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  • Turning his head to the side, then his whole body, he squeezed his eyes shut and folded his arms tightly, pulling his legs up until he lay in the fetal position.†   (source)
  • I held the duvet open and he climbed into bed beside me, his tufty head burrowing into the other pillow, and curled up into a fetal ball.†   (source)
  • He huddled under the at. oow, curling into a fetal position to keep warm.†   (source)
  • I curl up in a fetal position.†   (source)
  • I wondered if my father could hear me moving around, because he seemed to contort himself more tightly into a fetal position and to cover his eyes even more tightly— as if he feared my mother were coming nearer to him.†   (source)
  • Science looks for answers by probing our unborn fetuses.†   (source)
  • But twice she couldn't keep the fetus.†   (source)
  • Waiting for another plane, he crouched fetally, his arms cradling his head and eyes tight shut, and thought only of survival.†   (source)
  • Ted was in his third year in pre-med, his choice, he told me, ever since he dissected a fetal pig in the sixth grade.†   (source)
  • Each has a placard hung around his neck to show why he has been executed: a drawing of a human fetus.†   (source)
  • My brother curled up into a fetal position and a moment later placed his thumb in his mouth to suck.†   (source)
  • "For a hundred generations he slept, curled like a fetus in the earth's mysterious womb, digested by roots, fermenting in the dark, summer fruits canned and forgotten in the larder until a farmer's spade bore him out, rough midwife to a strange harvest."†   (source)
  • Lacey pulled her knees to her chest and assumed the fetal position.†   (source)
  • As soon as she saw the doctor, she ran to the corner and curled up in a fetal position.†   (source)
  • The one on the opposite side of Peony was occupied by a petite form turned away from her, curled in a fetal position.†   (source)
  • She curled into a fetal position and lay still, her thumb back in her mouth.†   (source)
  • The other ingredients weren't so easy to come by: George visited local slaughterhouses at least once a week to collect cow fetuses and chicken blood.†   (source)
  • He tossed over The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and then curled himself up into a fetal ball to prepare himself for the jump.†   (source)
  • This instinct probably developed to protect the developing fetus against even the mild toxins found in foods like broccoli.†   (source)
  • In Tapachula, they end up down a hole in the cemetery with fetuses and stillborn babies.†   (source)
  • Slowly he pushed his legs out from his fetal curl, scabs cracking.†   (source)
  • I was born with half my brain dried up like a prune, deprived of blood by an unfortunate fetal mishap.†   (source)
  • Kassad moans, rolls again, curls in a fetal position even as he comes again.†   (source)
  • "He was in a fetal position," she said.†   (source)
  • It investigated the discovery on the grounds of three fetuses; a Pinkerton detective "assaulting visitors" at the Tiffany Pavilion; and a "Zulu acting improperly."†   (source)
  • In Pynchon's novel the heroine's resources, really her crutches—and they all happen to be male—are stripped away one by one, shown to be false or unreliable, until she reaches the point where she either must break down, reduced to a little fetal ball, or stand straight and rely on herself.†   (source)
  • When the smoke cleared, he was cowering in a fetal position, wailing like an animal, trying to reach his eyes with his hands.†   (source)
  • She drops into a fetal position to pass underneath a semi, headed for the Jersey barrier in the median strip like she's going to die, but Jersey barriers are easy for the smartwheels.†   (source)
  • She has another baby born with fetal alcohol syndrome, because she was drinking so much grieving the first baby that she marinated the second one.†   (source)
  • They are fetal, splayed, knock-kneed, arched, square-knotted, sometimes almost upside-down.†   (source)
  • I realized I was looking at a human form—an enormous man lying in the fetal position.†   (source)
  • It rocked him to the rhythm of an ancient, fetal heartbeat.†   (source)
  • With the placenta in such distress, the life support for the fetus was giving out.†   (source)
  • The car gets smaller by the hour—I am forced to curl up like a fetus or my legs fall asleep.†   (source)
  • Maia had stopped twitching and was curled into a fetal position on the floor, weeping quietly.†   (source)
  • As usual she was in her warm fetal state, her eyes closed, her breathing shallow, that arm from a sacred dance above her head.†   (source)
  • This would've killed a male fetus.†   (source)
  • It's a strange, unworldly rocking motion, a fetal self-enclosure that seems to shut me out, to shut everything out.†   (source)
  • I fell to my back, contracted into a fetal position, and pulled my knee up to my belly.†   (source)
  • Dr. Sherman, a tall, distinguished-looking man with a gruff but affable demeanor, confirmed that the fetus was dead.†   (source)
