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Over time, multiple fractures of the spine can result in a stooped posture, a loss of height, and continual pain.
It says something about the smear campaign against our candidate that it has stooped to enlist a hatemonger.
And in no case would they have stooped to some of today's musically and verbally monotonous genres.
Finn stooped down next to the bright, crystal clear water and started scooping handfuls of water into his mouth.
She would have stooped to retrieve her knives had he not waved his own at her threateningly.
Adam stooped down and picked up the object, careful shutting the lid and placing it back on her nightstand.
My balance regained, I stooped down to pick up the overgrown puppy that immediately began licking my face once it was within reach.
Hands trembling, he stooped down to pick them off the road and steadied himself with one hand on the truck.
Then, she pointed at the towering hill and at herself, then stooped down and wrote in the sand with her finger.
He turned his back on me, went over to the generator, stooped and retrieved something.
In front of me was a solitary woman, stooped and gray-haired, carrying nothing.
Upon recognizing his visitor, the stooped figure silhouetted inside the doorway straightened and smiled.
A small, stooped old man emerged from the back of the shop, and walked to stand opposite them, on the other side of the counter.
His water-plastered gray beard, his stooped frame, and the weathered lines of his face made his age apparent.
Hilal was a commanding figure, even in his eighties, thin, stooped and nearly blind.
It depicts a viaduct with stick figures walking across it, slightly stooped and outlined against a stormy sky.
Nathan, a thin, stooped man with melancholy eyes, hardly expressed surprise when he heard about the picture.
Behind the jailhouse, lurking in the shadows was the stooped figure of a man.
The large wooden door creaked open and the stooped figure of my great Uncle Lex leaned tiredly against the frame.
Elderly now and slightly stooped, Timothy walks with crutches as he slowly makes it down the stairs of their home.
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I gave a strangled cry of discomfort, and my father's shape, black in the dim kitchen light, appeared behind the man's stooped figure.
He was a tall man, his shoulders stooped and twisted, his spine leaning slightly to the left.
An old man with stooped shoulders and thinning white hair emerged from the stables.
He is like a younger version of Philip, whose sunken chest, stooped shoulders, and hollow eyes lend him the appearance of a man twice his age.
He was short, overweight and carried the miles of his travels heavily on his stooped shoulders.
The fate of their tiny world rests in Norman's hands, and on Simon's stooped shoulders.
Notice how mousy and tentative his stance is, his shoulders stooped and his left arm crooked in a defensive position.
He stooped to pick up a book from where it lay open and spine-up on the floor and examined the cover.
A scroll was left on the nightstand, and the figure stooped to open the strongbox and swiftly redistribute the coins.
To recap the latest episode, the authors have stooped to the hoary old plot device of a startling newspaper revelation to chivvy the drama along.
Jen stooped down to further inspect this strange and most peculiar piece of metal.
He will be remembered as a gentleman of the game, a man who played to win but never stooped to ignoble or dishonourable depths.
Other features include masked facies, decreased blinking, stooped posture, and salivation.
The quiet guitarist stooped in the gutter to pick up a bag of frozen chicken wings, a pack of custard creams and a small jar of piccalilli.
That bent and stooped body became, for a time, capable of conveying the subtlest of messages in an arch of an eyebrow, the curl of a lip.
Eggs and ham on a muffin stooped in hollandaise sauce is gastropub breakfast food for a chilly British winter.
After looking around for a few seconds, he stooped down to pick up a snail shell he found on the sidewalk.
Even Viktor's stooped, pot-bellied waddle eventually resolves itself into a hearty stride.
Most appropriately, she looked like a wraith, thin and stooped, with dark, tragic eyes.
Alarm instantly registered in Ben's velvet brown eyes, and he stooped at once to feel the child's forehead.
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As the second stooped to assist her fallen friend, who should walk towards the hotel entrance but their hero.
The Christ Church player, whose pace carried him behind the backline, stumbled as he stooped to finish, bumping the ball out.
Her eyes held dark shadows beneath them, and her shoulders stooped with exhaustion.
Easily over 80 years old, stooped and slow, I barely gave him a second glance because on his heels was a full bird colonel.
