The next day he defeated a rebel army and put it to flight, while four of the enemy's guns were captured by Outram at the head of a body of volunteer cavalry.

They turned a deaf ear to the order to halt sounded by the trumpets, and with their bayonets drove the enemy's van back on their main body.

It was a most unpromising body, yet the Emperor's will stirred it.

I am sensible of being at times pressed beyond my strength of body and mind.

he went on, giving another shake to the murdered body.

The constitutional result is the creation of several intermediate links between the body of the nation and the king, in the place of or side by side with the duty of allegiance.

he could not help entertaining a very strong impression that these hitherto mysterious organsthe suprarenal capsulesmay be either directly or indirectly concerned in sanguification (the making of the blood): and that a diseased condition of them, functional or structural, may interfere with the proper elaboration of the body generally, or of the red particles more especially...."

In 1850, Curling, an English pathologist, studying the cretinous idiots of Salzburg, written about centuries before by Paracelsus, discovered that with their defective brain and mentality there was associated an absence of the thyroid body, and accompanying symmetrical swellings of fat tissue at the sides of the neck.

We admit that each tissue, and, more generally, each cell of the organism, secretes on its own account, certain products or special ferments, which, through this medium (the blood), influence all other cells of the body, a definite solidarity being thus established among all the cells through a mechanism other than the nervous system....

Without some acquaintance with that story, the rough outline of their physical architecture, and the particular work they are called upon to perform in the body, no adequate understanding of their influence upon types of human nature and personality is possible.

Relative to the body weight it is largest in the mammalia, and smallest in the fishes.

Since the liver is the most complex and active chemical factory in the body, its appropriation of a greater amount of iodine for itself is understandable.

A complete remaking of body and soul is apparently affected.

I am pinned there with the first half of my body struggling inside the car while the second half protrudes over the fast-receding platform.

A penitent is a man instrusted by God with judgment against himself; one who refuses himself the most innocent pleasures because he had formerly indulged in those the most criminal; one who puts up with the most necessary gratification with pain; one who regards his body as an enemy whom it is necessary to conqueras an unclean vessel which must be purifiedas an unfaithful debtor of whom it is proper to exact to the last farthing.

Now she was Mrs. Knollys, in the famous story, waiting for the body of her husband to be given up by the glacier.

There was another cracking sound and the edge of the solid body of ice broke up into dozens of floating cakes, that ground and pounded each other as the waves set them in motion.

The Carnegie Mechanics came out in a body to witness their team win the championship.

What was worse, a quantity of cotton wool, which had been put inside the upper part of the body for some reason or other, was dislodged by her squeezing in and pressed against her mouth, forming an effective silencer.

Then, overcome by rage, he made a wild jump for the cat and lunged his heavy body against the side of the statue.

If not arrested this will in time communicate itself to the bones of the upper part of the body and terminate fatally.

" Up and down a perpendicular procession on the page he every now and then mentally returned the salute of the one little musketeer of the same height as the steamboat's chimneys, whether the Attention he challenged was that of the Continentals, the Louisiana Grays, Orleans Cadets, Crescent Blues or some other body of blithe invincibles.

No military body was yet here, and the carriage halted at the first good view point.

A sound body, by Dean F. Smiley, Ruth M. Strang & W. W. Charters.

However out of keeping with character the former of these may be, it is in itself unsurpassed: If there be Ever a neighbour-brook or hollow tree, Receive my body, close me up from lust That follows at my heels!