He was a private in Captain De Vere's company, Colonel Dubois's regiment, and was bayoneted in the thigh when the enemy made their way over the ramparts of Fort Montgomery and fought the garrison hand to hand.
The muscles of the thigh and the diaphragm frequently undergo this degeneration; the change is more rarely met with in other muscles of the body.
I had a death from diphtheria when a long incision into a phlegmon of the thigh had become diphtheritic.
That portion of the thigh not already gangrenous is now very oedematous, and the integument covering it is much discolored, being of a dark, icteric, or reddened hue.
Reloading his rifle, Leeper ran to where the wounded outlaw lay weltering in his blood, and found him with one thigh broken, and the other crushed beneath his horse.
The latter was badly wounded in the thigh with a lance, and it took a long time for this wound to heal.
Among the evil chances of that glorious day, I had to regret the temporary loss of Colonel Cameron,--a bad wound in the thigh having obliged him to go to England.
He sees how much the aristocrat, slaying hip and thigh for the King, and the Jacobin, slaying hip and thigh for the Republic, resembled one another.
It sounded as if some one were running along and slapping his thigh with fingerless gloves.
Gustav sprang round the grindstone, and slapped his thighin enjoyment of the joke.
The rightthigh was broken and badly bruised, and he bled from a contusion upon the forehead.
The patient raised his bandaged head and stretched out a long thin hand; he could stir nothing else, for his right thigh was in splints beneath a coffer-like erection designed to keep the pressure of the blankets from his injured limb.
Yes, he lives, but with a broken thigh and his head cut open.
No; the doctor thinks in no danger at present; only a break of the thigh and a scalp wound.
Then without a word he unbuckled his cartridge belt which held his holstered gun, untied the strap about his thigh and laid the belt with the weapon upon the table.
It is true that Peter would pause now and again to slap his thigh and renew his mirth; it is true also that he continued to wear his white gloves throughout the meal.
Bab--" Here he slapped his thigh and broke into another roar, at the end of which he grew fairly black in the face.
What, after all The priest who needs must carry sword on thigh May find imperative use for it?
Smite hip and thigh until the oppressor leave Free from the Adriatic to the Alps The oppressed one!
A long piece of bone, the thigh joint of the war-eagle, hangs suspended over his breast.
I took one thigh bone that was whole, sat down on the bank and we compared it with my own.
The skulls, arm and thigh bones were in the best state of preservation, and in fact, the most that was left of them.
Any one seeing the fine elastic form and marvellous activity of Chapman, would hardly imagine or give credence to the fact, that a few years before he had had a broken thigh bone.
Richard Chapman, when between ten and eleven years old, had a thigh bone badly broken.
Uncle Ulick continued to rub histhigh and to stare.
And, pushing back his seat and rubbing his huge thigh with his hand, he looked from one to another.
Indeed he was a pitiable sight, right eye almost obscured, two ribs broken, right thighand fork lacerated in the most dreadful manner.
The buffalo on the alert no sooner discovered his enemy, than uttering a hoarse bellows charged and tossed him, one of his horns entering the thigh of the unhappy man.
We soon ascertained that one arrow had penetrated the thigh of a man named Salim to the depth of four inches, another had pierced the roast leg of a kid before the fire, several others had perforated banana stalks.
He states that the earliest recognizable sign of scurvy is an enlargement of the hair follicles of the inner and anterior aspects of the thigh and upper leg, which show numerous conical elevations about the size of a pin's head.
As might be inferred, its effect is mainly to induce premature rupture of the weakened blood-vessels; in infants we have seen this occasioned by pressure exerted on the lower end of the thigh to ascertain the presence of tenderness.
In many cases this edema is most marked in the neighborhood of the hemorrhages, for example, in the muscles of the thigh when subperiosteal hemorrhage has taken place; less frequently it is produced by venous thrombosis.
Frequently its posture is characteristic, as it lies quietly on its back with one thigh everted and flexed on the abdomen.
Hess and Unger observed that in several instances where subperiosteal hemorrhage had been diagnosed, X-ray examination disclosed that the swelling of the thigh was due mainly to infiltration of the muscles and subcutaneous tissue.
Recently we saw a case of fracture of the distal end of the femur diagnosed as infantile scurvy; the baby had caught its thigh between the bars of the crib and snapped the bone in trying to extricate itself.
These manifestations involve usually the distal end of the thigh or thighs.
Occasionally there is observed a short exacerbation of the symptoms following the giving of an antiscorbutic--a swelling of the thigh or hemorrhage of the gums.
As the Tabard Period progressed, however, the taces showed a tendency to decrease in number, thereby shortening the skirt of plate and permitting more of the thigh to be uncovered.
The taces introduced into armour during the Surcoatless Period reached approximately to the mid-thigh of the wearer, and during that period short lames were attached in front at times, making the skirt of plate even longer.
After the above date we find that it is generally pointed in the lower part and laminated, while reinforcing plates begin to appear above the genouillière protecting the thigh and often overlapping each other.
The thigh bones form a cross, and the skulls are placed in each of the four angles.
The ball must never be touched with the hand; but the arm, shoulder, knee, or thigh are used at pleasure to rest the foot.
It was big enough to take the man's thigh in its mouth, and he would probably have been killed and devoured by it had not his cries brought out his neighbours, who destroyed it with their choppers.
Such creatures are rather plentiful here, for a man living close by showed me on his thigh the marks where he had been seized by one close to his house.
Simpson fearlessly collated statistics of this operation amongst the others, and proved that when performed under anaesthetics amputation of the thigh had its mortality reduced to 25 per cent.
Useless, too, was the light blade that glinted next upon the shield of Richard, for it made no mark, while its giver went down with a thigh wound, struck below his buckler.
Sore wounded upon one thigh was now the man-at-arms, and his steed plunged viciously to one side.
Then she hit her thigh with her hand and shouted: “Not a bad leg that for an old one, is it?
There are some great dresses on those people,” said Maire a Glan, nipping Dermod Flynn on the thigh with her finger and thumb.
Ye are droll, Dermod,” said Maire a Glan, nipping the boy’s thigh again.
I had placed my right hand on her thigh outside her clothes, and was thinking, what a nice chance I had for throwing her back on the sofa, but I opened the first page.
I saw the large thigh nearly up to her quim, my hand involuntarily slipped higher, and began smoothing the flesh just above the garter.
What a thigh she must have," thought I, "can I afford her?
Then we made a bet on it and measured; she lost, but her thigh was half as big again round as mine; then she thew herself on her back and cocked up her legs, opening them for a minute.
I thought not," said she; then she caught hold of my prick, fell on her back again, I saw indistinctly a broad expanse of thigh and belly.
As I put that garter on, I kissed the thighjust above it, up she got, lifted her robe to see her legs, strutted up and down in front of the glass until tired of looking.
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