| 单词 | catgut |
| 例句 | Someone had sewn the tom flesh together with catgut, and their clumsy stitches were still in place across the seam of raw, red, half-healed flesh. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then, with effortless ease, as a skilled musician fits a bit of catgut to his lyre, he bent the bow and strung it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I eased it off to find two rows of catgut stitches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He acquired catgut for the strings and eventually traded cigarettes from Red Cross provisions to a guard for a bow. National Symphony Orchestra violist plays heirloom built by grandfather 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z The Investigators of the Unknown’s EMF — compact and sleek, no pulleys or catgut — seems more advanced, but Pease’s Apparatus could lend language to a ghost. “Is there an afterlife?” Ghost-hunting at my grandmother’s house 2014-02-02T11:59:00Z Lacrosse began as a rough-hewn contest played on stretches of open land with sticks made from hickory and catgut. Imagine inventing a sport and then being shunned by it. That's the Haudenosaunee story 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z In the 1800s, some began to make and sell lacrosse sticks - made from wood, catgut and leather - to outsiders. The Mohawks who made Maryland’s lacrosse sticks 2018-05-13T04:00:00Z They ran out of anaesthetic and catgut so they made do with ordinary thread. ‘The wounds have never healed’: living through the terror of partition 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Music relied conspicuously on the slaughter of animals: horsehair bows drawn over catgut, horns torn from the heads of big game. When Music Is Violence 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z An instrument, with a handle and a flat part covered with parchment or crossed with catgut, used to strike a shuttlecock in play; also, the play of battledoor and shuttlecock. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Besides the fat, the intestines of sheep are manufactured into various articles of luxury and utility, which pass under the absurd name of catgut. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z The few shops which dealt in European fashions were crowded from morning to night with fair visitants, or their femmes de chambre; and laces and bugles, catgut and tiffany, were in constant demand. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Round the spiral groove of the cylinder a catgut band was wound, one end of which was attached to a treadle and the other to a counterpoise weight. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z "I made it myself, this morning," said she, "it's only thin catgut, with nothing at all outside—but at a distance, it certainly may be taken for transparent gauze." Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Each muscle I sutured by itself with catgut, making a separate series of continuous suturing of the fascia lata and skin. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z He had been strangled by a yard of catgut, twisted, tourniquet-fashion, by a piece of stick at the back of the neck. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Having placed the handkerchief through the loop, which should be of catgut, being semi-transparent, push it into the glass tube as described in the next trick, and place the hands one over each end. Magic In which are given clear and concise explanations of all the well-known illusions as well as many new ones. 2011-07-10T02:00:22.253Z He saw that the bridge might be set up again with a little glue, and that fresh catgut strings might be supplied. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z From this time Mrs. Jones distinguished the actress as "the woman with the catgut hat." Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z Only in such chests, strung at once with metal and catgut, with cruelty and sensuality, is such an alliance of lust and gall conceivable. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z The catgut had sunk far into the flesh, reducing the neck to less than half its ordinary size, and the great staring head hung down upon one shoulder. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The catgut which had stranded belonged to the third bow above him. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Alas! it had hung many years in the shop window, and the catgut was old and the glue had lost its tenacity. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z Catling.—Small catgut strings for musical instruments, also a kind of knife used in surgery. Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured 2011-03-03T03:00:48.597Z “Why do you not come to-day?” he continued, as Patty opened a tin canister, and emptied a dozen of the transparent rings of catgut upon the table. A Little World The frame may consist of two straight wires or canes fixed in a metal Y, and the other ends joined by a piece of strong string or catgut as shown in fig. Butterflies and Moths (British) The motive power appears to have been obtained by the torsion of ropes, fibres, catgut, or hair. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis Another corps had got a band of music, consisting of one fiddler, who marched along at the side of the captain, sawing his catgut with might and main. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 Fetching the penknife and her thorn and catgut from the baobab, she gathered the pieces of skin together, and walked along the cleft to the ladder-tree. Into the Primitive The bones in that lean body of his might have been of catgut, so much did he play with his whole frame, so little observably with his hands merely. Sinister Street, vol. 2 A description of this kind is on a par with the celebrated opinion that violin music is just a case of scraping horse-hair on catgut. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude "What can you do besides that?" said Linton, "for it strikes me a fellow with thews and sinews like yours was scarcely intended to thrum catgut." Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) But he being fretful with his wound, orders his men to disable Brown's fiddle, and lash me up with catgut. A Man in the Open No. We could get fairly good fibres out of the palm leaves; but catgut will be a whole lot better. Into the Primitive When I got there and found her in conversation with that wretch, why, those two things—the cosmetic and the catgut—were still in my hand. The Riddle of the Night After making a few turns round one stem the dodder finds its way to another, and thus it continues twining and branching till it resembles “fine, closely-tangled, wet catgut.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Not till then did Burns begin to urge his mount, and soon the catgut was raising welts upon Karl’s heaving sides, while Simms was vigorously plying the lash to Plaudit. History of the Kentucky Derby, 1875-1921 Both ends were gracefully tapered, each notched to hold a string of catgut. Warrior of the Dawn Suddenly the bow stopped half-way across the strings with a rasping gasp of the catgut. The Portal of Dreams And it was with a noose of catgut that the Count de Louvisan had been strangled! The Riddle of the Night The banjoes was made of round pieces of wood, civered with sheepskin and strung with catgut strings. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 In place of a pin suture, silver wire, catgut, or strong linen thread may be used in the way of an ordinary suture. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Which I'm in no temper to tell a story––me settin' yere with every nerve as tight as a banjo catgut jest before it snaps. Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories Under his touch the catgut gave off such strains as could come only from the sheer genius of a gifted musician who had suffered miserably. The Portal of Dreams What tales had been told! what songs sung, and in what languages; what laughs laughed, tears shed, vows spoken, kisses exchanged, over some of those silent pieces of wood, brass, ivory, and catgut! The First Violin A Novel Ods catgut and fiddlesticks! as Bob Acres would genteelly have exclaimed. The Bow, Its History, Manufacture and Use 'The Strad' Library, No. III. A few stitches are now placed in the wound in the womb, using carbolized catgut. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle The man opened it and took out a vial of catgut, a roll of antiseptic gauze, several rolls of bandages, and––a small, pearl-handled revolver. The Web of the Golden Spider A simple hygrometer can be made by a piece of catgut and a straw. Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly They should be of catgut, and if you tune them in unison, the sound will be sweeter than if they are tuned in thirds or fifths. Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Though in this saloon voices were pitched as low as for conversation in a church, the sharp catgut calls of Frenchwomen—and of French dressmakers especially—came from a room beyond. The Dust Flower We have achieved the same result by dividing the lax capsule and synovial membrane on the medial side of the patella, and overlapping the edges with a double line of catgut sutures. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Two small girls are scraping doleful strains from the sad catgut of violins nearly as big as themselves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 The catgut, twisted, is put through a hole in a dial, in which a straw is also placed. Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly The tone flowed as though after the keen incisions of a knife-blade, not as if scraped out by the friction of horse-hair upon catgut. Music and Some Highly Musical People Yet how the snares were to be set, or how a wild dog could be captured with a piece of catgut, was more than they could comprehend. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains If the mucous membrane of the mouth or of the eyelid is implicated, its edges should be approximated by a separate row of catgut stitches. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Simultaneously, the jockeys sat down to ride—there was the cruel swish of catgut, the crueler prodding of steel. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 In dry weather the catgut curls up; in damp, it relaxes; and so the straw is turned either to the one side or the other. Harper's Young People, August 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly M. M. Distend the part gradually by catgut bougies, which by their compression will at the same time diminish the thickness of the membrane, or by bougies of elastic gum, or of horn boiled soft. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life These cords, neatly twined and dried by the heat, now resembled strings of coarse catgut; and it only remained for Ossaroo to knot and loop them, and form them into snares. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains When the epiglottis is cut across in wounds opening into the pharynx, it should be united, preferably with fine silk sutures, as catgut is absorbed before healing has time to take place. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. After they all sat down, I asked the catgut scraper if he could play the fisher’s hornpipe. A Sailor of King George And the answer is: Because the catgut on the racquet.” The Radio Boys at the Sending Station Making Good in the Wireless Room The former are easily made, by moistening the catgut, and keeping it stretched till dry, and then rounding one end with a pen-knife. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life A fidler on a fish through waves advanced, He twanged his catgut, and the Dolphin danced. The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems In the case of large manuscripts on vellum it is best to use very thick silk, or even catgut. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Many are made of whalebone, and are covered with catgut, their special advantage being that their flexibility greatly facilitates the process of cracking. The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed. Their arrows, which were two feet long, were made of cane, and pointed with greenish stone; the bows were three feet long and were furnished with catgut for strings. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century M. M. The perpetual use of bougies, either of catgut or of caoutchouc. Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life "Think of being laid face downward firmly across a sinewy knee and beaten forty-love with one of those hard catgut rackets!" Cobb's Bill-of-Fare To be worked with silk on strips of vellum or catgut or cord, with frequent tie-downs. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians The scleral slip is then freed from the conjunctiva at each end and the mucous membrane brought together over the wound by fine catgut sutures. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 We could not but admire the skill with which they coated the strings of their bows with resin, in such a way that at first sight they looked like catgut. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century As suture material, ordinary cotton thread is good, if well sterilized, as are also horsehair, catgut, silk, and various kinds of wire. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Think of being laid face downward firmly across a sinewy knee and beaten forty-love with one of those hard catgut rackets! Cobb's Bill-of-Fare A very small bead is threaded on to a piece of catgut, and the two ends of the gut brought together and put through a larger bead. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians "I've got to have a couple of needles, a little catgut and some gauze." Laramie Holds the Range Now to go to the ultimate extreme as regards our own conduct we should make no use of such things as leather, bone, catgut, etc. No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes The odds are ten thousand to one that he will never be anything but a wretched scraper of catgut. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. They may be taught all sorts fine needlework, viz., working on catgut or flowering muslin, sattin stitch, quince stitch, tent stitch, cross-stitch, open work, tambour, embroidering curtains or chairs, writing and cyphering. Home Life in Colonial Days A bead is attached to a piece of gut laced into the vellum, and a loop of catgut is laced in the other side, and looped over the bead as shown. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians Sawdy, with abundance of grumbling at his assignment, had the gauze and the catgut, but he had brought the key back. Laramie Holds the Range The Ratanpūrias have an instrument called dhungru, which consists of a piece of bamboo about three feet long with a hollow gourd as a resonator and catgut strings. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II From the foregoing references we find that strings, although called "catgut," are not made from the intestines of that domestic animal. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators A brace of fiddlers, seated in a corner, were scraping their catgut into tune for the music, while, outside, a piper was playing a Highland gathering. The Black Colonel “Here’s a young chap who is a first-rate hand with the catgut, and if any of you can tell him that he is welcome in his own lingo, I wish you would, mates,” said Bruff. Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy Another was a bow, the string being of catgut, which was struck with a small cane. Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas Upstairs and downstairs it was all the same; every band of leather, gutta-percha, catgut, had been taken away, and, of course, the whole of this portion of the works would be brought to a stand. Patience Wins War in the Works This account of the origin of Lutes, Fiddles, and catgut is classic and picturesque. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators “Yes, I’ve seen it used,” said Mark; “worked to and fro with a steel bow and catgut.” Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle The strings of commerce are made principally from the intestines of sheep, and, singularly, have been always designated as 'catgut.' The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns I am called Jean François Leturc, and for six months I was with the man who sings and plays upon a cord of catgut between the lanterns at the Place de la Bastille. Ten Tales They may be broad flat leather straps of great weight and size, formed by sewing many lengths together, or they may be string-like cords of twisted catgut. Patience Wins War in the Works The Arab canon, which is commonly taken as the immediate predecessor of the pianoforte, had the important difference of being strung with catgut strings. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present They are tuned in unison with the upper catgut strings, whereby, as well as by the peculiar form of the violin itself, this gives forth a singular strong, almost melancholy sound. Strife and Peace The catgut strings of the harps of three thousand years ago are still capable of giving a musical sound. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. Since that I have lived with the seller of brushes and the catgut scraper. Ten Tales First he thought 'twas paint, and then he thought 'twas catgut, for when the keel of their boat scraped over it, it sang like a bird. Wandering Heath It was popularly supposed that he could play upon anything, provided only the catgut and the horsehair were furnished him. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present An interesting feature of these strings is that they are the central part or core of a small vine11 and give out rather sweet tones, though not so loud as catgut. 11B�s-lig. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Some of them had two strings for each note; some had three; some had three kinds of strings,—catgut, brass, and steel; and some were painted and decorated in the most gorgeous style. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. And in every hospital there is a faint mysterious incense, compounded not disagreeably of chloride of sodium and iodised catgut, which intensifies the dim religious atmosphere of the shaded wards. Leaves from a Field Note-Book When it is impossible thus to approximate the ends satisfactorily, the muscle or tendon is exposed by incision, and the ends brought into accurate contact by catgut sutures. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. "Your master loves the society of the young?" queried Laurence, mending carefully a string of his viol and keeping the end of the catgut in his mouth as he spoke. The Black Douglas Some ancients dreamt that a catgut cord made of a wolf's intestines would never strike in unison with one made from a lamb's intestine; a discord of atmospheres renders the phenomenon possible. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Sometimes of either brass or silver wire, &c., but most commonly of catgut. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. It is furnished with catgut strings, which are affected by all the influences of temperature, and require to be frequently tuned. Scientific American Supplement, No. 643, April 28, 1888 The divided vessel having been caught with forceps as near to its cut end as possible, a ligature of catgut or silk is tied round it. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. You told me yourself that that stuff was catgut and that you wouldn't drink it on a bet. The Plastic Age So the surgeon laid bare the main artery by a longitudinal incision and tied it up with catgut to prevent excessive loss of blood. Combed Out The "Cricket" appeared to be unusually light and brilliant, for the sharp squeaking of a violin was heard, and the trilling of a clarinet blended with the catgut in most discordant notes. The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia In incipient cases the tubercles might be as readily absorbed as catgut ligature, and the germs, if any, fall to phagocytic prey. Scientific American Supplement, No. 794, March 21, 1891 Presence of a Foreign Body.—When an aseptic foreign body is present in the tissues, e.g. a piece of unabsorbable chromicised catgut, the healing process may be modified. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. James Devlin, where are you old man, Whose fingers o'er the catgut ran? Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants Having turned the intestine inside out, scrape off the whole of its inner soft parts; what remains is a fine transparent tube, which, being twisted up tightly and stretched to dry, forms catgut. The Art of Travel Shifts and Contrivances Available in Wild Countries Surgeons who can spare a scalpel, an artery clip or two, ligatures—catgut or silk—and forceps, may be certain of having them used at once. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front It consists of a rectangular box with two sounding boards, each provided with eight catgut strings. Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885 In small superficial wounds on exposed parts, stitch marks may be avoided by approximating the edges with strips of gauze fixed in position by collodion, or by subcutaneous sutures of fine catgut. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. A fiddler here the catgut drew, And there a highland piper, too, Shrieked forth with loud and stirring bar, The boding battle-notes of war! Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants A catgut bowstring drills for boring holes, and screw-drills for cutting threads, hammers, and an anvil. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama If you don't run restive, I will soon send you my treatise on the four violoncello strings, very profoundly handled; the first chapter devoted exclusively to entrails in general, the second to catgut in particular. Beethoven's Letters 1790-1826, Volume 1 A piece of catgut—a string used on a violin will do—is suspended from the bent end of the wire. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do Moschcowitz has found that the tensile strength of catgut so prepared is increased if it is kept dry in a sterile vessel, instead of being left indefinitely in the iodine solution. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. It is constructed by parallel intervals, covered with bits of hard polished wood, so as to give each a different tone, and are connected by cords of catgut fastened at each extremity of the instrument. Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa He lost his self-control, and said, in an audible voice: "You're only a scraper of catgut, anyhow." Round the Block There was a catgut manufactory close at hand, which filled the neighborhood with stench. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861 A hand or pointer is cut from a piece of tin and secured to the catgut string about 1/2 in. from the base. The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 700 Things for Boys to Do To avoid contamination from the hands, catgut should be removed from the bottle with aseptic forceps and passed direct to the surgeon. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. Many of them had a small canal extending from one extremity to the other, perfectly cylindrical, and of a size that readily admitted a coarse thread or a piece of fine catgut. The Voyage of the Beagle The wings are made of catgut and whalebone, and covered also with the same parchment and feathers, and each wing is folded in three seams. A History of Aeronautics The new catgut Strings he was using gave out such a tone The "Maestro" had remarked it, and had gone Out of his way to praise him. Men, Women and Ghosts Infernal! keeping my nerves at such a stretch that, if they had not resembled catgut, they would long ago have relaxed to the feebleness of Linton’s. Wuthering Heights Wound infection may take place from catgut which has not been efficiently prepared. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. The clamped vessels were now tied with catgut and the wound cleansed with phenol lotion and dressed with cyanid-gauze. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine No fiddle without catgut—no music without cats. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers There was nothing of this in the sounds that this boy called forth from the little wooden box and the stick with its taut lines of catgut. Fanny Herself Then, upon reflection, Erik went back to fetch the Punjab lasso, which is very curiously made out of catgut, and which might have set an examining magistrate thinking. The Phantom of the Opera The irritation in these cases is probably due to toxins in the catgut and not to bacteria. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. From this time on the patient made a slow recovery, a small sinus in the lower part of the neck disappearing on the removal of the catgut ligature. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine I have discovered that there is a catgut in a fiddle. Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers Through all the other sounds of music, there penetrated from an unseen source, a sawish, scraped, vibration of catgut, pathetic, insistent, painstaking, and painful beyond belief. The Gentleman from Indiana Over this skin he tied a string of catgut, which was fastened at the middle to another similar string passing through the whole length of the tabour. The Phantom of the Opera The infection may arise from the material used, especially catgut or silk, or, more frequently perhaps, from the growth of staphylococcus albus from the skin of the patient when this has been imperfectly disinfected. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. Five splinters were removed and a portion of the damaged brain-substance, and a small artery was tied with catgut. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine He told her that in her hands the finest lute Laux Maler ever made, mellowed by three centuries, would be but wood and catgut. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Tradesmen dance with their neighbours, at the residence of those who have the best apartments: and the expense of catgut, rosin, &c. is paid by the profits of the card-table. Paris as It Was and as It Is Originally the smaller intestines of beasts, as of the pig, but here used as equalling "catgut". The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II The suppuration is strictly localised to the part of the wound where catgut was employed for stitches or ligatures, and shows little tendency to spread. Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. A handle is turned that grates on one catgut string, and the fingers of the left hand, passed under the hurdy-gurdy, touch notes that stop the string at various lengths, and so vary the tone. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc Mr. Brown, of Westerly, sadly deplored that "now we have only catgut and resin religion." Sabbath in Puritan New England "What good can it be spending his time scraping horsehair athort catgut?" Mary Marston I have no more catgut without sending to W---. Life in the Clearings versus the Bush Sinew, catgut, and rawhide strings were used by the early archers, but have been abandoned by the more modern. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow This gentleman of music whose fingers have for twenty years absorbed the souls of Beethoven and Sarasate, Liszt and Moussorgski, this aristocrat of the catgut is posturing sardonically before the three bored fates. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago To this he fastened a long piece of catgut, and carried it through the floor. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day It is important also to observe that the whip was a two-handed implement, armed with lashes made of twisted and knotted cord or catgut. The Emancipation of Massachusetts It had four strings of silk or catgut, and a very long neck. Two Years in the French West Indies Number 3 surgical catgut is apparently a D string on the violin. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Prior to this time there were machines and instruments which threw stones and catapults and large arrows by means of the reaction of a tightly twisted rope made up of hemp, catgut or hair. Marvels of Modern Science It is valuable, and some years ago I passed a piece of catgut from the door through the ceiling to a bell at my bedside. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day It was an inspiring strain; the violin seemed to possess the true Midas touch; gold flowed like water in liquid rills from its catgut. What's Bred in the Bone There is a way of tying an intended convert to your views in such ingenious fashion that the lightest touch of a finger on taut catgut stretched from limb to limb, causes exquisite agony. Guns of the Gods With a furrier's needle having three sharp edges, and heavy waxed thread, or better yet, with catgut, sew up the longer sides of the skin with a simple overcast stitch. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow And may the good Satan seize upon the catgut strings of his tuneful soul, and smite therefrom a wicked, wicked waltz! The Fiend's Delight —Yes, Mr Bloom said, teasing the curling catgut line. Ulysses A piece of catgut passing round a large wheel, and then round a small spindle, effects this change. On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Put down you catgut screamer, and fetch me a pint. Thelma In our experiments with a catgut and rawhide backing, we have not found that they add materially to the cast of a bow, only insure it against fracture. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Why can't music go out in the same way it comes in to a man, without having to crawl over a fence of sounds, thoraxes, catguts, wire, wood, and brass? Essays Before a Sonata Bloom ungyved his crisscrossed hands and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong. Ulysses Thus wiry roots of the catgut plant are so tough that they can almost stop a plowshare in the furrow. The Golden Bough "There is the catgut for the noose," said Dawes. For the Term of His Natural Life The little red yew bow used in the previous experiment was backed heavily with rawhide and catgut. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow Instead therefore of finishing George's shirts, we now had them new modelling their old gauzes, or flourishing upon catgut. The Vicar of Wakefield Next a hurried inspection showed him that there was enough of the catgut twisted round the peg to make up for the part that was broken off. Robert Falconer It maintains several hundreds of poor people, who are kept constantly at work, according to their age and abilities, in making thread, all sorts of lace, a kind of catgut, and in knitting stockings. Travels through France and Italy To the thin ends of these saplings he bound tightly, into notches cut in the wood, and secured by a multiplicity of twisting, the catgut springes he had brought from the camping ground. For the Term of His Natural Life After a moment or two of troubled thought he blacked the white catgut with a dot of ink and went on his way rejoicing. The Street of Seven Stars Removing with care the catgut that had done such good service, he dragged the carcases to the shore, and proceeded to pack them upon his floats. For the Term of His Natural Life |
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