Again his spine tingled and the short hairs lifted at the
nape of his neck and along the top of his scalp.
He was a brave man, but he had felt the short hairs bristle upon the
nape of his neck when that uncanny cry rose upon the air.
quick!" Porthos bent over the stair of the mole, and seized by the
nape of the neck one of the officers of the royal army who was waiting to embark till all his people should be in the boat.
"Fine men!" remarked Napoleon, looking at a dead Russian grenadier, who, with his face buried in the ground and a blackened
nape, lay on his stomach with an already stiffened arm flung wide.
You speak to the
nape of my neck, and then I have to twist my head round to answer."