Snugly

Snugly encased in its protective bony shell, your brain weighs only two to three pounds, a mere 1 to 2 percent of your total body weight, yet it consumes 20 percent of the air you breathe, 25 percent of your total blood flow, 30 percent of the water you consume, and 40 percent of all the nutrients drawn from your bloodstream.

The Answer John Assaraf 2008

Snugly encased in its protective bony shell, your brain weighs only two to three pounds, a mere 1 to 2 percent of your total body weight, yet it consumes 20 percent of the air you breathe, 25 percent of your total blood flow, 30 percent of the water you consume, and 40 percent of all the nutrients drawn from your bloodstream.

The Answer John Assaraf 2008

Snugly ensconced under the tilt, they could forget the sorrows of the world without, and survey life and recapitulate the incidents of the day with placid smiles.

The Woodlanders 2006

Snugly tucked under the seat of his sleigh was a four-gallon keg and a box.

Stories Worth Rereading Various

Snugly curled up in a hole in the snow they allowed themselves to be drifted over.

The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

Snugly placed inside the abutting walls, east of the Tower of Jewels.

The Art of the Exposition Eugen Neuhaus 1921

Snugly ensconced in my taxicab, being entirely surrounded and in part quite covered up or obscured from the casual gaze by my many articles of luggage, I proceeded to the pier, meanwhile subconsciously marvelling at the multitudinous life and activity displayed upon the thoroughfares of our national metropolis at even so early an hour as seven-forty-five to eight-fifteen A. M.

Fibble, D.D. Tony Sarg 1910

Snugly and safely entrenched in the Morristown hill-country,

Old Put The Patriot Over, Frederick A 1904

Snugly ensconced in the thick bushes, the party then proceeded to sup, and after the meal amused themselves in cutting telegraph-wires, and at dark returned to the boat.

The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

Snugly protected in a papery sheath enfolding a silvery-green leaf-cloak, the solitary erect bud slowly rises from its embrace, sheds its sepals, expands into an immaculate golden-centred blossom that, poppy-like, offers but a glimpse of its fleeting loveliness ere it drops its snow-white petals and is gone.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891