Now hold the breath, not by shutting the glottis, but by keeping the midriff down and the chest walls extended, and count four mentally, at the rate of sixty per minute.
I made him stand in an easy natural position, neither allowing him to bulge out his chest, nor to draw in the abdomen, and then instructed him how to acquire some control over his midriff and the lower muscles of the chest.
The combined forms of midriff and rib breathing are the right method of inspiration, while collar-bone breathing is absolutely wrong, and should never be made use of.
III, B B) in front, the root of the neck at the top, and the midriff or diaphragm (pl.
Thus the mystery is at once cleared up, because the tremolo arises almost invariably from a weakness of the muscles of the midriff or diaphragm, to which attention has already been called in these pages.
Owing to the abdomen being drawn in, the midriff never properly contracts; the muscles are not sufficiently exercised, and consequently have not power enough to resist the pressure that is brought to bear upon them in singing.
Whereas, when cleft from scalp tomidriff by the Baron's long sword, he became of no value either to himself or to others.
If the Diaphragm or Midriff be cut in its Tendinous Part, he is suddenly hurry'd into Convulsions: And if the Heart be wounded either in its Basis or Ventricles, he falls into a Swoon, and dies incontinently.
The Diaphragm or Midriff is esteem'd as the fifty seventh Muscle of the Breast, and serves as well for its dilatation as contraction.
To some, with a smart souse on the epigaster, he would make their midriff swag, then, redoubling the blow, gave them such a homepush on the navel that he made their puddings to gush out.
Not well of thy midriff the rudder directing,--convicted Of bringing a boldness they did not desire to the men with existence at stake.
Others assign the mesenterium or midriff distempered by heat, the womb misaffected, stopping of haemorrhoids, with many such.
They partake of that third kind of life which is seated between the midriff and the navel, and is altogether passive and incapable of reflection.
The higher of the two, which is the seat of courage and anger, lies nearer to the head, between the midriff and the neck, and assists reason in restraining the desires.
Patroclus then aimed in his turn, and the spear sped not from his hand in vain, for he hit Sarpedon just where the midriff surrounds the ever-beating heart.
Then he struck Hippodamas in the midriff as he was springing down from his chariot in front of him, and trying to escape.
If the urine flows out white and thick, and the midriff is interfered with, the loins suffer, the private parts are in pain, and the womb descends to them, or else comes clean out.
The other is by the contraction and distention of the midriff or diaphragm.
The combined forms of midriff and of rib-breathing constitute the right way, and collar-bone breathing is totally wrong and vicious, and should not in a state of health be made under any circumstances.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midriff" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
