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I slowly approached it, unsheathing my swords at the same time, the sheath being slipped under my belt behind me.
Police later found a gas-operated rifle and sheath knife among weapons at his home.
Numerous small vacuoles pack the bundle sheath cell and the walls of these cells are not folded.
Wendell was still staring at me as he withdrew his sword, slowly putting it back in its sheath, where it belonged.
It appears that this is due to reflection of light from the optical bundle onto the inner surface of the sheath.
The cells lack a sheath and are uni-nucleate with a conspicuous single laminate parietal chloroplast that encircles less than half of the cell.
The handle is anodized aluminum and a nylon sheath allows you to tote it easily.
Model types range from concealable automatics to multifunctional sheath knives.
I dropped the plastic sheath on the floor and accidentally stepped on it with my tennies.
Each of these long tendons has a lubricated synovial sheath, which can become inflamed and painful in the condition of tenosynovitis.
The inner sheath, termed the sclerenchymatous bundle or mestome sheath, is colourless and contains thickened walls and extensive suberin lamella.
As the leaf grows and becomes terete, the older leaf embraces it by the increasingly curved sheath.
An alternative interpretation is that C. striata preserves the episodically elongating organic sheath of a budding scyphozoan.
Leaves with the whole sheath attached were detached from the plant seedlings.
Moreover, there is an indication that the threshold of sucrose concentration may be lower in the bundle sheath than in the mesophyll.
She tied the string attached the sheath to her belt and looked back into the crate.
All the colour and scent of the flowers is lost behind a rustling, flapping, sheath of cheap semi-opaque cellophane wrapping.
The median nerve and the tendon of palmaris profundus are ensheathed in a common sheath of connective tissue.
A double barrelled shotgun lay on the ground, and a sheath knife was stuck in the soil.
This sheath is often closely fitting but is not in close contact with the cells.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Her scarlet bathing cap flamed against the ash blue sky and her wet suit clung to her slender form like a sheath of black lacquer.
A pouch or wallet depended from the belt, and a sheath containing two daggers, an anelace, and a misericorde.
I think he is under a mistake in averring that there is any severity in the sheath spur.
In Elasmobranchii the chordal sheath is weak and the skeletogenous layer strong.
In Amphioxus the notochord is immediately surrounded by a structureless cuticular layer, the chordal sheath.
The notochord remains permanently unconstricted and is enclosed in a chordal sheath, external to which is the skeletogenous layer.
Each fiber is enclosed within a delicate, transparent sheath, known as the sarcolemma.
The blonde turned her baby over and showed its chubby flesh covered with a crusty, scabby, red-streaked sheath.
Her satin dress was a mere sheath, so conspicuous by its severity and scantness that every one in the dining-room stared.
He just gawked at him from the deck, noting that the man had one hand on a sheath knife.
He drew his short sword from its sheath, and scratched a deep mark in the gravel.
A new sheath may be provided for the tendon by resecting a portion of the great saphenous vein.
There is a bundle sheath of much-flattened cells separating the fibro-vascular bundle from the ground tissue.
The notochord is persistent and unconstricted, its sheath is membranous, but cartilaginous neural and haemal arches are developed.
At the Fetlock numerous branches to the metacarpo-phalangeal articulation, the sesamoid sheath, and the tendons.
What make you, Alleyne, of these black lines which are drawn across the sheath?
He tried to draw it, failed, and looking all along the sheath, saw its condition.
He still had his sheath knife, and he could cut away his weights and shoot up.
True, I only had my sheath knife and fingers to eat with, but what of that?
The while he had drawn his sheath knife and was tucking up his shirt-sleeves.
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