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They cut out the thigh bones all in due course, wrapped them round in two layers of fat, and set some pieces of raw meat on the top of them; then Nestor laid them upon the wood fire and poured wine over them, while the young men stood near him with five-pronged spits in their hands.
"Now," thought the Sheriff, "could I but persuade Robin nigh to Nottingham Town so that I could find him, I warrant I would lay hands upon him so stoutly that he would never get away again." Then of a sudden it came to him like a flash that were he to proclaim a great shooting match and offer some grand prize, Robin Hood might be overpersuaded by his spirit to come to the butts; and it was this thought which caused him to cry "Aha!" and smite his palm upon his thigh.
"Then," quoth the Sheriff, smiting his thigh angrily, "yon knave is a coward as well as a rogue, and dares not show his face among good men and true."
Though alone against all and with a wound in his thigh, Bicarat wished to hold out; but Jussac, who had risen upon his elbow, cried out to him to yield.
"Sir," replied the wounded man, "believe me, there is no time to lose; the ball has broken the thigh bone and entered the intestines."
It never entered his head to analyze the details of the sick man's situation, to consider how that body was lying under the quilt, how those emaciated legs and thighs and spine were lying huddled up, and whether they could not be made more comfortable, whether anything could not be done to make things, if not better, at least less bad.
eh?" Francois cried, slapping his thighs gleefully.
In some places, across the chest and shoulders and down the outside of the arms and thighs, it was matted into almost a thick fur.
If a person is having an anaphylactic reaction and can't be heard, FIST to THIGH is the universal sign to show they need epinephrine.
SaltSense: Omitting the added salt reduces sodium per thigh to 378 milligrams.
For knee replacements, the ends of the thigh and shin bone are cut away and replaced with metal.
Summary: Coutinho, who has a left thigh injury, and Marcelo, who injured his right thigh, would have started the games
Various techniques that have been described for the reconstruction of these defects are split-thickness skin grafts,[3] muscle flaps (e.g., Gracilis flap),[4] fasciocutaneous flaps (e.g., pudendal flap),[5] perineal flap,[6] anterolateral thigh flap,[7] deep inferior epigastric perforator flap,[8] and anteromedial thigh flap.[9]
A post on Whitby Coastguard's Facebook page said: "The casualty was trapped in a mud hole up to her thigh.