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  • Rachel's team concentrated their work in the structure called the Sphinx, although the creature represented in stone was neither human nor lion; it may not have been a creature at all, although the smooth lines atop the stone monolith suggested curves of a living thing, and the sweeping appendages made everyone think of wings.†   (source)
  • His leaves, his hair, have mostly departed, we can surmise, and his appendages are less resolute than formerly, and of course, he's entered a quieter period than his youth had been.†   (source)
  • Her Majesty was three times the size of her largest soldiers—a towering mass of black chitin and barbed appendages, with diaphanous oval wings folded against her back.†   (source)
  • But the idea of a permanent gash across the bridge of my nose and mat burns on every pointed appendage does not appeal to me no matter how many trophies I might walk away with.†   (source)
  • There was a nasty snick sort of noise as Israfiel sheared through the demon's wrist and its tentacled appendage flew through the air.†   (source)
  • Ahead of the pipe-layers was a digging machine, like a wolf spider or praying mantis, with a wide stance but a pair of dangerous-looking appendages at its front, coming together in a crenellated scraper near where its mouth would have been.†   (source)
  • I uncovered a single steppingstone, slightly worn, that led nowhere, yet lay as a subtle appendage to the small rock garden.†   (source)
  • Her skin was still wintry cream, but now, with two handmaidens assigned to each appendage and four for the rest of her, it actually, in certain lights, seemed to provide her with a gentle, continually moving as she moved, glow.†   (source)
  • The chitinous appendage snapped shut just short of his right eye.†   (source)
  • If you looked through the mesh, you could see the levers and mechanisms and hard plastic appendages which were out in plain sight below the seat pan.†   (source)
  • But Marko wanted to earn whatever he received on his own merits, not to be remembered as an appendage of the "liberator" of Lithuania.†   (source)
  • "I understand your attachment to your own appendages," he said, opening the bandage.†   (source)
  • You put your index finger in the loop and rest the middle finger against the suitably shaped appendage.†   (source)
  • Or he began to beat a hasty retreat, when Rosa, not wanting to take any more chances, shotput her lips into the contested space, momentarily forgetting that appendage, her nose, which she remembered a fraction of a second later when it collided with Litvinoff's at the instant his lips mashed against hers, so that with their first kiss they became blood relatives.†   (source)
  • My toes were locked under my feet so that my body weight fell entirely on the top of those appendages.†   (source)
  • Shiva didn't read books as much as he disassembled and digested them, made them appendages of his body.†   (source)
  • Gabil yelped and stepped back from the flailing appendage.†   (source)
  • Jim sat down beside me, reading the Bible that seemed to be an extra appendage.†   (source)
  • In the rear of the appendage, down a short hallway, there was a thick door covered in white handpainted lettering that read: OZZIE WALLS, HIGH SHERIFF, FORD COUNTY.†   (source)
  • An appendage to a ship's Al."†   (source)
  • As one particularly clear-headed officer, Major Benjamin Tallmadge of Connecticut, would later write, putting himself in Washington's place: To move so large a body of troops, with all their necessary appendages, across a river full a mile wide, with a rapid current, in face of a victorious well-disciplined army nearly three times as numerous as his own, and a fleet capable of stopping the navigation, so that not one boat could have passed over, seemed to present most formidable…†   (source)
  • "It took me damn near twenty minutes to lift this useless appendage through the sleeve!" he complained angrily but without self-pity.†   (source)
  • Ian was sprawled across the rest of the space, his feet and hands hanging off the edges, one appendage to each of the four sides.†   (source)
  • Born with the appendages of power, circumcised by a guillotine, and baptized with the steam from a million nonreflective mirrors, these young men wouldn't be called upon to thrust a bayonet into an Asian farmer, target a torpedo, scatter their iron seed from a B-52 into the wound of the earth, point a finger to move a nation, or stick a pole into the moon—and they knew it.†   (source)
  • The creature had a seal's plump, tubular shape and flipperlike appendages, but its face was decidedly toadlike, with large yellow eyes and a thin, drooping mouth.†   (source)
  • Think of all the trouble and impurity in your life, the sin, the suffering, the filth that can be laid at the door of the minor hose and its associated appendages that swing from us, pushing the devilish parts of our nature toward the impulsive and the disgusting.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, to her drowsy astonishment, Sophie saw the man yank Weiss's eyeshade down around his windpipe, where it dangled like a useless celluloid appendage.†   (source)
  • It did not look like his blood, which had come from his body, but like a foreign appendage, a piece of plaster or a splatter of mud or a wet birch leaf.†   (source)
  • His fancy ski boat was the same as the pumped-up neck and outsized antlers of a buck deer in rut: appendages to ward off other males and attract one female after another.   (source)
    appendages = an external body part (such as an arm) that projects from the body
  • Too often Cuba is viewed as an American appendage.
