"Do you know who we air, sir?" cride a long, leen, lank, rale-fence-lookin femail, whose nose looked as if sheed been sokin it in a bladder of black snuff.

Tie a piece of wet bladder over the mouths of the bottles, after they are well corked.

A tube, called the ureter, passes out from the concave border of each kidney, turns downwards, and enters the bladder in the basin of the pelvis.

This is probably an allusion to the flappers in Gulliver's Travelsthe servants who, in Laputa, carried bladders with which every now and then they flapped the mouths and ears of their employers, to recall them to themselves and disperse their meditations.

But had kind Nature supplied us with an air-bladder at the neck, the heaviest of us might have floated to eternity, Leander's swimming across the Hellespont no wonder at all, and the drags of the Humane Society be converted into halters for the suspension and recovery of old offenders and small debts.

Put it into small jars or bladders for use, and keep it in a cool place.

These are strong words, but we will give a few instances to prove their truth: All physiologists admit that the swim-bladder is homologous or "ideally similar" in position and structure with the lungs of the higher vertebrate animals; hence there seems to me to be no great difficulty in believing that natural selection has actually converted a swim-bladder into a lung, or organ used exclusively for respiration.p.

The three adventurers were then lowered from the wall by ropes, and having fastened the bladders around them, noiselessly entered the water.

Stretch a piece of moist bladder across a glass tube,a common lamp-chimney will do.

Yet it's as obvious as tintacks that a medium who's hampered at his hands will do all he can with his teeth, and what could be so self-evident as a bladder under one's lappel?

The stalks are bladders about the size of a greengage, which enable the plant to float.