He opened the refrigerator and stooped, rummaging through Tupperware containers with enthusiasm.
Adam dismounted from Sport, stooped to the ground, and lifted a handful of ashes, which he let sift through his fingers.
She was a very thin, mousy, slightly stooped woman looking no older than a student.
Instead he stooped to untie the young woman as fast as his iron-strong fingers could unknot her.
Sliding off the chair she stooped a moment and retrieved the bouncy ball that had been thrown at her.
I was then only seven or eight, and can only remember a kindly man with sparkling eyes who stooped low to talk to me.
She said nothing because she was stooped over a pile of clothes on her desk, waiting to be put back in her bureau.
He stooped down and carefully peered around the doorway, both ways.
With her lowered head and stooped shoulders, she totters across the stage.
She stooped to look at what Andrew had been writing, but had only scanned a few lines when the toilet flushed and Andrew emerged from the bathroom.
The hunter eventually overcame his fear and stooped to examine the water.
A wave of guilt washed over me and I stooped down to pick him up.
Now aged seventy, his feet and hips are bearing the cost of his stooped shuffle through the tunnels, and his breathing is heavy with black lung, the miner's disease.
He stooped down to the window and looked right at me, grinning.
Christopher is approaching 83, a stocky, somewhat stooped figure who walks in a determined fashion through the house and gardens as if he were 30 years younger.
Borrowing a pen from another tourist, she stooped down to the boy's level.
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The next morning the sun finally drilled a tunnel through the smother of clouds that squatted on the plain so low I stooped when I got into my Bronco.
All you need is the will to blindly tread where no man has stooped before.
The gentleman stooped down and plucked one of the blooms from its bed.
The babe walked over to the stooped figure at the microphone and threw his arms around Lou's neck.
She remembers a tiny, stooped little old man, frail and slow.
His older brother had died of tuberculosis in the spring of 1789, a twisted, stooped, sad little figure, wasting away under the gilded ceilings of Versailles.
Cyril stooped and picked up a handful of small pebbles and jounced them in his hand to shake away the loose dust, then the resumed their leisurely walk along the track.
He stooped down to touch the road, then straightened up, worried.
He then stooped down next to me and ran a hand over my hair.
Swiss actor, Bruno Ganz, portrays Hitler, and is said to achieve a photographic likeness of the stooped, 56-year-old dictator, who was plagued by Parkinson's disease.
With his peroxide head bowed, eyes closed, the old man feels his way forward, bandy legs shuffling, shoulders stooped, senses bat sharp, as keen as razor wire.
He walked past, somewhat stooped, without paying any attention to me.
Morgan almost stooped in mid-stride causing the horse to shy away.
You have stooped to the lowest of the low in parliamentary debate.
The difference is that millions of peons didn't have to go blind or stooped financing Caesars, or the MGM Grand, or Wynn's stately pleasure domes.
Germany, Italy, Spain and Belgium writhed in the throes of Anarchy, while Russia, watching from the Caucasus, stooped and bound them one by one.
He threw Dormer the paper, stooped to pat the flea-ridden puppy of the hotel, and went in.
Oliver seized a pen and scribbled out the order, and handed the pen to the second officer, Colonel Hacker who stooped to sign it.
Blacks in the fields, lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton.
The girl stooped to pluck a rose, and as she bent over it, her profile was clearly outlined.
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Presently the bird stooped and seized a salmon, and a violent struggle ensued.
He still looks wonderfully young, despite his awkward, shuffling, slinking walk, and his stooped shoulders.
By the time he stooped to lift him up, we were all in the Tilly that Fiver had brought out to meet us.
Rather than engaging in a civil and constructive debate, Hahn unashamedly and repeatedly stooped to fear-mongering and demagoguery.
Frome turned away again, and taking up his razor stooped to catch the reflection of his stretched cheek in the blotched looking-glass above the wash-stand.
A coin on the ground caught the sun and I stooped to pick it up.
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She stooped ever so slightly and touched the upstanding mop of his wavy hair.
He stooped a little, and his thin hands were blue-veined, but the nails were like yellow metal.
Just as he stooped, a shell whizzed over where his head would have been if he had not gone after the cootie.
