He clapped his hands. In an instant, the green hangings became scarlet and the silver became gold; the huge Slytherin serpent vanished and a towering Gryffindor lion took its place.
A bat hang is a legitimate way to rest sometimes because if you find the right little thing to hook your feet on you can let go with your hands and rest your hands.
Then let your head hang over, relax your shoulders, and you can keep the fingertips on the earth for a little stability, and maybe even sway it a little side to side, nice soft easy movement here.
Though he was near exhaustion, he quickly crept toward a rock overhang where he would be protected from the lightning that was flashing across the sky.
On the highway the lights of the streaming cars made an almost solid beam in both directions. The big cornpoppers were rolling north growling as they went and festooned all over with green and yellow overhang lights.
The leading canoe, in the bow of which he stood, was yet a hundred yards behind the fleeing Meriem when she ran the point of her craft beneath the overhanging trees on the shore of safety.
I took her across water so shoal we had to pole through it; under overhanging banks and through dense stiff sedge, when often a plainly better channel swung a few feet away in another direction.
Her Korak was battling with another Mangani that would have stolen her; but she did not seek the safety of an overhanging bough there to watch the battle from afar, as would a she Mangani.
This is the beginning of what they call angles and dangles, a series of steep descents and ascents designed to show the full capability of theboat, but also to test the crew's readiness.
But, finding that the big, forked animal doesn't scare, he prudently beats a retreat, and sets himself up to reconnoiter on some overhanging branch, scrutinizing every movement you make with ludicrous solemnity.
What exactly is a tornado? It is a violently-turning tube of air suspended from a thick cloud. A tornado extends from a thunderstorm in the sky down to the ground.
In the heart of this cluster of huts; and skirting the river, which its upper stories overhung; stood a large building, formerly used as a manufactory of some kind.