Accustomed to the iron rigidity of military discipline, and to the broad gulf placed between officer and soldier by the king's commission, the possibility of a duel between M.
Meanwhile he was determined not to let this woman out of his sight; so, drawing up a chair, he settled down within view of her active figure, from which all rigidity had vanished in the interest she was rapidly developing in her work.
He decided rather to continue his efforts to die, and forthwith stiffened out into such rigidity as can be observed only in the bodies of those who have been dead forty-eight hours.
In the center he sagged slightly, despite his silent efforts to berigidity itself.
Lucy drew herself to her full height, in a fierce rigidity of self-contempt.
This is called white fibro-cartilage, and is found where great strength and a certain amount of rigidity are required.
This regular dilatation and rigidity of the elastic artery answering to the beats of the heart, is known as the pulse.
Thus sailors, mechanics, and others frequently develop a rigidity of the tendons of the hand which prevents the full extension of the fingers.
This shaft lends rigidity to the instrument sufficient to permit its accurate placement, and its small size permits the eye to keep the silk-woven tip in view.
The firm and sometimes prominent ridge of the crossing of the left bronchus must not be mistaken for infiltration, and the esophagoscopist must be familiar with the normal rigidity of the cricopharyngeus.
Weakness of the back, with a rigidity of the back-bone.
Weakness of the back, with a rigidity of the spine back bone 104 XIII.
She certainly seemed to have lost the speed credited to her in former cruises; the cause for which was plausibly thought to be the decreased rigidity of her hull, owing to the wear and tear of service.
He had the rigidity and precision of a soldier's carriage, to a degree unusual to a naval officer of his period.
She owed her safety mainly to the strength and rigidity of her iron hull.
Malposition with deformed pelvis, or rigidityof the uterus.
Under the first head comes rigidity of the os uteri, either from a spasmodic contraction of its circular fibres, or from irregularity or deficiency in the contractions of the longitudinal fibres of the whole organ.
Age, rigidity of the passages from, obstructing labour, 314.
There is a condition of the os uteri which is occasionally met with, and which presents a degree of rigidity which we have never seen except where there have been adhesions and callous cicatrices from former injuries.
When the os coronæ is fractured, however, a little more may be added to the natural rigidity of the parts by enclosing the region of the pastern and the foot in a plaster-of-Paris bandage.
When the os corona alone is fractured then diagnosis is extremely difficult, the smallness of the bone and the comparative rigidity of the parts rendering manipulation almost useless, and effectually preventing the obtaining of crepitus.
Such a condition, by reason of the natural rigidity of the parts, is not to be observed in the foot, although at times it must most certainly occur.
They seem to be awaiting the word that shall liberate them from their cold, motionless rigidity and bring them back to life.
The conclusion from these facts is that the Earth yields to the tidal forces a little less than if it were a solid ball of steel, supposing that the well-known rigidity and density existed from surface to center of the ball.
If there is such n core, moreover, of less rigidity it would have less refraction.
Now, we know that the speeds are functions of the rigidity and density of the materials traversed.
The observational data are not yet sufficiently accurate to let us say what the law of increase in density and rigidity is as we pass from the surface to the center.
Newcomb showed that the period of oscillation would be 441 days if the Earth had the rigidity of steel.
The vocal cavities, the pharynx and mouth, exert such a marked influence on tone quality that the least degree of rigidity produces an effect that is instantly noticeable to the trained ear.
The tendency toward rigidity is much greater in enunciating consonants than it is in enunciating vowels, and yet they should be equally easy.
In thirty-six of these experiments insensibility did not occur; in five cases the insensibility and rigidity occurred--in two cases perfectly, in three imperfectly.
All at once he was galvanized into the rigidity of a fire-iron-- "Writers to the Signets' Annual Dinner.
Judith sat beside her sister, not pretending to look at the book, although the rigidityof her face insensibly softened somewhat in the contagious quiet of the room.
But she was so close to Judith's suffering that she felt the dreadful rigidity of her body.
It had an air of age that was not immortal, but stiffly declining into a stubborn resistance against the slow rigidity of death.
Even Hughes and Frank Jervaise were dressed as for a special occasion in black tail-coats and gray trousers that boasted the rigidity of a week's pressing.
As the Baron was very well aware, he had none of his uncle's rigidity of ambition, none of his overweening impulse to be personally great.
Amid all the softness, the deliciousness of unmixed joy, all the liquescence, the overflowings of inexhaustible sentiment, her native rigidity remained.
His dress was extremely neat, and in his whole appearance there was a rigidity which did not belie his character.
The rigidityof her position was the more striking owing to the respectfulness and the affection with which it was accompanied.
Stretched on his back in the middle of the bed, he lay with all the rigidity of a corpse.
It has something of the rigidity and austerity of a monk's cell in a convent.
In the United States a week or ten days will generally suffice to secure that rigidity which is necessary in a cabinet specimen.
The skeleton of every bird, mammal, and reptile requires to have the spinal cord replaced by a stout zinc wire, to give both strength and rigidity to the structure.
Rigidity he considers to have been the character of the first epochs, changing ultimately as in the Elgin marbles, "from the hard characteristics of stone to the vivified character of flesh.
The present species cannot twine spirally, which seems mainly due to the rigidity of the stem.
This conclusion agrees with what I have said about the twisting of stems, which have twined round rugged supports; but does not preclude the twisting being of service to the plant by giving greater rigidity to the stem.
At the same time, he expressed the confident opinion that a tube of wrought iron would possess sufficient strength and rigidity to support a railway train running inside of it without the help of the chains.
It would appear, however, that while Mr. Fairbairn urged the rigidity and strength of the tubes without the aid of chains, Mr. Stephenson had not quite made up his mind upon the point.
