"Let the Dutchman have the reward of his sturdier frame and steadier nerves!

I dimly saw Mr. Coxwell in the ring, and endeavoured to speak, but could not do so; when in an instant black darkness came over me, and the optic nerve lost power suddenly.

The delft does not feel the blow which would shiver the porcelain into atoms, and Reuben's epidermis is, I imagine, of such a horny consistency that he would walk in oblivious unconcern upon these elevations of needlework which are as a ploughshare to my sensitive nerves.

The white nerve fibers form the white part of the brain and of the spinal cord, and the greater part of the cerebro-spinal nerves.

Young student, who this story readest, And with the same thy thoughts now feedest, Thy weaker nerves might thee forbid To do the thing the Spartan did; Thy feebler heart could not sustain Such dire extremity of pain.

The noise startles me afresh; jarring, horribly, on my tense nerves.

We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision: to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies; to drag into day-light a struggling and half-vanishing night-mare; to handle and examine the terrors, or the airy solaces.

I think her old fear of my claiming the place came on her again, and though she always tried to treat me civilly, the effort in the end proved too great for her overwrought nerves, as you shall presently hear.

These are sensory nerves, and are devoted to sight.

He feared the effect that continued gazing on it might have upon her delicate nerves.

It is a trick easy enough to play with a little nerve.

A view of the under surface of the brain, which rests on the floor of the skull, shows the origin of important nerves, called the cranial nerves, the cerebellum, the structure connecting the optic nerves (optic commissure), the bridge of nervous matter (pons Varolii) connecting the two hemispheres of the cerebellum, and lastly numerous and well-marked convolutions. 268.

To watch the new-comers rush in, all pleased and eager, to see the eyes of the others glaze with weariness, wrought upon my strained nerves.

" Knowing so well what it was to have raw, quivering nerves, she tried to smile at him, and saying as lightly as she could, "Why, of course; there's no hurry," began to gather what bits of wood lay about, piling them on the fire.

Descending in company with the flexor tendons, and passing behind the carpus and beneath the carpal sheath, it continues its descent, in company with the internal plantar nerve and the internal metacarpal vein, on the inner side of the flexor tendons until just above the fetlock.

But the "better" is only a deceitful sham, kept up by excited and overwrought nerves,the same thing that we see over and over and over again in all lives which are temporarily kindled and stimulated by excitement of any kind.

Well did her past experience and cool nerve then serve her.

The medulla-to-be consists of cells accompanying the vegetative nerves.

A, chiasm of the optic nerves; B, optic tracts; C, motor oculi communis; D, fifth nerve; E, motor oculi externus; F, facial nerve; H, auditory nerve; I, glosso-pharyngeal nerve; K, pneumogastric; L, spinal accessory; M, cervical nerves; N, upper extremity of spinal cord; O, decussation of the anterior pyramids; R, anterior pyramids of the medulla oblongata; S, pons Varolii.

It thrills and so rests tired nerves.

" Then turning to Hasty, whose feeble nerves had been intensely excited by this scene, she said: "I want you to get to work again pretty soon, and not lie there too lazy to work.

THE EXTERNAL METACARPAL VEIN.This ascends on the external side of the flexor tendons in company with the external plantar nerve.

Actually, no doubt, it was nothing more than a result of overstrung nerves.

A, chiasm of the optic nerves; B, optic tracts; C, motor oculi communis; D, fifth nerve; E, motor oculi externus; F, facial nerve; H, auditory nerve; I, glosso-pharyngeal nerve; K, pneumogastric; L, spinal accessory; M, cervical nerves; N, upper extremity of spinal cord; O, decussation of the anterior pyramids; R, anterior pyramids of the medulla oblongata; S, pons Varolii.

Injected 2 grains of cocaine in aqueous solution on either side of the limb, immediately over the metacarpal nerves.