| 单词 | limbless |
| 例句 | “How many limbless movie stars do you know?” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A fine haze of silvery dust covered their entire bodies so that they looked like limbless ghosts with open eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His throat tightened in horror as his eyes traveled up its limbless body to its head and found that where he’d expected a reptilian skull was something else. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Charred and limbless trunks of trees stretching away on every side. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The ashtray is full: fifty stubs squashed in there, limbless, somehow gory. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “A strange, coldblooded and limbless creature that thrives in the stuff we drown in. A thing of nightmares. But when battered and pan-fried, scrumptious!” Review: The Haywire Hospitality of ‘At Home With Amy Sedaris’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z At one moment, he seems to be sampling the limbless torsos and barren horizon lines of European surrealist painters; at the next, he’s delving into childhood recollections. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Police surgeon Dr Thomas Bond, insomniac and opium addict, is determined to find the killer of a series of women fished, headless and limbless, from the river. Science fiction roundup – reviews 2013-06-14T07:00:00Z Horror writer Darren Shan launched his new young-adult series of zombie books at the weekend, on a stage cluttered with bloody, limbless bodies on loan from the Edinburgh Dungeon. Zombie invasion 2012-08-13T16:21:23Z In this array of urns, tiny houses, miniature trees and illustrative panels — as well as a few drawings — the artist does include one traditional element: a sculpture of Daruma, the limbless doll that connotes perseverance. In the galleries: Step right up and see the sideshow 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z In spite of missing a claw and being surrounded by bigger, mightier animals such as mollusks and sharks — “in the land of the limbless, the one-armed shrimp is king.” Where Does Our Consciousness Overlap With an Octopus’s? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Its subject, a horrifying surrealist-sculptural vision, was a recently limbless man. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Its entire action takes place inside the mind of a young World War I soldier who has been left a blind, deaf and limbless torso. ‘Trumbo,’ soon to be a film, tells the tale of one of the Hollywood Ten 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Being a coward in other words, and he's not going down well among the other menfolk – the jobless and limbless pram-pushers – of The Village. The Village; Perspectives: Hugh Laurie, Copper Bottom – TV review 2013-05-06T05:59:02Z Salmagundi West, 321 W. Cordova St., is a popular store specializing in creepy antiques, such as limbless dolls and human skulls. A first-timer’s fresh view of Vancouver, B.C. 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z While the limbless reptile seems terrifying to us, action man Hemsworth doesn’t seem to be the least bit afraid. Chris Hemsworth Joins Instagram With a Terrifying Photo 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z Black, limbless tree trunks jut from the toxic water, the skeletal remains of the trees that once grew here. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent Some species of salamanders and all caecilians are functionally limbless; their limbs are vestigial. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It is so old, in fact, that it has legs, where modern caecilians are limbless, looking like worms and snakes. Fossilized amphibian dating back 220 million years found in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z He liked discarded playthings best, the ripped and limbless stuffed animals he found in other people’s trash or on the street. How Do You Write Plays For a Divided Country? Listen Carefully. 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z It will be accompanied by the limbless Helga and Zohar, which will carry radiation detectors to figure out how much radiation astronauts might be exposed to during a trip to the Moon. NASA’s megarocket is about to blast off toward the Moon 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Rather, Dr. Daeschler suggested, Tiktaalik was exploiting new ecological opportunities at the water’s edge, scooting through the shallows where limbless fish could not tread. Started Out as a Fish. How Did It End Up Like This? 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z How a limbless individual suddenly gained a limb was not explained. Elizabeth Holmes’s Ex-Boyfriend Hopes to Escape the Verdict She Didn’t 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z What were these limbless organisms, so foreign to me, lurking in the forests and fields of Mississippi? How My Pet Snake Taught Me to Really See 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Selmont said the foundation made “an unfortunate but honest mistake” in posting false information about the limbless dog. L.A. activist Marc Ching and his foundation exaggerated tales of animal abuse, vets and rescuers say 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Modern-day amphibians are represented by three distinct lineage: frogs, salamanders, and limbless caecilians. Fossilised amphibian hints at earliest evidence of 'slingshot' tongue 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z They tested animals from eight of 10 families of salamanders, five families of frogs and one family of caecilians, a type of limbless amphibian you might mistake for a worm or snake. Salamanders and Frogs Hide a Glowing Secret 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Among the treasures