The Vikings also invented "eagling", which involved cutting from neck to waist, reaching in, grabbing the ribcage with both hands, and pulling it open like a pair of wings, exposing the lungs & whatnot to the air while all the onlookers guffawed and quaffed their mead. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I sort of think that the Wyden/Brown should get as much consideration on these shows as this legal eagling does. ❋ Jason Linkins (2010)
Peter and I spread-eagling ourselves against the wall and passing him in front of us with his face towards us. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Woods played only one hole under par in a day with little wind and soft greens, eagling the par-5 sixth hole with a 20-foot putt after hitting a 3-iron into the green. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The other men had each taken one of his wrists, and they were pulling his arms wide, spread-eagling him on the bed. ❋ Crichton, Michael, 1942- (2004)
Two statues seized Belbe by the hands and feet, spread - eagling her off the floor like Ertai. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (2000)
And, spread-eagling me in the kitchen, they soon cut loose their fury on me with a dozen concoctions they made from the honey, the eggs, the various syrups and mixtures at their disposal. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1996)
Rourke shouted, rolling over, the rock surface tractionless, his footing gone for one terrifying instant, his body skidding laterally, his arms and legs spread-eagling, finding a purchase. ❋ Ahern, Jerry (1988)
I've got you fixed a few klicks away but you're moving fast nothing nearby Jesus we 'II have to catch him how can we Nigel relaxed, spread-eagling himself to offer the most flow resistance. ❋ Benford, Gregory, 1941- (1984)
'The president of the bank showed me that my business was too weak to stand such spread-eagling. ❋ James A. Cooper (N/A)
"I set it by the ship's time before our capsize, and it goes pretty correctly, for I didn't forget to wind it up all the time we were spread-eagling on the bulwarks." ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)
In an instant he had snatched the roll away and sent the sheets spread-eagling up the street, looking like so many big white butterflies as they flapped and whirled deliriously hither and thither. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)
He came ballooning along towards Rosalie, not running as ordinarily fit and efficient men run, but progressing by a series of enormous leaps and bounds, arms and legs spread-eagling, and at each leap and bound always seeming to Rosalie to spring as high in the air as he sprung forward over the ground. ❋ Unknown (1925)
Official name for spread-eagling a man on a limber wheel, two hours a day for twenty-one days. ❋ Arthur Guy Empey (1923)
It was a bad step for Blenkiron, and we only got him past it by Peter and I spread-eagling ourselves against the wall and passing him in front of us with his face towards us. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
It brought Irish spread-eagling over his head, and it landed him fairly in the middle of Patsy's great pan of soft bread "sponge" -- and landed him upon his head into the bargain. ❋ B. M. Bower (1905)
She glanced from the helmet which the airman held toward her to the monoplane spread-eagling on the ground. ❋ Unknown (1901)
He reached the turn in two-under 34 after teeing off at the 10th and then rocketed up the leaderboard with birdies at the second, third, fourth and fifth before eagling the sixth. ❋ Unknown (2011)
