In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Knowest thou when Fate Thy measure takes?
Still, the man who has most muscle can make the greatest muscular exertion.
If she had had her riding-whip, she would have loved to bring it about the ears of the youth, who maintained his dandified air, and was straining every muscle to impress her as a model of gentlemanly forbearance.
Ulrich sat rigid and upright, every muscle brought into obedience to the power of his will.
This vast increase in production called for human muscle which apparently only the negro could supply.
The new continent needed muscle power; and so tens of thousands of able-bodied Africans were landed on American soil, alien to everything they found there.
Moreover, the countries released to a new life and those quickened to a new industrialism by the Great War will need to employ all their muscle and talents at home.
The marchesa stands before him drawn up to her full height, every nerve and muscle strained to the utmost.
He was no longer young, but he had a frame like iron, and in his time he had possessed a force of arm and muscle enough to fell an ox.
Countess, the nonpareil, though out of feather, was in good muscle and condition, and beat Mr Dickens's celebrated Belle.
If an ocular muscle is partially paralyzed it takes a much greater "effort" to effect a given extent of movement than when the muscle is sound.
His were the arms whosemuscle was celebrated in the newspapers.
When it has lost its muscle and lost its money--that is to say, when it has grown old--what a generation it will be!
The manhood and muscle of England resemble the wool and mutton of England, in this respect, that there is about as much variety in a flock of athletes as in a flock of sheep.
They might lack the individual initiative of Frenchmen, the nervous energy with which Frenchmen would keep on fighting after mere bone and muscle had had enough, but they had plenty of courage.
You see those men marching by, every muscle in their bodies taut and tingling as steel wire, every eye on the Emperor, and when they bring those feet down--bing!
His jaws were prominent, and the sallow, shrunken skin clung close to every muscle of his countenance.
She was werry thin, and as pale as a soft-shelled clam; there was a dark blue color under her eyes, like these here muscle shells.
It is simply an exercise of intellectual gladiatorship, in which the man who has the most skill and muscle discomfits his antagonist.
He was motionless as a statue, and had composed his features into such calm and serene rigidity, that not the movement of a muscle could be detected.
Exercising all the muscle of which he was capable, Ralph grasped his antagonist's ankles, took him off his guard, gave him a sudden trip, and sent him toppling backwards.
His great strong fists clasped the lever handles in a really admirable manner, and he looked the prodigy of muscle he claimed to be.
It took some muscle to pull over the big heavy levers in turn, which were not operated on the new-style compressed air system.
Only, you see, I was born strong, and something has kept me pushing my muscle to the fore.
He realized that trained eye, ear, andmuscle must be ever on the alert, or great loss of life and property might result at any moment.
Nothing unforseen happening, it looked as if the sturdy young pugilist would speedily have a chance to exercise his muscle in some department of the Great Northern service.
He was so overcome that it was his sheer weight rather than any exertion of muscle that pulled bar 4 over into place.
He evidently possessed a fair share of muscle and agility, and that, according to Archie's way of thinking, was a great recommendation.
Frank was blessed with more than an ordinary share of musclefor a boy of his age; but he could not hope to compete successfully with a man of Pierre's size and experience, even though he held him at great disadvantage.
The white, fibrous cord, or band, by which a muscle is attached to a bone; a sinew.
When a muscle is irritated it responds by contracting.
Flexion of the leg to a right angle, increases the distance from the lines of insertion on the pelvic bones to the tuberosities of the tibia by two or three inches--an amount of stretching these muscle cannot undergo.
The power of contraction is inherent in the muscle substance, and the stimulus by irritating the nerve ganglia of the heart simply affords the opportunity for its exercise.
Its direction and borders may be easily traced by raising the leg,--a movement which puts the muscle in action.
But when the muscle is called upon to do work, when it is put into movement, the expenditure is quickened, there is a run upon the living capital, the greater, the more urgent the call for action.
Its direct antagonist is the three-headed muscle called the triceps.
These convey the stimulus to the fibers of the muscle (7), which accordingly contract.
An alcoholic heart loses its contractile and resisting power, both through morbid changes in its nerve ganglia and in its muscle fibers.
The compression of the chest and abdomen by a tight belt and various binders interferes with the action of the diaphragm,--the most important muscle of respiration.
After a bone has been moved by the contraction of a muscle, it is brought back to its position by the contraction of another muscle on the opposite side, the former muscle meanwhile being relaxed.
If the habitual use of alcohol causes the loss of contractile and resisting power by impairment of both the nerve ganglia and muscle fibers of the heart, how can it act as a heart tonic?
The place at which a muscle is attached to a bone, generally by means of a tendon, is called its origin; the end connected with the movable bone is its insertion.
Even in a vigorous man, this muscle can act no longer than four to six minutes before the arm drops helpless.
When the feeling of fatigue passes away with rest, the muscle recovers its power.
There is a little muscle in the eye which makes the change needed to enable us to see objects close by as well as those which are farther away.
The lower wall or floor of the chest cavity is formed by a muscle called the diaphragm, which divides the trunk into two cavities, the chest and the abdomen.
He has been at this all his life, and he has a regular muscle there.
The Tailless Tyke had now grown into an immense dog, heavy of muscle and huge of bone.
His big muscle system cries out for something to do.
When you look at any person you quickly discern whether fat, bone or muscle predominates in his construction.
Because he lacks muscle he lacks a powerful stride.
Fat is more soft and spongy than bone or muscle and lends to its wearer a softer structure and appearance.
A large-jointed man ofmuscle would be an Osseous-Muscular.
Large Bones for His Body ΒΆ So bear in mind that any person whose bones are large for his body is somewhat of the Osseous type, regardless of whether he is short or tall and regardless of how much fat or muscle he may have.
There is no fat to make them pudgy and no muscle to make them firm.
In doing this it will aid you if you will note whether fat, bone or muscle predominates in his bodily structure.
In a short time you will be able to tell, at a glance, whether the padding on an individual is mostly fat or mostly muscle, because fat is always round and soft while muscle is firm and definite.
When he is properly possessed, he drives the points of these spits through the muscle of each forearm, and lets them hang down whilst he takes up a second pair.
They are sewed together with sinews of the buffalo, generally of the long and powerful muscle that holds up the ponderous head of the shaggy beast, a narrow strip running towards the bump.
These fundamental centers are stimulated to growth and development especially by the activity of the large muscle masses.
Charles Kingsley writes of the Teuton:[54]-- It was not the mere muscle of the Teuton which enabled him to crush the decrepit and debauched slave nations.
Every muscle of his body quivered suddenly in horrible revulsion.
Five miles in the teeth of a sleety blizzard and every muscle ached with the fight.
With a careless feint of glancing over his shoulder, he tightened every muscle and leaped ahead.
Not one muscle in all his nine feet of tightly coiled, scale-covered body quivered.
As he walked there was the rippling play of well-formed muscle under his brown skin.
He then turned towards me; but I was looking on without moving a muscle of my face.
There was not a gleam of delight or desire on Vanel's face, which remained perfectly impassible; not a muscle of it changed in the slightest degree.
