How To Use Girdle In A Sentence
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Pressure difference adhesion and a kinetic pectoral girdle thus allow the clingfish to exploit a food resource unavailable to many other predators.
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A log cabin, and, occasionally, a stable and corn-crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy.
The Frontier in American History
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His midriff was protected by a drape of chainmail covering a leather girdle and loincloth.
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Black belts were strapped tightly across the waists and two of the men had an additional girdle across their broad chests from top left to bottom right.
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Sport is played not through statistics, but through raw passion, ungirdled emotion and pure unadulterated spirit.
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All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
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These animals also have relatively large shoulder girdles, possibly to provide muscle attachment to support the weight of the huge head.
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Fires lighted at intervals formed a girdle of flame round the base of the mountain, so that when darkness fell, Maunganamu appeared to rise out of a great brasier, and to hide its head in the thick darkness.
In Search of the Castaways
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Often, the muscles used to maintain body posture are affected, namely the muscles in the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle, including the upper trapezius, scalene, sternocleidomastoid, levator scapulae, and quadratus lumborum.
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A proper warm-up and stretching of all major muscle groups is necessary, with emphasis towards the entire hip girdle and shoulder girdle , including the pecs.
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Nestled in terra cotta, thick, gutsy prosciutto barely girdles hunks of luxuriantly gooey mozzarella bocconcini that have been roasted into a delicious taffy, the perfect bonbon to chomp on during a film by the Taviani brothers.
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It was a beautiful, yet plain sea-green gown with a small girdle.
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Avoid tight-fitting clothing or undergarments that restrict blood flow at the waist, groin & legs (e.g. girdles, stockings & socks).
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Such girdles, too, like the binding fiber with which a camisk is usually secured on a girl, may be used to bind her.
Magicians of Gor
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By means of his sharp hunting-knife he "girdled" this tree near the ground, and then higher up, so that the length between the two "girdlings," or circular cuttings, was about four feet.
Popular Adventure Tales
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A good name is better than a golden girdle .
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He glanced briefly about him before continuing along the scattered fringe of trees that girdled it.
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Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
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If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth.
A Monk of Fife
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Mr Bracegirdle, from Rochdale, says he was dismayed when staff told him flowers were no longer accepted.
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Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around.
Stray Studies from England and Italy
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If these are not removed they can girdle the tree, cutting into the trunk and eventually killing the tree.
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At Vatopedi, it's the camel-hair girdle worn by the Virgin Mary and a four-inch fragment of the Cross.
A Fossil With Flesh
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According to their research, the droplets must have condensed from the cooling vapor cloud that girdled the Earth following the impact.
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Now she was vested for the anointing; buskins, sandals and girdle put on, and over all a tabard of white sarsnet, the vestment called the colobium sindonis.
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Stems may be girdled just above the soil line; tissue thus damaged may appear cracked or cankered.
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But for those who missed it all, I can tell you that the stewardesses were very hard-bodied, their girdles twanged satisfactorily when tweaked by hard-bodied men and they did have a lot of sex in exotic locations.
TV review: Garrow's Law; Come Fly With Me - the Story of Pan Am
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Under her silken sarong would have been an inner garment of white cotton, about her waist a zone of beaded cloth held in front by an oval plate, and over all would have been thrown a long, loose dressing-gown, called the kabaya, falling to her knees and fastened down the front to the silver girdle with golden brooches.
Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines
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(Figs. 1 and 2) But inarching of the native chestnut is for the most part unsuccessful because the fungus grows too rapidly and girdles the stem, killing the parts above before the inarched tips of the suckers can take hold.
Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting Guelph, Ontario, September 3, 4, 5, 1947
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'May the foul fiend, booted and spurred, ride down his bawling throat with a scythe at his girdle,' quoth Albert Drawslot; 'here have I been telling him that all the marks were those of a buck of the first head, and he has hallooed the hounds upon a velvet-headed knobbler!
Waverley — Volume 1
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About 35 serene green miles later, you're in Leiden, a university city girdled by canals and dominated by the gothic ostentation of its 15 th-century church.
