The cougar sometimes stalks its prey, and sometimes lies in wait for it beside a game-trail or drinking pool--very rarely indeed does it crouch on the limb of a tree.
Not since the First Born tore their immortal goddess limb from limb have men crawled upon their bellies to any throne upon Barsoom.
And he did two very odd things, for the commander of an army: first he took off his red cap and made a low bow to Johnnie Green and his mates; and next he swung off the limb of the tree and hung by his tail and one hand.
And he had almost made up his mind that something had fallen out of the sky, when a head showed itself from behind a limb and a queer, wrinkled face peered at him.
And there's no telling how long it would have lasted had not Major Monkey pulled himself suddenly up on a limb and laid a hand across the front of his red coat.
Major Monkey cried lightly, as he swaggered along a limb of the apple tree where they were talking.
Then, dropping nimbly from limb to limb, with the help of his hands and his feet and his tail, he stopped at last when he had reached Mr. Crow's level.
There was Mr. Crow, perched on a limb over his head.
As old Spot passed below him, Major Monkey loosened his hold on the limb and dropped squarely upon old Spot's back.
And when the Major climbed a tree and hung from a limb by his tail they both jumped up and said to Mr. Crow: "We saw Major Monkey before you ever did!
I would (quoth he) venture a limb To second thee, and rescue him: 120 But then we must about it straight, Or else our aid will come too late.
Even with his back leaning against a limb of the oak, Amadis had to partly support himself with his hands.
Even in firm sleep we move a little now and then, a limb trembles, a muscle quivers, or stretches itself.
Although our heroine stood watching him for several minutes, almost breathless with terror and anxiety to learn his object, he never stirred even a limb in all that time.
I'm told that you're a limb Of Pym, the famous fellow Pym: What Whitbread, is it true what people say?
To look upon the clean shap'd limb In silk and flannel clothed trim; While round the waist the 'kerchief tied, Makes the flesh glow in richer pride.
Many an accident has happened in the conveyance of blocks and dies to and from their destination; many a bruised foot or broken limb has resulted from a lack of carefulness and attention on the part of the workmen.
At Castine I heard of an old lady residing high up in the Penobscot mountains, who could magnetize a sore or a painful limb at sight.
The limb is wholly dead, so far as its usefulness is concerned and it was caused by giving the little fellow overdoses of calomel, when he was an infant.
If the limb becomes cold and purple, you have got it too tight.
No trace of the lunar limb could be observed beyond the sun's boundary.
Subsequently I caught sight of the lunar limb as it cut through the middle of a large spot.
By the motion of a luminous body I do not mean its sensible motion, such as the flicker of a candle, or the shooting out of red prominences from the limb of the sun.
There she was, the Swift One, sitting on a limband swinging her legs back and forth as she looked at me.
I leaned far out over my horizontal limb and chattered down at him.
He came through the trees, leaping from limb to limb and from tree to tree; and he came swiftly.
I don't go on a limbvery often, but when I do, folks are apt to find it out right away.
God quickly stopt their wicked breath, And sent two raging bears, That tore them limbfromlimb to death, With blood and groans and tears.
Her mate on a limb was sitting close nigh, And thinking of birds that would come by-and-by.
At the close of the meal he would become violently angry with one of them, seize the unlucky offender, tear it limb from limb and eat the carcass.
If, on introducing poison into an extremity, a cord be tightened round the limb above it so as to intercept the flow of blood, no effect is produced.
Ehbert found that poison would not act when applied to an amputated limb connected with the trunk by a nerve only.
Magendie introduced some Woorara poison into the limb of a dog, which was only connected with the trunk by means of quills uniting the divided ends of the main vessels.
Hanlon made the bird perch on a tree-limb and go to sleep.
Hanlon perched the bird on a tree-limb while he thought seriously for some moments.
By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb.
It was a kindly Providence that spared Arethusa the loss of life or limb on her way back to impart this Marvelous piece of news, for such a plunge across slippery floors was never made before.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "limb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
