27 Verbs to Use for the Word forearm

" The young Cantab put his fingers on the assistant's upper arm, then with his other hand on his wrist, he bent the forearm sharply, and felt the biceps, as round and hard as a cricket-ball, spring up under his fingers.

grasp it smartly with both hands; the right palm down, at the small of the stock; the left palm up, at the balance; barrel up, sloping to the left and crossing opposite the junction of the neck with the left shoulder; right forearm horizontal; left forearm resting against the body; the piece in a vertical plane parallel to the front.

There was the flash of the steel, an explosion, and Scar-faced Lewis was on his knees with a scream of pain holding his right forearm with his left hand.

That position pressed the forearm against the biceps and the big muscles bulged out on either side, vast as the thigh of a strong man.

Now gradually raise the forearm, keeping the elbow on the table.

His shirt sleeves were rolled up to the elbows, displaying hard, sinewy forearms, browned by the sun and wind.

It forms the fleshy mass on the back of the arm, its use being to draw the flexed forearm into a right line.

His canvas coat was rolled and tied behind his sweating shoulders; his too-short sleeves had bothered him and they were now cut off at the elbow and exposed the sun-blackened forearms; his overalls streamed in rags over his scarred boots.

Triceps. extends the forearm.

Unconscious of all this, Liane ended her pensive moment by leaning toward Lanyard and making demoralizing eyes, while the hand left his and stole with a caressing gesture up his forearm.

I intended to shoot him cleanly through the hand, but instead of that I tore up his whole forearm.

REMARKS.The right arm may be slightly bent, although the difficulty of holding the pistol uniformly and of keeping it as well as the forearm in the same vertical plane makes this objectionable.

Jumbo now tried, by leaning his left forearm and all his weight upon Ware's head, to bring it into reach; but Ware's neck was too strong, and when he stiffened it Jumbo could not force it down.

In this position the sling binds the left forearm to the rifle and to the ground so that it forms a dead rest for the rifle, with a universal joint, the wrist, at its upper end.

With his other hand he lifted her forearm and doubled it back.

Rudolph, dizzy with pain and suspense, nursed his forearm mechanically.

An English lady driving past the Towers of Silence was naturally horrified when the finger of a dead man was dropped into her carriage by one of those awful birds; and an army officer told me, that he once picked up by the roadside the forearm and hand of a woman which had been torn from a body only a few hours dead and had evidently fallen during a fight between the birds.

The monkey at sight of Herman became animated, leaping again and again the length of the cage and thrusting between its bars a hairy forearm and a little, pinkish, human hand.

" Mr. Batch wiped his forearm across his brow, his voice jerking between the squeak of nails extracted from wood.

" She seized the strong forearm, thrilled in spite of herself by the muscles of steel she felt through the sleeves.

He drew up the loose sleeve of her jacket, and showed the bare forearm to the light.

His long arm jerked back, the revolver whipped into his hand, and he stiffened his forearm for the shot.

"That's what he has," said Mr. Batch, stroking her forearm, but still gazing through and beyond whatever roofs he was seeing.

She surveyed her forearm with a little blush, turning it back and forth.

Immediately afterward Beaumont received a tremendous blow or kick which broke his right forearm.

27 Verbs to Use for the Word  forearm