were fired into his body. Three Terrible Days of Violence 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z Proslavery interests in those days were afraid of even allowing discussion on the House floor, and the supine agreement of politicians of the day has gone down in history as evidence of that lobby’s power. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z There was "change in size and shape caused by displacement and deformation of the tumor between standard imaging in the prone position and operative supine position," Gombos reported. Patient Positioning Might Hamper Accuracy of Breast MRI 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z As sung by a self-proclaimed optimist who has been given the good odds of an 85 percent chance of full remission, “Cure” begins with a defenseless Mr. Scheuer, supine on a bed. An Artist Takes On Cancer 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Maura Smale, the chief librarian at the New York City College of Technology, held a sheaf of postcards adorned with supine nudes. A Feminist Edit-a-Thon Seeks to Reshape Wikipedia 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z “It looks like they’re going to have to really fight for the rest of the season,” he said after his front four had inflicted a ruthless evisceration on admittedly supine opposition. Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z His single words flutter above his serene, supine body. Perpetual waiting for parents developmentally disabled 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Imagine if a white minister in, say, South Carolina preached this way about African-Americans, knife and all: Would the news media be supine in reporting it? Palestine: The Psychotic Stage 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z This was the most comfortable position for me to work in, in a kind of supine reverence of my monitor. Verge Fiction: The Date 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Wang and Xu travelled to the hospital together, put on a brave face for the woman, then cringed when they saw the corpse, lying supine in an adjacent room. China’s funeral revolutionaries | Jonathan Kaiman 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Justice Roberts, to the applause of his liberal colleagues, has gone beyond the Supreme Court’s supine attitude and is now in the business of rewriting existing laws. The Constitution: Does It Matter Anymore? 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Just as important is the code brought in last year for pension funds and other institutional investors, which aims to transform them from supine rentiers into responsible stewards. Winds of change 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z He dug until three o’clock and then, without pausing, dragged and rolled the body into the hole and jumped down after it to wrestle it into a supine position. “The Republic of Bad Taste” 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Suddenly their own private backyard of supine satellite states might get rich and powerful and even, mirabile dictu, start acting all independent. What No One Tells You: The Real Reason For Nuke Deal With Iran 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z In Europe, Greeks and Spaniards show us up, indeed, as a supine, spiritless people incapable of response or any resistance to the onslaught. Neoliberalism is our Frankenstein: Greece and Ukraine are the hot spots of a new war for supremacy 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z One of the most disturbing aspects of the Ferguson drama is the mix of wildly different stories eyewitnesses presented to the grand jury, with Michael Brown portrayed as anything from anger-crazed aggressor to supine victim. Memory: What the Presidents, Ferguson and Bill Cosby Share 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z But Tesco and the other supermarkets got away with it again and again, partly because of a supine regulator and partly due to sheer chutzpah. Tesco: why did it all go so wrong? 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Fifteen poses appear in the “Hatha Yoga Pradipika,” most of them seated or supine. Iyengar and the Invention of Yoga 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Pereira was obviously unconscious – several players motioned frantically for trainers to hurry onto the field and help their supine teammate – and it seemed inevitable that he would be substituted. Premier League Adopts Stricter Concussion Protocol 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z It is not entertaining to watch an uneven contest, and it hurts to bear witness to such a proud, magnificent sports country reduced to supine forlornness. The Loss of Brazil’s Soccer-Playing Soul 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Having been supine for years in the face of these encroachments, Congress is stirring. Government by fiat Congress — supine for years in its duty to check the agency’s power — is finally regrowing its spine. Editorial: Finally Dealing with the NSA, Congress finds its spine 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z Advocates of extreme judicial quietism to punish the supine people leave the people’s representatives no recourse short of the extreme and disproportionate “self help” of impeachment. George F. Will: Stopping a lawless president After five years of supine acquiescence to President Obama’s multiple usurpations, Congress suddenly becomes exercised over a war power — where its claim is weakest. Charles Krauthammer: Free Bowe Bergdahl, then try him Roughly one baby in five under the age of 6 months develops a skull deformation caused by lying in a supine position. Well: Helmets Do Little to Help Moderate Infant Skull Flattening, Study Finds 2014-05-02T01:45:31Z Journalists recorded the passage of the behemoth, which, in a supine position for transport, resembled a modest-size bridge with a tall A-frame. Muscular West Coast Worker Is on Way to Build New Tappan Zee 2014-01-28T02:06:11Z These patients also received significantly higher doses if they were treated in the supine body position instead of the prone position. Radiation Dose Linked To Cardiac Risk In Breast Cancer Patients 2013-10-28T20:00:00Z Some say the judicial branch should not intervene because if Americans are so supine that they tolerate representatives who tolerate such executive excesses, they deserve to forfeit constitutional government. George F. Will: Stopping a lawless president In February, Mr Johnson called assembly members "great, supine, protoplasmic invertebrate jellies" for voting not to question him over his budget which included fire and police cuts. London mayor 'needs more scrutiny' 2013-10-16T04:17:10Z But the alternative, this supine acceptance of whatever information whoever wants it has, that's not great either. Erasing your digital footprint: burner