His head was heaving with a bump at once.
The records are even finer grained than that: cold, bump, points of light, waiting.
If you visit a four-year college, you can predict what sort of student you are going to bump into.
But when expo workers in Queens pried open the wooden crate, they found the massive marble masterpiece listing dangerously to one side, just a bump away from catastrophe.
When it feels right, tilt your head slightly to one side to avoid clashing noses, lean in and press your lips onto your partner's lips, softly, so you don't bump teeth.
We don't ever bump into justice itself.
We bump into societies that may be more or less just, or individuals who may be more or less just, but we never bump into justice itself.
Mystical orbs, ethereal apparitions, things that go bump in the night. A load of hooey you say?
Though Elliott had done a lot of wild things, he would not have dared to bump a soldier off the plane on his way home.
If you are walking down the street, for example, and move out of the way so as not to bump into someone, they are influencing your actions when you move inside.
I could contrive to bump against him, or flash a smile.
Confused, you stumble out into the lobby where, as luck would have it, you bump into an usher.
"It is hard to tell if a woman is pregnant, and give up a seat, when she doesn't have a baby bump," said Lee Gyeong-eon, a 23-year-old college student who frequently travels by subway.
They might bump into things or fall over objects.
Included among these cells are hairs (yup, leaves have hairs), any sort of bump or ornamentation, and most important, stomata.
The rapid acceleration-deceleration forces of violent shaking can cause much more damage to brain tissue and blood vessels than a direct bump to the head caused by a short fall.
They used the cloak to conceal a small bump on a gold surface — a bit like hiding a small object underneath a carpet and then making both the bump and the carpet invisible.
It's not hard to bump into furniture.
When Palin told her colleagues she was soon to give birth, some months ago, they were astonished and claimed her bump was "barely perceptible".
It likes a quiet environment, meet strangers, dogs, cats, snakes, etc will be alarmed, emit loud drumbeat, will bump cage, running and so on.
The idea that the physical things behave as they do, not because they have anything analogous to desires but rather because they bump into each other, push each other, either by pressure of impact.
It's when you feel like this that, out of resentment, you begin to bump people back.
When you do not pay attention, you bump into tables, chairs, doorways, you name it.
