...All that culture could impart, or character add tothe graces of nature, was bestowed upon Caroline,who never assumed the fashion of shorteningher name by fancy contractions... 
James W. Donovan 「Don't Marry」
... Gregory thought she had no pain, she never groaned; only sometimes, when the light was near her, he thought he could see contractions about her lips and eyebrows...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...By means of these appendages, thoughaided also by the contractions of the body, the Synaptæ move through themud and collect around themselves the sand tube in which they are encased...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...As a result the hairs which areswallowed are carried around by the contractions of the stomach and graduallyassume the form of a small pellet or ball...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...In the interval between the contractions these valves hangdown into the ventricles...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Affections of the chest which prevent due aeration ofthe blood induce contractions of the womb, as shown experimentally byBrown-Sequard...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Its skin splits along the back in front; and withthe assistance of a few feeble contractions, which reappear at thisjuncture, it is thrust behind in the shape of a little ball...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...What they are is ambulatory organs, grapnels assisting locomotion, which give a purchase on the plane and enable the animal to advance by means of repeated contractions...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...The victim is in possession of its full power of sensation; and it expresses the pain experienced as best it may, by contractions...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
... The nervous functions are abolished instantly; the muscular contractions cease; and the animal uncoils like a broken spring...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...The inert mass of the passivefood-yelk is solarge in these cases that the protoplasmic contractions of the active yelkcannot effect any further cleavage...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...horpe seized his rifle and fired into the gray mass that bulged withterrible muscular contractions through the window...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930」
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