phones, Bitcoins and metal wallets 2013-06-21T18:43:52Z They found no difference between the two groups in the age at which prone to supine or supine to prone rolling began, or in the order in which those behaviors appeared. Well: Childhood: Back to Sleep Campaign 2013-06-06T21:12:49Z Many of my British colleagues share the views expressed by Daniel Hannan on the Telegraph website: if Britain adopts the new regulatory framework, it will become like France, with her "servile", "supine" and "conformist" press. If you think the French press is stifled by regulation, ask Jérôme Cahuzac 2013-03-22T15:56:23Z De Maupassant may have dined upright in the Eiffel Tower gazing down over Paris, while I'm supine in London staring up at the Shard. Staring at the Shard 2013-01-18T18:13:13Z No mention, for example, of Labour's own supine approach to the City in his excoriation of the banks. Why Ed Balls's Labour conference speech was classic Gordon Brown 2012-10-01T16:21:08Z It will be seen at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, historically the most supine of the bank regulators. High & Low Finance: Scandals May Cost Banks Their Power in Officialdom 2012-07-26T20:52:06Z Despite the packed gondolas and the flotillas of supine tourists being paddled around Dal Lake’s glassy waters, the valley’s internecine conflict is never really not there. Kashmir's Fragile Calm: Tensions Take Backseat to Tourism 2012-07-12T00:05:30Z The mechanic, who is on a low wheeled platform, or creeper, thrusts himself from under the vehicle into the road, riding in a supine position as if on a luge. Advertising: Jiffy Lube Seeks to Distance Itself From ‘the Upsell’ 2012-06-08T01:48:11Z It happened that this evening she was the victim of a bilious headache, and she lay supine on a sofa, unable to sit up for dinner. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z But though the American people had the manifest destiny of expanding to the Pacific, the Government was strangely supine. The Columbia River Its History, Its Myths, Its Scenery, Its Commerce 2012-04-07T02:00:31.747Z Endangered and yet supine, it faced the imperative necessity of complete reconstitution, with the bitter alternative of decay and extinction—a race tragedy to be compounded of millions of individual tragedies. The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I 2012-04-04T02:00:55.303Z I enclose several resolutions of Congress, which will convince you that their late successes have not rendered them supine or negligent. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z The general intention of the new act was partly to facilitate the administration of the previous one by local authorities and partly to provide means of compelling supine authorities to take action. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z You deem me supine,--my judgment warped by bias. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z But to Internet users, the proposed legislation and the process by which they were being railroaded through a supine Congress took on mythic attributes. Who Really Stopped SOPA, and Why? 2012-01-25T06:15:51Z And like the hills when such a storm has wreaked its noisy wrath and swollen all the thread-like streams to freshets, he lay by his straw stack supine and shaken. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z For some seconds he strove to mouth an oath, embracing his supine Councillors as well as this beggar on horseback, but he produced only an inarticulate raucous cry, and reeled sideways. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Unfortunately, the supine ignorance of the fair sex in Sarrio made these ingenious modes of communication null and void. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z He stared at her with hungry eyes, and his little lean fingers crept toward the exquisite hand of hers that lay supine, relaxed, with upturned fingers like the petals of an open rose. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Certainly no governor could have been more supine, and shown greater incapacity and weakness of character, than the one who ruled in the time of Archbishop Pardo and those that succeeded him. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z By the thousand devils of hell, ye supine, faint-hearted Catholics, why do not ye also take weapons into your hands? The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z The Sailor, supine in his bed, was unable to say anything. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z We all know hundreds in every great town who have freed themselves, or have been freed by others, from ecclesiastical error, who remain supine. English Secularism A Confession Of Belief 2011-11-24T03:00:50.030Z Her vision turned upon her own soul to-day, and showed her its mighty lapse from grace, its supine and incapable droop. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z After a steep descent — a backward glance revealed the geologic profile of a supine female looming above us — the dry scrub almost instantly gave way to subtropical cloud forest. Adventures in Travel: Hiking the Inca Trail 2011-10-26T18:05:33Z In the haze over bay and river enough rose and purple remained to veil the awakening glitter of the monstrous city sprawling supine between river, sound, and sea. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z When may I sleep and be at rest?—When, when shall I be no longer the only person in this supine world, awake? The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z Two or three khaki figures pushing a truck laden with a third figure—supine, blanketed, and very still: that was the picture we passed several times in the thin February sunlight. Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front 2011-09-09T02:01:03.463Z While his body lay supine, and his hands were almost helplessly folded in his flannel dressing-gown, those deep-set eyes were wide open, and burning with internal fires. Norston's Rest 2011-08-24T02:00:23.833Z His readiness to take on Western powers and Israel, both with rhetoric and action, earned him a certain cachet with some in other Arab states who felt their own leaders were too supine. Newsmaker: Flamboyant Gaddafi no stranger to bloodshed 2011-08-23T20:10:15Z One aspect of the phone-hacking scandal that went deep was its revelation that those we might think exert authority – police and politicians – were in fact supine before an unelected media corporation. The year we realised our democratically leaders can no longer protect us 2011-08-09T21:00:02Z A chance of redemption for their supine display against Manchester City in the FA Cup final. Stoke City Premier League 2011-12 team guide 2011-08-07T23:05:55Z If the selfish, or the politic, or the supine do not care to take sides with right, they have no cause to complain if the triumph of wrong involves them in discredit or disaster. