Opening it, he saw that nestled amongst the soft padding of the box was a sword three inches long carved out of obsidian. |
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Kate walked softly, her black suede shoes padding faintly on the hardened ground. |
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He heard the door close, though not lock, then the soft padding of someone walking towards him. |
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She could hear the door to Claire's room open and the soft footsteps padding down the stairs. |
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Those fantastic hipsters had provided not only adequate padding for the parcel's bicoastal tour of North America, but also a tasty treat. |
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Each competitor dons protective padding covering the knees, shins, and feet, and kicking is allowed. |
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Instead of traditional foam lining, the helmet uses padding to absorb the shock of a blow to the head. |
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The Romans are documented wearing padding under their mailshirts which consisted of two layers of linen either side of a felt inner. |
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Use of padding techniques that arc glued or taped to the sole of the foot have also been reported in the medical literature. |
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I settled on the thin padding of the window seat and leaned against the reassuring solidity of the window frame. |
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These bullets lie within the padding or the margin of the list, depending on the browser. |
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It provided extra padding, so that when I bumped the finger, it didn't hurt so much. |
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Additional null characters may follow the string, padding it out to a size that ensures the following structure is properly aligned. |
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There's plenty of artful writing and thought here, and her wit makes even the excess historical padding and linguistic hair-splitting palatable. |
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Chad could hear a muttered oath and then footsteps, padding toward the entrance of the house. |
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The No Bit Bridle is made from strong polyester webbing, with a soft padding to the nose, poll and headstall. |
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Joe closed his eyes as Ben wrapped the hemp binding over the protective padding on his right wrist, allowing the end to hang free. |
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The three-layer chamois lining gives you extra padding to help prevent saddle chafing. |
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Pressure on toes may be relieved with Silipos toe sleeves, polymer gel, or with padding of foam or lamb's wool. |
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Icaro only has to build one helmet and then size it for most of their potential customers with the soft padding to make it comfortable. |
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Foam padding has been placed at the far end of the track to cushion the blow when students crash into a wall at the end of their sprints. |
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Mrs. Hollington walked into the kitchen, padding softly across the tiled floor. |
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A little extra padding goes a long way, owing to non-existent seat cushions, rough suspension and unpaved, rocky roads. |
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Chest, hip, and ankle rolls with extra padding under the elbows and knees are used to reduce areas of pressure. |
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First, a soft layer of padding is put against the skin of the injured area. |
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The extra padding at the bottom of your pack is specifically designed to deal with the decomposing result. |
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There is removable closed-cell foam back padding, a chest strap and a padded waist belt. |
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This full-length version, which is more than twice the initially conceived length, includes too much obvious padding. |
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Halfway through now I'm interested to see where it's going but I feel there's still an awful lot of padding in this book. |
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The film version requires substantial padding, as the book only lasts for a few pages. |
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On the other hand, Miller's concise strategy is preferable to the approach of padding out the running length. |
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This was for domestic consumption, some padding spun up by speechwriters to balance out the speech. |
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The Watson and Crick article contains no padding, and every word carries its weight. |
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At most major league parks, there's enough padding out there so you don't have to worry about killing yourself. |
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For example, walking socks provide extra padding on the ball, heel, and instep of your foot to cushion your foot. |
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Careful placement and padding will help avoid intraoperative injury to these regions. |
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Give them a skateboard or a pogo stick, provide them with a helmet and protective padding and stand back. |
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The best ones have a scuff-proof cover, fold up for portaging, and join two types of foam padding. |
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When you tear one of the pods open, you can see that the inside is lined with a cottony padding, which I thought very pretty and delicate. |
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Thick foam padding protects the guns and the tough nylon exterior makes for easy transportation. |
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Its molded plastic yoke, backed with thick foam padding, wraps around the shoulders and attaches to golf bags in one of two places. |
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Thinking back, it makes my blood curdle because I played without a helmet and with little padding. |
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The gamgee or cotton wool padding should be applied over the top of this layer, and secured in place with a conforming cotton bandage. |
