...A trader, for instance, contracting to introduce a given number of slaves into Cuba, must purchase more on the coast to make up for those lost by capture... 
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...In contracting, this muscle brings thechest nearer the pelvis, and as a result flexes the vertebralcolumn...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...We see the Cigale trembleslightly, dilating and contracting the extremity of the abdomen infrequent palpitations...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...The moment a queen was hatched, I confinedher to the hive by contracting the entrances...
Francis Huber Anonymous 「New observations on the natural history of bees」
...Some wise birds secure the same protectionby simply contracting the neck of the nest, instead ofbuilding a deep one...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
...It is therefore a brackish water which he takes up and projects by closing his gills and contracting his mouth; he can thus strike a fly at a distance of several feet...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...Suppose that countless ages ago a mighty nebula was slowlyrotating and slowly contracting...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...Made a last effort to overcome hispoverty by getting the arrears of his salary paid at Prague, but wasunsuccessful, and, contracting brain fever on the journey, died inNovember, 1630, aged 59...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...This theory has the advantage of enabling us tocalculate, with some approximation to exactness, at what rate the sunmust be contracting in order to keep up the supply of heat which itradiates...
Simon Newcomb 「Side-lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science」
...Two different methods are presented in which a rotatingand contracting nebula may shape itself into a stellaror planetary system...
Garrett Serviss 「Pleasures of the telescope」
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