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  • I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand and look back at him.†   (source)
  • The miserable weakness was still there, like most of his insides had been sucked right out and all he had left were a few bones and tendons to hold himself erect.†   (source)
  • Fine beads of sweat had broken out on his forehead, and tendons stood out on his calves.†   (source)
  • His tendons were snapped by a knife, to keep him from running.†   (source)
  • The bullet had hit him in the shoulder, severing tendons and ligaments, shattering bone.†   (source)
  • Only a few ropes of pale tendon still attached the head to the neck.†   (source)
  • Probably because the bloke who prepared his body forgot to snip the tendons, so they shrank up when he burned—†   (source)
  • Peony's fingers twitched when Cinder hit a tendon, making her jump.†   (source)
  • Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons; he felt his jaw vibrate, his eyes wobble in his head.†   (source)
  • First he took out the tendons, bringing the troll to its knees, then he abandoned the mace and went to work with gauntleted hands, perhaps deadlier than the mace had been.†   (source)
  • The tendons of his thighs and calves and ankles were hot and trembly.†   (source)
  • I poked one, it was resilient, so probably it was a tendon.†   (source)
  • Tendons strained and popped as she battled gravity.†   (source)
  • The surgeons cut my tendons to relieve pressure so my kneecaps would slide back over.†   (source)
  • The tendon of his jaw was working, so I knew he was preparing a revelation.†   (source)
  • As I stared at the skeleton, I imagined muscles and sinews and tendons fusing with the bones, skin and fur growing over it all.†   (source)
  • I can feel the flexed tendons beneath my hand even though I am not touching him.†   (source)
  • Little was left to be found except the skeleton, some random shreds of tissue and tendon, and the cruciform-still attached to the rib cage like some splendid cross packed in the sarcophagus of a long-dead pope.†   (source)
  • I could see his hand on his left leg was clenched into a fist, tendons standing out under his pale skin.†   (source)
  • The only one seem to pay her any tendon at all is Harpo and Squeak's little girl, Suzie Q. She sit cross from Sofia and squinch up her eyes at her.†   (source)
  • One time early on, the pain in the nerves and tendons behind my thighs and back was so intense, I let my feet drop.†   (source)
  • Indeed, Oedipus's feet are damaged from the thong that was put through his Achilles tendons when, as an infant, he was sent away to die in the wilderness.†   (source)
  • In a mass protest decades ago, thirty-one prisoners cut their Achilles tendons, lest they be sent again to work.†   (source)
  • A tendon had been severed.†   (source)
  • His icy control had cracked and Clary could see the molten rage seething underneath, coiling the tendons in his neck, clenching his hands into fists.†   (source)
  • The tendons in Bast's hand creaked as he tightened his grip on the circle of iron.†   (source)
  • We'll start with finger muscles, palm tendons, and tip sensitivity.†   (source)
  • The first impression was like one you'd get if you took the back off a radio set: tiny canals, weaving tendons, miniature screws and wheels were all drawn with obsessive precision, and only when you held the page away could you see it was some kind of armadillo, say, or a bird.†   (source)
  • I could squeeze it without him yelping, and I suspected he had pulled a tendon.†   (source)
  • His neck followed his head, tendons straining, and then his chest, his half-unbuttoned, sweaty, gray-and-brown shirt.†   (source)
  • I was surprised to see the tendons in her hands beginning to show themselves from age.†   (source)
  • The tendons in his neck relaxed.†   (source)
  • Mama rolled her head from side to side, pulling at the tendons in her neck, groaning loudly now, hissing with the painful pleasure of his cure.†   (source)
  • The tendon's attached to the scar tissue, and that's still really sensitive.†   (source)
  • I hear tendons creaking and snapping.†   (source)
  • I dig my fingers into the tendons of the brute's arms, trying to work myself free.†   (source)
  • He goes to the bed and with one hand grabs the old Vegetable Blastic by the heel and lifts him straight up like Blastic don't weigh more'n a few pounds; with the other hand the worker drives the hook through the tendon back of the heel, and the old guy's hanging there upside down, his moldy face blown up big, scared, the eyes scummed with mute fear.†   (source)
  • They worked; so she had not sliced a tendon.†   (source)
  • It was nearly a two-hour commute, followed by a day of tendon-ripping labor, but he was willing--the money and the benefits were exceptional.†   (source)
  • While it was usually well intentioned, to me it was just a reaction of muscles and tendons that meant nothing.†   (source)
