When I shook my body I seemed to have full power over the muscles of the back, and considerable power over those of the neck, but none over my limbs....

Silence, sleep, repose, and the building of life and nerve and muscle in the quiet and the darkness.

They prefer naked muscle to rounded outline, and seek rather to test than to enjoy their bodies.

"I often practice walking sideways, for the purpose of developing the muscles on that side.

Animals further needed muscles for locomotion and nerves for sensibility.

Two hundred pounds of mule muscle with the brain of a devil to tell what to doyes, you can lay it ten to one that Kennebec is some fighter.

Age hardly counts in such a matter; and then it is not every boy of even his growth that could have brought muscles like those of Dab Kinzer to the swing he gave that four-foot length of seasoned ironwood.

A molecular change takes place in the nerve of the tentacle, is propagated to the muscles by which the body is retracted, and causing them to contract, the act of retraction is brought about.

It wasn't so much the slipper that hurt him, though the Female Samson put all her muscle into the operation, but it was the disgrace of the thing; and when you remember that the Dwarf was forty-two years old, you can understand that he felt that the woman had taken a liberty with him.

Turnin' pine trees inter paper mus' be a job thet takes more muscle than brains.

The opossum is a very primitive beast, and so early and useful an invention should, one would think, have been spread widely in after time; but there appears to be some difficulty in developing muscles at the thin end of a long tail, for the animals that have turned it into a grasping organ are few and are widely scattered.

No fat, but all muscle from your head to your feet.

There are scores of tiny muscles about the head, face, and eyes, which, by their alternate contractions and relaxations, impart to the countenance those expressions which reflect the feelings and passions of the individual.

There was also a tightening of the muscles around his mouth, just as though he suspected he was about to be put to a severe test, and would have to gather his wits in order not to make a false move.

Six feet in his gymnasium shoes, and with a ripple of muscle beneath the well-fitting, well-advertised Campus Coat for College Men, he had emerged from the three years into man's complete estate, which, at nineteen, is that patch of territory at youth's feet known as "the world."

The repressed curl of his short, crisp hair, the warm tan of his face and hands and exposed throat, the very gleam of his perfect teeth, and the flow of the muscles under his shirtthese things by the sheer trick of opposites sent her fancies scurrying.

But the Douglas, with his denser body, leaps and glides in hidden strength, seemingly as independent of common muscles as a mountain stream.

I had never before seen a stump, but remembered Dr. Jackson's lecture over the watermellon at desert, on amputation, for the benefit of Charles Sumner; and electricity never brought light quicker than there came to me the memory of all he had said about the proper arrangement of the muscles over the end of the bone; and added to this, came a perfect knowledge of the relations of those mangled muscles to the general form of the body.

Not stir a muscle above the wrist.

The muscles within the larynx, of course, play a very important part in altering the tension of the vocal cords.

"Like I thought," the Ramblin' Kid said to himself, "it's a case of wear her outa case of seasoned old muscle against speedy young heels!"

He stretched out his arms with a slow, mechanical movement as if to test the condition of his muscles after the tremendous strain he had put upon them.

They will, of course, increase in girth of chest and develop muscle until two years old; a Borzoi may be considered in its prime at from three to four years of age.

There was a quick move in the big tower of bone and muscle beside me.

It brings into action many muscles without putting undue strain upon any particular group.