When this process was completed, she stooped down and kissed me, and I felt a hot tear fall upon my cheek as she rose again.
Sim had stooped to pick up the quarter the Prince of Wales had hove at him.
The package of spareribs fell from under his arm, and he stooped to pick it up.
She bent over the battlement, stooped her face towards me, and kissed me on the mouth.
He stooped and fastened the straps about the forelegs of the horse just above the fetlock.
Then he stooped and gently lifted the fire chief and carried him home without waking him.
She put it on the floor and stooped forward, turning the vessel like a whirligig.
Ingmar Ingmarson had just stooped down and cut off a birch twig, when the wind came tearing along laden with snow.
She set it down and stooped forward, turning the bowl as if it were a whirligig.
But quite as many are pale and stooped from desk work, or pasty from good living.
Going in, I knocked a big cheese off the counter and stooped to pick it up.
Frieda stooped, rummaged a minute, and then produced a dress of pink cotton, fussily trimmed with lace and ribbons.
The Osset warriors stooped their white head-dresses under this heavy bar, and disappeared in the gloom inside.
Barney stooped and removed the bandoleer of cartridges from the fallen trooper, as well as his revolver and carbine.
He stooped, thinking he had caught it, but took up only a handful of soapy foam.
For instance, that part of his throat which was not sunburnt, because he stooped.
As she had stooped to pick it up, she had been knocked to her knees by the onrush of the others.
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As she saw this figure she suddenly flung off the coat and stooped to the tea tray in the middle of the floor.
The Marquise spoke to him kindly, and she stooped to pat the dog's glossy head.
After a while, the thick-skulled stooped, grinning, and laid his knife against the thongs.
A third stooped low with his hands on his hips that he might not lose a lunge or a parry.
When we approached the ticket office she whispered to me to stoop a little, and I stooped.
He laughed, stooped over Black Hood, pressed the muzzle of his gun to the manhunter's forehead.
She stooped and picked up a maple leaf, blushed with the rudeness of the frost.
Dorothy stooped to get a drink and discovered in the water a green crab, about as big as her hand.
Reluctantly the man whose house had been invaded stooped and unlaced his brogan.
How he had stooped to trickery and had stolen the gold with which to pay for Valhalla.
So the trillium, who was telegraph operator, stooped down and dragged up a thread-like root, fine as wire.
Then he stooped down and, after feeling about in the mud near his uncaught foot, he picked up a short bar of iron.
Lance stooped indifferently to untie his slicker and blanket from the saddle.
Mr. Mix sneezed again, and stooped to kiss her cheek, but mirabelle avoided him.
He stooped, and with his lips just touched her hair where the firelight made it ruddiest.
Mr. Hayley stooped, really with the innocent intention of moving the parcel out of the way.
While Urquhart was playing his shoelace became loosened, and he stooped to tie it.
Who that ever stooped his head beneath a Highland hut would grudge a few gallons of Glenlivet to its poor but unrepining inmates?
She even stooped and patted the unresigned little dog as she passed him, going into the house.
As soon as his meagre back was turned Knight stooped and retrieved the letter in its envelope, unscorched, from the fireplace.
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Nance, all ashake with disgust, stooped suddenly and picked up a lump of rock.
Then Walter stooped down and gat his bow into his hand, and stood before the Maid, while he nocked an arrow.
The novella stooped towards the prisoner and touched his face with her lips.
The officiant paused a moment, stooped, and gathered and threw reverently on the coffin a handful of rattling coral.
Theydon stooped, opened a dressing case lying at his feet, and took out the automatic pistol placed there by Bates.
Ben stooped, picked up a stone, and threw it at dunder, striking him in the flank.
And there she stayed, and stooped, digging around the plants, trimming, picking dead, dry leaves.
Scott stooped, and raised the valance with the greatest precaution.
The Acadian stooped at once and with a quick splash launched his canoe.
Mr Pancks glanced at the wall of the adjoining room, and stooped forward.
With an admonitory gesture to keep them back, he stooped, and looked in through the crevice in the wall.
And, yet again, Atalanta stooped to pick up the apple of gold.
Her eyes filled, and she stooped as though to kiss the outstretched hand.