  • Each injured an appendage in the game.
  • An appendage with a claw clamped down on him, lifted him into the air and threw him.†   (source)
  • Then the tassel flicked, and I realized it was a living appendage.†   (source)
  • Finally Mama pulled the broken appendages from the bucket and patted them dry.†   (source)
  • Instead, it bubbled and screamed, its appendages searching for some other way to reach its quarry.†   (source)
  • It had also, of course, served as an appendage to my costume as the Reverend Entwistle.†   (source)
  • Thomas couldn't make out much, but from where he stood he couldn't see anything like the odd appendages of the Grievers.†   (source)
  • Thomas ran in, raising his pipe, ready to beat his way past the appendages, find his way to the handle.†   (source)
  • Fom an AI's perspective, the beautiful body and intriguing personality sitting across the desk from me must be merely another appendage, a remote, somewhat more complex but otherwise no more important than any one of ten thousand such sensors, manipulators, autonomous units, or other remotes that an AI might use in a day's work.†   (source)
  • Easily five times the size of any other demon on the ship, it had an armored body, many-limbed, each appendage ending in a spiked chitinous talon.†   (source)
  • It was an appendage that had sprouted out to control the arms and legs, to understand what the first eyes were seeing, and eventually, allowing humans to think and be self-aware.†   (source)
  • A skinny metallic rod burst out of the Griever's moist skin, unfolding into a long appendage with three spinning blades, which moved directly toward Thomas's face.†   (source)
  • Then, in unison, the monsters moved forward, slowly, instrument-tipped appendages unfolding, pointed at Thomas and the Gladers, ready to kill.†   (source)
  • It collapsed into a flat, oblong pile of fat and gears, its protruding appendages falling to the ground, limp.†   (source)
  • Two appendages emerged from the creature's sides and Thomas skidded to a halt—a new metal arm buzzed with a spinning saw, the other with a nasty-looking claw, its four tips ending in blades.†   (source)
  • Thomas dropped to the ground and turned to the fourth pod, but the Griever was moving, its front end slipping up and over the edge of the open pod, appendages bursting out of the skin to help it maneuver.†   (source)
  • When it was over and the vital signs had remained constant, Dr. Geoffrey Washburn went back to his chemical and psychological appendage.†   (source)
  • Splayed, the demon was large, almost the size of a horse, with a dark green, turtle-like body; limp, leathery wings; six centipede-like clawed appendages; and a long stem of a neck that ended in a circle of eyes and jagged, uneven teeth.†   (source)
  • More vines appeared next to the first; they poked through the wall from the outside and spread across the floor, covering it in a sea of writhing, snakelike appendages.†   (source)
  • Today will be the fifth great dinner I have had, about 36 gentlemen today, as many more next week, and I shall have to get through the whole of Congress, with their appendages.†   (source)
  • A tumorlike appendage had been added later to house the sheriff and his staff and deputies, and the place was crammed with cheap desks, folding chairs, and stained carpet fraying at the baseboards.†   (source)
  • I always marveled at the fact that he walked around shaking hands and waving as if the appendages were totally normal, instead of miraculous.†   (source)
  • She knew, everyone in this line knew, that they would either be stored for future use as ancillaries—like the ancillaries of mine that stood before them even now, identities gone, bodies appendages to a Radchaai warship—or else they would be disposed of.†   (source)
  • The end degenerated into such a tangle of beautiful limbs, turgid breasts, and open mouths against the fat barrel of the Prince of Wales and his various appendages, that it made Alessandro think of a belaying pin in a vat of calamari.†   (source)
  • There were twin bronze propellers at the stern, on either side of a flat appendage which the Russians called a beaver tail, or so the intelligence reports said.†   (source)
  • The appendage halted some four or five feet away from Max's face, its skin boiling and bubbling with pustules.†   (source)
  • It had a host of legs and arms along with flipperlike appendages, tentacles, and pseudopods, but these seemed wholly inadequate for propelling such a mass.†   (source)
  • No longer needing me to initiate the move, Mary Alice gropes for my zipper, her mean little hand ready to perform its spiritless operation on my equally jaded appendage.†   (source)
