I didn't laugh -- I am always thankful for that -- but the strain ruptured every
cartilage in me, and for weeks afterward I could hear my bones clack when I walked.
Her clean-cut head with prominent, bright, spirited eyes, broadened out at the open nostrils, that showed the red blood in the
cartilage within.
It was about six inches long, and thicker than my thumb, with some indications of dried
cartilage at one end of it.
Once, in a rage, Bunster ripped the cup handle from Mauki's nose, tearing the hole clear out of the
cartilage.
At the thought I called to Woola to leap upon the creature's head and hang there, and as his mighty jaws closed upon that fiendish face, and glistening fangs buried themselves in the bone and
cartilage and lower part of one of the huge eyes, I dived beneath the great body as the creature rose, dragging Woola from the ground, that it might bring its sting beneath and pierce the body of the thing hanging to its head.
"Listen to reason, won't you?" he objurgated, as, this time, the reason he referred to was the introduction of the ring clear through both nostrils, higher up, and through the central dividing wall of
cartilage. But St.
Long-Beard laughed, too, the five-inch bodkin of bone, thrust midway through the
cartilage of his nose, leaping and dancing and adding to his ferocious appearance.
It is in the upper part of this enormous head, in great cavities divided by
cartilages, that is to be found from six to eight hundred pounds of that precious oil called spermaceti.
Well, I selected the
cartilages of the heads of these fishes, and you can scarcely imagine the delight with which I welcomed the arrival of each Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, as affording me the means of increasing my stock of pens; for I will freely confess that my historical labors have been my greatest solace and relief.
The medallion was the only ornament he wore, although enormous slits in the rim of either ear, which suffered the
cartilages to fall two inches below the members, had evidently been used for the purposes of decoration in other days.
The ornaments that were ordinarily pendant from the
cartilages of his ears had been removed, on account of his present pursuit.
One man fastens an eye on him and the graves of the memory render up their dead; the secrets that make him wretched either to keep or to betray must be yielded;--another, and he cannot speak, and the bones of his body seem to lose their
cartilages; the entrance of a friend adds grace, boldness, and eloquence to him; and there are persons he cannot choose but remember, who gave a transcendent expansion to his thought, and kindled another life in his bosom.