...may search every merchant-vessel belonging to any one of theHigh Contracting Parties which shall, on reasonable grounds,be suspected of being engaged in the traffic in slaves... 
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...The sterno-humeral muscle, in contracting, draws theshoulder and the whole anterior limb backwards...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...In contracting, this muscle brings thechest nearer the pelvis, and as a result flexes the vertebralcolumn...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...The Actinia is exceedingly sensitive, contracting the body and drawing inthe tentacles almost instantaneously at the slightest touch...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...The closeassociation and repeated contact of man with these animals has resultedin his contracting such of their diseases as are transmissibleto him...
E. Raymond Hall 「A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha」
...It contains musculartissue, which, by contracting or relaxing, lessens or dilates the pupillaryopening...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Contractile: that which may be drawn together orcontracted or which has the power of contracting...
John. B. Smith 「Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology」
...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」
...Then, contracting itself, it draws the scabbard towards it, half-raising it and sometimes even making it assume a vertical position...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Thewhole scene was a dizzying blurred sway of contracting movement...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...Again it seemed to Alan that our lurching, heedlessly surging bodiesmust be crushed within these contracting walls...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...Suppose that countless ages ago a mighty nebula was slowlyrotating and slowly contracting...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
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