Arpin across the face, and the latter drew a poignard from his pocket and stabbed Major Gally in the
abdomen.
Tarzan brought the sharp point to the lower part of the German's
abdomen.
The chest seemed unnaturally prominent, but the
abdomen had sunk in, leaving a sharp projection at the line of the lower ribs.
Encouragement and advice were freely tendered, and Jock Horner, the quiet, self-spoken hunter who looked as though he would not harm a mouse, advised me to leave the ribs alone and to thrust upward for the
abdomen, at the same time giving what he called the "Spanish twist" to the blade.
The ridged muscles of chest and shoulders and
abdomen had broken down into rolls of flesh.
Like a cat, White Fang bowed his hind- quarters in, and, with the feet digging into his enemy's
abdomen above him, he began to claw with long tearing-strokes.
The woman in front doubled up and went down, her hands on her
abdomen in a frenzied clutch.
Doubled partly over, with arms wrapped about face and
abdomen, he cleverly stumbled into a clinch.
On another occasion (25th) under similar circumstances, I repeatedly observed the same kind of small spider, either when placed or having crawled on some little eminence, elevate its
abdomen, send forth a thread, and then sail away horizontally, but with a rapidity which was quite unaccountable.
Inaba et al., "A prospective look at the current state of open
abdomens," The American Surgeon, vol.
One look at these ants' colorful
abdomens, and it's easy to see what they have eaten.
The
abdomens of infected gliding ants bulge with hundreds of microscopic nematode eggs, while the color turns from black to maroon.
The Hawaiian representatives of this lineage are characterized by variably elongate
abdomens and are mostly free-living, at least as adults, although a number have been found to occur, at least facultatively, as kleptoparasites on the webs of other spiders.
It's believed that the reason is prone sleeping, particularly in babies who are not used to sleeping on their
abdomens, said Dr.
Such genes essentially tell other genes to get to work on making heads,
abdomens, and tails.