"Dura" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The York surgeon said he could not tell whether there was a fracture, until he should take off the scalp; but, at any rate, the operation might be of service in giving vent to any blood that might be extravasated, either above or below the dura mater. The lady and her son were clear for trying the experiment; and Grieve was dismissed with some marks of contempt, which, perhaps, he owed to the plainness of his appearance. He seemed to be about the middle age, wore his own black hair without any sort of ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett
... ventricle ought to contain spirit or air, which it generates from the blood. His osteology of the skull is erroneous. In his account of the cerebral membranes, though short, he notices the principal characters of the dura mater. He describes shortly the lateral ventricles, with their anterior and posterior cornua, and the choroid plexus as a blood-red substance like a long worm. He then speaks of the third or middle ventricle, and one posterior, which seems to correspond with the fourth; and ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... enamorada sera cosa inverosmil y extravagante? Los afectos desordenados, nicamente en la juventud merecen disculpa: un sentimiento puro y honrado, a todas las edades les est bien.[3] Amor reprobado por la conciencia, dura poco; amor bendecido de Dios, ...
— Ms vale maa que fuerza • Manuel Tamayo y Baus
... fontes, hic mollia prata, Lycori: Hic nemus, hic ipso tecum consumerer aevo. Nunc insanus amor duri me Martis in armis Tela inter media atque adversos detinet hostes. Tu procul a patria (nec sit mihi credere) tantum Alpinas, ah dura, nives, et frigora Rheni Me sine sola vides. Ah te ne frigora laedant! Ah tibi ne teneras glacies secet ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson |
