He sat at the table reading a book, his back straight, his head bent as if in prayer.

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The student kept his head bent down in silence.

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The Colonel, finding a gloved hand held out to him, took it in his, and bent his head to kiss it.

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In photographs shown to jurors, Noah's small fists were clenched, his arms were raised above his head, and his lifeless knees were bent, defying gravity.

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She says she comforted the boy as his head swelled and he bent over, throwing up.

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In fact, my dad was at the sink, bent over, holding his head in his hands.

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When I bent my legs and peered in, I could see his back, and the back of his head, and, across the table from him, my smiling radiant wife lifting her wineglass as if in acknowledgment of something he had said.

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