unearthed: a mummified head; a headless, limbless torso; and a chapel whose portico harbored two palm-columns, a rectangular inner hall and a deep chamber. An Afterlife So Perilous, You Needed a Guidebook 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Instead, snakes retaining two of their legs were a successful body plan that sufficed for eons until most snakes transitioned into fully limbless slitherers during the latter half of the Cretaceous period. When Snakes Had Use for a Pair of Legs 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z “The study also reveals that early snakes retained their hindlimbs for an extended period of time before the origin of modern snakes which are for the most part, completely limbless.” Prehistoric snakes had limbs for 70M years, new study shows 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z “Or will it bring terrifying limbless chickens to our tables?” British Parliament reconvenes after court rules Boris Johnson unlawfully suspended it 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z “What will synthetic biology stand for – restoring our livers and our eyes with miracle regeneration of the tissues, like some fantastic hangover cure? Or will it bring terrifying limbless chickens to our tables?” Boris Johnson flies to UK as parliament returns after court ruling – Politics live 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The trainees practiced retrieving limbless yellow rescue dummies from underwater and pulling each other to shore on wooden backboards. Beach bummer: Facing lifeguard shortage, Bellevue offers hiring bonus 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z “It’s quite spectacular what they’ve been able to do as completely limbless animals,” Dr. Caldwell said. When Snakes Had Use for a Pair of Legs 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The tree was limbless from its base to 80% of its height, where a crooked crown of branches held dark green needles that ruffled gently in the breeze. The last great tree: a majestic relic of Canada's vanishing boreal forest 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z But little is known about the built-in threat detectors of these limbless, brainless beings. When Fungi Fight Back 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “Joey Ramone’s voice was the cry of a fat baby seal stranded limbless on a floating ice shelf, abandoned by its mother.” The book 'Voices' celebrates the songs a man most wanted to hear before going deaf 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Yet I came away haunted by a scattering of sights and sounds—above all, by the recitations of the limbless man, which thrum with genuine yearning. The Fractious, Frustrating Thrills of “Widows” 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The exceptional preservation of the fossils enabled Mr. Garberoglio and his colleagues to study longstanding mysteries about snake development, such as the sequence of events that led to their limbless bodies. When Snakes Had Use for a Pair of Legs 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z By the time he’s done taking stock, he realizes that he is not home, but in a hospital somewhere, and that he’s been reduced to limbless, faceless flesh. Review: Life rushes in to replace war's horrors in Actors' Gang's exultant 'Johnny Got His Gun' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z There may be no amphibians more mysterious than the limbless, burrowing, mucus-covered carnivores called caecilians. Legless baby amphibians dine on mother’s skin 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The looters tossed a headless, limbless mummified torso into a corner before attempting to set the room on fire to cover their tracks. The F.B.I. and the Mystery of the Mummy’s Head 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The charity Blesma, which provides activities to limbless veterans to help their rehabilitation, then offered him a ski trip to Breckenridge in Colorado, US. The explosion which got me to the Paralympics 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z A headless and limbless corpse found in waters off Denmark was deliberately mutilated, say Copenhagen police. Kim Wall: Unidentified torso 'deliberately mutilated' - BBC News 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z These youngsters from Tanzania are not limbless by accident or through some genetic glitch. New limbs for growing bodies: Mutilated albinos get refitted 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z Walruses are tusked and hulking and, as their limbless bodies suggest, not particularly graceful runners. The grim reason pilots need to worry about walruses 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The limbless torso was found on rocks near the bay by workers dismantling an old section of the bridge at about noon Wednesday. Construction crew find torso under San Francisco Bay Bridge 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z And the one about the playboy antics of a limbless author who was being considered as a political candidate by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party. Japan’s most salacious crime news — and the American who publishes it 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z When a local carpenter on his way to work discovered a headless, limbless, racially ambiguous torso in a pond just outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1887, it terrified the residents in the surrounding communities. Hannah Mary Tabbs: A black murderess in racist 1800s US - BBC News 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z As entertaining as the notion of a slippery snake may be, the finding goes a great deal toward explaining how snakes smoothly weave their limbless bodies over terrain. Here's the Secret to How Snakes Slither 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z It is almost beyond belief: A commander in chief, in a time of national testing, deploying limbless soldiers as a rhetorical trump card against his political opponents. Obama, speaking from the ruins of his own policy 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z To avoid reminding people of the staggering losses, the limbless veterans who once dotted Moscow’s streets were shipped off to a former monastery on an island. Great patriotic war, again 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The Pavilion then cared for limbless soldiers and the Kitchener looked after Canadian casualties. 