432 examples of spine in sentences

Followed a couple of Muhammadan Kasais driving a small flock of sheep, dyed pink and blue in patches, which they urged forward in approved Native fashion by driving the fingers into the base of the hindmost animal's spine; and after them wandered a Syed in a faded green silk robe and cap, carrying the inevitable peacock feather brush, which plays so large a part in exorcism and divination.

He said I thought I was smart, and he asked me if I was hurt any, and I told him all I could find was a stone bruise on my spine where I struck a prairie dog house.

As the horse fell it lashed out wildly; its hind foot touched the back of Marcos' head and seemed almost to break his spine.

" In spite of himself Smith felt a slight chill creep up over his neck and inconvenience his spine.

In a section of the body thus planned the skull and the spine together are shown to have formed a tube, containing the brain and spinal cord.

The upper cavity, or chest, is a bony enclosure formed by the breastbone, the ribs, and the spine.

The bones of the trunk may be subdivided into those of the spine, the ribs, and the hips.

Each vertebra has an opening through its center, and the separate bones so rest, one upon another, that these openings form a continuous canal from the head to the lower part of the spine.

These act as "buffers," and serve to give the spine strength and elasticity and to prevent friction of one bone on another.

This arrangement of elastic pads between the vertebræ supplies the spine with so many elastic springs, which serve to break the effect of shock to the brain and the spinal cord from any sudden jar or injury.

To illustrate the movement of torsion in the spine, or its rotation round its own axis.

Miss Blake sat man-fashion on the middle of her spine, her legs crossed, a magazine in her hands, and on her blunt nose a pair of large, black-rimmed spectacles.

Miss Blake settled back on her spine and recrossed her legs.

" Instantly History felt a bitter, stinging pain at the back of his neck, a pain that ran like fire down along his spine, and he gave a great shriek of terror and almost swooned away.

The spine projects back in a thick mass, and terminates in a spatula-shaped tail, naked and scale-form.

" A cold sweat swept down Jimmie's spine.

For an instant the Menace stood motionless, his spine bristling and his tail growing stiff; then with a short sharp bark he sprang forward like an arrow from a bow in the direction of the feline objective.

Your spine is so injured that it is impossible you should ever recover; but you may have many enjoyments, though not able to be active like other boys.

By one of these Korner was wounded in the abdomen, the liver and spine were injured, and he was immediately deprived of speech and consciousness.

If a person who is standing receive a charge through the spine, he loses his power over the muscles to such a degree, that he either drops on his knees, or falls prostrate on the ground; if the charge be sufficiently powerful, it will produce immediate death, in consequence, probably, of the sudden exhaustion of the whole energy of the nervous system.

In the paralysis of the young, in defective volition from hysteria, in impaired local nutrition, in local deformities dependent on muscular contraction, and in lateral curvature of the spine, it unquestionably often produces the best results.

The flexors and extensors of the legs, the broad muscles of the back and abdomen, and the slender and intricate bundles of fibres which support and steady the spine, are all gently exercised in locomotion.

His face shone with satisfaction; he acquired a sudden stiffness of the spine.

I don't know what there was about that sentence that sent a little shiver along my spine.

A long shiver of emotion crept down my spine, and though it was but the second of September I instinctively drew the fur collar of my coat closer about my throat.

432 examples of  spine  in sentences