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Smiling and bashful she stood there in her clinging skirt and wampum-broidered vest, her slender, rounded limbs moulded into soft knee-moccasins of fawn-skin, and the Virgin's Girdle knotted across her thighs in silver-tasselled seawan.
The Hidden Children
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The first thing to do is to measure the distance between your ischial bones, otherwise known as your sit bones, which make up part of the pelvic girdle.
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If you girdle the base of the tree exposing the cambium layer, the tree will die.
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And most of all, she didn't have to wear a girdle.
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III. i.91 (443,8) It was my deer] The play upon _deer_ and _dear_ has been used by Waller, who calls a lady's girdle, _The pale that held my lovely_ deer.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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Thereupon Ardashir fared straight for the bath and washed; after which he arrayed himself in the richest of robes of the apparel of the Kings of the Chosroes and girt his middle with a girdle wherein were conjoined all manner precious stones and donned a turband inwoven with red gold and purfled with pearls and gems.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If pelvises are present, compare: the male pelvic girdle will have wider ischio-pubic ramus, while the female will have a defined ventral crest, a curved subpubic concavity, & a wide sciatic notch.
Mordicai: crown me king!
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The Blackfoot is a sworn and determined foe to all white men, and he has often been heard to declare that he would rather hang the scalp of a "pale face" to his girdle, than kill a buffalo to prevent his starving.
Townsend Chapter 6
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In the pectoral girdle, fused clavicles, or a furcula, are now known in many theropods.
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Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle. ''
The Waverley
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7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing.
Think Progress » BREAKING: Military Will Request $100B For Iraq Next Year, Murtha Reveals
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The shoulder girdle is formed by the scapulae (shoulder blades) and clavicles (collar bones).
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Perelman's free-associative style spun fantasias out of girdle ads, tabloid tattle, sleazy pulp fiction and recipe prose.
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I expected this to be uncomfortable -- I've tried "shapewear" before from other makers and it's been uncomfortable and girdle-like and the edges roll up whenever you sit down and UGH.
The Daily Bitch
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A good name is better than a golden girdle .
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She put the 350 francs she got for each bottle in a biscuit tin under her marriage girdles in the armoire.
WHITE LIES
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Looking perhaps even more pewtyflushed in her cherry - derry padouasoys, girdle and braces by the halfmoon and Seven
Finnegans Wake
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The color may also be deepened by giving to the stone a rounded contour, both above and below the girdle, and facetting it in steps instead of in the brilliant form.
A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
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So saying, the indignant Sage nevertheless plunged the contemned pieces of gold into a large pouch which he wore at his girdle, which Toinette, and other abettors of lavish expense, generally contrived to empty fully faster than the philosopher, with all his art, could find the means of filling.
Quentin Durward
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Thus, selection will necessarily favor a rigid body and limb girdles that act, as much as possible, by exerting force on the vertebral column.
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Ambassadors and retinue from the Constantinopolitan King had kissed the ground before Omar and had delivered their embassage, they brought out the presents, which were fifty damsels of the choicest from Graecia-land, and fifty Mamelukes in tunics of brocade, belted with girdles of gold and silver, each wearing in his ears hoops of gold with pendants of fine pearls costing a thousand ducats every one.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In contrast to frogs, caecilians have a radically elongated vertebral column, no limbs or girdles, and relatively elaborate hypaxial musculature.
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In the early morning my eyes always open on the Governor's handsome Mohammedan servant in spotless white muslin and red head-dress and girdle, bringing a tray with tea and bananas.
The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
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Because your shoulder girdle is an injury-prone area, take the following extra safety precautions when performing overhead presses.
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I shall wear my girdle at home as girdles are socially unacceptable.
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Males possess a larger spine on the first vertebra behind the pelvic girdle.
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Then Barbara Bush is called in, and as she straddles Rush's face and looses the girdle, her two labia "unfurl" and reach "halfway down to her knees, like some big ball-less scrotum" ...
Aimless, aimless
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In the shoulder girdle, the serratus anterior and pectoralis minor muscles contract to abduct the scapula on the up phase.