  • …inside the vaulting of the ribs between his knees the darkly meated heart pumped of who's will and the blood pulsed and the bowels shifted in their massive blue convolutions of who's will and the stout thighbones and knee and cannon and the tendons like flaxen hawsers that drew and flexed and drew and flexed at their articulations and of who's will all sheathed and muffled in the flesh and the hooves that stove wells in the morning groundmist and the head turning side to side and the…†   (source)
  • Mueller still on the ground at third, injured sliding or not sliding, stopping short and catching his spikes on the bag, a man in pain, the flare of pulled tendons.†   (source)
  • A tendon running up the back of Seabiscuit's left foreleg was strained.†   (source)
  • He watched them work on his nerves, muscles, tendons.†   (source)
  • I knew I had dislocated it, and probably torn some tendons and muscles too, but I didn't want to see a doctor.†   (source)
  • Reinforcements race to the bones and tendons in my feet, ankles, shins, knees, and pelvis.†   (source)
  • Plus, you need to get it looked at to see if you sliced a tendon or something.†   (source)
  • He stopped in the doorway and sputtered, the wiry veins and tendons in his face and neck pulsating violently.†   (source)
  • I chose the spot that had been most exquisite for me: the shallow between the ankle bone and the tendon that rose up the back of the leg.†   (source)
  • Every muscle and tendon in my body was straining, and my stomach clenched real hard.†   (source)
  • But despite these measures, in just hours a creeping red wave extended down from the fingertip and into the tendon sheath in the palm.†   (source)
  • I thrust out my arms, which were immediately forced upward, wrists and one ankle breaking on impact despite my armor's reinforcement, tendons and muscles rearing, and we began a tumble sideways.†   (source)
  • His lungs bursting, every muscle and tendon in his legs stretched to the breaking point, St. Jacques reached his sister's house.†   (source)
  • In that first stumble Gulliver had cracked a knee and torn tendons and the pain and fear that filled his head showed in the whites of his eyes as he reeled and pranced and tried to free himself of this thing that hung hooked to his side.†   (source)
  • Every tendon is straining, stretched taut like the muscles of cows at the butcher shop that had died in fear.†   (source)
  • More cartilage and tendon tissue were lost from the chronic inflammation.†   (source)
  • She could see the tendons in his neck as he strained against the straps.†   (source)
  • He was still being cautious, not wanting me to be injured or somehow stunt my growth or otherwise negatively impact the proper development of bones, tendons, and the like.†   (source)
  • They follow the ragged flesh where the knife sawed through the tendons and muscles.†   (source)
  • If someone had shown that youth to the Hank Rearden of that time and told him that this was to be the goal of his steps, the collector of the energy of his aching tendons, what would he haveIt was not a thought, it was like the punch of a fist inside his skull.†   (source)
  • Jonathan gently took it back and started to massage the tendons.†   (source)
  • Above the knees, though, he's scrawny, bruised skin stuck tight to his ribs and skull, arms all tendon and bone.†   (source)
  • I noticed the muscles running along her forearms and the tightness in the tendons of her hands.†   (source)
  • They put a pack frame on him and loaded it with iron rods until the tendons at the sides of his knees were so sharply defined they cast shadows.†   (source)
  • They aimed their blows to cripple, using the basic tenet of dwarven giant-fighting philosophy: the sharp edge of an axe cuts the tendon and muscles on the back of a knee, the flat head of a hammer crushes the kneecap in the front.†   (source)
  • It would hurt less if her muscles and tendons were not constricted.†   (source)
  • He kicked his boots loose from the stirrups and stretched his legs; the tendons and muscles unlocked from the flexed position of the saddle.†   (source)
  • An anatomy lesson, the feel of the tendons stretching, the muscles and fluids and tissues moving like a machine.†   (source)
  • What they hoped was to distract him at the front while the others bit the tendons in his back legs in half.†   (source)
  • His neck tendons stretched out.†   (source)
  • The Admiral tried to stretch, and a joint or tendon cracked audibly.†   (source)
  • Audubon knew the finest-drawn tendons of the body and the working of their power, for he had touched them, and he supposed then that in man the enlargement of the eye to see started a motion in the hands to make or do, and that the narrowing of the eye stopped the hand and contracted the heart.†   (source)
  • Edward's arms were rigid around me; his hands were in fists now, the tendons standing out.†   (source)
  • Tendons began to stand out on her inner arm.†   (source)
  • The wires tore loose, like tendons stretched to the max.†   (source)
  • Or perhaps those weren't bones but tendons?†   (source)
  • Tendons stood out on her neck, and her head twisted in a questing upward rotation.†   (source)
