Plural noun : the vitals of a democracy. From Dictionary.com.
As someone else said, a clean shot to the vitals is the most merciful death a hunted animal will face. From Wordnik.com. [David E.] Reference
But lit she fire in vitals mine still flaring fierce and high. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
But I understand where you coming from, ground up vitals is death sooner or later. From Wordnik.com. [How Many Groups is Enough?] Reference
I don't know if you can guarantee that every deer shot in the vitals is going to go down. From Wordnik.com. [Smallest caliber to hunt whitetail ethically?] Reference
Know that those parts are called the vitals of the body. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference
We all had weigh-ins, "vitals" checks, bathroom observation, and mandatory meals and snacks together. From Wordnik.com. [Starvation of the Spirit] Reference
I phoned her and asked her to have a look at the PNC, just to see what kind of vitals I could get on the kid herself. From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
In the hospital I had my "vitals" blood pressure, temperature, pulse, etc. taken twice a day, at the beginning of each 12-hour shift. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
Live coals in vitals burn. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
And ulcerous flow in vitals never dries. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Whose keen reflection fire in vitals bred. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
O wounds in vitals mine! for cure they lack. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Which in vitals mine I would keep ensealed. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Why my tears in vitals should kindle flame. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
So pardon me, my vitals are a writ. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
They are called the vitals for a reason. From Wordnik.com. [Neck or behind the shoulder?] Reference
While he strikes at our vitals and plunders the land!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Harding's knife entered his vitals ere he could repeat it. From Wordnik.com. [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference
In case when they check his vitals there aren't any there. From Wordnik.com. [ID] Reference
He stood watching, as a maintenance engineer tore into the vitals of a. From Wordnik.com. [Alarm Clock] Reference
The wolf may gnaw at the vitals, but a hostess must wear a smiling face. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
Should she pour forth her mystic spells until they consumed her very vitals?. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Then came the dull explosion of the bomb-lance somewhere in the vitals of the whale. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
For post-Katrina status of hotels, and other vitals, check out neworleansonline. com. From Wordnik.com. [Travel: New Orleans Needs You] Reference
This disease compared with small-pox is as an ulcer upon a finger to an ulcer in the vitals. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Imitate the young Spartan, who smiled although the fox, hidden under his cloak, was gnawing his vitals. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The longing for food gripped at his vitals like an eagle's claw and drove reasoned action from his head. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Chalmers makes a mild proposal for the imprisonment of the Armament Ring which is gnawing at the country's vitals. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
It had hitherto lived on the natural resources of public expenditure; it now began to prey upon the vitals of the kingdom. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
And I will set my forge still deeper in thy vitals, and will swing my hammer still harder on thy heart and lungs and liver. From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
'Pardon me, kind stranger,' he cried, 'I did intend you harm, for my brain is burning, and my vitals consumed by starvation. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
I replied, 'Golly, you're right, governor, this' ere bag is that 'eavy it drags me vitals out; wot's it got inside of it -- bricks?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
In our whole system, national and State, we have shunned all the defects which unceasingly preyed on the vitals and destroyed the ancient. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
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