'Fairyland' care for Indian troops 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Dr. Frost, 62, oversees the museum’s catalog of the class Amphibia — more than 7,200 species, comprising frogs, salamanders and limbless, soil-dwelling caecilians. An Amphibian’s Best Friend 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z A true story: This chimney, planted like a limbless live oak on a residential street, was built by imprisoned German soldiers during the final year of World War II. This Land: For Some, a Prison Camp Relic Stings as a Shrine to Nazism 2014-04-01T15:47:47Z His shows in which he "performed such wonders as have never been done by any but Himself" were designed to challenge his audience's expectations about the capabilities of a limbless person. Disability history: The sword-thrower with no limbs 2013-05-26T06:04:33Z She was always going to tell my dad and he was going to beat me limbless. Connolly 'still loves abusive dad' 2013-01-05T12:59:31Z The limbless body of Miss McCluskie, 29, was found near Broadway Market. Severed head discovered in canal 2012-09-10T06:05:11Z I think that people are in top of the sport who are limbless would be at the top of their game if they hadn't lost their limb. The military's rehab put to the test 2012-08-23T15:54:57Z This curled-up critter is one of seven new species of limbless amphibians found recently in the soil of northeastern India. What Is It? 2012-04-22T14:15:00.213Z Unlike the familar frogs and salamanders, caecilians are limbless and smooth. Amphibian family first for India 2012-02-22T02:40:16Z Other bloodied human remains included a limbless torso and a severed foot. Bomb blasts bring death to Syria's Aleppo 2012-02-10T14:45:02Z Serpent′es, the second order of the third class of limbless reptiles.—ns. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z What shall we suppose concerning those others who depart to everlasting perdition, whether they are maimed or limbless, when they are dwelling in eternal torment? The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z The first order comprises the limbless worm-like reptiles of the genus Cæcilia of Africa and South America; the second includes the Newts, the Salamanders, etc., etc.; the third the Frogs and the Toads. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z There are mother monkeys that act like hipster zombies, greeting unwanted offspring with a ghoulish demand for brains; and there are infant caecilians — limbless, soil-dwelling amphibians — that grow fat by repeatedly skinning their mother alive. Basics: Animal Cannibalism May Make Good Evolutionary Sense 2011-10-31T20:53:05Z The Indian cuts down slender, limbless ones and splits them into convenient lengths, then whittles them flat, like boards, about two to four inches wide, and seasons them before they are fully finished. Indian Scout Talks A Guide for Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls 2011-09-11T02:00:11.207Z Nothing remained of him save the limbless body and the head; but still he rolled his eyes, and cried, “Give me my parrot!” Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z If any one be maimed, or limbless in this life, he will be as it is written, that "All those who belong to God's kingdom, shall have neither blemish nor hurt on their bodies." The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z There is a well-marked metamorphosis, the larv� being usually limbless maggots. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z These limbless tropical amphibians may live in soil and look like worms, but the mothers act like saints. Basics: Animal Cannibalism May Make Good Evolutionary Sense 2011-10-31T20:53:05Z The boy's limbless torso was found near Tower Bridge in 2001 Officers investigating the case of a boy's torso found floating in the River Thames are planning to visit Nigeria. Thames torso Nigeria link probed 2011-03-28T20:24:46Z It’s one explanation for why humans no longer have tails, birds and turtles are toothless and snakes have stayed limbless. Observatory: A Frog Evolved to Regain the Teeth Its Ancestors Jettisoned 2011-02-08T22:50:11Z She seemed at first like some white, limbless spirit, floating here and there across the dark bars of shadow at the calling of the melody. The Hillman The anal somite is always small and limbless. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" Tall spires of limbless bark-burned pines stretched eighty, one hundred and even a hundred and fifty feet skyward, the weather-beaten trunks white with the storm-scouring of years. Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter Viviparity occurs both among the limbless and the tailed Amphibia, the eggs hatching before they leave the oviduct or immediately after extrusion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" I counted five limbless babes in one street. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment Around these ruins were the storm-torn, limbless trunks of trees, which had once formed a magnificent grove. Ku Klux Klan Its Origin, Growth and Disbandment "And I should chase after you and beg of you to marry me, all the same,—limbless and unrecognisable as you may be!" Banked Fires Lower limbs decay in time and in the progress of forty or fifty years we get a "second growth" pine which is fairly limbless for a height of forty or fifty feet. Old Plymouth Trails Out of the second sack had fallen the limbless trunk of a dead man, cold and appalling even in this uncertain light. Robin Hood The snakes are equally limbless, save that the boas and pythons possess the rudiments of a single pair; and such also is the condition, among the amphibia, of all the known species of Cœcilia. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed When I touch what there is of the Winged Victory, it reminds me at first of a headless, limbless dream that flies towards me in an unrestful sleep. The World I Live In And a beautiful grass-snake, which, as it is limbless, is often mistaken for a tree-snake, is also of the lizard genus. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty There is no greater miracle in the world than to see one of these aquatic, water-breathing, limbless creatures transform before your eyes into a terrestrial, four-legged frog or toad, breathing air like ourselves. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year The disease rotted away his flesh till he died, limbless or faceless in fearful shipwreck, and unhouselled. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England The larvæ, also, of some moths are as complicated and are more active than the wingless and limbless females, which never leave their pupa-case, never feed and never see the daylight. The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 His left arm swung helplessly and he could not climb the limbless lower trunk of a lance tree with only one arm. Space Prison There were large and small tree-trunks battered and limbless, the ends pounded to a spongy mass of splinters. A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 When the limbless lizard called the Slow-worm is suddenly seized by the tail, it escapes by surrendering the appendage, which breaks across a preformed weak plane. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told The foreground was a slope downward to a little valley where the usual limbless tree-trunks were standing in a grove that had been thoroughly shelled. My Second Year of the War Evidently the limbless death had come round the corner too quickly, and had all but rammed the shape that grunted. The Way of the Wild I walked round amongst those boys—one hundred and eighty limbless! Your Boys Here and there a blackened tree thrust its bare trunk upward, limbless, its top gone, a ragged, spectral, pitiful remnant of what had been a beautiful tree. The Young Wireless Operator—As a Fire Patrol The Story of a Young Wireless Amateur Who Made Good as a Fire Patrol Amphisbæna, a genus of limbless lizards; a serpent fabled to have two heads and to be able to move backward or forward. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge They were not walking, they were indeed limbless, and they had the appearance of human heads, beneath which a tadpole-like body swung. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Surely the old cabin must hold some clue for them, it would at least tell them more than the limbless white corpse of a tree! The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds And the cheerfulness of the limbless men in blue is something wonderful. Mr. Punch's History of the Great War It was a limbless thing, with a horrible face, that writhed along the ground in a serpentine fashion. The Island of Doctor Moreau In this limbless, senseless state the females remain fall and winter. Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 Naked and ugly the country stretched away, away to its black horizon, ridge after ridge of rolling land stubbled with sparse, limbless trunks and carpeted with cinders. Darkness and Dawn Nothing remained of him save the limbless body and the head; but still he rolled his eyes, and cried, "Give me my parrot!" Indian Fairy Tales Look at the torso of Ilioneus, the son of Niobe, and see what an agony of terror and supplication cries out from that headless and limbless trunk! The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain There was a bit of it left at the end, but not more than would offer protection from a rifle bullet, and the one tree left standing was a limbless trunk. How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine A few gaunt, almost limbless trees rose up spectrally on the ridge, offering the compact masses neither shelter from the sun nor security from the enemy—if there were an enemy near. The Iron Game A Tale of the War And Poltneck sang to them—sang to the maimed and limbless—sang through the probings—with the sound of the cannon in the distance and more wounded coming in. Red Fleece Where there was driftwood it was in tremendous piles, wedged together in inextricable confusion; hundreds of tree-trunks, large and small, battered and cut and limbless, with the ends pounded into a spongy lot of splinters. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons These limbless reptiles, evolved by degeneration from lizardlike ancestors, appeared in nonpoisonous types scarcely to be distinguished from those of the present day. The Elements of Geology But God implanted in each human heart A natural horror, and a sickly dread Of that accursed, slimy, creeping thing That squirms a limbless carcass o'er the ground. Maurine and Other Poems One shell killed thirty one night, and their bodies lay strewn, headless and limbless, at the corner of the Grande Place. Now It Can Be Told Nothing remained of him save the limbless body and the head; but still he rolled his eyes, and cried "Give me my parrot!" The Junior Classics — Volume 1 A single dead tree, some forty feet in height and almost limbless, stood in solemn grandeur in the midst of the sawdust waste. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret |
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