  • She could hear the low creak of the tendons in her neck.†   (source)
  • He had damaged the weakened areas, stretching tendons and muscles not yet fully restored.†   (source)
  • I would have to cut through tendons and muscles and veins to get to the chip.†   (source)
  • The tendons in Blitz's neck looked like they might bust his well-starched collar.†   (source)
  • Birgit twisted the dagger with increasing urgency, the back of her fists ridged with tendons.†   (source)
  • Invisible ice cracked in Clary's joints and tendons as she stood up.†   (source)
  • "Does he really have a sore tendon?" asked one.†   (source)
  • I could see a flash of white, either sinew or tendon or a tooth fragment.†   (source)
  • He screamed, but he could not hear his voice, and he felt veins pop and tendons snap.†   (source)
  • Without thinking, Eragon hacked at it, shattering a line of scales and severing a bundle of tendons.†   (source)
  • Panic made her rough, and she heard the tendons in his jaw creak.†   (source)
  • I wince at the sliced a tendon comment and I catch her smirk at me again.†   (source)
  • She wondered if the knife had hit bone or cut any tendons.†   (source)
  • Murtagh refused to answer, but she saw the tendons on the back of his hands tighten.†   (source)
  • She wore slippers, and you could see her thick ankles naked, her naked heels and tendons.†   (source)
  • He unconsciously squeezed until the tendons on his forearm stood out like taut wires.†   (source)
  • The lady of the house is in the bedroom, tucked under the king-sized pink and gold duvet, one arm and shoulder blade outside the covers, bones and tendons in a leopard-skin-print nightie.†   (source)
  • He heard another crash, and a picture formed in his mind: mausoleum doors smashing open, the corpses of centuries-dead Shadowhunters staggering free, nothing more than skeletons held together by dried tendon, dragging themselves across the white floors of the Silent City with fleshless, bony fingers— Enough!†   (source)
  • Sweat beads across her forehead, her face bright red under the strain, tendons standing out on her neck.†   (source)
  • He felt so suddenly shocked by this that he felt Faber was really dead, baked like a roach in that small green capsule shoved and lost in the pocket of a man who was now nothing but a frame skeleton strung with asphalt tendons.†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was the newly shot part, or maybe the blown-up parts, or just the tendons which could take no more strain.†   (source)
  • The surprise was that she restrained herself, suppressed the bite pressure that could have crushed the bones in his forearm, checked the upward jerk that could have sliced across tendon, muscle, and vein from wrist to elbow in a track just like his father's.†   (source)
  • Tyler tried to curl Dad's fingers, to elongate the tendons and prevent the deformity from becoming permanent, but Dad couldn't bear the pain.†   (source)
  • A timed side blow missed by the barest fraction from severing the tendons of the na-Baron's left leg.†   (source)
  • There came the watermelon-carving sound of blades piercing flesh, of hooks being pulled free of tendon and bone.†   (source)
  • Nelson drew his knife and knelt to help me with the tedious work of cutting through the tendons and peeling back the pelt.†   (source)
  • If the knife has become dull, additional pressure is placed on the worker's tendons, joints, and nerves.†   (source)
  • She touched at Hatter's wound with a glowing rod to clean it and stop the bleeding, then slipped a U-shaped sleeve of interconnected NRG nodes and fusing cores over his shoulder, giving it time to repair his broken bone, torn ligaments, muscles, veins, and tendons.†   (source)
  • She tipped the blade of the axe flat, the tendons standing out in her strong right wrist, and he could see the wink of the amethyst ring she still wore on the pinkie finger of that hand.†   (source)
  • Tendons and hips seemed to be the main problems, but guys needed muscle-stretching exercises to keep them supple for the day ahead.†   (source)
  • Feyd-Rautha danced away, leaving a barbed shaft in the slave's right forearm, the hooks completely buried in flesh where the man could not withdraw them without ripping tendons.†   (source)
  • The tendon?†   (source)
  • Watching the dog move told Edgar it would be two weeks—two, three, even—before they could travel, assuming Tinder's paw didn't get infected, and he hadn't cut a tendon or ligament so vital he would (as Henry had so delicately suggested) be crippled.†   (source)
  • There were nerves,-there were blood vessels,-there were tendons: All these things were slippery and elusive.†   (source)
  • Her eyes looked sunken in her face, and you could see all the tendons in her neck, moving like puppet strings whenever she turned her head.†   (source)
  • I liked the way the muscles moved over the bones, the bend of the joints and the pull of the tendons.†   (source)
  • Mark's right elbow shuddered in pain, trembling as if the tendons and bone and tissue were coming apart.†   (source)
  • One struck the knee of one of the captives, and it burst apart in a gout of blood and bone that left the man's lower leg dangling by a rope of dark red tendon.†   (source)
  • There stood the Crusher, all ropes and tendons, all steel and iron all bone-monger, jaw-cruncher, horseshoe-taffy-puller.†   (source)
  • His hands, where they gripped the window frame, looked enormous, with the tendons and veins more prominent under the russet skin.†   (source)
  • The man kicked like a rabbit and broke Roran's grip, but Roran grabbed his ankle again and squeezed it through the thin leather, digging his fingers into the tendon at the back of the heel until the man roared in pain.†   (source)
  • I could feel the tendons tangle on the outside of my skin and the fever in my head steaming against the pillow.†   (source)
  • Their faces have no flesh or hide, just a carapace of bone and exposed tendons, gleaming fangs, and dark, sunken eye sockets.†   (source)
  • The nails were clean and clipped, the tendons ropy It was hard to imagine the fingers curled around a pistol, pulling a trigger twice.†   (source)
  • As Adam helped extract Billy and the other injured men from the mangled vehicle, Dave noticed Adam's right hand: its fingers were dangling by skin and tendons, every digit but the thumb severed.†   (source)
  • Releasing his arm, Jason instantly crashed both his hands simultaneously into the woman's shoulder blades where the tendons weave into the neck muscles.†   (source)
  • Alessandro was thinking about the similarity, and about the ability of frailty to become strength, when he heard a huge clatter and then the phonograph needle sliding across the cylinder like a sabre cutting through tendons.†   (source)
  • He'd passed that point where the soft muscles of childhood hardened into the solid, lanky build of a teenager; the tendons and veins had become prominent under the red-brown skin of his arms, his hands.†   (source)
  • They saw a man who'd cut his eyeball out of its socket because it contained a satanic symbol, a five-pointed star, and Edgar talked to this one, he'd popped the eyeball from his head and then severed the connecting tendons with a knife, and she talked to him in English and understood what he said although he spoke a language, a dialect none of them had ever heard—finally flushing the eye down the communal toilet outside his cubbyhole.†   (source)
  • Jeb waited until Ian, the tendons standing out in his taut neck, stiffly returned to a seated position.†   (source)
  • She could see the outline of his skeleton through the transparency of his skin, golden bones connected by tendons of fire.†   (source)
  • His head pops back up from the couch, the tendons on his neck straining so hard that I wonder just how weak he really is.†   (source)
  • Stringy tendons appear in his forearms.†   (source)
  • Jumbo's gun: The 12th System locks in on it and thousands of microscopic droids go to work augmenting the muscles, tendons, and nerves in my hands, eyes, and brain to neutralize the threat.†   (source)
  • His head leans back, and tendons stand out like coiled ropes running from his heaving neck down both arms to his hands.†   (source)
  • Smith slid his hands over the horse's joints and tendons, feeling for the uniform cool firmness of a healthy leg.†   (source)
  • Cujo bit him high on the shoulder, his powerful jaws dosing and crunching through the bare skin, pulling tendons like wires.†   (source)
  • Jared's face turned red when his lips parted, and the tendons in his neck strained like he was shouting, but I heard nothing.†   (source)
  • Eragon found his hands gripping the staff with such force, his knuckles were white and tendons ridged the insides of his wrists.†   (source)
  • I tighten my grip until my tendons dig into his windpipe and half-drag, half-march him to beyond the end of the midway.†   (source)
  • Their livelihood gave them no choice but to keep walking, and slowly a fungus overran the foot, invaded bone, tendon, and muscle.†   (source)
  • The feel of gravity, too, was a surprising pleasure, as was the fact that he could extend his arm and bring it back, and that its strength was intact and served by the complicated apparatus of muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons, and bone compounded within his arm like a block and tackle used to raise a plinth.†   (source)
  • He screamed a curse as his shoulder grated, the muscles and tendons pulling in ways they were not supposed to stretch.†   (source)
  • Roran gripped the head of the hammer stuck through his belt, veins and tendons standing out on his hand, but his tone remained polite.†   (source)
  • I stretched my arms out as far as they would go, tugging against the tendons until some of my joints cracked.†   (source)
  • His movements were smooth and flowing as he bent Anjali's head toward her chest to check for neck stiffness, as he felt for lymph nodes, moved her limbs, and as he tapped her patellar tendon using his cocked finger in lieu of a reflex hammer.†   (source)