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The actual subject herself only appears once or twice; the ‘portrait’ is built up metonymically, in terms of the objects the mother once wore or used: chemises, girdles, shoes, lipsticks, false teeth.
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Gentle rolling hills girdled the city about.
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In dress he affected a purple robe with a golden girdle, bronze sandals, and a Delphic laurel-wreath, and in his manner he was grave and cultivated a regal public persona.
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There they had me strip off behind a bush and put on a long line bra and girdle, a dress and wig.
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And they go with a great pot made of wood or fine earth, and couered, tied with a broad girdle vpon their shoulder, which cometh vnder their arme, wherewith they go to begge their victuals which they eate, which is rice, fish, and herbs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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He strode forward haughtily, taking his steps slowly with head thrown back, and as Frank gazed at him with heart throbbing painfully and heavily under the stress of his emotion, he could not help thinking how noble and fierce a warrior the Baggara looked, with his simple white robe, and how dangerous an enemy with the curved dagger in his girdle, and long, keen, crusader-like sword hanging from a kind of baldric from his right shoulder.
In the Mahdi's Grasp
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Those with a flat, narrow mount of Venus girdled by the Life Line are cold and unresponsive.
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Right now I should be wearing a bra and girdle and at times do and if I can ever afford to live alone I probably will.
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Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
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{80} The Mendip Miners are observed by Mr. Smirke to determine the intervening distance of their pits by a throw of "the hache" two ways, the miner standing up to the girdle in the mine groof.
Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean
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Some insignia, such as hats, necklaces, belts, and girdles, are worn daily.
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The use of variation in downstroke and, to a lesser degree, upstroke velocity to maneuver suggests that the evolution of the pectoral girdle was key to both the high power requirements of slow flight and the ability to maneuver during it.
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But the captain arose and tightening his girdle tucked up his skirts and, after taking refuge with Allah from Satan the Stoned, clomb to the mast-head, whence he looked out right and left and gazing at the passengers and crew fell to buffeting his face and plucking out his beard.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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She could have had a Court of Virgins, or gone like Artemis, buskined through the thickets, with a hundred high-girdled nymphs behind her, all for her sake locked in chastity.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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At her girdle hung a gold chain and cross, and she carried a handkerchief and a little prayer book bound in gold.
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Such gems could be woven into important clothing, on belts and girdles, mounted as jewellery, or just collected for their own sake.
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She reaches up her skirt, wriggles, yanks free an enormous, elastic, tan girdle.
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For the tummy, use a panty girdle or a one-piece unitard body slimmer control top seamless in the back.
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The white tontongee still girdled her loins; but Coomba's climate was her mantuamaker, and indicated more necessity for ornament than drapery.
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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A close ruff and wristlets, a ruby and gold carcanet, and a jewelled girdle complete this rich and dignified dress.
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Botanists have long noted the phenomenon of sap accumulation in tissue above a girdle or major wound in the woody stems of plants.
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He had 'girdled' the trees for an acre or two around, preparatory to clearing
The Crayon Papers
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The researchers hope that their results will allow them to initiate studies in humans with limb-girdle muscular dystrophy.
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The femur, in the thigh, articulates at the hip joint with the pelvic girdle, linking the legs to the vertebral column via the sacro-iliac joints.
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The spiked pad ripped through the Daughter's blouse, and grated on the armoured contour-girdle underneath.
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Hanging from her girdle was a series of embroidered disks depicting a silver comb, a small golden boar, and other images from the myth.
The Laird Who Loved Me
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Articulated ichthyosaurs demonstrate that the pectoral girdle was a robust construction with vertical clavicles [collar bones] and scapulae [shoulder blades], so there was a firm base for the articulation of powerful forefins and their musculature.
Archive 2006-09-01
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On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.
Kenilworth
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The sticharion and epitrachelion are held together by the zone (girdle),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The chulter, an intricately woven apron, is worn below the black wool girdle or belt.
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The girdle was designed to be wrapped several times around the waist.
