Word: thighed
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Muttering hoarsely, the gun-woman scurried around the bench and let four more shots fly at the terrified old jurist. A bullet in the right hip knocked him down a second time. A bullet in the left thigh knocked him down a third time. A bullet grazed his knee just before bailiffs over-powered his would-be murderess...
...Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.) saw a bony protuberance exposed by a landslide on the shale cliffs of Los Angeles Harbor last spring. They picked and pried it loose, a bone five feet long, weighing 55 pounds, encrusted with marine fossils. What was it? wondered gaping natives. The femur (thigh bone), said Pomona professors, of a giant elephant that roamed California 20,000 years ago when the rim of the Pacific lay much higher inland...
...Ignacio, Calif., no honest dog stood by to shield Irene Malla, 18, when she went into the fields to milk her cows. Proceeding, she disturbed the ruminations of a bull, could not elude him. The beast caught her on his horns, gashed her thigh, threw her over a fence...
...asked for a man bold enough to take the requisite drugs and, later, to have an artery of his thigh bled. The intrepid man upon whom the experiment was performed was J. B. S. Haldane...
...sheen of the velvet folds and the pattern of the brocaded sleeves are entirely subservient. Observe also the splendid prehensibility of the hands, one resting elegantly on the smooth bronze of the cannon, the other, its strength in repose for the moment, holding the sword-scabbard lightly at his thigh. Only Titian could have painted the deep crimson velvet of the doublet, the soft fur of the collar, the liquid blue of the sapphire, the glint of the pendant pearl on his chest. Surely our picture is one of the great achievements...