For that matter, even the mere sudden lifting or turning of the head would be enough to press the brain with dangerous force against the skull in the direction opposite the movement.

Was there a slight indrawing of her breath--a sudden lifting of her breast?

His eyes were not quite focused, but the sudden lifting of his pain smoothed his features, giving him the aspect of a child awakened from a long-overdue sleep.

Pleasure surged through him and with it, the sudden lifting of pain, of sorrow, of struggle.

He showed no surprise nor sorrow, and, with a sudden lifting of his open hand, seemed to dismiss his former friends or masters (whichever they had been) into God's pleasure.

Svyatog's facial muscles did a quick, indescribable expansion and contraction which, Roark suspected, answered to a sudden lifting of a human's eyebrows over widened eyes.

You can put undue pressure on muscles during the course of normal daily activities, with sudden heavy lifting, during sports, or while performing work tasks.

It was like the sudden lifting of a black cloud.

Warmth crept into her cheeks, a sudden quick lifting of the heart made her spirits soar.

(A sudden lifting of the head.)