The poison contained in the tooth glands of certain venomous reptiles, particularly some of the snakes, which is injected into or under the skin of an animalbitten by the reptile, is a very powerful agent.
Every animal bitten does not necessarily develop the disease, but the per cent of fatalities has been variously estimated, and averages from 25 to 30.
While cattle are grazing, more especially when they are in woods, they may be bitten in the lips by insects or serpents.
For instance, it is still a widely prevalent belief that if persons or animals are bitten by a dog they are liable to become rabid if the dog should contract the disease at any future time.
There is no foundation for this impression, and it would be a great comfort to many people who are now and then bitten by animals if the fallacy of this idea were known.
If discovered at once the bitten part had better be excised.
It should be made sufficiently tight to so far as possible arrest circulation in the bitten part.
She was a hard-bitten old lady, with a face full of wrinkles in a skin that looked as if it had been out in the sun and rain for years, as indeed it had, and a pair of bright searching eyes.
For years she had not been able to weep, but had only bitten her lips till the blood started.
I had bittenthe youngest young master in the leg, because he kicked away the bone I was gnawing.
The police sergeant was a hard bitten looking customer, typical of his line in life.
Well, Major, you've got bitten with a sort of inclination towards occultism, and Ukozi comes in handy as a means of showing you a thing or two.
To the jaundiced honey tastes bitter, and to those bitten by mad dogs water causes fear; and to little children the ball is a fine thing.
Dost thou think that a false opinion has less power than the bile in the jaundiced, or the poison in him who is bitten by a mad dog?
Moreover, she was bitten with the fever of speculation.
The Molinari family were bitten with Jansenism, and hoped to bring the young Capuchin to their views.
The awkward soldier striding over the snow fumbles with frost-bitten fingers in his knapsack for the last of his biscuits.
Jan did not know much about human ailments, perhaps, but he had seen a husky go mad, and had narrowly escaped being bitten by the beast before Jim Willis had shot it.
I couldn't find that the brute had bitten any of the others, but next day two of 'em suddenly went clean off, and they certainly did bite another pair before I shot them.
But I am bound to say I never heard of any one being bitten or frightened by a dog at Shaws, and it is notorious that, difficult though bloodhound whelps are to rear, the Colonel rarely loses one in a litter.
Dick Vaughan's bandaged neck, and his right thumb, bitten through to the bone, would permanently carry the marks of this poor wretch's ferocity in that lonely struggle on the trail.
Sobber would not have cared had Dick or his brothers been bitten by the snake, but that the reptile was at large was another story.
Nick had certainly been bitten and now the hand was twice its ordinary size, while the pain was acute.
What a terrible thing to happen," murmured the eldest Rover, and then shuddered to think what might have ensued had the snake bitten him.
These were used with muzzle-loaders, the base of the cartridge being ripped or bitten off by the soldier before placing in the barrel.
Later the top of the cartridge was bitten off and the pan filled therefrom before loading.
Martin suggested that one of the oxen should be sent on first, and that if that was not bitten the rest should follow.
In a few days it was found that all the cattle, as well as the horses, had been bitten by the deadly insect.
Young McLaughlin is bittenwith the mania, a sad scatterbrain and Bond, and Ford, who's half an idiot.
Just as grave people, for an idle whim, will turn for a moment from lofty contemplations to consider a pebble by the wayside, so calm Doreen had been bitten by a conceit.
But he is bitten with a mania to become a champion of the oppressed.
But no one suspected that the viper which had bitten the Saint had taken the form of a French bullet.
The marabout had gone out to meet his son, who had been away from school on a pilgrimage, and returning at dark, to avoid the great heat of the day, had been bitten by a viper.
He stood and watched it go bumping away over the rough, desert road, pieces of which had been gnawed off by a late flood, as a cake is bitten round the edge by a greedy child.
The same story told by the Cherokee, identical even to the song, is given in the Creek collection of Tuggle, with the addition that the Rabbit's tail is afterward bitten off by the enraged Turkeys.
On this he enquired whether any white man had been bitten by these animals, and of course I answered in the affirmative.
At length the daughter of the Sun, who was with them, was bitten by a snake and died.
The next moment he heard a cry, and going out he found that the Black Rattlesnake had bittenher and that she was already dying.
For fear of offending them, even in speaking, it is never said that a man has been bitten by a snake, but only that he has been "scratched by a brier.
The surface of the rock bears a series of long trenchlike depressions, extending some distance, which, according to the Indians, are the marks where the pieces bitten from the body of the great serpent were dropt by the Tla'nuwa.
Lazear had been previously bitten by a contaminated insect without after effects, he deliberately allowed this particular mosquito, which had settled on the back of his hand, to remain until it had satisfied its hunger.
Camp Lazear, did not concern the seven nonimmunes occupying Tents Nos, 1, 4, 6 and 7, but was strictly limited to those individuals who had been bitten by contaminated mosquitoes.
These brave men allowed themselves to be exposed to mosquitoes which had already bitten patients suffering from the fever, and they promptly came down with the disease; one of them, Dr.
The hypothesis on which the former worked was that all mosquitoes who had bitten a yellow-fever patient can carry the disease.
About the same time nine other individuals who volunteered for the experiment were bitten by infected mosquitoes--i.
Lazear, while on a visit to Las Animas Hospital, and while collecting blood from yellow fever patients for study, was bitten by a Culex mosquito (variety undetermined).
Since this mosquito failed to infect Case 4, three days after it had bitten Moran, it follows that the result could not have been otherwise than negative in the latter case.
If one is bitten by a copperhead or rattlesnake, it is either because he has gone where he ought not go, or else, if compelled, he was not watchful, but was off his guard.
There it finds the crumbs, the shavings bitten off by the chisels of the rostrum.
If the legitimate owner retains his hold they consume his booty in common, mandibles to mandibles, until the fragment is torn or bitten through, and each retires with his mouthful.
He there told so incoherent a story, that the people all took him for a man either bitten by a mad-dog or broken loose from his keepers; and considered it their duty to tie him, to prevent his biting or other mischief.
But the guest's wind-bitten face betrayed no confusion nor further interest.
Another disagreeable consequence of breaking a taboo was a peculiar liability to be bitten by sharks, which thus might be said to act as ministers of justice.
Another family believed their deity to be incarnate in centipedes; and if a member of the family fell ill or was bitten by a centipede, they would offer the divine reptile a fine mat and a fan, with a prayer for the recovery of the patient.
A Christian, who ventured to thrust his hand in mockery into the maw of the sham shark, had both his arms afterwards bitten off by a real shark.
The dancers seemed bitten to the quick with the tarantula of an ecstatic hilarity; their bodies swayed in perfect harmony to the swing of the fiddles and the swell of the chorus.
The captain wished to ascertain how much I had lost by the copper explosion, but I evaded a definite answer, and intimated that I was bitten to the extent of only a few hundred dollars.
Not very, but I am bitten somewhat,” I replied, trying to look cheerful, for I could not think of exhibiting to the enemy the state of my affairs.
The thought of the fisherman with his dog-bitten face was repulsive to her.
We must have those kegs somehow, even if the one who gets 'em is bitten for his pains.
The idea of getting bitten sends a cold chill all down my back.
I would not venture upon such an experiment except with a bitten subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bitten" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
