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.

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.

Then I saw her spin and weave this flax into a magic coat.

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

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

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

The cold coin coursed down Joyce's spine?

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?

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

Up early in the morning, we beat some grass close by the stream, and roused out an enormous boar that gave us a three mile spin and a good fight, after Pat had given him first spear.

BecausebecauseI will not let her spin.

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.

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.

"Some scorcher or amateur racer, probably," I said, "who takes the opportunity of getting a spin on the wood pavement when the streets are empty."

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.

"All right!" says Bobby, philosophically, walking away; "I am sure I do not mind, only I had a fancy for having one more spin with you.

I done de cookin, mosly, an helped my mammy spin.

" 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.