Use muscles in a sentence
Sentences ending with muscles
- He carefully examined the harmoniously developed little muscles. [10]
- In throwing a stone or spear, and in many other actions, a man must stand firmly on his feet; and this again demands the perfect co-adaptation of numerous muscles. [1]
- It was rather singular that she should have elected to be the apostle of this extreme doctrine, for she was herself far better equipped with brain than muscles. [6]
- However, the French pen does not far mislead Mr. Lewes; he wields it with British muscles. [14]
- Their identity is only an idea, for we put off our bodies many times during our lives, and dress in new suits of bones and muscles. [3]
- There was none of that tedious process of communicating my wishes to the nerves, and from them to the muscles. [4]
- The special form of physical life I have been describing gives you a right to expect more delicate perceptions and a more reflective, nature than you commonly find in shaggy-throated men, clad in heavy suits of muscles. [6]
- His brow and hair and the palms of his hands were wet, and there was a kind of nervous contraction of his muscles. [13]
- By gardening, I do not mean that insane desire to raise vegetables which some have; but the philosophical occupation of contact with the earth, and companionship with gently growing things and patient processes; that exercise which soothes the spirit, and develops the deltoid muscles. [4]
- Man on an average is considerably taller, heavier, and stronger than woman, with squarer shoulders and more plainly-pronounced muscles. [1]
Sentences containing muscles two or more times
- The muscles of the hands and arms--parts which are so eminently characteristic of man--are extremely liable to vary, so as to resemble the corresponding muscles in the lower animals. [1]
- Meckel long ago remarked, that when the muscles of the arm depart from their proper type, they almost always imitate those of the leg; and so, conversely, with the muscles of the legs. [1]
- He here shews how extremely variable these muscles are, and how often and how closely the variations resemble the normal muscles of the lower animals. [1]
More example sentences with the word muscles in them
- The jaws, together with their muscles, would then have been reduced through disuse, as would the teeth through the not well understood principles of correlation and economy of growth; for we everywhere see that parts, which are no longer of service, are reduced in size. [1]
- The rooms blazed with light like a conflagration; the flowers burned like lamps of many-colored flame; the music throbbed into the hearts of the promenaders and tingled through all the muscles of the dancers. [6]
- So it is with his muscles, nerves, blood-vessels and internal viscera. [1]
- I noticed, however, what I should call a palpebral spasm, affecting the eyelid and muscles of one side, which, if it were intended for the facial gesture called a wink, might lead me to suspect a disposition to be satirical on his part. [6]
- Thrice our muscles were startled into tenseness by the baying of a hound, and once a cock crew out of all season. [9]
- And yet he was not tall; but on his deep chest, his enormous square shoulders, and short, bandy legs, the muscles stood out like elastic balls, showing the connoisseur that in strength he was a giant. [10]
- He felt only vaguely, as outside things, the ache and burn and throb of the muscles of his body. [13]
- An intolerable restlessness took possession of her, while the pain in her injured foot throbbed madly, the cut in her head seemed to burn, and her temples beat with an agonizing headache that contracted the muscles of her eyes. [10]
- She compared him to Ditmar, on whose dust-grey face she was quick to detect a look she had seen before--a contraction of the eyes, a tightening of the muscles of the jaw. [9]
- In two or three weeks we shall work the stiffness out of her joints and have her performing as smoothly and softly as human muscles, and then we shall speak out the big secret and let the world come and gaze. [5]
- Two weeks after this, while talking in a company, I looked up and detected this same man boring through and through me with his intense eye, and noted again his twitching muscles and his feverish anxiety to speak. [5]
- Speaking generally, I think we may say that Haller's doctrine is the one now commonly received; namely, that the muscles contract in virtue of their own inherent endowments. [3]
- Their close curls, their elegantly set heads, column-like necks, straight noses, short, curled lips, firm chins, deep chests, light flanks, large muscles, small joints, were finer than anything we ever see. [6]
- The second is the vast system of iron muscles which, as it were, move the limbs of the mighty organism one upon another. [6]
- Powerful arms, with the swelling muscles of an athlete, were extended from his sleeveless robe towards the beloved Queen. [10]
- Terror acts in the same manner on them as on us, causing the muscles to tremble, the heart to palpitate, the sphincters to be relaxed, and the hair to stand on end. [1]
- Habitual spasms of the muscles, and a cicatrix from a severe burn, have permanently modified the facial bones. [1]
- I will, and the muscles of my vocal organs shape my speech. [3]
- At that moment the muscles of his nose began to twitch, and the end of that organ to lift and wrinkle. [5]
- Unable to control the muscles of her face, shoulders and hands, she went into the middle of the room, beckoned the men to come close to her, raised her fan to her face, and whispered: "Don Fabrizio and I are now one. [10]
- Gradations, also, in the muscles leading to structures found in animals still lower in the scale, are numerous in the Lemuroidea. [1]
- The ears of the chimpanzee and orang are curiously like those of man, and the proper muscles are likewise but very slightly developed. [1]
- The rector maintained that physicians contracted a squint which turns their eyes inwardly, while the muscles which roll their eyes upward become palsied. [6]
- It is true that Kolliker says no perfectly decisive fact has been brought forward to prove that the striated muscles contract without having been acted on by nerves. [3]
- But he stood tall and straight, his wide shoulders flung back, with the muscles of his bound arms rippling and a blue flame of defiance in the gaze he bent on Tull. [13]
- For Jethro was strong as an ox, and Cynthia's muscles were like an Indian's. [9]
- To throw a stone with as true an aim as a Fuegian in defending himself, or in killing birds, requires the most consummate perfection in the correlated action of the muscles of the hand, arm, and shoulder, and, further, a fine sense of touch. [1]
- They presently entered, softly, with quickened pulses, talking in whispers, ears alert to catch the slightest sound, and muscles tense and ready for instant retreat. [5]
- A great Indian river, at low water, suggests the familiar anatomical picture of a skinned human body, the intricate mesh of interwoven muscles and tendons to stand for water-channels, and the archipelagoes of fat and flesh inclosed by them to stand for the sandbars. [5]
- When I first read the paper, I thought it was the work of a powerful-minded, clear-headed woman, who had a hard, jealous heart, muscles of iron, and nerves of bend* leather; of a woman who longed for power, and had never felt affection. [14]
- I have also pleased myself by making a special group of the six radiating muscles which diverge from the spine of the axis, or second cervical vertebra, and by giving to it the name stella musculosa nuchaee. [3]
- The nictitating membrane, or third eyelid, with its accessory muscles and other structures, is especially well developed in birds, and is of much functional importance to them, as it can be rapidly drawn across the whole eye-ball. [1]
- If he could only have gone to him and felt of his muscles, he would have been entirely satisfied. [6]
- The old word of command flashes through his muscles, and his hand goes up in an instant to the place where the strap used to be. [6]
- The magnificent work of Albinus on the muscles, published in 1747, is still supreme in its department, as the constant references of the most thorough recent treatise on the subject, that of Theile, sufficiently show. [3]
- In all forms of active exercise there are three powers simultaneously in action,--the will, the muscles, and the intellect. [6]
- Many muscles are occasionally developed in man, which are proper to the Quadrumana or other mammals. [1]
- The man did not cringe, did not speak a word, but his hands clinched, and the muscles of his face worked painfully. [11]
- This filament does not contain any muscles, and apparently cannot be of any direct use to the fish. [1]
- Are not our muscles straining with those of these sixteen young creatures, full of hot, fresh blood, their nerves all tingling like so many tight-strained harp-strings, all their life concentrating itself in this passionate moment of supreme effort? [6]
- Rudiments of various muscles have been observed in many parts of the human body (25. [1]
- Suddenly the broad muscles and lines of the count's face began to twitch. [2]
- Mr. St. George Mivart informs me that it is not furnished with muscles, and therefore cannot be used for locomotion. [1]
- No doubt these means of change often co-operate: thus when certain muscles, and the crests of bone to which they are attached, become enlarged by habitual use, this shews that certain actions are habitually performed and must be serviceable. [1]
- His finely-proportioned limbs looked as if moulded in bronze, so smoothly were the powerful muscles covered with the shining copper-colored skin. [10]
- It has been long agreed that there is no way in which a man can accomplish so much labor with his muscles as in rowing. [6]
- His muscles were like hickory wood, and I have known a man insensible for a quarter of an hour after one of his blows. [9]
- It seemed to Lawless that he could see the lithe stealthiness of its muscles and the ripple of its skin. [11]
- It is well known that use strengthens the muscles in the individual, and complete disuse, or the destruction of the proper nerve, weakens them. [1]
- The tail, whether it be long or short, almost always tapers towards the end; and this, I presume, results from the atrophy of the terminal muscles, together with their arteries and nerves, through disuse, leading to the atrophy of the terminal bones. [1]
- Usually the man is a nobly-built great athlete, with not a rag on but his loin-handkerchief; his color a deep dark brown, his skin satin, his rounded muscles knobbing it as if it had eggs under it. [5]
- We know, for instance, that the muscles of our hands and feet, which determine our powers of movement, are liable, like those of the lower animals, (65. [1]
- The great horse in every conceivable pose, with veins standing out and knotty muscles twisting in his legs and neck and thighs. [9]
- But in riding, I have the additional pleasure of governing another will, and my muscles extend to the tips of the animal's ears and to his four hoofs, instead of stopping at my hands and feet. [6]
- The contrast between his muscles and mine was quite marked. [5]
