"Ligament" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in her reclining chair, showed in its redundance the splendor of its tint and quality; her face, lately so wan and lean and ghastly, was roseate, and the lines had strangely filled out in soft curves to their wonted contour; her hands lay supple and white and quiet in her lap, with not a tense ligament, not a throbbing fibre—delicate, beautiful hands—it seemed odd to her companions to think how they had seen her wring them in woe and clench them in despair. Her black gown with its heavy folds of crape ...
— The Ordeal - A Mountain Romance of Tennessee • Charles Egbert Craddock
... fifty, was attacked by a cancerous affection originating underneath the prepuce; at the time he consulted MM. Chicoineau and Sonlier the disease had existed for two years, the inguinal glands were implicated, and even the suspensory ligament was affected. These surgeons, nevertheless, determined upon an operation, and, after a long chapter of haemorrhagic accidents, the patient finally made a recovery. Another case, quoted by Patissier, was operated upon ...
— History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present - Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance • Peter Charles Remondino
... eleven elementary tissues:— Cartilage, bones, nerves, veins, arteries, fascia, ligament and sinews, skin, muscle ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... 43; bond of union, copula, hyphen, intermedium^; bracket; bridge, stepping-stone, isthmus. bond, tendon, tendril; fiber; cord, cordage; riband, ribbon, rope, guy, cable, line, halser^, hawser, painter, moorings, wire, chain; string &c (filament) 205. fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle^; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus^, garter, halter, noose, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or ...
— Life And Times Of Washington, Volume 2 • John Frederick Schroeder and Benson John Lossing |
