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Sentences ending with ribs

Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
Every second I thought the sting of his sword was between my ribs. [9]
It stopped before the chief judge and raised its bony arm aloft and began to speak, while all the assembled shuddered, for they could see the words leak out between its ribs. [5]
It put out his judgment, and instead of his sword passing through Gering's body it only grazed his ribs. [11]
I had never heard, or if I had I had forgotten, the name and the story of "Samson's Ribs. [6]
But this invalid has to fight a champion who strikes hard but cannot be hit in return, who will press him sharply for breath, but will never pant himself while the wind can whistle through his fleshless ribs. [3]
A day of great rejoicings,--for a prelate was to be consecrated, and the bones of the mighty skeleton-minster were shaking with anthems, as if there were life of its own within its buttressed ribs. [6]
I am the best friend you've got, and not the less your friend because I feel like breaking your ribs. [11]
Nature could not be quite so cruel as to set a heart throbbing in that poor little cage of ribs! [6]
He smiled broadly and poked Mr. Wetherell in an extremely sensitive portion of his ribs. [9]

More example sentences with the word ribs in them

But the Frenchman was too agile and adroit for him: he took the thrust in the flesh of his ribs and riposted like lightning. [11]
Do you see those fine lines on the face of the water that branch out like the ribs of a fan. [5]
The soldiers in their greatcoats were ranged in lines, the sergeants major and company officers were counting the men, poking the last man in each section in the ribs and telling him to hold his hand up. [2]
The shores of the stream were strewn with wrecks; there lay bleaching in the sand the ribs of many a once gallant craft. [4]
Cormorants dived under the long rollers that came crashing in from the Pacific; gulls wheeled and screamed in the soft wind; alert little birds darted here and there with incredible swiftness, leaving tiny footprints across the ribs and furrows of the wet sand. [9]
These ribs are scraped against the posterior margins of the elytra, a small portion of which projects beyond the general outline. [1]
All the skeleton-like ribs of the roof showed in the dim light, naked overhead, and the only floor to be trusted consisted of the few boards which bridged the lath and plaster. [6]
There are few precipices and jutting crags, and less is visible of the giant ribs and bones of the planet. [4]
It was like peering up through the clean-picked ribs and bones of some colossal skeleton. [5]
The cloven valleys of the lower world swam in a tinted mist which veiled the ruggedness of their crags and ribs and ragged forests, and turned all the forbidding region into a soft and rich and sensuous paradise. [5]
They accused her of breaking all those ribs by witchcraft, and asked her if she was not a witch? [5]
In a great number of long-horned beetles (Longicornia) the organs are situated quite otherwise, the rasp being on the meso-thorax, which is rubbed against the pro-thorax; Landois counted 238 very fine ribs on the rasp of Cerambyx heros. [1]
Next I felt myself clutching the skin over his ribs in Arlington Street, when I had flung him across the room in his yellow night-gown. [9]
As for me, my heart hammered against my ribs, and I grew sick with listening. [9]
Why, the young M'sieu' Duvarney had him on his knees, the blade at his throat, and a sword flashed out from the dark--they say it was the devil's--and took him in the ribs and well-nigh killed him. [11]
She didn't laugh loud--we, of course, wished she would--but kept in the shelter of a fan, and shook until there was danger that she would unhitch her ribs from her spine. [5]
The Gulf Stream is a benign, liquid force, flowing from under the ribs of the equator,--a white knight of the South going up to battle the giant of the North. [4]
In two strides I had seized him by the skin over his ribs, and he shrieked with pain and fright. [9]
So he set his leg and bandaged it up, and fixed his ribs and gave him a dose of something to quiet down his excitement and put him to sleep--poor thing he was trembling and frightened to death and it was pitiful to see him. [5]
Novem either put her horns into Octo's ribs, and Octo shambled to one side, or else the two locked horns and tried the game of push and gore until one gave up. [4]
But to her great relief he walked straight into the middle of the laboratory and stopped directly under the lamp, which was suspended from the point where the ribs of the vaulting intersected. [10]
A few minutes' fierce digging, and the kegs of gold were disclosed, showing through the ribs of two skeletons. [11]
I thought he even looked as if he were thinking, with complacent vanity, that his own skull would look well on top of the heap and his own ribs add a charm to the frescoes which possibly they lacked at present. [5]
The rasp generally consists of a narrow, slightly-raised surface, crossed by very fine, parallel ribs, sometimes so fine as to cause iridescent colours, and having a very elegant appearance under the microscope. [1]
Presently he had come quite close to her, and as he was helped towards her with tottering steps, he dug the dealer in the ribs and said, kissing the back of his hand, and winking his great eyes: "I know--I know! [10]
The first went by my head; the second caught me along the ribs, but not to great hurt. [11]
The spear had been cut off, leaving the barb behind, which continued to force its way by muscular action gradually toward the back; and when I examined him I could feel a hard substance between the ribs below the left blade-bone. [5]
The man continued: "Poor Jo went down in the 'Fly Away' when she swung with her bare ribs flat before the wind, and swamped and tore upon the bloody reefs at Apia. [11]

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