The quick glance which all of us cast about the room was, of course, as involuntary as the chill which ran up our spines; yet Godfrey and Iyes, and Simmondshad the excuse that, once upon a time, we had had an encounter with a deadly snake which none of us was likely ever to forget.

As the horse fell it lashed out wildly; its hind foot touched the back of Marcos' head and seemed almost to break his spine.

The THORNBACK differs from the true skate by having large spines in its back, of which the other is destitute.

A long shiver of emotion crept down my spine, and though it was but the second of September I instinctively drew the fur collar of my coat closer about my throat.

This £10 cracks the spine of my fortune as effectually as ten times the amount.

Besides, if the harmless commissariat man were put to such a death, what hope was there for me, who had snapped the spine of their lieutenant?

Shifting uneasily in his chair, the man in the checked suit flushed darkly, then stiffened his spine, hardened his eyes, set his jaw, and faced Number One defiantly.

The cold coin coursed down Joyce's spine?

The Sea-urchin can walk by moving its spines, tilting its body along from one place to another on the bed of the sea.

In the daytime you can sit on the edge like an embarrassed boy, with nothing to support your spine, or you can curl up like a Buddha on his lotus flower, with your legs under you; but that is not dignified, nor is it a comfortable posture for a fat man.

Somewhere in the room was another switch connected with the iron lamp, and Aldous felt a curious chill shoot up his spine.

I suffer so with rheumatiz, and I'm troubled considerable with a risin' of the lungs; and sometimes I do think I've got a spine in my back, it aches and creaks so nights.

At each angle of this hexagon the crest gives off a delicate flexible calcareous spine, which is sometimes four or five times the diameter of the shell in length.

Marginal cells shallow, opening oval, margin much thickened, granulated: usually a short conical spine at the summit; a very minute sessile avicularium behind the outer edge, superiorly.

It was steepverging on the precipitous in placesand Jane frankly expressed her satisfaction when we accomplished the worst part and entered a dense jungle of scrubby bushes, all of which seemed to grow spines of sorts.

" In spite of himself Smith felt a slight chill creep up over his neck and inconvenience his spine.

He fell on the andiron-head and injured his spine so that he could never walk.

By black disaster I was trounced until it jarred my spine; I was a failure so pronounced I didn't need a sign.

The fellow was stooping with his head forward thrusting the boy through a tiny window, when I came down upon him just where the neck joins the spine.

" "In about two seconds," said Tuppy, "I'm going to kick your spine up through the top of your head.

Now it had left her spine and settled in a soul that scorned the low and loved the lowly.

In this case, we see clearly that the sea-urchin first lived from youth to age, then died and lost its spines, which were carried away.

And the village magician answered: 'Fair Lord, no such sword as yet is wrought, for it lies as yet in the hide of Tharagavverug, protecting his spine.' Then said Leothric: 'Who is Tharagavverug, and where may he be encountered?'

"We may get a chance yet to call on Champe all by herself out on the porch or in the arbor before she goes to school," he suggested, by way of putting some spine into the black-eyed boy.

It seems to rest the spine.