The jointed sheathof the Promuscis, representing the Labium in a perfect mouth[948].
Linne appears to have overlooked them, except in the case of his genus Apis, in which he regards them, and properly, as the sheath of the tongue.
The sheathor case of the Proboscis, representing the Labium in a perfect mouth[952].
LI Forth from the sheath she drew it; that could not he prevent; At once to slay the champion was Kriemhild's stern intent.
LVII The grim knight up starting ended soon the fray; To the sheath quick gripp'd he wherein his weapon lay.
These gifts took the form of an elephant gorgeously caparisoned, a quantity of brass and some superb pieces of silk destined for the sheath of the sacred sword.
A knife in a leather or wooden sheath is the only weapon carried, though another small knife is frequently fastened in the hair, which is twisted into a knot and secured by a comb.
Moreover, experience had shown that the protecting sheath or armour of the core should be light and flexible as well as strong, in order to resist external violence and allow it to be lifted for repair.
At his waist he wore a leather belt from which was suspended a longsheath knife.
Kinlay turned quickly round, and putting his hand on his sheath knife drew the weapon.
Carver, on losing his pistol, had taken out his sheath knife, and armed with this he fought with furious determination, standing with his back against a wall of rock.
Nevertheless it is her face which has "filled the empty sheath of a man" with a blade for a knight's adventure--The Duke grew straightway brave and wise.
Within thissheath perfect [370] and more or less numerous ovules may be produced.
In extreme instances I have seen all the changed stamens of a flower of the opium-poppy united into a single body, so as to form a close sheath all around the central ovary.
In the highest golden sheath there is the Brahman without passion and without parts; that is pure, that is the light of lights, that is it which they know who know the Self.
For we see (that one thing which abides in another abides there by means of parts different from those of that other thing), that the sword, for instance, pervades the sheath by means of parts different from the parts of the sheath.
He drew his good knife from its sheath and threw it between the girl and the cliff, so that the steel-shy daughter of the giants should not be able to flee into the mountain when she awoke.
The tall stalks looked down with mild seriousness on those sensitive beauties, who discontentedly shut their white petals and yellow stamens in a hard, leather-like sheath as soon as the sun ceased to show itself.
The hyaloid artery remains, as a prolongation of the retinal artery to the lens, until just before birth, but after that its sheath forms the canal of Stilling.
In order to get possession of that knife, the Pope would, I have no doubt, make a cardinal of your son, but you must have the sheath too.
Therefore all that is necessary is to give me the possibility of purchasing the sheath on credit, for I have no ready cash at present.
I gave him back the letter of exchange, and made him sign a paper by which he undertook to return the sheath whenever I brought the same amount, but he is still waiting for it.
The pale yellow blossoms of the Sheath Flower hang from their stalks like inverted thimbles and bloom in midsummer.
This sting is placed in a sheath at the extreme hind end of the abdomen.
The beetles or Coleoptera (sheath wings), often mistaken for bugs by the uneducated, have the first pair of hardened wings meeting in a straight line in the middle of the back, the second pair of wings being covered by them.
Special nerve endings, called the tactile corpuscles, are found there, each inclosed in a sheath or capsule of connective tissue.
As they work up a tree from the ground, they coat the bark with particles of sand glued together, carrying up this artificial sheath or covered way as they ascend.
At this elevation we found great scandent trees twisting around the trunks of others, and strangling them: the latter gradually decay, leaving the sheath of climbers as one of the most remarkable vegetable phenomena of these mountains.
The prevalent timber is gigantic, and scaled by climbing Leguminosae, as Bauhinias and Robinias, which sometimes sheath the trunks, or span the forest with huge cables, joining tree to tree.
I was careful never unduly to exhibit my steel tomahawk, which I always kept in a kind of sheath or covering of opossum-skin, so that it might not arouse envy; a second motive for this was to prevent its chafing my body.
I was furiously angry, and dexterously drawing my stiletto from its sheath so as not to attract attention, I struck at my opponent with all my force, burying the short, keen blade in his heart.
Through the thickening winter twilight, wide apart the battle rolled, In its sheath the sabre rested, and the cannon's lips grew cold.
And with commissioned talons wrench From thy supplanter's grimy clench His sheath of steel, his wings of smoke and flame?
Heere Gothes haue giuen me leaue to sheath my Sword: Titus vnkinde, and carelesse of thine owne, Why suffer'st thou thy Sonnes vnburied yet, To houer on the dreadfull shore of Stix?
Patricians draw your Swords, and sheath them not Till Saturninus be Romes Emperour: Andronicus would thou wert shipt to hell, Rather then rob me of the peoples harts Luc.
And lo, a blade for a knight's emprise Filled the fine empty sheath of a man-- The Duke grew straightway brave and wise.
A tomahawk and sheath knife are indispensable; and of course, in Africa and countries where there are lions, etc.
Our arms consisted of carbines and revolvers, and we each wore in our belts a tomahawk and sheath knife.
In my belt I wore a tomahawk and sheath knife, and slung on to the back of it was a strong tin pannikin.
True, I only had my sheath knife and fingers to eat with, but what of that?
In the Rascasse, the opercular spines of which are greatly developed, there is a rudiment of a poison-apparatus at the bottom of the sheath formed by the skin of the gills.
The latter is formed by the distension of the sheath under the pressure of the secreted liquid.
These rays are enveloped in the inter-radial membrane, which forms a sheath for them, and are scored with a double cannelure.
The dorsal apparatus is composed of from five to seven spines, to which the inter-radial membrane forms an adherent sheath which extends almost to the end of the rays.
Both were without any means of defense, unless the sheath knife which the sailor always carried may be considered a weapon, and the only possible hope for them was to secure their rifles before the monster secured them.
I then wished to shoot, and the man presented me the bow, and I took an arrow from the sheath and shot, and it struck on a stone and I lost it.
In the first dream I dreamed that a man stood by me with a bow and a sheath of arrows.
But as I rose, in my swinging to and fro the steelsheath of my sword struck her on the hand so that the blood flowed from it, which she stood looking at for a while, then dropped it downwards, and turned to look at me, for I was going.
