In his famous "Mikroskopische Untersuchungen" Schwann speaks of Torula as a "cell"; and, in a remarkable note to the passage in which he refers to the yeast plant, Schwann says: "I have been unable to avoid mentioning fermentation, because it is the most fully and exactly known operation of cells, and represents, in the simplest fashion, the process which is repeated by every cell of the living body.

At length in despair I turned again to the blank and miserable room, which had looked to me like a cell in a prison.

Somebody was at the door of his cell with a key.

I have been in a cell at Cartagena, chained to a man that had died of the plague, with the gallows preparing for me at cock-crow.

If to-morrow was any farther off they'd have to sweep out a padded cell for me.

If one wishes to trace the idea of internal secretion by cells to an individual, it is convenient, if not pedantic, to give the credit to Theophile de Bordeu, a famous physician of Paris in the eighteenth century.

He knocked at the door of the third cell on the right; for in his way he was a devout person and wished to disturb no man at his prayers.

I found him in a little cell by himself, outside the common room of the gaol.

He liked it and he didn't like it; still, it was not the same in all the cells; in some it was scarcely salt at all; and he began to suck the honey of cell after cell, trying to find one that was not salt; and by and by he dropped the cluster of cells from his hand, and stooping to pick it up forgot to do so, and laying his head down and stretching himself out on the mossy ground looked up into his mother's face with drowsy, happy eyes.

A gelatinous material, presumed to be the internal secretion of the gland, has, in fact, been observed emerging from the cells into the blood spaces.

The generation after him witnessed the triumph of the cell as the recognized unit of structure of the tissues, the brick of the organs.

What arms had he collected, what allies had he equipped, that a man who had been consul and was praetor should be so pitilessly and impiously cast into a cell without being allowed to say a word of defence or hear a single charge, and die there like the basest criminals?

This order consigns you to confinement there as a dangerous political conspirator, as one who has threatened meit consigns you to the cells below the lakefor life!

From this time the yolk begins to take its color, the oily cells assuming a yellow tint, while the albuminous cells near the vesicle become whiter.

Along the sides of the hill, there are also a very great many cells among the rocks, where the various Arhans sat and meditated.

She said she had gone down in the night to the cell under her father's house, and whipped the slaves confined there with her own hands.

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....

Certainly these two instincts were definitely developed and fixed in the cells before sex differentiation and the sex instincts were born at all.

" "Let this thy prisoner be set within the cell above the torture chamber, so, lying within the dark he must needs hear them cry below, and in his mind shall he suffer as they suffer, every pang of racking wheel and searing iron.

I come from Fountain Dale and, in truth, am a certain poor hermit, as one may say, for I live in a cell beside the fountain blessed by that holy Saint Ethelrada.

On the left of the chapel at a slightly higher level stands the largest of this group of caves, a large hall with a verandah and twenty cells around it.

All are full of pores or layers of small cells, and some are quite pretty from having a fringe about the cells like eyelashes.

For these alleged crimes thousands of us have been jailed in foul and filthy cells throughout this country, often without charge, for months and in some cases, years, and when released re-arrested and again thrust in jail to await a trial that is never called.

He liked it and he didn't like it; still, it was not the same in all the cells; in some it was scarcely salt at all; and he began to suck the honey of cell after cell, trying to find one that was not salt; and by and by he dropped the cluster of cells from his hand, and stooping to pick it up forgot to do so, and laying his head down and stretching himself out on the mossy ground looked up into his mother's face with drowsy, happy eyes.

The only way I could get free was to back off and pull the coil, so that the battery wires would pull the cells off the shelf and thus break the circuit.