Its muscular body has only a long piece of tough, bending tissue called gristle, which acts as a spine. From Wordnik.com. [Your Challenge for the Day] Reference
A gristle is a substance softer than bone, and harder than the rest, flexible, and serves to maintain the parts of motion. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Remove the fat, gristle and bones, then chop fine. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Sharpe took another piece of gristle from the keg. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
Pile in Greek knots, -- to gaze on brawn and gristle!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891] Reference
Knobs of bone and gristle showing through in my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Cartilaginous: of the consistency of cartilage or gristle. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Why, my dear fellow, you might as well eat so much gristle. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
Mix well in grinding, and remove all strings, gristle, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
A deep red blossom stained the gristle that had been his ear. From Wordnik.com. [In Paris, A Mystery Writer Whose Name Is 'Noir'] Reference
Wash it, and remove the inner and outer skin with the gristle. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Cartilage, or gristle, is a tough but highly elastic substance. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
His bones are like pipes of brass, his gristle like plates of iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Again and again he stuck the blade into the gristle like substance. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Ocean to the South Pole Or, the Strange Cruise of the Submarine Wonder] Reference
Play it loud and marvel at how it slices through gristle to your gut. From Wordnik.com. [Can't Stand Losing You, 7''] Reference
There was stew of gristle and grease, loaves, wine, and goat's cheese. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Honour]
If boiling for souse cook till the meat and gristle fall from the bones. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
The meat must be seasoned with pepper and salt and be free from gristle. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
The most permeable of the normal tissues are cartilage or gristle, and fat. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
As I struggled I felt steel scrape against vertebrae, cartilage and gristle. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Marry a girl while she's in the gristle, and you can shape her bones for her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
All her bones were like gristle; she could run on her hands as easily as her feet. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
The gristle on the bone of the new military organization had to have time to harden. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
But I stands on ther gristle-an'-hide propersition ontil I'm ready ter fight fer it. '. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
The campaign has sorted them out, and every battalion is so much solid gristle and sinew. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
Everyone around me, had a reality, a gristle and bone realness, that I never felt a part of. From Wordnik.com. [wendchymes Diary Entry] Reference
The indigestible tissues, such as skin, sinews and gristle, should be removed from the meat. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
You must be on the side of the angels if that piece of half-digested gristle doesn't like you. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Devil]
All you can see of them, however, are two shapeless masses of gristle surrounding a small hole. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The canteen committee buys 100 grammes of meat (gristle, bone, etc., included) per man per day. From Wordnik.com. [The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship] Reference
Remove from the boiling water, plunge into cold water, and remove gristle, bone and excessive fat. From Wordnik.com. [Every Step in Canning] Reference
He was a heavy-planet man, a squashed-down column of muscle and gristle, whose head barely reached Brion's chest. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Lanier said of Walt Whitman's poetry, they are raw collops slashed from the rump of Nature, and never mind the gristle. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
Boil 2 or 3 strings of chicken giblets (about 1 pound) until quite tender, drain, trim from bones and gristle and set aside. From Wordnik.com. [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference
"We must take to Eas-a-chosain for it," said Splendid, his eyes flashing wild upon the scene, the gristle of his red neck throbbing. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
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