Both Uses
tendon
in
Fahrenheit 451
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- 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.†
p. 42.4 *tendons = bands of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle to bone
- 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.†
p. 117.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(tendon) a cord or band of inelastic tissue connecting a muscle to bone
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)