- The muscles of his legs were as hard as the strands of a rope, and his buckskin breeches frozen so that they cracked under my fingers. [9]
- He was moulding his face to the look with which he meant to present himself; and the muscles had been sternly fixed so long that it was a task to bring them to their habitual expression in company,--that of ingenuous good-nature. [6]
- The muscles in his face tightened, and deepened the lines about his mouth, and a fire was lighted about his eyes. [9]
- Very soon Stephanus heard the whistle of the leathern thongs through the stillness of the night, their hard blows on the springy muscles of the man and his son's painful groaning. [10]
- The organ-blower works harder with his muscles, for that matter, than the organ player, and may perhaps be exasperated into thinking himself a downtrodden martyr because he does not receive the same pay for his services. [6]
- It is simply hard work, for which the strained muscles only get the approbation of the individual conscience that drives them to the task. [4]
- The muscles are great sponges that suck up and make use of large quantities of blood, and the other organs must be liable to suffer for want of their share. [6]
- A dark fire glowed in her eyes, and the muscles of her face moved incessantly, as if she had St. Vitus' dance. [10]
- I do not get out my great Albinus before every lecture on the muscles, nor disturb the majestic repose of Vesalius every time I speak of the bones he has so admirably described and figured. [3]
- Higbie's brawny muscles gave the boat good speed, but by the time we reached our destination we judged that we had pulled nearer fifteen miles than twelve. [5]
- The stout muscles gave an involuntary jerk. [6]
- It was useless for the Orderly to raise his hand: a bullet is quicker than the muscles of the arm and the stroke of a knife. [11]
- Alexander had to exert all the strength of his muscles, practised in the wrestling-school, to hold the sufferer on his seat, for his strength, which was not small, was doubled by the demons of epilepsy. [10]
- As usual, when excited by anger, he swung his lower right arm to and fro, feeling the prominent muscles with his left hand. [10]
- Since the first edition of this book appeared, Mr. Wood has published another memoir in the Philosophical Transactions, 1870, p. 83, on the varieties of the muscles of the human neck, shoulder, and chest. [1]
- She had to eat, sleep, think, speak, weep, work, give vent to her anger, and so on, merely because she had a stomach, a brain, muscles, nerves, and a liver. [2]
- The term "disuse" does not relate merely to the lessened action of muscles, but includes a diminished flow of blood to a part or organ, from being subjected to fewer alternations of pressure, or from becoming in any way less habitually active. [1]
- This would not do, of course, and so the thrill passed off and the muscles softened again. [6]
- He had a deep ravine from each corner of his mouth, not occasioned by any irascible contraction of the muscles, but apparently the deep-worn channels of two rivulets of gravy that oozed out from the huge mouthfuls that he masticated. [4]
- Habits are the crutches of old age; by the aid of these we manage to hobble along after the mental joints are stiff and the muscles rheumatic, to speak metaphorically,--that is to say, when every act of self-determination costs an effort and a pang. [6]
- The central nervous column with its sheath runs as a dark stripe through the whole length of the diaphanous muscles of the body. [6]
- Haow?--said the divinity-student.--He colored, as he noticed on my face a twitch in one of the muscles which tuck up the corner of the mouth, (zygomaticus major,) and which I could not hold back from making a little movement on its own account. [6]
- The muscles which closely resemble those regularly present in our nearest allies, the Quadrumana, are too numerous to be here even specified. [1]
- When the horse ceases to have a will of his own and his muscles require no special attention on your part, then you may live on horseback as Wesley did, and write sermons or take naps, as you like. [6]
- These papers deserve careful study by any one who desires to learn how frequently our muscles vary, and in varying come to resemble those of the Quadrumana. [1]
- I know about bones and muscles and all that, and about digestion and respiration and such things. [6]
- Their limbs and bodies were also acted on by many muscles which now only occasionally reappear, but are normally present in the Quadrumana. [1]
- Selene pushed her aside, and said, turning to her father: "The cut on my head is nothing to speak of, but the muscles and veins here at the ancle are swelled and my leg hurts me rather when I tread. [10]
- There were times and places in which she could give full play to her muscles without fear or reproach. [6]
- H. Vertebral columns and muscles in process of development. [1]
- There are nerves and muscles in our frames whose functions and whose methods of working it seems a sort of sacrilege to describe by cold physiological names and surgical technicalities, and the monk's talk suggested to me something of this kind. [5]
- Hannah went away, and Mary knelt down in front of Selene to loosen and remove the straps which were half buried in the swelled muscles. [10]
- The fourth week after his arrival he was able to aid, with arms whose muscles had been steeled in the pakestra, the men in their fishing, and Dionikos in his boat-building. [10]
- The house drew a long, deep breath, shook its strained cords and muscles free and burst into cheers. [5]
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