The fight had followed; Tim Waters, while he told of it, raised the hand in which he held his cap and looked thoughtfully at a row of swollen and abraded knuckles; and lastly, the police had intervened.
A night's heavy rain would consolidate the soil that blew about with every breeze, revive the suffering wheat and strengthen its abraded stalks against any further attack by the driving sand.
Grain grown upon the stiff black loam withstood the drought, but the light soil of the Marston farm was lifted by the wind, and the sharp sand in it abraded the tender stalks.
The flints are found to have the same colour and surface characteristics as the unworked nodules among which they lie, and are generally rolled and abraded in the same way.
Inflammation of the fauces is generally present, with superficial ulceration or excoriation; and sometimes the abraded portions of the mucous lining are covered with a whitish exudation.
The reparative power of cartilage is so low that the best termination that can be expected from the ordinary forms of ulceration, is union between the abraded surfaces.
The abraded surface either ulcerates, or contracts and heals kindly, with or without opacity of the part.
It should then be rubbed upon the abraded spot vigorously, and at least for the space of a full minute.
Where immunity from contraction has followed marriage with a leper, it may be assumed that the conditions of anabraded surface and the contact with pus or blood have not been fulfilled.
If dried lymph is used, particular care should be taken to see that it is actually dissolved and transferred from the substance on which it was dried to the abraded surface.
The vegetation on the banks is so thickly planted that the surface of the earth is not abraded by the torrents.
The ragged seams in gulch and cañon lost their harsh outlines, a thin green mantle faintly clothed the torn and abraded hillside.
Even sound was absent; the Angelus, rung from the invisible Mission tower far inland, was driven back again by the steady northwest trades, that for half the year had swept the coast line and left it abraded of all umbrage and color.
Erythema intertrigo is a hyperæmic disorder occurring on parts where the natural folds of the skin come in contact, and is characterized by redness, to which may be added an abraded surface and maceration of the epidermis.
The young bird, when fully fledged, retains its first feathers for at least one year, the only change being that the brown colors become darker and the rufous edgings abraded and consequently less marked.
The adult birds appear to molt into winter plumage after quitting their summer haunts for southern latitudes, arriving with worn and abraded feathers, but with the barred under surface of the breeding dress.
A bell rang faintly in the kitchen, and the sound abraded his nerves.
The night before, Edwin had abraded her sore nerves by warning her not to be late--in a tone that implied habitual lateness on her part.
It can be caught only, I am told, by contact of an abraded surface with the matter of the leprous sore; and doubtless the familiar habit of the people, of many smoking the same pipe, has done much to disseminate it.
Trousseau's leave to say that the contact of a wounded or abraded surface with the matter of a leprous sore will convey the disease; this is, of course, inoculation; and he seemed to think no other method of contamination probable.
Delicate, easily abraded surfaces are then brought into contact, and the discharge from lesions containing the virus is placed under favourable conditions for conveying the disease from one person to the other.
It is the saliva of a rabid animal received into a wound, or on an abraded surface.
The virus, generated under the influence of rabies, is occasionally deposited on a wounded or abraded surface, and in process of time produces a similar disease in the person that has been so inoculated by it.
If the disease has been introduced by means of an abraded surface, pain is felt at that point, and inflammatory swelling takes place there, and extends along the neighbouring lymphatics.
Thus the position and distribution of this sub-glacial debris or bottom-moraine tell the same tale as the abraded rocks and glacial striae, and clearly indicate an ice-flow from the south-east.
Not only so, but we frequently find that one side of prominent projecting knolls and hills is more highly worn and abraded than the other.
Thus, in the neighbourhood of Leipzig and Dresden, we find glacial striae impressed upon certain highly-abraded and ice-worn hillocks of porphyry, the striae being the work of ice which flowed into Saxony from the north.
Ascend Suaina (1300 feet), and you shall find it showing evident signs of having been abraded all over, from base to summit.
Who can doubt that the worn and abraded rocks look towards the point whence the ice came, and that the non-glaciated rocks in the rear have been sheltered by the rocks in front?
The ragged seams in gulch and canyon lost their harsh outlines, a thin green mantle faintly clothed the torn and abraded hillside.
Sometimes a small head would be painted upon ruby glass, all of the colour being abraded except just one jewel in a man's cap.
In heraldry it is no uncommon thing to see the ground abraded and the charge left in ruby upon white.
His hair was filled with grease, clots of oil smeared his shoulders, and the bags that burst as he lifted them abraded his dripping skin.
He had torn and abraded it heaving in oil and coal, and the gunboat's surgeon had warned him that it was advisable to keep his skin unbroken.
The marginal zone is less than half an inch wide and contains at the upper edge two perforations, which have been considerably abraded by the cord of suspension.
Perforations have been made near the ends of this trough; these seem to be somewhat abraded on the outside by a cord of suspension or attachment which has passed between them along a groove in the apex or angle of the keel.
Owing to this manner of growth, the slips of membrane consist of successive rims united together; in most cases, these soon becomeabraded from the older parts of the shell, but are sometimes preserved.
Supposing no loss, the weight should be equal to the quantity of the mineral pounded together with the portion abraded from the mortar.
In analyzing sapphire, chrysoberyl, and some other very hard minerals, the quantity of silica abraded from the mortar sometimes amounts to five per cent.
What the quantity thus abraded was, he determined by weighing the mortar at the end of the process.
When intended for application to very tender or abraded surfaces, they must be largely diluted with water.
Those principally in use are such as afford protection to sores and abraded surfaces, and give support to the parts.
Owing to the intensely poisonous nature of aconitine, this ointment must be both prepared and used with great caution, and must never be applied to an abraded surface.
I abraded the sleeve of my suit while I was working today.
Purposely abradedthe sleeve of my suit so that he would be in a position to repair it, as Maintenance Officer.
This range of highlands would coincide with the terms of the proclamation of 1763 by terminating on the north shore of the Bay of Chaleurs, while the abraded highlands of Messrs.
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