That position pressed the forearm against the biceps and the big muscles bulged out on either side, vast as the thigh of a strong man.

In the early times, there must have been those who stood apart from their tribesmen in contests of pure athletic skill,in running, jumping, leaping, wrestling, in laying on thew and thigh with arm, hand, and curled fist in sheer delight of action, and of the display of strength.

Windy slapped his thigh in humourous despair.

Two bucks' thighs on his shoulders.

" The warriors receive a new scar on the thigh for every enemy they kill in battle.

In Homer's description of the wound which Ulysses, when young, received in his thigh from the tusk of an enraged wild boar, the infusion of blood was stopped by divine incantations and divine songs, and some sort of bandage which must have acted by pressure.

Run a skewer through the pinion and thigh into the body to the pinion and thigh on the other side, and press the legs as much as possible between the breast and the side bones, and put the liver under one pinion and the gizzard under the other.

Joseph, who till now had sat with his knees cowering in by the fireplace, wheeled about, and with great difficulty of body shifted the same round to the corner of a table where I was sitting, and first stationing one thigh over the other, which is his sedentary mood, and placidly fixing his benevolent face right against mine, waited my observations.

Beholding Duryodhana showing both his thighs unto Draupadi, Bhima said with quivering lips, wretch!

She hath on the necke bone, betweene the necke and the shoulders a heape of fethers like a Tassell, her thighs vnto her knees are couered with doune, her legs strong and great, and dareth with her talents assault a man.

I bruised myself on the thigh against the table, I sent a chair headlong, I stumbled and fell and whisked the cloth from the table in my fall.

Then there is the thigh without a bone, and there is nothing in the books to warrant a hope that it could heal in that condition.

On February 6, while retiring to prevent the Russians surrounding us, I was shot In thigh at 1,500 yards distance and fell.

One of this discontented pair, Abel Handy, had been put into the hospital by Mr. Harding himself; he had been a stonemason in Barchester, and had broken his thigh by a fall from a scaffolding.

I used to think little, young as I was, of swinging myself with a rope round my thigh off the West Inch gable, and that stood three-and-fifty feet above the ground.

The ordinary tourniquet is probably the most inefficient instrument that the mind of man could deviseat least, for dealing with wounds of the thigh out in the field.

Her fringed hunting-shirt fell to her knees, the short shoulder-cape from throat to breast; gay fringe fluttered from shoulder to wrist, and from thigh to ankle; and her little scarlet-quilled moccasins went pat-patter-pat as she danced down the stairway and stood before me, sweeping her cap from her golden head in exaggerated salute.

Bend the thigh towards the abdomen and bring the leg up against the thigh, with the knot in the bend of the knee. 365.

The boots were made of white bear-skin, which, at the end of the foot, were made to terminate with the claws of the animal; and they were so long that they came up the thigh under the coat, or "jumper," as the men called it, and thus served instead of trousers.