..." The first syllable, Mu, in Fiote or Congoese, would be a contraction of Muntu (plural Wántú)... 
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...Bythe contraction of the former, the body is of course shortened; by thecontraction of the latter, the body is, on the contrary, lengthened inproportion to the compression of its circumference...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...It is nevertheless capable of a very limited degree ofmotion, by means of the expansion and contraction of this foot-like disk...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...Some suppose this the cause of contraction, but it isthe reverse...
Richard L. Allen 「Domestic Animals」
...This last springs from the contraction of the neck of thebladder; and once more gentle, but steady pressure must he employed toovercome the spasm...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...The powerful contraction of themuscles and the changing shape of the limb resulting from their action rendersit impossible to retain the detached parts of the bone in proper position...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...In another class ofcases the pruritis may be ascribable to an atrophy, contraction, or hardeningof the skin, when the nerves become irritated by the pressure...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Then sloughs willoccur, followed by a contraction of the parts in healing; if on a limb, thismay render the animal stiff...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Indeed,one would think its crop was full of water, itsnotes so bubble up and regurgitate, and are deliveredwith such an apparent stomachic contraction...
John Burroughs 「Bird Stories from Burroughs」
...Neck: the slender connecting structure between head andthorax of such insects as have the head free: any contraction ofthe head at its juncture with the thorax...
John. B. Smith 「Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology」
...Both present the image of death, inertia, the contraction ofconvulsed limbs...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... If the first ganglion were wounded, the others would remain uninjured; and the powerful body, actuated by these last, would lose none of its powers of contraction...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
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