  • Something in his tailbone twisted when he went down, so that Doc Cable winced and curled fetally in the snow.†   (source)
  • He remained knotted there in fetal position, paralyzed, his fists covering his eyes, for a long time.†   (source)
  • The face of Eisenhower beamed up at me, bald and blank as the face of a fetus in a bottle.†   (source)
  • Lacy led Alex down the hallway to fetal ultrasound.†   (source)
  • I lay in bed in a private room with the draperies closed and the lights off, curled into the fetal position, listening in disbelief as doctors raised the possibility that I was suffering from a brain tumor.†   (source)
  • She looked at Tad and saw that he had gone into a shock reaction, curling himself up into a tight, fetal ball in his bucket seat, his hands laced together at the nape of his neck, his chest hitching.†   (source)
  • Later, my doctor and my mom would tell me it was much too early to feel a fetus move.†   (source)
  • The room had been abandoned in the middle of childbirths, where dying mothers had aborted fetuses infected with Ebola.†   (source)
  • "I could tell you the ossification pattern for fetal bones, but that's about it."†   (source)
  • "The fetus is the property of the entire society," he proclaimed.†   (source)
  • Bella was half-hidden behind the arm of the sofa, curled up in a loose fetal position, her arms wrapped around her knees.†   (source)
  • Since the 1990s, the spread of ultrasound machines has allowed pregnant women to find out the sex of their fetuses--and then get abortions if they are female.†   (source)
  • Instead, I spent my time reading and studying so I'd know exactly what was supposed to be happening to my growing fetus.†   (source)
  • The program downloaded into human fetuses—that's the bait.†   (source)
  • Expectations, evaluations, internal evasions
    Fly out of me like puddles of blood from a wound
    A fetus from the womb of a corpse in a tomb
    Withered and strewn like red sheets on the bed
    Of an immaculate room.
    I can't breathe,
    I can't win,
    From this indelible position I'm in
    It controls the only piece of my unfortunate soul
    Left to fend for itself in this hollowed-out hole
    That I dug from within, like a prisoner in
    An unlocked cell sitting in the deepest pits of…†   (source)
  • Pregnant women were marched to one killing field where Japanese placed bets on the sex of the fetus about to tumble from its mother's womb, cut by a samurai sword.†   (source)
  • I supposed I could get the eucalyptus tomorrow, but I was going to need it knotted into a rope as part of the spell I planned to cast, and …. well …. it was probably smart that I practiced so I didn't drop anything during the spell or, worse, suddenly discover that eucalyptus wasn't as flexible as I'd expected and it fell to pieces when I tried to knot it and then I'd turn bright red and want to crawl under the rec hall and curl up in a fetal position crying ….†   (source)
  • Inside its jar, shrunken into a fetal position, wrapped in tatters, and accompanied by its wretched necklaces of teeth and a handful of rag dolls, the mummy looked like the pit of some exotic fruit.†   (source)
  • She was not very far along, so we never found a fetus, but the butcher was convinced that he'd rid the world of another girl.†   (source)
  • Lena lay on a heavy stone table, curled in a fetal position.†   (source)
  • He did, and out fell a fetus, its head a little bigger than a grape, eyes tightly shut, limbs folded in like an insect.†   (source)
  • I wanted to roll up into a fetal position and stay there for the rest of my life, which I hoped would be mercifully short.†   (source)
  • Tom curled into a fetal position within the bowels of the lake and began to moan.†   (source)
  • I went to the Admitting desk, told them I was Scarlett's sister and Lamaze partner, and got led back through the double doors, past the emergency-room cots and curtains, to where they had Scarlett on a bed, the fetal monitor already hooked up and beeping.†   (source)
  • Jumping up, he found his friend curled in a fetal position on the floor between their two beds.†   (source)
  • St. Jacques leaped up from his defensive fetal position and vaulted over the gunwale.†   (source)
  • She landed facedown in a fetal position, her legs bent under her.†   (source)
  • Acting as if I were asleep, I'd shrug Patsy off, then roll over to the far side of the bed in the fetal position.†   (source)
  • At the end of the center island, on the floor in front of Lisa, Georgine Delmann was on her side in the fetal position, curled not in an unborn's anticipation of life but in an embrace of death, both hands still impossibly clenched on the handle of the knife that was her cold umbilical.†   (source)
  • She was sitting on the floor, hugging her legs to her chest in the fetal position.†   (source)
  • Cynthia had been reduced to tears; M. Renard simply stepped over Omar's inert body when he assumed the fetal position during sit-ups.†   (source)
  • According to her, the "mass of fetal tissue" or "a tumor"—me—had to go.†   (source)
