Pet him until poor lachrymal glands ran dry tears. From Wordnik.com. [I stop fighting to sleep in her bed] Reference
Trace them from the lachrymal glands to the nostrils. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
Very near these bones are the two small lachrymal bones. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Or a lachrymal gland, weeping every summer for those lost to Fatman?. From Wordnik.com. [Nagasaki Curtain | Engrish.com] Reference
And, following this, the little girl lifted her voice in lachrymal lament. From Wordnik.com. [Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day] Reference
The lachrymal glands were placed in us for sorrow to play upon; we are commanded to. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
The lachrymal, or tear, glands are situated at the upper and outer margins of the orbits. From Wordnik.com. [Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools] Reference
B, lachrymal ducts (usually seven), which form a row of openings into the conjunctival fold. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
We hadn't guessed that the eyes would feel like sand paper when the lachrymal glands dried up. From Wordnik.com. [Smokescreen]
A, lachrymal gland, the size of a small almond lodged in a shallow depression in the bones of the orbit. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
In old age and in disease, these canals fail to conduct the tears away, and hence the lachrymal lake overflows upon the face. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
He says it's a relief not to have to substitute drops of glycerine or hold a raw onion under his leading woman's nose to bring about the required lachrymal effect. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Street A Story of Los Angeles] Reference
Need we turn on the stream of our lachrymal glands?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 05: Poems of the Class of '29(1851-1889)] Reference
"Now just let go my hand, will you?" cried a lachrymal voice. From Wordnik.com. [Japhet in Search of a Father] Reference
A lachrymal gland lies in the postero-inferior angle of the orbit, and a. From Wordnik.com. [Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata] Reference
But the lachrymal glands of this amateur are not developed in that direction. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Little] Reference
Watering eye, or obstruction of lachrymal apparatus, description and remedy, 285. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Does the orbicularis press against, and so directly stimulate, the lachrymal gland?. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
Mrs. Smith's tears are quite the poorest product of the lachrymal glands I have ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series] Reference
In some cases the lachrymal bone is involved in the ulcerative process and becomes carious. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
My lachrymal glands produce more reflex onion tears and I brush and Levi's back in the mudroom, scrubbing. From Wordnik.com. [Holy Experience] Reference
In a time astonishingly brief to one hitherto unfamiliar with the lachrymal function, her sobs had ceased. From Wordnik.com. [At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern] Reference
The last-named are often mistaken for spring onions by those who come too near with their lachrymal nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914] Reference
It is a matter of taste, or, as Science might say, of the lachrymal glands as developed in each individual. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Little] Reference
For the learned G.A.B. says: "A glandular streak extending from the nostril toward the eye is the lachrymal canal.". From Wordnik.com. [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference
About a month after this, I heard a sailor with one leg, and a handful of ballads, singing in a most lachrymal tone. From Wordnik.com. [Japhet in Search of a Father] Reference
The 'lachrymal duct' is the channel through which the superfluous tears are conveyed to the lower parts of the nostril. From Wordnik.com. [The Dog] Reference
Mr. Green thought that his cousin's lachrymal symposium on the uncertainty of all things human should be very comforting to. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Chance] Reference
The nasal ducts may be injured, obstructing the flow of the tears, and a lachrymal abscess and fistula may eventually form. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference
The opera ended with shrieks of laughter instead of the lachrymal flood which the music and the dramatic situation called for. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
The tears rushed to my eyes, but I stopped them in their lachrymal sluices, and called it folly, for to weep I cannot, I will not. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
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