  • He sipped the pungent mead, then tossed the bones again and caught two of them on the back of his hand, where they lay rocking on the ridges of his tendons.†   (source)
  • His chair creaked as he pressed his forearms down against the armrests, the tendons in his hands rigid with strain.†   (source)
  • Stone's dissection of the hand was so elegant (with just the tendon sheath exposed on the middle finger, while on the ring finger he carried it further to lay open the sheath and show the tendons of flexor sublimis like the wires of a suspension bridge, the profundus tendon coursing between them) that the anatomy professor preserved it to show the first-year students.†   (source)
  • Fadawar trembled as he transferred his knife from his right hand to his left; tradition dictated a maximum of six cuts per arm, else you risked severing the veins and tendons close to the wrist.†   (source)
  • The male poorhouse specimen of his first-year anatomy class had been ancient and shriveled with ghostly muscles and tendons, such being the common tender of Edinburgh anatomy theaters.†   (source)
  • Stone's dissection of the hand was so elegant (with just the tendon sheath exposed on the middle finger, while on the ring finger he carried it further to lay open the sheath and show the tendons of flexor sublimis like the wires of a suspension bridge, the profundus tendon coursing between them) that the anatomy professor preserved it to show the first-year students.†   (source)
  • An involuntary groan escaped him as his fingers popped back into their sockets, and as his abraded tendons and crushed cartilage regained the fullness of their proper shapes, and as the flaps of skin hanging from his knuckles again covered the raw flesh below.†   (source)
  • Eragon sensed no surge of magic from Murtagh, but the object in his hand flared and Thorn's broken wing jerked as his bones snapped back in place and muscles and tendons rippled and the tears in them vanished.†   (source)
  • Her neck and wrists were tendoned cords emerging from a shapeless sweater.†   (source)
  • One by one, the renegade aimed the point of his blade at the soldiers' upper chests, their single vulnerable spot (a medallion-sized area above the breastplate, at the base of the steel-tendoned neck); a direct hit cut through vital inner workings and sent sparks flying, killing them.†   (source)
  • At the house, Noah slipped his knife between tendon and bone of the hind legs; the pointed sticks held the legs apart, and the carcasses were hung from the two-by-four rafters that stuck out from the house.†   (source)
  • He'd never have those tendons, those muscles that even beneath the thick undershirt, bulged and flattened between shoulder and armpit, No, he'd never be that strong, and yet he had to be, he had to be.†   (source)
  • Then she sat down beside Macomber again and looked away across the stream to where the lion lay, with uplifted, white-muscled, tendon-marked naked forearms, and white bloating belly, as the black men fleshed away the skin.†   (source)
  • One leg was gone and the other was held by tendons and part of the trouser and the stump twitched and jerked as though it were not connected.†   (source)
  • His closed fist, held down and back, seemed to clutch invisible wires that stretched to every key spot of his lanky, fleshless body, under the ragged pants and shirt, to the long, swollen tendon of his bare arm, to the taut cords of his neck.†   (source)
  • Bernard stood for a second or two wambling unsteadily on legs that seemed to have lost their bones, their tendons, their muscles, to have become mere sticks of jelly, and at last not even jelly-water: he tumbled in a heap on the floor.†   (source)
  • She would cook for you if she wanted to, feed you, coach you, instruct you, play mah-jongg with you, and there was scarcely anything you could do about it, she had so much more force than anybody else around; with her light eyes and the pale, fox stain of her freckles lying in the dust of powder or on the back of her hands, with long hard rays of the tendons.†   (source)
  • He saw Anselmo scrambling down the steep cut to the far end of the bridge and he slung the submachine gun over his shoulder and picked up the two heavy packs from behind the pine trunks and with one in each hand, the packs pulling his arms so that he felt the tendons would pull out of his shoulders, he ran lurching down the steep slope to the road.†   (source)
  • The short shirt sleeves left his arms in the light; vertical ridges of shadow stressed the tensed muscles of his arms and the tendons of his neck.†   (source)
  • He leaned on one straight arm, his hand closed over the edge of the table, the tendons showing under the skin of his wrist.†   (source)
  • She saw it again: his fingertips pressed to the stone, his long fingers continuing the straight lines of the tendons that spread in a fan from his wrist to his knuckles.†   (source)
  • His fingers twitched as if the tendons running up into his arms were being pulled.†   (source)
  • It is tough with congealed tendons—a wad of muscle—but still contains some oil.†   (source)
