His muscles were wasting away, and what were left were soft and flabby.
She got this because the boss saw that she had the muscles of a man, and so he discharged a man and put Marija to do his work, paying her a little more than half what he had been paying before.
There came cruel, cold, and biting winds, and blizzards of snow, all testing relentlessly for failing muscles and impoverished blood.
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The odour emitted must be of considerable importance to the male, inasmuch as large and complex glands, furnished with muscles for everting the sack, and for closing or opening the orifice, have in some cases been developed.
This caused the lip in one case to project two inches beyond the tip of the nose; and when the lady smiled the contraction of the muscles elevated it over the eyes.
Through surgery and training, thosemuscles became my voluntary controllers for my tail and the cart.
A human has certain normally atrophied muscles for control of his usually non-existent tail.
Voluntary control was provided through connection with certain muscles in my neck, and I soon learned to operate it at least as efficiently as a normal heart with the normal involuntary controls.
He drew up his neck and puffed out his chest; he pulled his skin muscles by thinking about them, and that made his feathers stand on end; next he dropped his wings until their tips touched the ground; then he slowly spread his tail.
They never heard of muscles and nerves, and perhaps you never did before, yet these are wonderful little helpers and good friends if one is kind to them.
She watched fascinated the muscles working, the shoulders, the hips, the large, clean thighs.
Again Maurice stretched his figure, stretched the strong muscles of his back, and leaned backwards, with uplifted face.
And, instantly you produce your microscope, as though I offered you the muscles of a tadpole to dissect.
He was aware of the creative stream of spring in his own heart, pouring from the body of the earth on which he stood, drenching mind, nerves and even muscles with concentrated life.
One could see the veins and muscles over the whole of his body, his teeth chattered, he was covered with wrinkles, bald, and hardly able to utter hollow and unmelodious sounds.
Thirty, fifty, a hundred feet at a bound are nothing for the muscles of an athletic Earth man upon Mars.
Twice at least I saved my breast from the mortal thrust of piercing steel only by the wondrous agility with which my earthly muscles endow me under the conditions of lesser gravity and air pressure upon Mars.
Several times I attempted to scale the barrier at different points, but not even my earthly muscles could overcome that cleverly constructed rampart.
At my right was a great, slow-moving eddy that circled far beneath the cliff's overhanging side, and to rest my tired muscles before turning back I let my boat drift into its embrace.
His weird eyes assumed a greedy expression, and his unkempt beard and mustache twitched with the muscles of his mouth and chin.
Goaded to madness by the cruel misfortune that had tripped me when success was almost within my grasp, I tore frantically across the intervening space, and just beneath the rope's dangling end I put my earthly muscles to the supreme test.
Emotions set free, as has been said, larger percentages of sugar which are immediately utilized by the muscles in heightened or fatiguing effort.
Under the influence of fatigue the power of the musclesto respond to any kind of stimulus is greatly reduced.
The convulsions then began, first showing themselves in the muscles of the eyelids, though the eyes themselves were fixed and staring.
They resemble the rat, especially, in not being exclusively herbivorous, as is shown by their feeding on the uniones or muscles above mentioned.
I am like Sancho after the doughty affair of the Yanguesian Carriers, and all through the unnatural twisting of the musclesunder the influence of that Goule, the cramp.
My right leg escaped better, themuscles there having less irritability, owing to its lame state.
When Jake felt resistance he put his powerful muscles to work.
It not only strengthens the muscles but the nature of a man.
Blake panted and wheezed, not at the sight of the blood, but at the exertion to which his flabby muscles had been put.
But the blow had bruised his muscles badly, and he became wild.
The more he exercises his arm the bigger the muscles get.
Fred's muscles grew taut, and he braced for one final effort.
Higbie's brawny muscles gave the boat good speed, but by the time we reached our destination we judged that we had pulled nearer fifteen miles than twelve.
Two weeks after this, while talking in a company, I looked up and detected this same man boring through and through me with his intense eye, and noted again his twitching muscles and his feverish anxiety to speak.
This fatigue would continue until her muscles had got into good order again, and yet walking comes naturally to everyone.
But now the foam came to her mouth, and fire sprang from her eyes, and the muscles of her body worked as though she had been trained to deeds of violence.
By the use of an intermittent current of galvanism it is possible to make the respiratory muscles of an animal recently dead act in precise imitation of life, and the heart can be excited into brisk contraction by the same means.
As the muscles of his adversary relaxed, the American managed to get upon one knee, and so to his feet, stunned and bleeding, but still unsubdued.
There is a lot of hard work to do, and in a short while the hands and muscles get hard, the white suits conveniently tarry, and the skins of the youngsters as brown as leather.
Decatur leaned lightly against the rail, but his hand grasped his cutlass under his robe so that the blood tingled in his nails and his muscles were drawn and tense.
His muscles were like steel, and his rage seemed to give him the strength of a dozen.
At first your face feels tightened, and the muscles don't play easily, but after a few grimaces it comes out all right.
Frederick Douglass quietly pocketed a like fetiche, compared his muscles with those of Covey--and whipped him.
An old ox, worth eighty dollars, was doing, in New Bedford, what would have required fifteen thousand dollars worth of human bones and muscles to have performed in a southern port.
A bulge of pleasure swooped along my body, chasing aches and numbness, my muscles danced, nerves tingled in perpetual holiday.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "muscles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
