hunch back

But the tall man with the hunched back was willing to wait.

The boat was crammed with people, but in the dark I couldn't recognize their hunched backs.

Barney looked at the hunched backs all around them.

Tauno and Eyjan looked at each other across the hunched back of their little sister.

Hunched backs became computers sitting on top of desks.

Muscles rippled along their hunched backs; sweat streamed from them.

Neville scowled through the crowd at the hunched back of the paperboy.

The cheering died down, and as men sank onto their bunks he spotted the three hunched backs in the corner.

None displayed the hunched backs that signal anxiety.

Hunched backs, shattered spines, nubbed and missing limbs.

In many cases, osteoporosis causes the spinal column to collapse, leading to hunched backs and squashed spines.

The cancer-proof mice lost weight and muscle, developed hunched backs and brittle bones, and lost vigor.

Wide-eyed, she stared at the hunched back of her husband, indulging herself in a little horror fantasy that he was dead, really dead of the cholera.

Gorbel shot a quick glance at the hunched back of Lt. Aver- dor, his adjutant and navigator.

But, if that man fell, there would be another right after him, and then thousands more after that thousands of hunched backs swollen by acid fog.

Though rare, multiple vertebral fractures can lead to such severe hunch back (kyphosis), the resulting pressure on internal organs can impair one's ability to breathe.

Masochistic nature - very strong legs and thighs, overgrown muscle fat around the thighs, rounded, hunched backs, bent head, folds of fat on the neck.

We move back to Soho's bed, and it becomes a tickertape machine that takes us to the mine again, where we see the hunched backs of black laborers.

'Jim,' said Neville, gesturing towards the hunched back of the green-haired youth, 'Jim, has Omally come up with anything yet regarding this abomination?

Ms. Clarke dresses her male performers in the hunched backs and white phallic hats of Pulcinella, the commedia character whose nastiness sometimes extends to wife beating.

Russia is still full of backs like that, the hunched backs of men who have forgotten how to dream, and it will take more toil and war, too, before they all have been toppled.

He could be jolly with old ladies in crepe de chine dresses, patting their hunched backs, but with me he could not let go the subject of heaven except to relieve it occasionally with his thoughts on hell.

The hunched back of the soldier in front of me could not be transformed into the back of my mother busy with some household task on a long winter evening, or my brother's back, or the back of anyone I had ever known in peacetime.

If the aurora hadn't been so wild behind the hunched backs of the Harridans, painting glaciers and snowfields in ropes of varicolored fire, sequinning snow-catches in the weathered natural castles of the Gap with momentary reflections, I might have dozed at the stick the morning I became von Drachau's wingman.