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Cut the dough until light and spongy, then pat out into a rectangular sheet with the rolling-pin; spread with maple sugar and roll up like a jelly roll.— 365 Luncheon Dishes A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year
The lungs are large, spongy organs in the chest, and are continually supplied with fresh air, which passes in through the nose and mouth and down the wind-pipe, by what we call the act of breathing Insects take in oxygen in a way quite different from that of the crayfish or mankind.— Chatterbox, 1905.
The bones are light and spongy, and the spine particularly flexible, from the amount of cartilage between the bones.— Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
A succession of steps, formed by the substances in the water which had become hardened, led up to it, ornamented with bead and shell work; while large masses, shaped like cauliflowers or spongy-formed corals, projected from the walls.— In the Rocky Mountains A Tale of Adventure
It is most useful for a spongy state of the gums, attended with looseness of the teeth This plant grows in moist meadows, but is not common.— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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