On the lancet windows of the Leper's Chamber, white pigeons were cooing and disporting themselves, and running up and down along the level turf.
Mouse, whilst I was watching the scene outside through the long lancet window, seized upon her opportunity and leapt up upon the bed.
A lancet is the instrument generally used in bleeding, though a well-pointed pen knife will do at a pinch.
If he has opened his tumor with a bronze lancet and has ruined his eye, he shall pay the half of his price in money.
If the doctor has treated the slave of a freedman for a severe wound with a bronze lancet and has caused him to die, he shall give back slave for slave.
If a physician has treated a free-born man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has caused the man to die, or has opened a tumor of the man with a lancet of bronze and has destroyed his eye, his hands one shall cut off.
If a doctor has treated a man for a severe wound with a lancet of bronze and has cured the man, or has opened a tumor with a bronze lancet and has cured the man's eye, he shall receive ten shekels of silver.
I'm told ye drew ye'r lancet on this poor gentleman, as ye'd draw ye'r sword on an enemy!
Wait and watch for the lancet that first or last is sure to make its appearance.
The girl is irretrievably blind; for neither knife nor lancetcan restore life to the deadened optical nerve.
If he attempts to use thelancet in MY presence," said the professor in a threatening tone, "I will prevent him.
Collieston, Aberdeenshire: "In most instances where the lancet was used at the proper period little else was required.
One physician said these were not petechiae, but sphacelated spots; but next morning a surgeon proved by his lancet that they contained blood.
After an architecture of the Renaissance with its columns comes a palace of the Middle Ages in Gothic Arab style, of which the Ducal Palace is the prototype, with its balconies, lancet windows, trefoils, and acroteria.
The façade has two plain lancet windows, one shorter than the other, and above them is a large wheel window.
In the west end, over the great west doorway, there has been an arrangement of tall windows of apparently lancet form, having on either side an interlacing arcade of round arches, supported on tall, bended shafts.
Beginning at the east end, the eastern wall is entire for nearly half its height, having an arcade below and three lancet windows above, with the lower portions of an upper row of similar windows.
Flanking this great window on either side are two open lancet arches, while above is the "Gallery of Kings" before mentioned.
As a general rule, it is useless to lay bare a tooth with the lancetbefore extracting it, although in certain cases this may be advantageous in order to render its extraction easier and less painful.
As to parulis, or abscess of the gums, he opens it with a lancet or a wooden stylus.
A gum lancetand two elevators, the second of which is destined to act from inside outward (Fauchard).
Martin, you must go down to the chapel in the wood, and tell the priest to come up and see the lady Adelaide, who is ill; so let him bring his lancet with him.
With a lancet to correct the first, and calomel to check the second, I am greatly debilitated.
In the earlier days of Abernethy, barber surgeons were recognized, and the great doctor said of himself, "I have often doffed my hat to those fellows, with a razor between their teeth and a lancet in their hands.
The world was his oyster; but, circumstanced as he was, he knew that it was not for him to open it with his lancet all at once.
On each side of this window there is a plain lancet at a somewhat higher level, and with rubble jambs.
It is a building of the early English style, with long, narrow lancet windows, evidently belonging to the early part of the thirteenth century.
Lord Radnor, who lived in the middle of last century, had a singular liking for the amateur employment of the lancet on the veins of his friends, or of persons whom he induced by gifts of money to allow him to display his skill upon them.
A noble fee, in the interests of humanity, was given by a French lady to a surgeon, who used his lancet so clumsily that he cut an artery instead of a vein, in consequence of which the lady died.
U was the Unciform bone of the wrist; V was the Vein which a blunt lancet missed.
But it is no longer a sword to smite, but a lancet to inflict a healing wound.
If he has opened his abscess with a bronzelancet and has made him lose his eye, he shall pay money, half his price.
If a doctor has treated the severe wound of a slave of a poor man with a bronze lancet and has caused his death, he shall render slave for slave.
You watch the wine-red, the blood-red, the yellow and the brown of the Rose of France and the lancet lights beneath, till the memory of all other beauty upon earth fades in the intoxication of that stupendous colouring.
The clerestory is composed of pairs of tall lancet windows, with a rose window above them, which fill the whole available space in each bay.
In the east wall of Early English chancels three lancet windows, thus arranged, are frequently displayed.
The lancet arch is seldom seen; the equilateral arch is generally, though not always, used.
They were all gradually introduced in the twelfth century, and continued during the thirteenth century; after which the lancet arch appears to have been generally discarded, though the other two prevailed till a much later period.
In the north transept one finds five lancet windows, with Perpendicular examples on either side.
Facing the gateway is the hall, 51 feet by 31 feet (internal measurements), lighted with four tall lancet windows looking on to the moat on the west side.
The columns and arches of the nave are of the first period; the form of the church is a Latin cross, having an apse ornamented with a double row of lancet windows, richly sculptured.
The west room is lighted by seven equidistant lancet windows in each of the west and east walls, and by two dormer windows of peculiar design on the side of the roof next to the court.
There the judge passed sentence upon them, by which they are doomed to suffer death by a lancet poisoned with Upas.
I dissolved half a grain of that gum in a small quantity of arrack, and dipped a lancetinto it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lancet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: hatchet; instrument; jackknife; lance; pick; point; syringe; tool