  • They bent down eastward along Academy Street, having turned right from the little caudal appendage that gave on the northeastern corner of the Square.†   (source)
  • A lank tentacular appendage gripped the edge of the cylinder, another swayed in the air.†   (source)
  • The latter faithful appendage is also invariably a part of the old girl's presence out of doors.†   (source)
  • They had never troubled me before, but they troubled me now, as vulgar appendages.†   (source)
  • It was, in a new form, the old, old trouble that eats the heart out of every civilization: snobbery, the desire for possessions, creditable appendages; and it is to escape this rather than the lusts of the flesh that saints retreat into the Himalayas.†   (source)
  • He was only an ornamental appendage at this time, and was seldom called upon to exercise his function; but there had been times, not many generations past, when the office of taster had its perils, and was not a grandeur to be desired.†   (source)
  • Its two epithelia, the outer and inner, ectoderm and endoderm, turned out to be primitive organs, from whose folds and protrusions were formed glands, tissues, sense organs, the body's appendages.†   (source)
  • My dear friends, this was no wretched crank-box, the old-fashioned sort with a turntable and stylus on top, plus a misshapen, trumpetlike brass appendage, the sort of thing you might have found at one time set up on a tavern counter to fill unsophisticated ears with nasal braying.†   (source)
  • She knew, too, from the logs that occasionally floated about the lake, that did it miss the castle and its appendages the wind would be likely to change before the canoe could reach the northern extremity of the lake, and that Deerslayer might have an opportunity of regaining it in the morning, when no doubt he would be earnestly sweeping the surface of the water, and the whole of its wooded shores, with glass.†   (source)
  • And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.†   (source)
  • And, with a rigid movement of her stony reticule (an appendage of great size and of a fossil appearance), indicated that Clennam was the unfortunate person at whom the challenge was hurled.†   (source)
  • Crustaceans are subdivided into nine orders, and the first of these consists of the decapods, in other words, animals whose head and thorax are usually fused, whose cheek–and–mouth mechanism is made up of several pairs of appendages, and whose thorax has four, five, or six pairs of walking legs.†   (source)
  • Has it not swallowed up or melted down every human or divine appendage of our mortal state that had substance enough to be acted on by fire?†   (source)
  • I may easily go into a great household where there is much substance, excellent provision for comfort, luxury, and taste, and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon,[414] who shall subordinate these appendages.†   (source)
  • …a little more than a year before, in April, and was finally taken into their house; that she was of a dark brownish-gray color, with a white spot on her throat, and white feet, and had a large bushy tail like a fox; that in the winter the fur grew thick and flatted out along her sides, forming stripes ten or twelve inches long by two and a half wide, and under her chin like a muff, the upper side loose, the under matted like felt, and in the spring these appendages dropped off.†   (source)
  • He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him.†   (source)
  • All other moods save this had been exhausted: the unceasing criticism, the boundless curiosity in the ways and thoughts of man, which was the mood of the ancient Greek, to whom these things were not so much a means, as an end, was gone past recovery; nor had there been really any shadow of it in the so-called science of the nineteenth century, which, as you must know, was in the main an appendage to the commercial system; nay, not seldom an appendage to the police of that system.†   (source)
  • The result was, that, after a few struggles, Oliver breathed, sneezed, and proceeded to advertise to the inmates of the workhouse the fact of a new burden having been imposed upon the parish, by setting up as loud a cry as could reasonably have been expected from a male infant who had not been possessed of that very useful appendage, a voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.†   (source)
  • It was upon these appendages, fixed tightly on their real noses, that they performed their gymnastic exercises.†   (source)
