Callosity

The sound can be modified accordingly as the strokes of each bow bear upon the callosity, which is itself serrated or wrinkled, or on one of the four smooth radiating nervures. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Says is the winner of the Crown in 1978 callosity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The so-called bone callosity due to an increased rate of calcification often follows this kind of abuse. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To a youth afflicted with the callosity of sentiment, this quaint and pregnant saying appeared merely base. ❋ Unknown (2005)

There is one on the Shameen bridge who has a callosity like ❋ Isabella Lucy (2004)

Mark had the frankness of callosity, and could recount his evil deeds and confess his vices with hilarity and detail, and was prompt to take his part in a lark, and was a remarkably hard hitter, and never shrank from the brunt of the row; and with these fine qualities, and a much superior knowledge of the ways of the flash world, had commanded my boyish reverence and a general popularity among strangers. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Swift omitted no opportunity of humbling his pride; but, as he was as ignorant as insolent, he was obliged to accommodate the coarseness of the lash to the callosity of the back. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

To this callosity of nature it was due that William Castle, a foreign denizen of Bristol who had the hardihood to incur the marital tie there, was called upon, as related elsewhere, to serve at sea in the very heyday of his honeymoon. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The callosity of Smollett's midshipman, who spat in the pressed man's face when he dared to complain of his sufferings, and roughly bade him die for aught he cared, was characteristic of the service. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

When the best possible results succeed treatment, a large callosity is formed and movement of the pastern joint is restricted. ❋ John Victor Lacroix (N/A)

Washington -- the senselessness of red tape -- the callosity of politicians. ❋ Zane Grey (1905)

There was a small callosity on the pilaster adjacent to his hand, and he scratched at it intently with a long forefinger. ❋ Henry Sydnor Harrison (1905)

His feet will be hardened, he will dance over the macadam mixed streets with the callosity of a stone-crusher, and the fugacious cat will be lucky if it gets its tail through the fence in time. ❋ Tinsley, Henry C (1904)

They attributed the halting in the hind legs of a lamb to a callosity formed around the spinal cord. ❋ James Joseph Walsh (1903)

They were not the soft, smooth hands of the priestly hierarchy, but were hard with the callosity of toil, yet gentle with the gentleness of a great sympathy. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)

Constant communion with death makes for callosity of feeling; and the Calabrians and the Sicilians are the cruellest among the civilized peoples. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

Then on a folding table he displayed his collection of ointment-boxes (together with pills and a toothache-killer which he sold on his own account) and a wax model of a human foot on which were grafted putty corns in every stage of callosity. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

It possessed powerful fangs on both the upper and lower jaws, a long, black, gritty or granular tongue, short ears, powerful short fore-paws with long nails -- quite dog-like; long thighs extremely strong, short hips and hind legs, with callosity up to the knee -- evidently to allow that part of the leg to rest flat upon the ground. ❋ Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1894)

Personally I am inclined to discredit the local legend that all male children born of white parents in Ceylon come into the world with abnormal strength of the right wrist, and a slight inherited callosity of the left elbow. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

Ordinarily a corn has the appearance of a small callosity; the skin is thickened, polished and horny. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)