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  • Perhaps the clumsy power of stories being read could cause organs to flutter, to wake just in time for these stored body parts to be saved, to become more than an anatomist's memory.

    Reading at the Anatomy Museum 2010

  • The anatomist's attentiveness to small things: that's my whole life right there, even though I no longer smell of formaldehyde.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2009

  • Unperturbed, not even looking at Hickey, the surgeon pointed toward the huge form of Magnus Manson as if the man were an anatomist's chart hanging on a wall.

    The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

  • I knew what a subdural hematoma could do to the fragile gray jelly that made life worth living … Crazily, fighting for strength and clarity, I pictured my brain in an anatomist's tray, pinioned and splayed, and tried to localize the site of the injury.

    When The Bough Breaks Kellerman, Jonathan 1985

  • It was addressed to the anatomist's friend, Joachim Roelants.

    Fathers of Biology Charles McRae

  • Or finally, compare the knowledge of the human figure contained in an anatomist's manual with a painting of it, where we not only see it, but in the imagination touch it and move with it, in short live with it.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • Watt made his first model of the condensing steam-engine out of an old anatomist's syringe, used to inject the arteries previous to dissection.

    How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success Major A.R. Calhoon

  • A subject had been placed on the anatomist's table, for the purpose of allowing the lecturer, to elucidate to the young students, the advantages of a post mortem examination, in the determination of diseases.

    A Love Story A Bushman

  • As regards the arts other than literary, he had a keen eye for a picture or a piece of sculpture, for, in addition to the draughtman's and anatomist's sense of form, he had a strong sense of colour.

    Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard, 1860-1933 1920

  • As regards the arts other than literary, he had a keen eye for a picture or a piece of sculpture, for, in addition to the draughtman's and anatomist's sense of form, he had a strong sense of colour.

    Thomas Henry Huxley A Character Sketch Leonard Huxley 1896

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