Times, Sunday Times
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The astrologer was a little man, and seemed much advanced in age, for his heard was long and white, and reached over his black doublet down to his silken girdle.
Kenilworth
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A scrimpy woollen skirt is tied around the waist with a girdle, and over the shoulders is worn
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan
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She pulled on a loose fitting chemise and a violet silk skirt over her girdle and stockings and left her room silently, in search of adventure.
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They were large brown nuts or seeds, and hanging from his girdle with his penner and inkhorn they clashed when he walked.
Puck of Pook’s Hill
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Hanes No Hose allows femme fatales to go barelegged in sexy, strappy open-toe shoes while offering girdle-like control to just above the knee or below the lower calf.
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In most cases, squirrels and twig girdlers do not pose serious harm to your trees.
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But then again, she wore girdles and kept monogrammed hankies and Devonshire toffees in her handbag.
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He unlaced her girdle rapidly; all the while his lips took in her face.
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Permanent examples of anticyclones exist in the subtropics, where a belt of anticyclones girdles the world at latitudes between about 20 and 40 degrees.
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Such girdles, too, like the binding fiber with which a camisk is usually secured on a girl, may be used to bind her. âIt is to be mine, is it not? â asked Phoebe, eagerly, expectantly, hopefully.
Magicians of Gor
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Still she wears corsets and girdles, tight and uncomfortable.
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It is necessary to resort to inarching when the roots as well as the trunk have been girdled.
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In the pelvic girdle the ilium corresponds to the scapula, the ischium to the coracoid, the pubis to the clavicle.
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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She then donned the bracelets and anklets, clasped the necklace about her shoulders and the wrapped the girdle about her waist, fastening it with the knot of Auset.
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She was reared with her father and mother in honour and indulgence and learnt rhetoric and penmanship and arithmetic and cavalarice and all manner crafts, such as broidery and sewing and weaving and girdle-making and silk-cord making and damascening gold on silver and silver on gold, brief all the arts both of men and women, till she became the union-pearl of her time and the unique gem of her age and day.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Herpes zoster, commonly called shingles, means a girdle in the old sense of a belt.
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It has rudiments of the limb girdles, but no fins.
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Pronounced to rhyme with "shall" only the vowel must be very much prolonged. kittled = tickled. myek = make. gairdle cake = girdle cake, i.e. a cake baked on a griddle.
The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties
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She wore a white gown with a gilded leather girdle about her slender hips and her hair gleamed like molten gold in the morning sun.
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In amphibians the inner ear is mechanically coupled to the pectoral girdle through the operculum.
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Stately masonries, longdrawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide.
Past and Present
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It was a time when the Italian world bedecked itself with rare golden trinkets, wreaths for women's hair, girdles, brooches, and the like, and the finest skill was needed to satisfy the taste.
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The conical roofs of the heptagonal temples, the staircases, terraces, and ramparts were being carved by degrees upon the paleness of the dawn; and a girdle of white foam rocked around the Carthaginian peninsula, while the emerald sea appeared as if it were curdled in the freshness of the morning.
Salammbo
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A yard was originally the length of a man's belt or girdle, as it was called.
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In the old days, women wore so many girdles, corsets, pantaloons, bloomers, stockings, garters, step-ins and God knows what all that you had to practically be a prospector to get to first base . . . to even find first base.
The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
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Thus, we may model the shoulder and hip girdles of plesiosaurs as if they were broad, flat bony plates with limb joints on opposite edges.
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They served as belt toggles to hold containers for tobacco, money and other objects that would be carried on the cloth belt or girdle, as the kimono had no pockets.
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Pecan girdlers also are busy this time of year, girdling pencil-size or slightly larger branches.
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Last night, being desired to name a forfeit for the padre, I condemned him to dance the jarabe, of which he performed a few steps in his long gown and girdle, with equal awkwardness and good nature.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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What was the difference, he asked himself, between the shameless, grass-girdled hula dances and the decollete dances of the women of his own race?
The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride
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She also gives exercises for the deep abdominal muscles to stabilize the back and pelvic girdle.
