"Midriff" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on the left side of the breast and made the stomach the exemplar [or governor] thereof. He appointed the lungs for a ventilator to the heart and set the liver on the right side, opposite thereto. Moreover, He made, besides this, the midriff and the intestines and set up the bones of the breast and ribbed them with the ribs.' (Q.) 'How many ventricles are there in a man's head?' (A.) 'Three, which contain five faculties, styled the intrinsic senses, i.e. common sense, ...
— The Book Of The Thousand Nights And One Night, Volume IV • Anonymous
... however, did the heart writhe with laughter, and was like to break; it knew not where to go, and sunk into the midriff. ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche
... midst, mediety^, mean &c 29; medium, middle term; center &c 222, mid-course &c 628; mezzo termine [It]; juste milieu &c 628 [Fr.]; halfway house, nave, navel, omphalos^; nucleus, nucleolus. equidistance^, bisection, half distance; equator, diaphragm, midriff; intermediate &c 228. Adj. middle, medial, mesial [Med.], mean, mid, median, average; middlemost, midmost; mediate; intermediate &c (interjacent) 228; equidistant; central &c 222; mediterranean, equatorial; homocentric. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... larger. Also, as his snow-white hair and beard attested, he was much older. The thickness of his wrist and the greatness of his fingers made authentic the mighty frame of him hidden under loose dungaree pants and cotton shirt, buttonless, open from midriff to Adam's apple, exposing a chest matted with a thatch of hair as white as that of his head and face. The depth and breadth of that chest, its resilience, and its relaxed and plastic muscles, tokened the knotty strength that still resided in him. Further, no bronze and beat of sun and wind availed ...
— On the Makaloa Mat/Island Tales • Jack London
... and their fat, with incense strowed, On the cleft wood, and all due rights performed: His offering soon propitious fire from Heaven Consumed with nimble glance, and grateful steam; The other's not, for his was not sincere; Whereat he inly raged, and, as they talked, Smote him into the midriff with a stone That beat out life; he fell; and, deadly pale, Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused. Much at that sight was Adam in his heart Dismayed, and thus in haste to the Angel cried. O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen To that ...
— Paradise Lost • John Milton |