  • Anatomy presented our researcher with human limbs skinned and prepared for study; it showed him both the surface and the deeper structure of muscles, tendons, and ligaments, those of the thigh, the foot, and especially the arm, the upper and lower arm; it taught him the Latin names that medicine—that adumbration of the humanist spirit—had nobly and chivalrously supplied to distinguish them; and it allowed him to penetrate to the skeleton, an illustration of which offered him new…†   (source)
  • But behind him was Dave, likewise straining backward, and behind the sled was Francois, pulling till his tendons cracked.†   (source)
  • It transpired that he had twisted a tendon out of place, and could never have gotten well without attention.†   (source)
  • Under the thatched roofs her mind's eye beheld relaxed tendons and flaccid muscles, spread out in the darkness beneath coverlets made of little purple patchwork squares, and undergoing a bracing process at the hands of sleep for renewed labour on the morrow, as soon as a hint of pink nebulosity appeared on Hambledon Hill.†   (source)
  • …of them tubes filled with marrow, some like blades, some like bulbs, some torqued vertebrae, but all originating in a gelatinous base that with the help of calcium salts and lime had grown Arm enough to support the rest; with its joints made of tendons, cartilage, and slippery, well-oiled balls and sockets; with its more than two hundred muscles; with its central system of organs for nutrition and respiration, for registering and transmitting stimuli; with its protective membranes,…†   (source)
  • Every kind of finer tendon and ligament that is in the nature of poultry to possess is developed in these specimens in the singular form of guitar-strings.†   (source)
  • I had stopped to look at the house as I passed; and its seared red brick walls, blocked windows, and strong green ivy clasping even the stacks of chimneys with its twigs and tendons, as if with sinewy old arms, had made up a rich attractive mystery, of which I was the hero.†   (source)
  • At that instant of extreme danger, a dark hand and glancing knife appeared before him; the Indian released his hold, as the blood flowed freely from around the severed tendons of the wrist; and while Duncan was drawn backward by the saving hand of Uncas, his charmed eyes still were riveted on the fierce and disappointed countenance of his foe, who fell sullenly and disappointed down the irrecoverable precipice.†   (source)
  • At one place in the path he saw a tuft of stringy roots washed white and clean as a bundle of tendons.†   (source)
  • It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than commonly powerful and alert, to seek to hamstring him, as it were, by sundering or maiming his gigantic tail-tendon.†   (source)
  • The tendon was cut, the operation over.†   (source)
  • The operation, moreover, was performed as if by magic, and barely a few drops of blood appeared on the skin, as though to say that the rebellious tendon had at last given way beneath the efforts of art.†   (source)
  • Take away the tied tendons that all over seem bursting from the marble in the carved Hercules, and its charm would be gone.†   (source)
  • Now, as it was an equinus, it was necessary to cut the tendon of Achilles, and, if need were, the anterior tibial muscle could be seen to afterwards for getting rid of the varus; for the doctor did not dare to risk both operations at once; he was even trembling already for fear of injuring some important region that he did not know.†   (source)
  • All round, her unpanelled, open bulwarks were garnished like one continuous jaw, with the long sharp teeth of the sperm whale, inserted there for pins, to fasten her old hempen thews and tendons to.†   (source)
  • But to know which of Hippolyte's tendons to cut, it was necessary first of all to find out what kind of club-foot he had.†   (source)
  • But with this equinus, wide in foot like a horse's hoof, with rugose skin, dry tendons, and large toes, on which the black nails looked as if made of iron, the clubfoot ran about like a deer from morn till night.†   (source)
  • The wide tiers of welded tendons overspreading his broad white forehead, beneath the transparent skin, looked knitted together; as head on, he came churning his tail among the boats; and once more flailed them apart; spilling out the irons and lances from the two mates' boats, and dashing in one side of the upper part of their bows, but leaving Ahab's almost without a scar.†   (source)
  • A tendon snapped; the archers arm went numb; he dropped on one knee, and his bow fell.†   (source)
  • Around the spearhead tendons were split, and darkness veiled his eyes.†   (source)
  • Behind both feet he pierced the tendons, heel to ankle.†   (source)
  • Taking Agamemnon on the flank he hit his arm below the elbow: straight through skin and tendon passed the bright spearpoint.†   (source)
  • Deukalion next he speared, where elbow tendons held together, and the spearpoint pierced through the man's arm.†   (source)
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