  • He was in a fetal position, trying even in death to nestle like a spoon with others.†   (source)
  • The air fills with the screeching of thrashing scorpion fetuses.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: GEORGE: Rolled up like a fetus, sucking away.†   (source)
  • Pig slapped him on the back of the head and kicked his ribs until Gooch lay hunched in a fetal position on the floor.†   (source)
  • I believe in its indivisibility, in the intimate connection between the newest bud of spring and the flicker in the eye of a patient near death, between the athlete in his prime and the quadriplegic vet, between the fetus in the womb and the mother who bears another life in her own body.†   (source)
  • I was alarmed but not nervous, as I was a doctor of long experience, having turned many a breech fetus and safely delivered a near-equal number.†   (source)
  • Rafi was completely still, curled into a fetal position, his back pressed against the rock, his knapsack placed over his side as a makeshift blanket.†   (source)
  • Christopher twisted around on his back, pulled both his legs up into fetal position, and unloaded with every muscle in his body.†   (source)
  • Beside him, Booth is curled up in the fetal position, head resting on one hand.†   (source)
  • She held that tense, almost fetal position for a suspensory moment—then broke down.†   (source)
  • He studied as that skin thickened, and deformed, and resolved, shaping itself as inevitably as a fetus growing eyes, growing ears.†   (source)
  • He had attempted to describe his experiment to me in detail—it had to do with amniotic fluid and the fetus of a rabbit, including weird stuff about enzymes and ion transference—but he had given up on me with an understanding laugh when, having taken me beyond my depth, he saw my look of pain and boredom.†   (source)
  • It had the same draw as a five-legged calf or a two-headed fetus at a sideshow, a distortion of normal life we have always found so interesting that we will pay to see it, perhaps to prove to ourselves that we have the proper number of legs or heads.†   (source)
  • Then he saw her in the sudden brightness, huddled in the fetal position beneath the sheet.†   (source)
  • They patted themselves for ballpoint pens, went fetal in their seats.†   (source)
  • DeVante lies on the floor in the fetal position at the foot of a king-size bed.†   (source)
  • That night his head lay on the pillow while his body was curled in the fetal position.†   (source)
  • A little less than a year ago, I had a six-week-old fetus inside me.†   (source)
  • At twenty-one weeks a fetus can fit in the palm of a hand.†   (source)
  • People slowly came out of their fetal positions, sat back limply.†   (source)
  • I ain't saying assume the fetal position and let them put their cocked revolvers upside your head.†   (source)
  • She was crouched in the corner, huddled in the fetal position and staring dully ahead.†   (source)
  • Rachel collapsed and curled into the fetal position.†   (source)
  • A young girl was curled in a fetal position.†   (source)
  • He was looking at a child, a little girl hunched into the fetal position.†   (source)
  • But the thought of freeing Thanatos made Frank want to curl into the fetal position.†   (source)
  • Just saying his name made me want to curl up in the fetal position.†   (source)
  • The enemy was more a foreign body, a cancer, than it was a fetus.†   (source)
  • At sixteen weeks, the fetus looked like a baby-tiny, skeletal, but startlingly perfect.†   (source)
  • As fetuses, they were nurtured in mechanical wombs, adrift in amniotic fluid brewed in a laboratory.†   (source)
  • The fetus had evidently crashed and bled out inside the mother's womb.†   (source)
  • He instinctively brought his knees up in a fetal position and buried his face in his arms.†   (source)
  • That is how the doctor viewed me, simply a mass of fetal tissue.†   (source)
  • I moved into a fetal position and tried to cover my face with my hands as waves broke over me.†   (source)
  • "If the fetus is craving blood," Edward explained, "it's not craving animal blood."†   (source)
  • She curled up like a fetus on the floor and surrendered to her pain.†   (source)
  • He grabs the scorpion fetus, swings it like a bat, and hurls it into the scorpion tanks.†   (source)
  • For a person who believes that 1 newborn is worth 100 fetuses, those 1.†   (source)
  • And in poor countries, abortions are sometimes as lethal to the mother as to the fetus.†   (source)
  • They experimented on children, infants, fetuses and mental patients.†   (source)
  • Still she lay curled up in the fetal position, whimpering and moaning, rocking back and forth.†   (source)
  • She discovered that she had a cavity within her fetal position, between her elbows and her knees.†   (source)
  • Barely a fetus and already I had to worry about her dating.†   (source)
  • She listened to the fetal heart again to be sure it was still strong.†   (source)
  • It was the first time she'd seen a doctor since the "mass of fetal tissue" consultation.†   (source)
  • The fetuses, some of them, are preserved in Heinz pickle jars.†   (source)
  • 'She's afebrile and the fetal monitor tracing is reactive.†   (source)
  • The scorpion fetus unlatches from its victim.†   (source)
  • The more I know about the fetus, the better I can estimate what it will be capable of.†   (source)
  • None of that stops the scorpion fetus from coming for me.†   (source)
  • Hema insinuated two fingers of her right hand around the fetal skull.†   (source)
  • I could tell that Edward had a difficult time using a term as mild as fetus.†   (source)
  • I'm watching her—and not just her, but the fetus as well—starve to death by the hour.†   (source)
  • I run over to the fetal columns in frustration, holding the sword like a bat.†   (source)
  • And she knew that no one had listened for a fetal heart.†   (source)
  • The… fetus is too much a part of her future.†   (source)
  • How long ago did the fetal heart sounds stop?†   (source)
  • When did you stop hearing the fetal heart sounds?†   (source)
  • "The fetus isn't compatible with her body.†   (source)
  • "You know that I was wondering about the fetus's genetic makeup, Jacob.†   (source)
  • Perhaps we should address the needs of the… fetus first.†   (source)
  • It might help to know what the count was—whether the fetus was closer to us or to her.†   (source)
  • We think the fetus might have an appetite closer to ours than to yours.†   (source)
  • "After they left," sible and started helpin as crumpled in a fetal position, not moving a says Madsen, "Beck w whole lot, and Sandy was curled up in my lap, not moving much, either.†   (source)
  • Fetus.†   (source)
  • He's practically a fetus!"†   (source)
  • She looked like a bottled fetus that had escaped from its jar of formaldehyde in a Biology lab and unshriveled and thickened with age.†   (source)
  • In time, the Alabama Supreme Court interpreted the term environment to include the womb and the term child to include a fetus.†   (source)
  • And all the time Amy standing just out of reach, studying him with the blameful, disgusted look of a high school biology student confronted with a dripping pig fetus.†   (source)
  • Oh, I can easily imagine the fetal mishap: we were inside the womb together dum-de-dum when Leah suddenly turned and declared, Adah you are just too slow.†   (source)
  • Papers and notebooks mounded over his desk, but the walls were unadorned except for a framed certificate and a photograph of a youthful Glen in his Mellen High wrestler's uniform, pinning some unknown behemoth in a fetal curl.†   (source)
  • There was no time now to think of what this might be doing to the daughter fetus, only time to accept and record.†   (source)
  • Brenda was right on his heels, and soon they were both standing over the Crank, who lay on the ground in a fetal position, whimpering.†   (source)
  • But they all sounded like witches' brews: the plasma of chickens, purée of calf fetuses, special salts, and blood from human umbilical cords.†   (source)
  • "A fetus is a life," Sally says back.†   (source)
  • If they slept there, she and Estha, curled together like fetuses in a shallow steel womb, what would Hulk Hogan and Bam Bam Bigelow do?†   (source)
  • The old man had lost his blankets to the wind, and he huddled now in the fetal position, his skinny legs squeezed against his chest, eyes closed.†   (source)
  • Among her motherhood books was a collection of high-definition in vitro photographs showing a fetus at each week of development.†   (source)
  • Only two of those cases mentioned the people those cells came from: the first, in 1976, involved ownership of an important human-fetal-cell line.†   (source)
  • A restless, teeth-grinding and erratic sleeper, the boy sometimes fell from his bed, to be found in a fetal bundle by early light, shivering on the hardwood floor.†   (source)
  • We had sworn to keep the pregnancy a secret until we were confident the fetus was viable and beyond the risk of miscarriage, but on this front neither of us did well.†   (source)
  • A fetus has no capability to stand up for itself, and yet it is as alive as you or I. So-called pro-choice activists say it isn't because it doesn't speak or communicate in any way we know.†   (source)
  • Most recently, in July 2009, parents in Minnesota and Texas sued to stop the nationwide practice of storing and conducting research—without consent—on fetal blood samples, many of which can be traced back to the infants they came from.†   (source)
  • Aboard the gliding craft, a stewardess crawled down the aisle, over bodies and debris, telling people in each row to remove their shoes, remove sharp objects from their pockets, assume a fetal position.†   (source)
  • He gave us the option of waiting over the weekend and returning on Monday for the procedure, which was the same as an abortion, with the fetus and placenta being vacuumed from the uterus.†   (source)
  • He gave her a prescription for prenatal vitamins and told her he'd see her back in his office in three weeks for a sonogram, an electronic-imaging process that would give us our first glimpse of the tiny fetus growing inside Jenny's belly.†   (source)
