例文・使い方で印象づける「sheath」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...“For all that it is there, without any manner of doubt,” said Don Quixote;“and more by token they say it is inclosed in a sheath of cowhide to keepit from rusting... 
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Vol. I, Complete」
...The sword in his hand itself became too heavy, and he threw it after the sheath...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Before he pulled up he fastened the belt round him, and with deep delight heard the tip of the sheath click on the thwart...
Rudyard Kipling 「"Captains Courageous"」
...He laughed at them, but they still refused; so he put his sword back in the sheath...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...The black proboscis, however, the simply a hollow sheath, which encloses, when not in the act of biting, four reddish and sharp lancets...
Henry M. Stanley 「How I Found Livingstone」
...And from the branches hung suspended over the water thegigantic pods of the huge puswæl bean, the sheath of which measuressix feet long by five or six inches broad...
J. Emerson Tennent 「Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon」
...This tendon seems to be continuous with a fascia whichforms a sheath around the posterior surface of the tarsometatarsus holding theother tendons of this region firmly in the posterior sulcus...
William B. Stallcup 「Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae」
...At the distal end of the tarsometatarsus the tendon is held againstthe medial surface of the first metatarsal by a straplike sheath...
William B. Stallcup 「Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae」
...The tendonthen passes over a sesamoid bone between the first metatarsal and the base ofthe second digit and is bound to this bone by a sheath...
William B. Stallcup 「Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae」
...This protecting calycle is wanting round the heads of the Tubularians,though their stems are surrounded by a sheath...
Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz 「Seaside Studies in Natural History」
...The reason of this appears to lie in the tendency which the hair orwool, constituting the horny sheath, has to model the form of thesupporting bone...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...This bend is attributable to the fact that the retractormuscles are attached to the penis at this point, and in withdrawing that organwithin its sheath they double it upon itself...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...2), and unless this bend is effaced byextending the organ forward out of its sheath it is quite impossible to pass acatheter beyond this point...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...Should even this fail of success, the sheath may be slitopen from its orifice back in the median line below until the offending mattercan be reached and removed...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
...) The protractors keep the sheath stretched, so that it habitually coversthe penis, while the retractors shorten it up in the act of service, so thatthe penis can project to its full extent...
U.S. Department of Agriculture 「Special Report on Diseases of Cattle」
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