At each end of this spina was a small meta, or goal, formed of three cones.
The spina in the Circus of Caracalla was more than 900 feet long.
The spina was originally constructed of wood, subsequently it was of stone, and its height was generally about 29 feet.
The spina was the division down the middle of the arena.
So we struck off due north through the almost level open country, intending to keep on northward until we came to the Spinaand to follow that to the Po.
SPINA The stone wall, platform, or long narrow structure down the middle of the arena of a Roman circus, dividing its race-course into half laps.
With gentle solicitude Currado's lady and Spina came to her aid, and restored her suspended animation with cold water and other remedies.
The pubis consists of a short anterior portion (spina pubica or pectineal process, homologous with the prepubic process of Dinosaurs) and the long and slender pubis proper (equivalent to the processus lateralis pubis of most reptiles).
Alcedinidae, kingfishers, cosmopolitan or (2) with long spina communis.
It is represented either by a spina interna or by a spina externa, or by both, or they join to form a spina communis which is often very large and sometimes ends in a bifurcation.
With large spina communis, and with large processus obliqui.
The Spinahas since been rebuilt and spoilt by the Sardinian Government.
And then the Spina is always so graceful and striking against the crimson sunset which turns the muddy Arno into a river of fire.
At the age of twenty-two, Ancilla turned a dancer and Spina became a singer.
Spina had for her master a castrato who succeeded in making of her only a very ordinary singer, and in the absence of talent she was compelled, in order to get a living, to make the most of the beauty she had received from nature.
A curious circumstance, which is affirmed to attend the spina bifida, is, that on compressing the tumor with the hand gently, the whole brain becomes affected, and the patient falls asleep.
It is supposed to originate from universal pressure on the brain, and is said to be produced by compressing the spinal marrow, where there is a deficiency of the bone in the spina bifida.
Well, the letter starts thus: "I know that Spina wrote in these days past to Rome very hotly about my affairs with regard to the tomb of Julius.
The letter to Spina runs as follows: "There is no reason for sending a power of attorney about the tomb of Pope Julius, because I do not want to plead.
Henceforth he was in almost weekly correspondence with Giovanni Spina on affairs of business, sending in accounts and drawing money by means of his then trusted servant, Stefano, the miniaturist.
Giovanni Pisano, to whom we owe the Spina Chapel and the Campo Santo at Pisa, the façade of the Sienese Duomo, and the altar-shrine of S.
Spina protested in vain that he had no faculties for signing, and begged a delay sufficient for sending the document to Rome for examination.
Even Spina himself was limited in his faculties, having no actual power of treating or of affixing his signature to the definitive documents.
Of the two Papal representativesSpina alone was regarded as a negotiator, Father Caselli acting merely in the capacity of a companion, but having no voice in the deliberations.
This time he sent two of the red cardinals, Spina and Caselli, formerly the Papal negotiators for the Concordat, who met with no greater success.
Spina to proceed as soon as convenient, in the company of Padre Caselli, General of the Servites, to Paris.
Spina was harassed with questions and reproaches; Bernier was loud in his complaints; while Talleyrand in a fit of jealousy declared that the fault was Cacault's who thus hoped to draw to himself the glory of concluding the Concordat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spina" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