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z Ruth Fielding had an unwavering trust in a Higher Power that guides and guards; but she was no supine believer in what one preacher of a robust doctrine has termed “leaving and loafing.” Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z They thought he was too supine with his father; that he ought to stand up to him more. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z Presently the wind dropped dead, its sudden failure arousing the supine officer, who, lifting his head, took in the situation at a glance. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Nelly Marquis lay supine, breathing if at all so lightly that the movement of her bosom, beneath the ragged lace of a dingy pink silk n�glig�, was imperceptible. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z The anonymous author seemed to relish his cheeky, slightly un-Timesean kicker, which quoted a Republican on the state of the House: “a supine, subservient, soporific, superfluous, supercilious, pusillanimous body of nitwits.” Coming Next Sunday: The Latest Evolution of the Review 2011-06-18T19:06:55Z Her eye instantly lighted on the body of a man, supine, motionless, stretched on the floor, close to the door through which she was about to pass. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z It is an anachronism in Britain’s post-deferential, post-imperial 21st century, its adversaries argue, surviving on unearned privilege and the grudging tolerance of a supine nation. Letter From Europe: The Queen and Her Family Are on a Royal Roll 2011-05-27T12:30:36Z By editors everywhere: don't be supine in the face of referees' requests. There's a time to be critical 2011-05-18T17:20:01.180Z Like some great river-beast he lay supine beneath it, conserving every atom of his giant’s strength for the test that was to win him life. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z At their feet lay the old woman, supine…her long grey hair dishevelled… her face blue…her eyes open inordinately wide…and her tongue caught in her teeth. The Mysterious Sketch 2011-05-03T02:00:14.907Z The first object that met my sight was my friend, stretched upon the floor, pale and motionless, supine, and with all the tokens of death. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Her whole fair outline, supine upon the couch, was illumined in a rosy gilding. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z He had no more intention of a supine acquiescence than Mrs. Janney would have had. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z However, Irish caved in after half-time with a supine performance that left their director of rugby, Toby Booth, furious. Leeds 27-19 London Irish 2011-03-06T19:17:58Z How supine or how helpless has this country become? There is still a way to win this Murdoch media war 2011-03-04T20:30:00Z From this object my attention was speedily attracted by two figures, breathless and supine like that of Constantia. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Two parliamentary committees are looking into related questions of MPs' privilege and the supine behaviour of the police when confronted with this kind of media muscle. Media plurality: The law and its loopholes 2011-03-04T00:04:01Z Summers exemplifies the links between cheerleaders in academia, Wall Street, supine regulators and an ignorant Capitol Hill that Ferguson stresses were at the root of the problem. Inside Job: how bankers caused the financial crisis 2011-02-17T21:00:02Z The last few miles entered a burned timber-patch, where the black trunks either towered high into the air or lay supine, rotting by degrees into yellow mold. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z So for several days she lies supine and obedient upon a sofa in Lady Chetwoode's boudoir, and makes no moan even when King Bore with all his horrible train comes swooping down upon her. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z Apparently the body of Granny lay supine in the chair, but her spirit was far away—roaming the house, maybe. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z But this English government, often cringing and supine, was brave enough to slay one imprisoned rebel after another. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z If Leon Best's hat-trick confirmed that unexpected reality, doubts immediately resurfaced about the survival prospects of both Avram Grant and his supine side. Newcastle United 5-0 West Ham United 2011-01-05T21:56:07Z And then suddenly she started up with a cry; her mother had dropped back in a swoon, and lay supine on the floor like a log of wood. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Will not his supine and careless neglect reduce him at length to poverty? True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Mamma's habits of thinking, and the supine routine of her useless life, had sustained a shock, and her mind seemed now to rest with pleasure on the comparative solitude and quiet of a country life. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z We get hot impulses and cold calculations, brandy and treachery, the imperious and the supine, glorious religiousness and silly family prayers. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z But while the results may strengthen America’s strongest ally in the region in the short term, the regime’s ongoing heavy-handed tactics and supine parliament could eventually undermine its grip on power. Election Sweep Boosts Mubarak 2010-12-01T23:30:00Z On Friday, Mr. Ward, 58, was snapping pictures of men sawing a supine tree into bits. Trees in the Thousands Killed by NYC Storm 2010-09-17T23:27:00Z MacDonald knows Villa will be fortunate to encounter such supine opposition again this season. Aston Villa 3 West Ham United 0 2010-08-14T16:08:00Z I abandoned New Labour, distraught over its embrace of war and its supine acceptance of the behaviour of the super-rich and the banks. Yes, I feel queasy. But I don't regret backing the Lib Dems 2010-08-01T21:00:00Z Others were supine in the yard, unable to move from overconsumption. | Too Many Cooks? Says Who? 2010-07-22T05:03:00Z If it's not, our pensions are in the hands of managers who wish to advertise themselves as supine. The Pru two must go 2010-06-09T23:04:00Z And it supposes the ideal intellectual posture to be “supine.” Book Review - The Flight of the Intellectuals - By Paul Berman 2010-05-14T16:39:00Z Compared with the angry reaction of retailers when the last government intended to raise employer's contributions by 1% next year, their response to the probability of 20% VAT is positively supine. Retailers ask nicely 2010-05-13T19:21:00Z Scintillating one week, supine the next, Sunderland are a strange side. Sunderland 2-1 Burnley 2010-04-19T06:00:00Z Can Jove, supine, flagitious acts survey And brook the furies of the daring day? Heathen Mythology At intervals, I would stretch myself supine; and, with my eyes half-closed, convert the clouds which covered in our little valley into what shapes and forms my fancy pleased. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 My destiny was fixed, and there I lay supine, whilst my mischievous jailors manifestly slept, and even snored aloud. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 He sees that Polish peasants are generally supine, and American farmers usually interested about politics; and that there must be reasons for the difference. How to Observe Morals and Manners Saxon was like a country whose outer life is normal, but whose capital is cut off and whose government is supine. The Key to Yesterday It lieth, gazing on the midnight sky, Upon the cloudy mountain peak supine; Below, the far lands are seen tremblingly: Its horror and its beauty are divine. Heathen Mythology The height of heaven—supine at thy feet! Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems Through the viewplate above him—he was supine—the vast, star-set blackness seemed infinite, seemed to suck his mind out of his body until it was connected only by a tenuous thread. Earth Alert! He was fitted for an embassy or judgeship, but was too mild, supine and luxurious for the tasks thrust upon him by his brother. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" China has missed catching the fire of the West in the manner of Japan, and has lain idle and supine while neighbour and foreigner despoiled her. Drugging a Nation The Story of China and the Opium Curse Was it due to common sense, justice, or the preservation of a good neighborhood that we should remain supine under insane threats and dishonorable treatment? History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 It was the glory of St. Benedict's reform, to have substituted bodily labour for the supine indolence of oriental asceticism. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 Then, more than ever, he understood and did not cease to marvel at the supine ignorance of so-called "society men." Maximina The words were often on her lips—"Are you the same Lenz who was always so supine and helpless?" Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. I lay still, it is true, and felt much of the peculiar vagueness that follows fever; but I was conscious of a supine, latent energy never known before. Bye-Ways Suddenly the soldiers felt the supine figure under their hands explode into energy. Astounding Stories, August, 1931 Ere he could disengage himself, I collected all my energy for one buffet, and laid him supine in the reservoir of mud. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. Bram Forest flung him aside, leaped over the first fallen guard's supine body, and plunged recklessly into the crowds milling just inside the Ice Gates. Quest of the Golden Ape She sat back in her chair, gazing up the darkening river, her hands lying supine on her knees. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington They were all too much inclined to be supine, to be content with mere religious routine. The Religious Life of London Was the supine conduct of the admiral caused by a panic at our power of havoc or, did he think my retreat to sea really an effort to escape the country? The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The supine victim on the cross was a beautifully represented male body, as clear and anatomically correct as an illustration in a surgical textbook. The Golgotha Dancers Two guards were standing over his own supine figure, evidently seeking to learn the extent of his injuries. Warrior of the Dawn Orpheus touches Eurydice's veil, and her hand rests on his shoulder, while the other hand, drooping supine, is grasped by Hermes. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions "Hurry, if you possibly can." rimus, looking rather like a sarcophagus ornament, lay limply supine on the ten-foot couch, arms at his sides, eyes closed. Freudian Slip Accelerating his imagination it dissipated his energies; he lounged supine in his chair, long past midnight, lulled by the slight rise and fall of the sea, gathered up benignly into the beauty above him. The Bright Shawl The two so strangely related creatures faced each other across her supine body—and both were savagely snarling. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 How shall we excuse the supine inattention of the Pagan and philosophic world, to those evidences which were represented by the hand of Omnipotence, not to their reason, but to their senses? Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions Being a Comparison of the Old and New Testament Myths and Miracles with those of the Heathen Nations of Antiquity Considering also their Origin and Meaning He proposes no subtleties, but labors to excite seriousness, to alarm the careless, to quicken the supine, to confirm the doubting. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Certainly this was conclusive, my boy; and yet our supine military men were willing to let this unadorned civilian chap be the first to enter the evacuated capital of the stricken Confederacy. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 3 Gibson could see them from his window where he lay, supine in his nervous apathy. The Return of the Prodigal But in 1790 an event occurred that put a sudden end to this supine indifference. Historic Tales, Vol. 12 (of 15) The Romance of Reality And there will always be the favourite and perhaps two other wives awake; four more lying supine under mats and whelmed in slumber. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Mathematical forms, or various combinations of the blocks, upright and supine, for mathematical exercises. Froebel's Gifts And when she sang fortissimo all the Strauss horses and all the Strauss men were as supine, tonally speaking, as Humpty Dumpty. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Such supine reports as those of the Consumers' League, an organization of well-disposed dilletantes, and of superficial purposes, give no insight into the real estate of affairs. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times Not a breath disturbed the bushes, yet he felt that the man was there–there across the opening in the forest with his eyes fixed upon the supine figure near the fire. With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga Who knows but, by this our supine, or rather prone serenity, their disappointed valour may become their own vexation? Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Suddenly Kirby stirred to free his shoulder of Ivana’s supine weight against it, and he made himself look down his rifle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 But here in America, "the colourless shadow land of fiction," is there no tragedy in Gilead for souls not supine? Ivory Apes and Peacocks The published report does not indicate whether placement was prone or supine. A Burial Cave in Baja California The Palmer Collection, 1887 For the first time he seemed like an old man, sitting there, supine, garrulous, in the midst of those self-contained people. Money Magic A Novel A supine State, she is always defeated, and yet always remains and ever grows. The Note-Book of an Attaché Seven Months in the War Zone To submit was to show himself in Madame von Marwitz's eyes as contemptibly supine; to protest was to appear in Karen's as meanly petty. Tante To his mind it were better to fight a battle, however wrong be the prompting instinct, than to run for the shelter of supine ineptitude. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country Dressed in the supine prerogatives of a master, he is excused from cultivating the faculties of a man. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle He had almost thought that this supine listless race of his was not worth rescuing. Slaves of Mercury Slowly, as if she had been touching a serpent, her hand crept stealthily toward that which lay in the supine carelessness of sleep on the white counterpane. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals So had come the downfall of the classical world: a simple apparition in a far away Jewish province, and the Cæsars fell supine—their empires cracked like mirrors! Melomaniacs They are tremendously energetic in this, but wonderfully supine in everything else. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule She had, in all probability, saved his life, and––what was, perhaps, as much––had roused him from supine acquiescence, and inspired him with a sustaining purpose. The Greater Power He lay supine, trying not to clench a muscle, seeking to force his surrender to inanition; but he could not get sleep though he implored his soul for it, prayed God for it. In a Little Town About my waxen hands supine, Folded in prayer at life's deep gloam, My rosary of opals twine, Blessed by His Holiness at Rome. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems Even in his supine position power was evident in every line of his great torso, revealed through great rents in his blouse. The Martian Cabal Far from the earth remov’d in realms above, I seem amongst the stars to sit with Jove: Lolling in ease celestial, lie supine, And taste from Ganymede immortal wine. Ebrietatis Encomium or, the Praise of Drunkenness The boy landed on the ground, upon his back, and remained stretched out there, with arms outspread and supine; a stream of blood flowed from his breast, on the left. Cuore (Heart) An Italian Schoolboy's Journal Thus:— reiectis = reject, throw away insilirent = insult, jump on and in the case of verbs, as these two examples show, derivatives are most easily found from the supine stem. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight Similarly, men who live an indifferent, supine life, with no impulses upward, are exposed to evil and become a constant menace to society. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character It can not go from place to place, but must remain supine wherever it is put. Heart Talks Suddenly the bell rang out, and the supine teamsters, galvanizing into life, jumped to their seats. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories These, like those men who cast nativities or interpret the oracles of the sibyl, compose their countenances to a sort of gravity, and then make money of their supine drowsiness. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Notice, too, how often in the case of verbs the supine stem will suggest to you the meaning of the Latin through some English derivative, which the present stem conceals. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight She trailed about the house, glooming; she sank supine under her burden and lay forever on the sofa. The Combined Maze He was in a daze before this violence of attack, where he had expected only supine yielding. Heart of the Blue Ridge Had Arminius been supine or unsuccessful, our Germanic ancestors would have been enslaved or exterminated in their original seats along the Eyder and the Elbe. A Handbook of the English Language But, however restless he may be, he never stretches himself out nor assumes the supine position, but invariably maintains an attitude of flexion. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. To shirk this responsibility on the alleged ground that economic imperialism and organized greed will surely bring the Conference to failure is supine and snobbish. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference And so with the root of I'shvara, the life within us; were everything around us smooth and easy, we would remain supine, lethargic, indifferent. Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 With these, my opposition was considered extremely supine. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 It would clearly not do to speak of a "supine" rifle-shot. Highways and Byways in Surrey If men will remain comparatively supine we must the more energetically sound the alarm, and point them to the danger. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It is of two kinds, the side position and the supine position, according to the way in which they lie down. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks Do not be supine; do not yield yourself to the forces; they are there to call out your energies by opposition and you must not sink down on the floor of the chariot. Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Or was it better to continue her supine pretence and quietly allow the needle to reduce her once more to a merciful torpor? Juggernaut Or a Pleistocene man, smallest of all the males, whose supine acceptance had devolved into laziness.... The Beginning Without wondering more, he sank down upon the mossy turf of the floor and lay supine to gaze upward, to follow line to blended line until they seemed mirrored into infinity. Eight Keys to Eden One may be melancholy by the sea, but never morbid or supine. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy For women in some respects are wiser than men, and he who counts woman supine has viewed his world awry; but the true deeps of a woman's soul may only be stirred by passion. The Orchard of Tears His fear of the supine figure grew, destroying the arrogance of his manhood, his sentient reason. Mountain Blood A Novel Barty spent the night on deck, supine, with a carpet‑bag for a pillow; we will take the full moon for granted. The Martian So contemptible had the Pope become, even in the eyes of devout Catholics, that de Maistre called the inflexible but supine Pontiff a punchinello of no importance. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) A supine temper finds shock, excitement, and a meaning in the vertical. The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life I am glad to say that they think I am a much better mother than I am a writer, and that the family attitude in general has been attentive but not supine. When Winter Comes to Main Street "But you aren't going to sit down and let 'em frisk you that way, are you, Dad?" cried Bud, surprised at what he thought was the supine and non-combative attitude of his parent. The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek or Fighting the Sheep Herders Paralyzed all down the other side, and one supine hand flops about, and one supine leg flops about, in jerks. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse A loathing throngs the vision, and the face Of Man is stone and ashen, fallen supine. The Masque of the Elements It was while supine on my back with only my nose and toes above water that I received my first alarm for that morning. A Virginia Scout And yet as she watched Antonia go away down the road, suggesting supine submission rather than a friend in need, her heart failed her. Children of the Desert June, watching him with eyes held in a fascination of terror, felt that at any moment he might begin pumping shots into the supine body. The Fighting Edge “Once more?” and into the supine leg he shot a stream of morphia. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse On the sixth of August, we took a very fertile queen, and holding her gently by the wings in a supine position, the whole belly was exposed. New observations on the natural history of bees The bold, the prompt, and the energetic saved themselves by immediate flight; those who lingered through love or avarice, supine indifference, or palsying fear, perished. Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror The destroyer lay supine outside the bar, watching. Ravensdene Court Apparently the supine, terror-stricken Chinese Government cannot act, doesn't dare. Peking Dust Old, thin bodies bent forward, twisted sideways, coarse, filthy hands hung supine between spread knees, and then again the hands would change, and support whiskered, discouraged faces. The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse One night, when he came to her, he found a creature that quivered at his touch and shrank from it, fatigued, averted; a creature pitifully supine, with arms too weary to enforce their own repulse. The Creators A Comedy Yet how could he lie supine when she was in trouble, and make believe not to hear? The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] It was mother and daughter who held the three lads supine. The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters He would have perished in this supine security had not two women, his eldest sister Fadilla, and Marcia, the most favored of his concubines, ventured to break into his presence. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 She realized now that the will which had kept her buoyant through two arduous days and nights had suddenly forsaken her and left her supine, without hope or initiative. The Secret Witness He was among the first to condemn the German outrages, to silence the voices of supine pacifists and plead for action on the part of the American Government. A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. He liked women to be strong—having long since abandoned his earlier ideal of the supine adorant—but not too strong. Black Oxen The chief symptom by which this affliction is vulgarly known, is a heavy pressure upon the stomach, when lying in a supine posture in bed. Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." The governors of the provinces, who had long been the spectators, and perhaps the partners, of his depredations, were at length roused from their supine indolence by the threatening commands of the Emperor. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 To sleepless, riotous nights, followed listless, supine mornings. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 P. Lentz, beyond the aid of human help, gazed into the jungle and brought forth a supine. The Varmint You who could do so much to kill war, are standing by, supine and neutral, while we are shedding our blood to make war impossible. All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War Oh! there is so much energy in our system; we are always at work, whilst Protestantism is supine.’ The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' Tuberculosis takes only the quitters and the supine. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies I was also moved to pity myself, lying supine under his speechless contempt. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 One of the warriors at this cue flopped supine on the stage, and the suppressed excitement broke. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Near and more near the Vánar The monarch of the fiends to view, And saw the giant stretched supine Fatigued with play and drunk with wine. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse All his nature was on edge in that crisis, and this supine surrender of an able-bodied man whose two hands were needed so desperately was peculiarly exasperating. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 France is at present the fabled giant, struggling, or rather lying supine, under the load of mountains which have been precipitated on her; but she is not, and cannot be crushed. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) Erect or supine, these colossal statues were strewn all over the island. Greener Than You Think Shall it not rather be named supine security? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning King Henry, supine as he was, was roused at last, and sent a message to Rome to the effect that the appeal of the Archbishop was contrary to his royal dignity. Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century Nothing less than a revolution in the government and a free constitution is talked of by all ranks of people; but the supine stupidity of the court is without example. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure At least I would be no supine victim. The Thing from the Lake The child lay supine; heavy-lidded eyes half opened upon this tormentress who had somehow succeeded in calling him back into the dimly lighted room from the shadows of Lethe's alluring banks. Old Mr. Wiley The American government was supine, thinking, probably, that the Indians would not resist much longer; but the Indians, on the other hand, laid up large stores of powder and lead. Diary in America, Series Two She seemed to have emerged from an ignoble dream; she longed to merit again, at least in her devotion to this supine figure, that word, perfection. Sacrifice "They're lovely to look at," he observed, surveying the supine cast, "but awfully difficult to do anything with." