Moquin-Tandon gives a list of plants which when growing near the sea-shore have their leaves in some degree
fleshy, though not elsewhere
fleshy.
It consists of a thin, straight,
fleshy stem, with alternate rows of polypi on each side, and surrounding an elastic stony axis, varying in length from eight inches to two feet.
Her arms were like legs of mutton, her breasts like giant cabbages; her face, broad and
fleshy, gave you an impression of almost indecent nakedness, and vast chin succeeded to vast chin.
The weather had become worse than ever towards evening; the hail lashed the drenched mare so cruelly that she went along sideways, shaking her head and ears; but Levin was all right under his hood, and he looked cheerfully about him at the muddy streams running under the wheels, at the drops hanging on every bare twig, at the whiteness of the patch of unmelted hailstones on the planks of the bridge, at the thick layer of still juicy,
fleshy leaves that lay heaped up about the stripped elm-tree.
It hurled itself against the
fleshy mass, passing through from one part to the other, leaving behind it two quivering halves of the animal.
Fortunately the scratches were on the
fleshy parts of the arms and shoulders, where, though painful, they were not necessarily serious.
But all these are permanently lodged in their
fleshy covering, as the human fingers in an artificial covering.
He said that the iron hand which was made for him afterward, and which he wore for more than half a century, was nearly as clever a member as the
fleshy one had been.
Pierre, carefully stretching his neck so as not to touch the quilt, followed her suggestion and pressed his lips to the large boned,
fleshy hand.
He broke off, as a sharp pain manifested itself in the
fleshy part of his leg.
Wilson began to study Luigi's palm, tracing life lines, heart lines, head lines, and so on, and noting carefully their relations with the cobweb of finer and more delicate marks and lines that enmeshed them on all sides; he felt of the
fleshy cushion at the base of the thumb and noted its shape; he felt of the
fleshy side of the hand between the wrist and the base of the little finger and noted its shape also; he painstakingly examined the fingers, observing their form, proportions, and natural manner of disposing themselves when in repose.
One shaft indeed carried off the Sheriff's hat and caused that worthy man to fall forward upon his horse's neck from sheer terror; while five other arrows landed in the
fleshy parts of Foresters' arms.