From the earth he tore the fibers, Tore the tough roots of the Larch Tree.

In its widest sweeps my tree-top described an arc of from twenty to thirty degrees, but I felt sure of its elastic temper, having seen others of the same species still more severely triedbent almost to the ground indeed, in heavy snowswithout breaking a fiber.

To accompany Textile fibers and their use, revised, by Hess.

The edges of the petioles, which contain much finer fiber than the middle parts, are separately divided into strips an inch wide, and with strong pressure are drawn several times under the knife.

Again, the cells are modified to form fibers, such as tendon, muscle, and nerve.

They penetrate the most minute muscular fibers; they are closely connected with the cells of the glands, and are found in the coats of even the smallest blood-vessels.

The reason for this was that it took a very long time to separate the cotton fiber from the seed.

It will strengthen its fiber and ennoble its spirit.

With all its apparent potency, it has its evident weaknesses; moisture is everywhere at war with it, gases and temperature destroy its fiber and its life, continued blows or motion crystallize and rob it of its strength, and acids will devour it in a night.

The South American Indians have for a long time past employed the banana fiber in the manufacture of clothing material;(The Technologist, September, 1865, p. 89, from unauthenticated sources,) and in Loo Choo the banana fiber is the only kind in use (Faits Commerciaux, No. 1514.

In the papillæ of the red border of the lips the nerves end in capsules which enclose one or more fibers, and are called end-bulbs.

The English market came promptly to esteem the long, strong, silky sea-island fiber as the finest of all cottons; and the prices at Liverpool rose before the end of the century to as high as five shillings a pound.

[Extracting the fiber.]

58.Diagrammatic Section of a Villus A, layer of columnar epithelium covering the villus; B, central lacteal of villus; C, unstriped muscular fibers; D, goblet cell ]

Salt also should be used only in the smallest possible quantities, as it hardens the fiber, rendering it more difficult of digestion.

No, modern life has not lost strong fiber and is capable of supreme heroism.

the muscular effort that nerved every fiber during these awfully protracted moments.

In the Report of the Council of the Society of Arts, London, May 11, 1860, attention was called to a machine invented by F. Burke, of Montserrat, for obtaining fiber from banana and other endogenous plants.

In tropical countries there is scarcely a hut to be seen without banana trees surrounding it; and the idea presented itself to many to utilize the fiber of these plants, at that time entirely neglected, which might be done by the mere labor of obtaining it; besides which, the little labor required for their proper cultivation is quickly and amply repaid by their abundant fruitfulness.

Here I saw them preparing the fiber of the pine-apple for weaving.

While many of the edible bananas bear fruit after one year, and a few varieties even after six months, the abacá plant requires on an average three years to produce its fiber in a proper condition; when raised from suckers four years; and raised from year-old seedlings, even under the most favorable conditions, two years.

Was that what it meant; or was it simply the repetition of a phrase which has been handed down to you by your predecessors, and which you took up as part of an ordered service, without putting the slightest fiber of your soul into it?

A brush which revolves against the saws removes the fiber from them at every revolution.

It warmed every fiber of my being.

A voice dragged him back into lifea voice that boomed in his ears like rolling thunder and set every fiber in him quivering with emotion.