dumb-bell

So it is that Mr. Turner will go to Washington, and the Ninth District, in its present gerrymandered dumb-bell configuration, with a narrow link between Brooklyn and Queens, will retire to well-deserved oblivion, having enjoying its moment in the spotlight.

Henry J. Stern: Big Apple Turnover Henry J. Stern 2011

"This is what we are after, Mr. Barker -- this bundle, weighted with a dumb-bell, which you have just raised from the bottom of the moat."

Chennai 2010

From within he extracted a dumb-bell, which he tossed down to its fellow in the corner.

Chennai 2010

"One dumb-bell" Holmes said seriously; but his remarks were interrupted by a sharp knock at the door.

Chennai 2010

The holes created by their mandibles either side of the leaf vein are bordered by scar tissue, producing an unmistakable dumb-bell shape.

'Zombie ants' controlled by parasitic fungus for 48m years 2010

Can one branch become weaker with a dumb-bell or groiup of dumb-bells, at their head?

After Ginsburg? "A woman? It seems certain. It’s inconceivable that the Court could be all-male...." Ann Althouse 2009

His notion of keeping sacred the dignity of domestic life is to issue peremptory orders that the grandfather is to get up at five in the morning and do dumb-bell exercises, or the grandmother to march twenty miles to a camp to procure a Swastika flag.

Vintage Distributism Athanasius 2007

Last week in the paper there was a shocking story of a young Iraqi lady who was brutally beaten around the head with a dumb-bell bar by her brother, who was ordered by her father to murder her.

Islamic Barbarism & Savagery upon our streets Lionheart 2007

His notion of keeping sacred the dignity of domestic life is to issue peremptory orders that the grandfather is to get up at five in the morning and do dumb-bell exercises, or the grandmother to march twenty miles to a camp to procure a Swastika flag.

Archive 2007-07-01 Kelly M. 2007

I had a rubdown and then got into pyjamas for some dumb-bell exercises with two chairs, for that long wet ride had stiffened my arm and shoulder muscles.

Greenmantle 2005