  • She unhooked the medicine pump, removed the catheter, packed up the fetal monitor, and went over the doctor's written orders.†   (source)
  • Then-at a gesture from Angela-she accompanied the herbalist through a side door, leaving the pale girl sitting alone in the center of the dark, cloth-bound room, like a dire fetus nestled in its womb, waiting for the right moment to emerge.†   (source)
  • The pain made him dizzy and faint, and he lay on his side, crouched in the fetal position, his eyes closed.†   (source)
  • Little by little she was shrinking, turning into a fetus, becoming mummified in life to the point that in her last months she was a cherry raisin lost inside of her nightgown, and the arm that she always kept raised looked like the paw of a marimonda monkey.†   (source)
  • Suddenly he was sobbing freely The man finally slumped over onto his side and pulled his legs up onto the cot, curling into the fetal position, his shoulders shaking as he cried.†   (source)
  • Getting my driver's license when Grandma left me her obnoxious (but mint) '75 LTD. 4) Jake, sharing his Internet research on fetal development.†   (source)
  • When I got back to our camp that night with the vodka, I found my dead father curled into a fetal position, his face covered in blood where he had clawed at the bugs born inside his mind.†   (source)
  • You well know there's a chance the fetus may have grave injuries as a result, if not certain mental deficiencies.†   (source)
  • Then at the last second before the car hit the tree, he hurled himself to the right, curling into a fetal position for The crash was enormous.†   (source)
  • Her body curled too; as the weeks turned to months, she shrank into herself like the stiffest of fetuses, shrivelling, her skin sallow and waxy.†   (source)
  • In the early spring, the air force doctors assured me that the fetus was perfectly healthy and was a boy.†   (source)
  • We spent the afternoon at their home, Mahtob in my lap, curled into the fetal Position, clinging to me, listening tearfully as Moody launched into a tirade.†   (source)
  • Jason lunged into the nearest recess, curling up into a fetal position in the shadows, accepting the fact-not in fear but in fury-that it might well be his last moments of life.†   (source)
  • There's some proof that a woman's troubled emotional state can negatively affect the fetus's development in the womb.†   (source)
  • The first, believing that life begins at conception, would likely consider the value of a fetus versus the value of a newborn to be 1:1.†   (source)
  • The fetus had died shortly after she arrived at the hospital, and now it was decaying and slowly poisoning Prudence.†   (source)
  • I held her hand and realized that the blood I felt rushing through her wrist would soon be rushing through the brain of the fetus, that her body had become an aquarium and that her child was a swimmer in its lightless pool.†   (source)
  • The blood of the mother and fetus was radiantly hot, and the nun must have had a small break or cut on the skin of her hands.†   (source)
  • We intended to monitor the first one just through the second trimester of the fetal stage—and, after all, we don't consider a fetus to be an actual human being.†   (source)
  • It wasn't an exact science, but basically, there were two hard parts on a fetus: the head and the bottom.†   (source)
  • Carrying the fetus to term.†   (source)
  • This third person does not believe that a fetus is the 1:1 equivalent of a newborn, yet neither does he believe that a fetus has no relative value.†   (source)
  • For example, my life, from fetus stage to my birth, if left to the "wisdom" of some doctor sitting before my mom and dad, would never have happened.†   (source)
  • By February, I learned in pregnancy class, my imaginary fetus already had fingerprints and could suck its tiny thumb, even though it was only three inches long— "about the size of a medium shrimp," according to BabyCenter.com.†   (source)
  • We intended to monitor the first one just through the second trimester of the fetal stage—and, after all, we don't consider a fetus to be an actual human being.†   (source)
  • To prevent sex-selective abortion, China and India now bar doctors and ultrasound technicians from telling a pregnant woman the sex of her fetus.†   (source)
  • The combination of the one-child birth control policy and convenient access to ultrasound testing means that parents routinely check the sex of a fetus and get an abortion if it is female.†   (source)
  • Now, for the sake of argument, let's ask an outrageous question: what is the relative value of a fetus and a newborn?†   (source)
  • The fetus grows and develops.†   (source)
  • She reached past the plastic model of the growing fetus and lifted a best-selling pregnancy guidebook into the air.†   (source)
  • BEHIND ME, a well-muscled scorpion fetus opens its jaws to scream at me, revealing rows of piranha teeth.†   (source)
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