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 19, 1916 Philip having done his own part, did not feel it incumbent on him to risk a battle with inferior numbers, when those who were more nearly concerned were contented to be supine. The Reign of Mary Tudor And all the earth whereon they dwell, And all the heavens they are inhaling, And powers, whereof I cannot tell— Dark miscreants, supine and wailing, Until I fell. Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse The reckless stone entirely crushed both tendons and bones; supine in the dust he fell, stretching forth both hands to his dear companions, and breathing forth his soul. The Iliad of Homer (1873) He began to sink slowly back into the blankets, supine and inert. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain I had bathed and, stretched supine in the shade of a high sand-bank, was smoking the day's first cigarette. Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales I have heard it asked what then is the genitive of hiemps; to which the best reply perhaps would be what is the perfect of sumo or the supine of emo. The Last Poems of Ovid Imagine the sort of training and tradition that she had to contend with; her mother ignorant and supine, her father violent, bigoted, almost brutal. The Daughters of Danaus He said, and hurled Pisander from his horses to the ground, striking him on the breast with his spear; and he was stretched supine upon the soil. The Iliad of Homer (1873) It is only that you don't understand, I do not want to rule for the sake of power, but because people are so supine they will not learn to rule without being pushed into it. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Count they each sail, and mark how there supine The lights in vain o'er heedless Moslem shine. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 And now you think I am going to stay here, inert, supine, and watch you tear that creed apart. The Brentons But Elizabeth was not of a temper so timid or so supine as to suffer these preparations to advance without-198--vol ii- interruption. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Him the spear-renowned son of Oïleus, drawing near, wounded in the flank; but he fell supine, and round him the Trojans and Greeks engaged in a valiant battle. The Iliad of Homer (1873) I was no longer supine under such invitations. Vesty of the Basins Then it was certain that a treacherous attack would be made upon the ship and the island, and yet here he lay supine, knowing all this, and yet unable to act. Middy and Ensign Quiet in the supine position, and the administration of a small amount of stimulant, was usually all that was required. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre The supine in Tu is the root of the verb alone. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language A fur seal stands upright on his fore flippers, a hair seal lies supine. The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries And he half threw himself against the supine body of the Survey officer, groping awkwardly for heartbeat, for some sign that the other was still living. Storm Over Warlock In truth if thou art minded, give instant summons: for breakfast o'er, I lie supine and ripe, thrusting through both tunic and cloak. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus The patient was kept quiet in the supine position for a month, and during this time the condition in many ways improved. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre The same is true of the latter supine. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language As their weight pressed him down supine and the flag sank in his grasp, he saw their faces—Highlanders and redcoats mixed. Fort Amity The first guy took a running dive at the supine one, who swung the hunting knife in a vicious arc. Highways in Hiding All the Malays were asleep, stretched prone or supine under the forward awning. The Spinner's Book of Fiction The patient was kept at rest in the supine position for three weeks, during which time the tibial pulses gradually returned. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre The supine in Tum is formed in two ways. Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language She relentlessly crushes the supine spirit who acquiesces, but to him who snaps his fingers in her face she often extends a helping hand. Quin Upon the Latin races such training acts like heady wine: loath to acquire new ideas, supine in intellectual inquiry, yet give them once the virus of knowledge and no distance blocks their immediate demand. Pirate Gold Of course the Germans had "bagged" Charlemagne, as an Englishman would express it, in addition to their other seizures right and left in the face of an indulgent, even supine, world. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life He lay supine and helpless; and extended full length over him was a fox of portentous size. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 In the first place, absolute rest, chiefly in a supine position, must be observed not only during the menstrual period, but for a few days previous to its commencement. Plain Facts for Old and Young Therefore, with the point of his sharp, keen knife, he gently prodded the throat of the sleeper, lying supine before him under the moon rays. Civilization Tales of the Orient His weakness was so great that the policy of lying silent and supine, rather than exert his failing powers, was commended by his inclination as well as his prudence. The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee The chief obstacles to her success are the apathy and faithlessness of her own selfish children, and the supine indifference of the world. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry They must be neither provocative nor supine, neither fanatical nor excessively liberal, in their exposition of the fundamental and distinguishing features of their Faith. Citadel of Faith The amazing thing in Americans is their utter indifference or supine optimism. Aliens or Americans? In all this economy of living, his wife assisted him greatly, for although supine and flexible there was that quality of force about her which we have mentioned before. Civilization Tales of the Orient The human beings trapped in the town wailed and ran, or lay and beat their heads and hands on the ground, supine before the invaders. The Time Traders He growled a few broken words, his face white under the tan, the whole man shaken by a passion so transforming that they forgot the supine figure and stood alert, ready to spring upon him. The Emigrant Trail The patient is in the supine position—but first the water must have been drained from the mouth and nose by keeping the body in the prone position. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology And when at last her crimes, reacting, wrought Their curse upon herself, to her, supine And helpless, the barbarian spoiler brought, With fire and sword, new life to her decline. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The big junk with the staring eyes carried them off, the supine, listless prisoners, handcuffed together, foot-locked to an iron bar. Civilization Tales of the Orient It was for the United States to assert herself, regardless of the odds, or sink into a position of supine dependency upon the will of Great Britain and the wooden walls of her invincible navy. The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 What though his grandfather had obviously fallen supine before the old man's tempting sin, which is avarice, and was bound to break him? Man to Man Here the patient is placed in the supine position. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology In the center of Germany the Saxon Electorate lay supine. The Age of the Reformation But for all that she was so plaintive and so supine, there was a certain quality of force within her, and she insisted upon some provision for the future. Civilization Tales of the Orient As Lord Cornwallis had done, he found the greatest difficulty in inducing the supine government of Madras to take any steps. The Tiger of Mysore A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib Robert lay a full half hour, supine, completely relaxed, only half conscious. The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis The objections to the supine position are that the tongue falls back, and not only blocks the entrance of air, but prevents the escape of water, mucus, and froth from the air-passages. Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology I left my body supine in its narrow bed and soared above the stars. Lore of Proserpine In her simple, wholly supine way, she realised that there were nothing but Chinese inns in the place, and therefore it would be a good opportunity to open a hotel for foreigners. Civilization Tales of the Orient Let not the skies, like brass in fusion, glow, Nor the earth, with heat, as hard as iron grow, Let not our pastures and our meads of hay, For our supine neglect of Thee, decay! The Poetry of Wales Then she took up his cause; intrigued, enlisted our interests, raised his supine and powerless ambitions to a throne. The Lighted Match Whereas, on the contrary, a majority with a good cause are negligent and supine. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish As Billy lay supine in the dirt, Alan heard a distant howl, not like a wolf, but like a thing that a wolf had caught and is savaging with its jaws. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Mr. Newman, supine in his chair, knew the preliminary stages of the process well. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories She had come to recognise that supine state as a great danger to the spiritual life. The Helpmate The officers cringed back under his glance, but stood supine and inactive. The Lighted Match Jill sat labouring with her needle upon a dainty tea-cloth, pausing now and again to hold a whispered and one-sided conversation with Nobby, who lay at inelegant ease supine between us. Berry And Co. They should be plucked forthwith from a supine world and offered her as a nosegay. The Black Pearl A nation which could instantly get itself into the frame of mind necessary for such supine submission would be a nation fit for servitude, not freedom. What Prohibition Has Done to America He collapsed into a chair in front of Anne, where he seemed to spread himself, sheltering her with his supine, benignant gaze. The Helpmate Inside the Church the bishops were supine, the parochial clergy indifferent, and the worshippers, if such a name can properly be bestowed upon the congregations, were grossly irreverent. Andrew Marvell He was giving himself a serious crick in his neck and shoulder from working supine, comm held over his head. Eastern Standard Tribe The violent lie supine on a plain of dry and dense sand, upon which descend flakes of fire like "snow in the Alps, without a wind." Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 Jefferson's friends accepted the medicine with a wry face as the only alternative to supine submission or open war. History of the United States The woman who moved him to the deepest force of his nature, was she who knew the brute, not the gentleman in him, and bowed herself in supine submission. Sally Bishop A Romance He stood now above his captive who lay supine, his throat or breast ready for either stroke of the knife his captor wished to deliver. Plague Ship While Manhattan society was by no means a supine and merely imitative affair, the country was too new not to cling a bit to English and French formalities. Greenwich Village The first ground of complaint was the supine inattention of the administration to a treason stalking through the land in open day. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Nothing but a chaise-longue on which to lie supine, at ease, can make the study of these wonderful ceilings anything but a distressing source of fatigue. A Wanderer in Venice Eveline did not sit down in supine idleness, and mourn over her sad fate. Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival He was staring straight at the unconscious Com-tech as if he did not see that supine body at all. Plague Ship And yet, despite their danger, the people of Germany remained supine. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German It was no uncommon sight to see F.A.N.Y.s lying supine across the bonnets of their cars, completely winded by their efforts. Fanny Goes to War The easy-going and friendly Russian peasant, supine under the violent political changes, is a traditional friend and an unwilling enemy. World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. But whom he saw supine,280 094 Or in the rugged work of war remiss, In terms of anger them he stern rebuked. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper He held on for a moment to the branch, while a groan of deepest agony broke from his lips, when he fell supine to the ground. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia The people were as supine as their princes. Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German The chest is the next region to be handled, the patient turning from the prone to the supine position. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria One day, wearing this same tie, he bethought him of his negligence lying supine on the grass, while his sister Bess was meanwhile reading in the immediate vicinity. A Man and a Woman He said, and from his chariot to the plain Thrust down Pisandrus, piercing with keen lance His bosom, and supine he smote the field. The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper The old grammarians tell us that a certain part of speech was called supine, because it was very seldom needed, and therefore almost always lying on its back—i.e. in Latin, supinus. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. |
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