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But that Platonic ideal required a notorious if finely crafted armature — padded hips, underwire bustiers, horsehair petticoats, girdles, and built-in corsetry.
Couture Clash
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Then presently they were presented with this anticke: Thirty young women came naked out of the woods, only covered behind and before with a few greene leaves, their bodies all painted, some of one color, some of another, but all differing; their leader had a fayre payre of Bucks hornes on her head, and an Otters skinne at her girdle, and another at her arme,
Captain John Smith
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A good name is better than a golden girdle .
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Like a ring of lightning, they, volleying and ca-ira-ing, begirdle her from shore to shore.
The French Revolution
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Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle. ''
The Waverley
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Because your shoulder girdle is an injury-prone area, take the following extra safety precautions when performing overhead presses.
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A good name is better than a golden girdle .
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Dumbbell variations potentially hit more of the stabilizer muscles in your shoulder girdle, which is a nice benefit.
The Overhead Press: Bodybuilding's Forgotten Muscle Builder by Chris Colucci
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Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller is continually girdled by amphitheatrical heights; here and there from some lucky point of view you will catch passing glimpses of the profiles of whales defined along the undulating ridges.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Bracegirdle watched him with a smirk on his face, beginning to disrobe.
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Olivia obeyed, first putting on the girdle, feeling incredibly stupid, and then the bra that gave her so much lift it hurt.
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In DB97-13 the orthogonality of the partial great circle girdle with respect to the lineation supports the above interpretation of the apparent symmetry in the c-axis pattern.
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The emperor had already received soft cloth made of camel hair, brocades, sable furs, jade girdles, fifty camels and one thousand ponies as her bride price.
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They're wearing girdles and also underneath the girdle is a little garter sewed under the girdle and that garter rubs the skin sometimes.
Nour Akkad: Mad Men's Janie Bryant Talks About Peggy's New Hair, Her Mod line, and Vintage Shopping (PHOTOS)
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The White-girdled Leaf-cutter likes the robinia, to which she adds, in lavish proportions, the vine, the rose and the hawthorn and sometimes, in moderation, the reed and the whitish-leaved rock-rose.
Bramble-Bees and Others
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These include muscles used to maintain body posture, such as those in the neck, shoulders, and pelvic girdle.
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Stately masonries, long-drawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
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Yet the exhibit still reveals the intricate machinery that made the New Look work: corsets, brassieres and girdles re-emerged from decades past to discipline the female body into the latest couture creations.
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UMNH VP 18040; articulated partial postcranial skeleton including portions of 11 dorsal vertebrae, 16 dorsal ribs, both pectoral girdles, a nearly complete left and partial right forelimb, partial pelvis, partial left hind limb, and partially articulated array of gastral ribs.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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Another group of muscles of the pelvic girdle act to flex the hip, and include the psoas, the iliacus, a combination of the two called the iliopsoas, the pectineus, and the sartorius muscles.
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On the teocalli Santiago stood like a statue of black basalt, facing the east, dagger held high -- a wild and terrible sight, naked as he was save for a wide silken girdle and that inhuman mask on his face.
The Moon of Skulls
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Salammbo walked to the edge of the terrace; her eyes swept the horizon for an instant, and then were lowered upon the sleeping town, while the sigh that she heaved swelled her bosom, and gave an undulating movement to the whole length of the long white simar which hung without clasp or girdle about her.
Salammbo
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The trade winds from both hemispheres converge towards the doldrums and a zone of low pressure, the equatorial trough, that girdles the earth.
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The men wore gold chains, pendants, girdles, and finger rings.
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Activity and habits of the twig girdler in Alabama have been noted and recorded periodically over several years.
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When he came out, he cast over his shoulders a costly robe and crowned him with a coronet of jewels; he also girt him with a girdle of silk, purfled with red gold and set with pearls and gems, and mounted him on one of his noblest mares, with selle and trappings of gold inlaid with pearls and jewels.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In the meantime here is Wat with his arbalist and a bolt in his girdle.
Sir Nigel
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And the deacons came in and began to unrobe him, and took from him the alb and the girdle, the maniple and the stole.
The Fisherman and His Soul
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Although this is a small specimen, fusion of the neural arches to the centra, as well as advanced ossification of the girdle elements indicate that the individual was an adult.
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In the last moments of his life he put on a girdle and seated himself in the "mihrab" [19] of the mosque.
Mystics and Saints of Islam
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Think about the abdominal structure as a girdle or wall that supports your internal organs and back.
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Perhaps the length of the girdle elements was designed precisely to prevent and dampen torsion while making the most of the relatively small vertical motions possible with a lizard-like leg structure.
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The Lady Jane is described as clad in a black gown, with velvet cap and black hood, having a black velvet book hanging at her girdle, whilst she carried another in her hand. (
London and the Kingdom - Volume I
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Since this Dal is made on the tava/girdle, it needs soaking in water to rehydrate it to make it cook easily.
Tavyarchi Val Dal
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The priests and monks priested it, tight girding their girdles and uplifting the Crucifixes, while the Moslem shouted out the professions of the Requiting King and verses of the Koran began to sing.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The Green Man wore a coronet of leaves and a girdle of stems at his waist.
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Adduction of the scapulae takes place in the shoulder girdle where the scapulae move in toward the spine together with the rearward movement of the arms.
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We were flipping bannocks and oatcakes on girdles centuries before sun-dried-tomato ciabatta was invented.
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In the shoulder girdle, the serratus anterior, upper and lower trapezius, levator scapulae and rhomboid muscles are involved.
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Then Sir Buzz cooked the girdle-cakes, and the soldier's son ate three of them and a handful of sweets; but the one-span mannikin gobbled up all the rest, saying at each mouthful, 'You men have such terrible appetites – such terrible appetites!'
Tales of the Punjab
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In cases where fracture of some portion of the pelvic girdle is suspected and the subject is able to walk, crepitation is sought by placing one hand on an external angle of the ilium and the other on the ischial tuberosity and the animal is then made to walk.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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The twig girdler is a long-horned, wood-boring beetle that lives in many hardwoods in Florida but does not cause serious damage.
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They served as belt toggles to hold containers for tobacco, money and other objects that would be carried on the cloth belt or girdle, as the kimono had no pockets.
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A good name is better than a golden girdle .
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After seeing what is left of the girdle of the Virgin, which the verger thought it very important that we should see, we spent what time we had left in gazing up at the interesting corbeling of the nave and the two hollow, stone pyramids that form its roof.
In Château Land
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No; if you could mount to the stars and do yacht voyages under the belts of Jupiter or stalk deer on the ring of Saturn it would still begirdle you.
The Map of Life Conduct and Character
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All the keys hang not at one man's girdle.
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He was clothed in a robe of fine black cloth and wide sleeves, and a cape: his under – garment was of excellent white linen down to the foot, girt with a girdle of the same; and a sindon or tippet of the same about his neck.
The New Atlantis
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Thus objurgated, Yasmela allowed the girl to garb her in the light sleeveless silk shirt, over which was slipped a silken tunic, bound at the waist by a wide velvet girdle.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
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Pearles, Rings, Girdles, and other costly jewells (over-tedious to bee recounted) and kissing him once more as hee lay in the bedde, commanded the Magitian to dispatch and be gone.
The Decameron
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The c-axis and e-lamellae pole figures also display a great circle girdle normal to the lineation, which decreases in intensity with increasing strain.
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They cary thither old plate and course linnen cloth, and all kind of small Mercerie wares, seruing for the apparelling of men and women, as linnen, and silke girdles, garters, purses, kniues, and many such like things.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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The pectoral radials are one of a series of endochondral - growing or developing within cartilage - bones in the pectoral and pelvic girdle on which the fin rays insert.
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Her girdle or cestus conferred magic beauty on the wearer.
