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To this bag is fastened another pipe or tube the thoracic duct which follows the line of the spine; and up this tube the small bodies travel till they come to the neck and a spot where two veins meet. A door in one opens, and the transformation is complete.
We seeks ter hev ye ter tell us why ye left Virginny an' why ye changed yore name. We wants ter send a man of our own pick an' choosin' over thar an' find out fer ourselves jest what yore repute war in yore own home afore ye come hyar." Cal could feel the tingling of antagonism in a galvanic current along his spine.
"My, but you look like the favorite uncle of the candy kid!" muttered Greg, as the two chums in gray strode along together. "Why shouldn't I?" retorted Dick. "My spine is all right, and I'm to stay in the service. Then besides, Greg, old fellow, think what we are now." "Well, what are we?" asked Greg. "First classmen! Only a year more, Greg, to the glorious old Army! Think of it, boy!
My reveries became discursive; I was carried in imagination back to the primitive state of the globe, when the great animals of the sauri kind were created under the pressure of a heavy atmosphere; and my notion on this subject was not destroyed when I heard from a celebrated anatomist, to whom I sent the specimens I had collected, that the organisation of the spine of the proteus was analogous to that of one of the sauri, the remains of which are found in the older secondary strata.
He was compelled to open his eyes once more and now his faculties were clear. Urrea had moved again and now he was facing the sleepers. He regarded them attentively, one by one, and in the dusk he could not see that Ned's eyelids were not closed. The boy did not stir, but a cold shiver ran down his spine. He felt with all the power of second sight that something extraordinary was going to happen.
She interrupted him again, a sneering smile on her lips: "You know as well as I, Octavius Buzzby, what Mr. Champney's will was too feeble a thing to place dependence on for any length of time; if he said that, he didn't mean it not as you think he did," she added in a tone that sent a shiver along Octavius' spine.
Therefore, I merely nodded, turned on my heel and went back to Smith's room. I closed the door, then turned to face Smith, who stood regarding me. "Smith," I said, "that man sends cold water trickling down my spine!" Still regarding me fixedly, my friend nodded his head. "You are curiously sensitive to this sort of thing," he replied slowly; "I have noticed it before as a useful capacity.
Sometimes the wind don't bother me when I am flying, and sometimes, like to-day, it seems as though the one thing in the whole confounded world is the confounded wind that roars in your ears and makes your eyes water and sneaks down your collar to chill your spine and goes scooting up your sleeves, unless you have gauntlets, and makes your ears sting.
The natural ferocity of his mind threw him into an eager anticipation: he took pride in his proficiency as a strangler; his coarse heavy hands, like those of a Punjabi wrestler, were suited to the task. Grasping the cloth at the base of a victim's skull, tight to the throat, a side-twist inward and the trick was done, the spine snapped like a pipe-stem.
Then he lunged into further deeps. "It's the other men," he said, "it's the things that have been. Don't you understand? Can't you understand? The memories she must have memories they come between us. It's something deeper than reason. It's in one's spine and under one's nails. One could do anything, I perceive, for one's very own woman...."
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