Immediately her mouth opened under his and he felt the length of her body pressing against his, building heat at the fulcra of breasts, belly and the juncture of her thighs. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
For instance, Raising the Megalithic Roof, from the May 2000 History Today, describes a similar twin-fulcra system used by Oxfordshire engineer Cliff Osenton to build replica dolmens. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-07-01] Reference
The machine consists of a central hollow cylinder, C, three-quarters of the circumference of which is covered by the hollow boxes, M, heated by steam through the pipes shown, and which are mounted upon the levers, BB ', whose fulcra are at bb. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
Where the position of the animal is such as to throw the weight of the viscera into the pelvis, the brim necessarily widens, these weighty organs sink lower, and the beads of the thigh-bones acting as fulcra permit the crest of the ilium to be carried outward, while the lower part of the pelvis is at the same time contracted. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884] Reference
Fortune, especially in war, uses tiny fulcra for her powerful lever. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War] Reference
Botanifls frequently ufe the Latin word, with the Latin plural — - fulcra — in Englifh, which I cannot approve. From Wordnik.com. [The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ...] Reference
Cape of Good Hope, and has fulcra resembling leaves, that the fishes of prey may mistake it for the sea-weed, which it inhabits. From Wordnik.com. [Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference
The process is next repeated with higher fulcra, until the stone is level with the top of the clay slope, on to which it is then slipped. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
The former two are supposed to constitute the living tissue of the State; the latter are the fulcra and resistances, the bone and cover of its body. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Utopia] Reference
The Levatores costarum being inserted near the fulcra of the ribs can have little action on the ribs; they act as rotators and lateral flexors of the vertebral column. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Myology. 6c. The Muscles of the Thorax] Reference
Deyhle uses as fulcra three women she met then as high school students - "Jan Begay," "Vangie. From Wordnik.com. [Tucson Weekly] Reference
Aurea fulcra toris, epulaeque ante ora paratae. From Wordnik.com. [Spectator, June 13, 1711] Reference
Aurea fulcra toris, epulæque ante ora paratæ. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays] Reference
3.p. 74. lupiter in eo fedeiu fntra fellae fulcra equus mariiitt vid. From Wordnik.com. [Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ...] Reference
/natio teftimonium veritatis eft, Tanta enim di (51o - rum fides fuit, iit propheta incredulis hominibus non videatur fulcra dixiiTc, fednarralTeprajterita. From Wordnik.com. [Dissertations on the prophecies : which have remarkably been fulfilled, and at this time are fulfilling in the world] Reference
3d, The construction and arrangement of stock, A, mouth piece, B, inhaling and exhaling tubes, C 'C, plate, D, air tube, E', valve, E, spiral spring, b, valves, c c, rods, d d, fulcra, e e, arm, f, and rod. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume 17, No. 26 December 28, 1867 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
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