An elastic cushion of gristle (grĭs´l) fits nicely in between each little bone and the next.
Children's bones have more gristle than those of older people; so children's bones bend easily.
The body of the oyster then passes to the fixing-up room, where the beard is cemented to it by hand, and finishing touches of colour added; and then it passes along and has the gristle attached: and the oyster itself is complete.
He was but sixteen, with his gristle not yet all set into bone, when he fought and beat Gipsy Lee, of Burgess Hill, who called himself the "Cock of the South Downs.
He's more a sparrer than a fighter just at present, but when his gristle sets he'll take on anything on the list.
Then he took his hat from the floor at his feet and went out, leaving Isom hammering again at the jowl, this time with the handle of his fork, in the hope of dislodging a bit of gristle which clung to one end.
It was a mystery to him how Isom kept up on that fare, so scant and unsatisfying, but he reasoned that it must be on account of there being so little of him but gristle and bone.
In the midst of my preparations the man of gristle decided that he would like to go with me and see the world and try his fortune in another part of the country.
I'm as full o' gristle as a goose's leg," he went on.
I never sees more speed an' gristle in a feller o' your age.
I remember a child, who on tasting the gristle of sturgeon, asked what gristle was?
Here he found the bull lying on its back; having, in its struggles to get free, almost torn the ring through the gristle of its nose.
Without waiting for Ponto to beg that he would not trouble himself, off he set, and soon brought back a nice bone with plenty of gristle on it.
If the sweetbreads are to be cut up before cooking, remove and throw away the gristle or pipe that pervades every one.
When done, take out the sweetbreads, remove the gristle or pipe, and serve them up warm, having laid in the bottom of the dish a slice of nice toast that has been dipped for a minute in hot water.
When they are merely plumped, take them out and cut them up small, omitting the gristle or hard part.
Let it boil very slowly, till the meat is in rags and has dropped from the bone, and till the gristle has quite dissolved.
Cut the meat and gristleof the knuckle and the bacon into mouthfuls, and put them into the soup, and let them get warm.
Denslow had surmised, his faults were mainly superficial, and underneath them was a firm gristleof manhood, which would speedily harden into bone.
His gristle is hardening into something like his stern old father's backbone.
The inhabitants, like those of the Aleütian and nearer islands, make holes in the under-lips and through the gristle of the nose, in which they insert the bones of birds and animals worked into the form of teeth.
They have a strange custom of cutting holes in the under-lip and through the gristle of the nose.
Both sexes make holes in the gristle of the nose, and in the under-lips, in which they thrust pieces of bone, and are very fond of such kind of ornaments.
They likewise make a hole through the gristle of the nose, into which they put a small piece of bone in such a manner as to keep the nostrils extended.
It has lost the flexibility, the plastic docility, which it had in youth and early manhood, when the gristle had but just become hardened into bone.
Again, the bones were once only gristle or cartilage, A B.
I believe most strongly, as a matter of economy, in removing the bone, and any tough membrane or gristle that will not be eaten, before cooking the steak.
Cut through the flesh close to the body, first on the right of the joint and then on the left, and as you bend the leg over, cut the cord and gristle in the joint, and this will free the leg from the body.
This is a little difficult to do; and in your first experiment it would be better not to divide it until after boiling it, as it separates more easily after the connecting gristle has been softened by cooking.
Work the wing until you see where the joint is, then cut through the flesh on the shoulder, bend the wing up and cut down through the gristle and cord.
One of them wore the bone of a bird 5 or 6 inches long thrust through the gristle between the nostrils.
Curiously however, the new tails, tho they look exactly like the old one, always have a rod of gristle or cartilage inside, in place of the regular backbone.
If cold roast beef is used, remove all pieces ofgristle and dry outside pieces, as these do not pound well.
Strip the meat from the bones of cold roast fowl; when it is freed from gristleand skin, weigh it, and, to every lb.
The gristle is moved backwards and forwards by means of muscles in such a manner that this 'lingual ribbon' acts like a rasp, and is employed in scraping or tearing away portions of the substance on which the animal is feeding.
At this stage, too, the creatures possess a tail that is supported by a rod of gristle similar to that which gives place to the backbone in the developing vertebrate.
Moreover it is rendered distinctly less appetizing by the amount of bone and gristle which I find chopped up in it.
I hope I am not unduly fastidious in such matters, and an occasional inedible morsel I should not criticize; but an average of two or three pieces of bone and gristle to a mouthful seems to me excessive.
STEAK~--Cut the steak half an inch thick from between the two ribs, remove all gristle and fat, and trim in the shape of a flat pear.
Another thing I noted about him was that the lobe of his ear was pierced and in a strange fashion, since the gristle was stretched to such a size that a small apple could have been placed within its ring.
I asked him what was its purpose, whereon he took the piece and thrust it into the lobe of his ear where the gristle had been stretched in the fashion that I have described, which it fitted exactly.
The nostrils lie, as you can see, side by side, separated from each other by a thin, straight plate of gristle and bone known as the septum.
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