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The firearm is protected from the lock's die-cast metal alloy with rubber-like padding. |
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A footman, feet bound in protective padding, stood on the table to guide it into position, the column dedicated to Lady Morgan facing her place. |
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It floated really well, and was making what looked to be good progress by padding with all eight legs. |
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Additional padding has been fitted each side of and above the driver's legs to minimize the risk of leg injury. |
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Both books feature fighters blinded in one eye due to gloves having padding illegally removed. |
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Each harness is made of wide, heavy-duty nylon webbing to better distribute the work load and thick padding for extra comfort. |
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The bra cups are covered with netting and the padding is patterned to look like a soccer ball. |
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I wasn't madly keen on the upholstery but the padding was effective and molded to my back quickly. |
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Extra padding protects palms from blisters, and fingers are reinforced with an additional layer of faux suede. |
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The Endurance has two zippered compartments, a large one with padding next to your back, and a smaller one next to it. |
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The padding helps prevent soreness and lets you spend more time on the saddle. |
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Using pipe insulation, carpet padding and polyurethane fill, he has raised ridges and mounds within his paint surfaces. |
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Scott and Aaron, meanwhile, were padding along, toasty as English muffins, as blithely as if they were at home in their bedroom slippers. |
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Also, as people age, their feet become longer and wider, the padding on the heels and balls of the feet thins and the arches tend to fall a bit. |
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The gloves have a rubberized non-slip grip and gel padding and are supported by a one-year warranty. |
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Wrap a padding material around a stick or dowel, then wrap sandpaper over it to use on inward curves. |
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Now swap all skates, helmets and padding for flippers, snorkels and swimsuits. |
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We normally ride coach and bring along some extra padding to make the seats more comfortable. |
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The tables were chipped, the carpet is threadbare, the seats have lost all their padding and comfort. |
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Most lesions can be managed conservatively by the use of properly fitting shoes and padding to redistribute mechanical forces. |
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At any rate, it must be said that even the best mail and padding would not be proof against a strong thrust from such weapons. |
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Possibly the lack of harmonic padding between the melody and bass lines meant that there was more inclusive space for other adjacent sounds. |
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I pull the rope bag out and drop it on the ledge in front of my shins, padding the rock shelf so I can lean into it. |
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The city claims that Carvin showed poor judgment and overstepped his authority in raising issues of attorney bill padding. |
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He also alleged widespread professional mischief, including padding bills and keeping animals for ransom. |
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In addition to padding his expense accounts, he is guilty of slanting and exaggerating some of his glibly written articles. |
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Batsmen padding up to incoming balls discovered that Balaji could achieve two-way movement at a lively speed. |
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But I just could not comprehend the way the openers tried to play him by repeatedly padding up. |
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Pak Rabun was padding along the mulch in the sparse undergrowth when he stopped and went tense. |
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She heard a door open and soft footsteps padding down the hall and stairs towards the kitchen. |
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The paw was about the size of my hand, and I imagined that foot silently padding through the forest in search of a meal. |
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He could hear Brian's niece shuffling about, the soft heels of her shoes padding against the carpet. |
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Emanuelle walked into her living room, her soles padding softly upon her carpet. |
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I open the door to Jake's room, and walk out into the hallway, padding down the stairs slowly. |
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It is a padding the color of cardboard and the consistency of styrofoam. |
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A continuous background hum of machines and the soft voices of nurses was punctuated occasionally by the shrill of a telephone, or shoes padding across the lino floor. |
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Traditional coach seats gave the illusion of comfortable padding but were angular, not reflecting body shapes. |
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He has the pale, pasty set of the sedentary, a fleshy padding of indulgence and a deep, broad accent with an odd similarity to that of Charles Kennedy. |
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His boots padding against the floor were muffled because of the thick carpet, and he doubted he was making anymore noise than a cat stalking a mouse. |
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As for my toes, every hard corner was covered with soft padding. |
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The bags are made from 8 mm thick soft foam padding, 4 mm hard corrugated plastic, cross-linked closed-cell polyethylene foam, and 12 mm thick premium memory foam. |
