leg-bones

Reconstructing the surface of a brain sample [1] and installing a Slice-o-matic to segment leg-bones.

Brains and Bones da_lj 2007

She sat, thinking about being stranded, starving to death, her bones someday being found leaning back against a rock, the leg-bones crossed nonchalantly.

REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

She sat, thinking about being stranded, starving to death, her bones someday being found leaning back against a rock, the leg-bones crossed nonchalantly.

REBELS: THE LIBERATED, BOOK III OF III DAFYDD AB HUGH 2008

It is true that these remains were not human bones, but objects bearing the traces of his handiwork, such as fossil leg-bones of animals, sculptured and carved evidently by the hand of man.

Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

Below the level of the backbone, after the haunch-bone, comes the hip-socket; then the leg-bones, those in the thighs and those in the shins, which are termed colenes or limb-bones, a part of which is the ankle, while a part of the same is the so-called

The History of Animals 2002

Instead she poked around inside with one of the leg-bones of the skeleton, and when she stirred up no more than a single flat desert toad, rolled herself into the shade and shelter, and promptly went to sleep.

The Elvenbane Lackey, Mercedes 1991

'Horses' leg-bones sometimes grow knobs all of a sudden, and that is what a splint is, 'I said.

Dead Cert Francis, Dick 1962

Trim very neatly; leave no hanging skin; indeed, when filleting for _chaudfroids_ the skin should be entirely removed, and both it and the leg-bones are removed for pies.

Choice Cookery Catherine Owen

Relatively to the weight of the skeleton, the leg-bones have shortened in the tame breeds of ducks by over 5 per cent.

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

The latter method is the more correct, since the excessive weight of the leg-bones increases the weight of the skeleton more than the diminished weight of the wing-bones reduces it.

Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin