68 examples of shoulder-blade in sentences

"Look at that: shoulder-blade of unmarried Episcopal lady, aged thirty-nine.

"Because the shoulder-blade's so sharp.

Going onward in these latter at an irregular pace; sometimes momentarily stunned into a rangy stagger by a sounding blow on the cerebrum or the cerebellum; and, again, irritated almost to a run by contusion of shoulder-blade or funny-bone; he finally became aware that two men were following him through the lots, and that with a closeness of attention indicating more than common interest.

His right arm had been cut by a saber-stroke, and a pistol-ball had entered above the shoulder-blade.

The ball had passed through the shoulder-blade diagonally and lodged under the skin on the opposite side, and was partially flattened.

Of a bacon pig, the legs are reserved for curing, and when cured are called hams: when the meat is separated from the shoulder-blade and bones and cured, it is called bacon.

These bones are classified as follows: Upper Arm: Scapula, or shoulder-blade, Clavicle, or collar bone, Humerus, or arm bone, Forearm: Ulna, Radius, Hand: 8 Carpal or wrist bones, 5 Metacarpal bones, 14 Phalanges, or finger bones, making 32 bones in all.

The scapula, or shoulder-blade, is a flat, triangular bone, placed point downwards, and lying on the upper and back part of the chest, over the ribs.

The shoulder-blade is attached to the trunk chiefly by muscles, and is capable of extensive motion.

It thus serves like the keystone of an arch to hold the shoulder-blade firmly in its place, but its chief use is to keep the shoulders wide apart, that the arm may enjoy a freer range of motion.

As already mentioned, its rounded head fits into the socket of the shoulder-blade, forming a ball-and-socket joint, which permits great freedom of motion.

It consisted of a complete left arm, minus the third finger and including the bones of the shoulderthe shoulder-blade and collar-bone.

Then the arms have been separated with the scapula (or shoulder-blade) and clavicle (or collar-bone) attached, just as an arm would be removed for dissection.

"But what instantly arrested my attention on reading the newspaper report was the unusual manner in which the arm had been separated; for, besides the bones of the arm proper, there were those of what anatomists call the 'shoulder-girdle'the shoulder-blade and collar-bone.

But the only way of avoiding that fall, and indeed most others, is to keep both hands firm between hip and shoulder-blade, and the moment Elzevir felt one hand off his back, he had the jailer off his feet and gave him Compton's Toss.

This important point in the regeneration of Russia settled, they shot the man in the chest, the bullet coming out by the shoulder-blade.

In the back of his great red coat, just under the left shoulder-blade, was a gash in the cloth, where some weapon had passed, and all round was a wide patch of dark scarlet which told its own tale.

Agavè moanedso moans a lioness Over her young oneas she clutched his head: While Ino on the carcass fairly laid Her heel, and wrenched away shoulder and shoulder-blade.

He thrust the spear into the animal's shoulder; but the shoulder-blade turned the head of the weapon, and caused it to run along at least three feet just under the skin.

The dragoon thrust up with the lance, but the other turned it, and sliced him through the shoulder-blade.

That shoulder-blade is an extremely doubtful document, and I would like to put it side by side with the gnawed scapulae of a few of the commoner domestic animals before I admitted its humanity.

The shoulder-blade eats best cold, and the ribs warm.

The same Acquaintances who had tried to Stand In with him when Things were coming his Way, were cutting off Street-Corners and getting down behind their Newspapers to escape the Affectionate Massage, beginning at the Hand and extending to the Shoulder-Blade.

"Dade, they don't make 'em any better than you," he cried, and left the door to try and break a shoulder-blade with the flat of his hand, just to show his appreciation of such friendship.

I don't think it lasted four minutes, at the end of which time Bill King was the unhappy possessor of four broken ribs, a broken forearm, and a dislocated shoulder-blade.

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