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Why do his employers at the press tolerate such lazy journalism, such padding of what is supposed to be a serious contribution to national debate, in a quality newspaper? |
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All wrapped plates are fitted snugly into boxes with plenty of extra padding to make sure the cultures can withstand routine shocks and bumps during handling and transit. |
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As the production gags on a surfeit of imagination, you find yourself filling in an imaginary multiple-choice list, ticking off the useful and crossing out the padding. |
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Encumbered as he was with his mask and cothurnus, to say nothing of the padding, it will be seen that the Athenian tragic actor had no easy task before him. |
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Initial treatment options for heel pain caused by plantar fasciitis include anti-inflammatory medications, padding and strapping of the foot, and physical therapy. |
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I wanted a bit more padding on the shoulder strap so slip-stitched the middle stitches and did a seed stitch on the outside ones to keep it from rolling. |
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I'm sure there are some legitimate ones, but my Japanese friends tell me most are ripoffs, padding the bill with all kinds of special services that aren't that special. |
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Without a floor mat, snow and slush can soak into your carpet, through the carpet padding, and you will hardly notice that it already caused your floor pans to get rusty. |
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For Richard Nixon, the war on drugs was more than just a formula for padding arrest statistics and looking tough on law and order. |
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Thicker padding gives extra oomph while the underwire supports and lifts. |
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Stylistically, this mercifully brief book reeks of dissertation padding. |
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I visibly winced as I saw the bloodied, bruised, and deformed toes wrapped with tape and padding. |
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It's mere padding until the ill-fated scuba diving trip, where a miscount by the boat crew leads to Susan and Daniel resurfacing only to find they've been left behind. |
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Second, the dice must be thrown down the center of the table and they must hit the pyramid contoured foam rubber padding against the back wall of the table. |
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Went and bought a new pair of winter cycling gloves today, these have better padding on the palm which should dissipate the pressure on the median nerve. |
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When you're dressed in a snowsuit, you've got all this padding, anyway. |
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For example, an upholstered piece measures up if the inner padding and springs aren't discernible, and if taut, unwrinkled fabric smoothly wraps the contours. |
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Comfort measures are initiated intraoperatively, including use of a temperature-regulating blanket and IV fluid warmer and padding all bony prominences. |
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And the worn out fabric is used to create the padding under hardwood basketball courts. |
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Some batsmen wear additional padding inside their shirts and trousers such as thigh pads, arm pads, rib protectors and shoulder pads. |
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You will notice that disposable nappies are sold in boy and girl versions. They vary in where the thickest padding is provided. |
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To facilitate quick movement, a rabbit's hind feet have a thick padding of fur to dampen the shock of rapid hopping. |
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It was worn without any padding beneath, as traces of hair were left on the metal. |
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This literary use is because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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This literary use arose because the cloth type was often used as padding, hence, the purposeless words are fustian. |
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Meanwhile the utterly pointless Flash vote has brought nothing to the table apart from an extra 20 minutes of yawnsome padding. |
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For a given thickness, compare the ounces per square yard to determine the relative densities of the padding. |
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But we felt if we could get the secondary color for the backboard, along with the colored padding, it might make the play look more interesting. |
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The two menisci function as padding between the femur and the tibia, moving with the bones to allow more motion in the legs and feet. |
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Bisco silicone materials are used in the A2 Sound Barrier material, BF-1000 premium carpet padding and next generation development aircraft seating foam. |
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You can see a father's selfish genes at work in baby fat. Most mammals come into the world as skin and bones and quickly put on padding afterward. |
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For the medical segment, Libeltex produces nonwoven undercast bandages, which are custom tailored, for orthopedic cast padding and phlebology treatment. |
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In a continuous single-pass operation, Dynapad processes and backfills rocky spoil in a four-layered system while installing geotextile fabric on top of the padding layer. |
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Bedin's eight redingotes were worked in lavish lace and gold filigree threadwork, mounted on padding over crinoline hoops, some with skirts whooshed up like Elizabethan ruffs. |
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Danger can be reduced by burying the trampoline so the bed is closer to the surrounding surface to lessen falling distance, and padding that surrounding area. |
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Safety equipment is important for bladers. The amount of padding you wear should always reflect the worst-case scenario for the type of skating that you are doing. |
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