Heart-constricting silence, and only the breath of ether seeping out to her, sweet, insidious.

Miss Josie Beemis, narrowly constricted between shoulders that barely sloped off from her neck, with arms folded flat to her flat bosom and her back a hypothenuse against the counter, looked up.

" At that Miss Hassiebrock's ears, with the large pearl blobs in them, tingled where they peeped out from the scallops of yellow hair, and she swallowed with a forward movement as if her throat had constricted.

" Sobs rumbled up through Mrs. Horowitz, which her hand to her mouth tried to constrict.

Not even the most convinced Englishman can look upon the twisted and constricted choir of Canterbury and rejoice.

" "Then why this funny story of yourstold with a straight face, too!about wanting to get hold of the Montalais loot simply to slip it back to its owner?" Lanyard felt with a spasm of anger constrict his throat; and knew that the restraint he imposed upon his temper was betrayed in a reddened face.

The band is tied loosely about the limb, the hard body is held over the artery to be constricted, and a stick is inserted beneath the band on the opposite side of the limb and used to twist the band in such a way that the limb is tightly constricted thereby, and the hard body thus made to compress the artery (Fig. 160).

The band is tied loosely about the limb, the hard body is held over the artery to be constricted, and a stick is inserted beneath the band on the opposite side of the limb and used to twist the band in such a way that the limb is tightly constricted thereby, and the hard body thus made to compress the artery (Fig. 160).

"The entire circumference of the limb may be constricted by any sort of elastic band or rubber tube, or any other strong elastic material passed around the limb several times on a stretch, drawn tight and tied in a knot.

Only the tragic figure of George Cannon hung vague in the far distance of memory, and the sight thereof constricted her heart.

Hilda's throat was constricted by the sight.

He was helpless as a child in the arms of its fatherno, helpless as a sheep in the constricting coils of a python.

Miss Lydia wrote a letter to Uncle Ralph, but it was doubtful whether that relative's constricted affairs would permit him to furnish help.

Breeches and stockings may be worn, but long puttees should be avoided as they constrict the muscles and stop the circulation, thus tending to frost-bite, which is a serious danger at high altitudes.

CHESTThe chest is deep, and usually rather narrow, but should not be so narrow as to constrict the heart and lungs.

Also in the common gray mould of infusions and preserves, Penicillium, by a process which is perhaps intermediate between budding and cell-division, a cell at the end of a hypha constricts itself in several places, and the constricted portions become separate as conidiospores.

There seem to be three badly crevassed parts where the glacier is constricted and the fall is heavier.

They neither crush nor tear with their teeth nor constrict with their bodies.

When my arms were released from their constricted position, the pain was intense.

The order of Owen Roe's advance was admirably preserved, while the Scottish and English forces were in confusion, already broken and crowded into a narrow and constricted space between the two rivers.

You may imagine with what methodical solemnity the Boche "crumps" the interior of that constricted area.

(2) Causing relievers and relieved to meet violently together in some constricted fairway.

His breast, expanding, heaved off all petty constricting worries, "like Samson his green wythes": they fell from him as he rode, and as he rode he chanted "The sun came dazzling thro' the leaves And flamed upon the brazen greaves Of bold Sir Lancelot . . .

4. P. aurita, n. sp. Cells cup-shaped, tapering at bottom, constricted just below the top; mouth at an angle of 45 degrees, circular; margin subcrenate, plicate, with three folds on each side, with a wide shallow notch in front and entire behind.

[Illustration] A hundred years of hideousness, Constricted brows, and strain, and stress!