It is possible to measure the activity of each variable instrumently, as has been done by Cheek (2001) for the knuckles and by Mauk (2003) for the wrist.

… she frowned a displeased frown and told me for heaven's sake to stop goggling like a dead halibut.

Among all other was wrytten in her trone / In golde letters, this worde, whiche I dyde rede: / Garder le fortune que est mauelz et bone.

No news of them? Why, so: and I know not what's spend in the search: why thou loss upon loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge: nor no ill luck stirring but what lights on my shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears but of my shedding.