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About the shoulders he also wore a garment called the ephod; this was made of costly material, and consisted of two portions about an ell long, which covered the back and breast, were held together above by two shoulderbands or epaulets, and terminated below with a magnificent girdle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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The great mass of curiously simple yet most striking structures that girdle the summit of the rock and form the platform beneath the church, though built at different times, have joined in one consenescence and now present the appearance of one of those cities that dwell in the imagination when reading of "many tower'd Camelot" or the turreted walls of fairyland.
Normandy, Illustrated, Complete
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Some of them wear round steel caps, but the majority are civilians with here and there a monk, the latter by the Latin cross at his girdle an _azymite_.
The Prince of India — Volume 02
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The main winding is a Lotus-O-Deltoid type placed in panamdermic semi-boloid slots of the stator with every seventh conductor connected by a non-reversible trunion pipe to the differential girdle spring on the upend of the gram meters.
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A log cabin, and occasionally a stable and corn crib, and a field of a dozen acres, the timber girdled or "deadened," and fenced, are enough for his occupancy.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West
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The deacon wears the sticharion and epimanikia, but no girdle.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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From 330 his status was displayed in his court dress, which combined the traditional Macedonian hat and cloak with the Persian diadem, tunic, and girdle.
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Bones of the forelimb and shoulder girdle in Alamosaurus, except the ulna, differ substantially from those of Titanosaurus colberti.
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A bonus of tight winter underwear is that it acts as a sort of girdle to hold in the saggy bits of fat, giving you a slimmer silhouette.
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The main key points are the patient's head, shoulder girdle, spine and pelvis.
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The bus stop in her village is a semi circle of paved road girdled by a hillock.
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H pelvic girdle, or "ossa innominata" (ilium, ischium, and pubes anchylosed);
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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I stood trembling under the threatening sword of this barbarian; but my master, without loss of time, threw upon me a kind of chapelet [21] of incredible length; and then took up a little book, which hung by his girdle; at the same instant, the women, rushing towards me, drew me from under the hand of Nouegem, and put me under those of the enraged priest, as they all dreaded, he was to pronounce an anathema on his opponent.
Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
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On the islet appeared a beautiful woman, clad in a watchet-coloured silken mantle, bound with a broad girdle, inscribed with characters like the phylacteries of the Hebrews.
From John O'Groats to Land's End
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Longhorned beetles known as twig girdlers are now laying eggs in the small branches of many hardwood trees.
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He belted his jacket with a gold girdle.
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Thus it came about that the Gascon youths found themselves furnished with tunics of blue and silver, richly embroidered with their master's cognizances, and trimmed with costly fur, with long mantles of blue cloth fastened with golden clasps, with rich girdles, furnished with gipciere and anelace, and hose and long embroidered shoes, such as they began to see were the fashion of the day in England.
In the Days of Chivalry
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The men have hanging from their girdles their flint and tinder, knife-case, powder-horn, and, stuck through the girdle from right to left is a sword encased in a sheath made sometimes of wood, but often of metal inlaid with silver and stones.
With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
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It usually presents with pain and muscle weakness with atrophy in the shoulder girdle.
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But when they had eaten, then Birdalone did off her old coat, which she said was meet enough for her daily toil, and did on the fair green hunting-gown and the sandal-shoon, and girt her with the fair girdle which Habundia had fetched her, and drew up the laps of her gown therethrough till her legs were all free of the skirts.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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At the time of his arrest he had with him, an alb, a surplice or amice, a thread girdle, a vestment, a stole, a fannel, "a
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Cut away xiphisternum, and then cut through clavicles and coracoids on either side, and remove ventral part of shoulder girdle, to expose the heart.
Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
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The men were clothed in a similar manner: with them were carried in the girdle the purse, the handkerchief, and the poniard: a white, and sometimes a coloured, turban covered the head; and over the Turkish doliman they wore in summer a wide and flowing white robe, and in winter the _albornos_ or African mantle.
History of the Moors of Spain
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And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.
Exodus 28.
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The question has been answered in the affirmative in our day by the perfector of the electro-magnetic telegraph, the late Professor Morse, by whose invention the promise has been fulfilled: "I'll put a girdle around the globe in forty minutes.
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