Word: gaited
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...officers have studied every possible escape route through river, canal, drainage ditch and cow trail. They are familiar with the telltale habits of their quarry. Most aliens are hungry, dirty, and walk with a nervous gait. Their clothes may betray them. On the wall in Lomblot's office, a big picture frame encloses types of Mexican and American shoe heels so that an agent can tell the difference at a glance...
...part requires extraordinary control, an ability to comically etch the distinctions between the rogue as rogue and the rogue as aesthete through consistent variations of voice and gait. Jackel too often mixes the two; under Seltzer's direction, he relies overmuch on standard poses to suggest his aestheticism, his favorite involving arms exhibitionistically extended to each side and face open in a self-satisfied grin. In failing to differentiate sharply enough between the man who plays a part and the part that the man plays, Jackel not only forfeits many of the humorous possibilities of the role but mutes...
...starts with a high fever and a severe headache, accompanied by swollen glands, vomiting and general pain. Left untreated, the malady gradually worsens. After several months, victims become irritable, then lethargic and sleepy. When they try to walk, they are likely to stumble about with a peculiar shuffling gait. Soon they can no longer stand, sit erect or even eat; often they fall into a coma and die. Their illness is African sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis -an ancient scourge that afflicts at least 10,000 people a year...
...mother." He beat the children whenever he felt the urge, but when he savagely attacked the mother all the children rallied around her, trying their best to protect her. As she was returning home from school one day, her attention was drawn to the sound of an odd gait. She looked up. Approaching her was an old man bearing a shoulder pole with two men's heads, one dangling from each end, still dripping blood. [Evidently they had been executed by decapitation, a common practice in warlord-dominated China.] Stunned, she turned away blindly, ran home, threw her books...
...adjectives or adverbs, which convey a kind of idea-in-sound and add emotion or vividness to the dimension of a description. They are often onomatopoeic, but convey aspects that are not necessarily associated with sounds, especially in English--such as manner, color, taste, smell, silence, action, condition, texture, gait, posture or intensity. To students of theoretical syntax, the serial verb construction found primarily in certain West African languages is of great interest. There exist many other interesting aspects of the languages of Africa, that are most instructive and worthwhile to philologists and objective students of humanistic learning...