  • "After that Mis'ess Yeobright came round and was quite agreeable," Fairway resumed, with an unheeding air, to show that his words were no appendage to Humphrey's, but the result of independent reflection.†   (source)
  • Servants, on their part, are not averse to regard themselves in the same light; and they sometimes identify themselves with the person of the master, so that they become an appendage to him in their own eyes as well as in his.†   (source)
  • It might be safely viewed with all its appendages of prosperity and beauty, its rich pastures, spreading flocks, orchard in blossom, and light column of smoke ascending.†   (source)
  • A second group of artists disposed themselves on these long appendages, then a third above these, then a fourth, until a human monument reaching to the very cornices of the theatre soon arose on top of the noses.†   (source)
  • Mr. George salutes the gentleman but otherwise sits bolt upright and profoundly silent—very forward in his chair, as if the full complement of regulation appendages for a field-day hung about him.†   (source)
  • What was only an appendage to his position in aristocratic armies, has thus become the main point, the basis of his whole condition.†   (source)
  • Not a whit less reticent and wooden was Mr Flintwinch outwardly, than in the usual course of things: the only perceptible difference in him being that the knot of cravat which was generally under his ear, had worked round to the back of his head: where it formed an ornamental appendage not unlike a bagwig, and gave him something of a courtly appearance.†   (source)
  • …several backward–curving rows, fish commonly known by the name carpet shark; batfish, a sort of reddish isosceles triangle half a meter long, whose pectoral fins are attached by fleshy extensions that make these fish look like bats, although an appendage made of horn, located near the nostrils, earns them the nickname of sea unicorns; lastly, a couple species of triggerfish, the cucuyo whose stippled flanks glitter with a sparkling gold color, and the bright purple leatherjacket whose…†   (source)
  • The woman walking in front carried a white bundle in her arms, from one end of which hung a long appendage of drapery; and when the walkers turned, so that the sun fell more directly upon them, Eustacia could see that the object was a baby.†   (source)
  • Amongst aristocratic nations, an officer, independently of his rank in the army, also occupies an elevated rank in society; the former is almost always in his eyes only an appendage to the latter.†   (source)
  • It was his right hand, almost unrecognizable as a human appendage.†   (source)
  • Sarah Graham MacKenzie, injury to thumb by reason of catching the appendage on edge of spinning reel.†   (source)
  • The grimace seemed to be more of annoyance than pain, so I knelt to examine the offending appendage with relatively little concern.†   (source)
  • The ear was pinned firmly through the upper flange, close to the edge, and a full two inches of the nail's square, headless shank was free above the pinioned appendage.†   (source)
  • I picked up one of the knotted appendages and turned it gently to and fro, stretching the fingers and massaging the horny palm.†   (source)
  • —What age is he? queried one hearer who, by the way, seen from the side, bore a distant resemblance to Henry Campbell, the townclerk, away from the carking cares of office, unwashed of course and in a seedy getup and a strong suspicion of nosepaint about the nasal appendage.†   (source)
  • Their envy did not, however, display itself openly, till poor Jenny, to the surprize of everybody, and to the vexation of all the young women in these parts, had publickly shone forth on a Sunday in a new silk gown, with a laced cap, and other proper appendages to these.†   (source)
  • The institutions chiefly alluded to are STANDING ARMIES and the correspondent appendages of military establishments.†   (source)
  • The expenses arising from those institutions which are relative to the mere domestic police of a state, to the support of its legislative, executive, and judicial departments, with their different appendages, and to the encouragement of agriculture and manufactures (which will comprehend almost all the objects of state expenditure), are insignificant in comparison with those which relate to the national defense.†   (source)
  • However, as she had considered the matter scientifically, she perfectly well knew, though she had never practised them, all the arts which fine ladies use when they desire to give encouragement, or to conceal liking, with all the long appendage of smiles, ogles, glances, &c.†   (source)
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