Just as the mate spoke to him and stooped to pat him, Jerry whiffed Skipper somewhere near at hand.
Once he stooped to pick a flower which he stuck in his buttonhole.
There were tears in Miss clotilda's eyes as she stooped to kiss her.
He stooped, picked it up, and cast it contemptuously from him.
Mr. Marks stooped, plucked a cowslip and held it to his lips.
The captain of the airship watching this quarter seems to have stooped to lasso and drag from its staff a flag hoisted upon Morgan Hall.
Then devine stooped and, filling his wide hat, held it up to him dripping.
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Tarzan stooped to examine the shreds of clothing that still lay about the bones.
Whatever have been his errors, he never stooped to dissimulation.
If you stooped over too far forward, you risked their pitching out of you like billiard-balls.
He was tall, slightly inclined to embonpoint, and stooped a little.
He stooped to the fire, picked up a blazing branch, and slipped in an instant through a sallyport which he had made in our gateway.
Rosemary stooped and felt carefully down about Fannie's feet.
She stooped to kiss the child, and fondly clasped her arm round his neck.
He stooped to recover it, looking under the freight car, as he did so.
Now, if that fellow was wearing braces and stooped like that, you'd say he'd burst those braces, wouldn't you?
He stooped to meet the guileless face that met his without shrinking.
Barthes, for his part, stooped and kissed Guillaume on both cheeks.
Marie stooped to pluck a flower, and slipped behind the shrub.
Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
He stooped a little, and with his tattered blue cap pointed under the carriage.
Birch stooped over his holystone, and Peters turned to go forward again.
As he stooped and kissed her, he felt a hot tear roll down her cheek.
Bower brushed past, and the guide stooped to recover his ice ax.
A slight noise had caught his ear, he had stooped, listening.
Then He stooped and kissed the tree, and then He turned and went away.
I stooped until my lips were on a level with my intendant's ear.
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Unexpectedly he stooped, and caught Wulf by the collar of his tunic.
He saw an old man suffering and dying, and he stooped and felt of his wounds and stanched the flow of blood.
He stooped and picked it up, a certain stealthiness apparent in his movement.
There was something awful in his unconsciousness of the figure that could have put out its hand and touched him as he stooped over his labour.
As she was coming to again, Margherita stooped and whispered Caponsacchi.
He held something which flashed in his right hand, and he stooped at the threshold to unloose the black hound.
Hobson turned aside and stooped to cut a branch from a mimosa bush.
He was a roundish figure, moon-faced, slightly stooped shoulders.
Old Mother Nature stooped and made a little hole in that ridge.
At the water's edge the ape-man stooped and with hunting knife and quick strong fingers deftly removed the dead kid's viscera.
The unhappy lover stooped down with a sigh, and dipping his finger in the water let fall a drop on the sand.
He stooped to pick up something which had been lying on the ground beside him when he piped.
The Vengeance stooped, and the jar of a drum was heard as she moved it at her feet behind the counter.
The Figures stooped, lifted the Hive and shook it upside down over the pyre.
I know how to chastise children, you see,' said the scoundrel, grimly, as he stooped to repossess himself of the key, which had dropped to the floor.
Alleyne stooped and kissed her, for the kiss was the common salutation of the age, and, as Erasmus long afterwards remarked, more used in England than in any other country.
And he stooped again over the target, putting something with his finger over each of the shot-holes, so far as March could see merely a dull-gray smear.
His slightly stooped shoulders were draped in an ill-fitting, though immaculate, frock coat, and a shiny silk hat added to the incongruity of his garb in an African jungle.
I had stooped and was scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the colonel looking down at me.
Then, to my horror, he coolly stooped, placing candle and chair on the leads, and his hands in his pockets, as though it were but a popgun that covered him.
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Carton stooped to pick up the coat, which lay almost entangling his feet.
Her shoulders were a little stooped and her hair and eyes brown.
The second claimant stooped quickly beneath the lifted hunting-crop.
The gleam of the electric light flashed across the stone floor and rested for a moment upon a trapdoor, which Meekins had already stooped to lift.
She stooped, and discovered that the tinkling substance was a rusty key.
