A feebly menstruating woman with flat breasts and coarse skin cannot be expected to have strong reproductive instincts, since she is largely masculine in type.
It was believed that, were a menstruating woman to step astride a rifle, a bow, or a lance, the weapon would have no utility.
Law speaks of a plethoric woman of thirty who bled freely from the eyes, though menstruating regularly.
Van der Veer mentions an infant who began menstruating at the early age of four months and had continued regularly for over two years.
He also says that the menstruating women in Cappadocia were perambulated about the fields to preserve the vegetation from worms and caterpillars.
In this peculiar case the woman was menstruating regularly, suckling a child, and at the same time was unconsciously pregnant.
Aristotle said that the very look of a menstruating woman would take the polish out of a mirror, and the next person looking in it would be bewitched.
According to Flemming, menstrual blood was believed to be so powerful that the mere touch of a menstruating woman would render vines and all kinds of fruit-trees sterile.
The same suggestion is made by Hagen,[72] and I find it stated by Gould and Pyle that menstruating girls sometimes smell of leather.
Menstruating girls are also said sometimes to give off a smell of leather.
To lie with a menstruating woman, according to the Vendidad, was as serious a matter as to pollute holy fire, and to lie with a pregnant woman was to incur a penalty of 2000 strokes.
Fortunately the statements of newly menstruating girls, when untrue, are very characteristic, and present themselves in the form of something essentially romantic, extraordinary, and interesting.
For if most of the complaints of menstruating women are made at the period of their menses, they are just as excited four weeks later, and opposed to every attempt at adjustment.
Again, if we trace back many a conception of menstruating women we learn that the boundary between more delicate sensating and sensibility can not be easily drawn.
It is stated that the menstruating woman is "unclean" and possessed by an evil spirit.
Even the glance of a menstruating woman is widely believed to have serious results.
Yet the twofold influence of the menstruating woman remains clear when we review the whole group of influences which in this state she is supposed to exert.
Everywhere menstruating women are supposed to be possessed by spirits and charged with mysterious forces.
The Anglo-Saxon Penitentials declared thatmenstruating women must not enter a church.
The mysterious effects of sexual intercourse in general are intensified in the case of intercourse with a menstruating woman.
In 1878 a member of the British Medical Association wrote to the British Medical Journal, asking whether it was true that if a woman cured hams while menstruating the hams would be spoiled.
The Church soon, however, acquired a horror of menstruating women; they were frequently not allowed to take the sacrament or to enter sacred places, and it was sometimes thought best to prohibit the presence of women altogether.
These conceptions necessarily mingled at a very early period with men's ideas of sexual intercourse with women and especially with menstruating women.
Case 19), who was menstruating when, frightened by the suicidal attempt of her brother, the flow ceased abruptly.
The mother added that at the time when the incident with the brother happened, the patient was menstruating and that this ceased at once.
For two thousand years the Italians have had this idea of menstruating women.
A menstruating woman is with them the object they dread most.
Menstruating women today will eat meat purchased from a butcher but refrain from eating venison or other game taken by someone they know, for fear of spoiling his luck.
Perhaps the most important is the requirement that women, particularlymenstruating women, avoid the hunting and fishing equipment.
A further restriction placed on menstruating women was that they must not eat meat during their periods.
It was a very common occurrence for them to stop menstruating for the first few months or even for the first year of their residence in this country.
The usual statement that a normally menstruating woman should not have to use more than three napkins during the twenty-four hours is correct.
In general, it may be said that the woman's menstruating period, during which she is able to have children, lasts about thirty-five years.
Meat is forbidden, and he must avoid, and not speak to polluting classes, such as Irulas and Kotas, and menstruating women.
Even children may not be touched by a menstruating woman.
For this reason custom demands that every person must at once announce if he has touched a body, and that women must make known when they are menstruating or when they have had a miscarriage.
The hunter must therefore avoid contact with people who have touched a body, or with those who are bleeding, more particularly with menstruatingwomen or with those who have recently given birth.
Among all the Dene and most other American tribes, hardly any other being was the object of so much dread as a menstruating woman.
The hands of menstruating women appear red to the sea-animals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "menstruating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
