Distended

Needle-like tools used to drain distended bladders are unnerving. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The best course would seem to be -- and such is in accordance with the experience of the most successful stock-raisers -- to milk the cow dry immediately after the calf has sucked once, especially if the udder is painfully distended, which is often the case, and to leave the calf with the cow during one day, and after that to feed it by putting the fingers into its mouth, and gently bringing its muzzle down to the milk in a pail or trough when it will imbibe in sucking the fingers. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)

-- [R.L. S.] {174a} This is an incurable illusion of my grandfather's; he always writes 'distended' for 'extended.' ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

And then, nostrils distended, eyes dilated, hair bristling in helpless rage, arose the long wolf howl. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His head flashed up, huge jaws distended, fangs gleaming, to sink into the slender, silken-hosed ankle above the tan low-cut shoes. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Daylight sat tense in his saddle and watched until they disappeared, his breath just a trifle shorter, as if he, too, were in the chase, his nostrils distended, and in his bones the old hunting ache and memories of the days before he came to live in cities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Their ears were pierced and distended to accommodate wooden plugs and sticks, pipes, and all manner of barbaric ornaments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just because I think the authority of the Federal bureaucracy is distended well beyond its constitutional limits and that the states should assert their authority over the Federal apparatus does not mean that I intend to prosper at your expense. ❋ Unknown (2009)

His black eyes glittered, and his nostrils were distended and eager. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was this attitude which had made it possible for Doctor Bicknell to save him So terrific had been the sweep of the razor that had he had his head thrown back, as he should have done to have accomplished the act properly, with his neck stretched and the elastic vascular walls distended, he would have of a certainty well nigh decapitated himself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

According to the researcher's observations, the small pouch that had been the stomach was now distended into a " ... massive, food-filled sac ... " that filled most of the abdominal cavity think pregnant women. ❋ PhD Judith J. Wurtman (2011)

Dolly, upreared, with distended nostrils and wild eyes, was pawing the air madly with her fore legs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Pulsing with aggressive jerks, it distended before her eyes. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

Jeanette was suffering from kwashiorkor, a micronutrient deficiency that causes swelling in the hands and feet, tooth loss, distinctive rust-colored hair and a painfully distended belly. ❋ World Vision (2010)

But over all and through all poured the flame of her -- the unanalyzable something that was fire and that was the soul of her, that lay mellow-warm or blazed in her eyes, that sprayed the cheeks of her, that distended the nostrils, that curled the lip, or, when the lip was in repose, that was still there in the lip, the lip palpitant with its presence. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She said several look malnourished, with distended bellies symptomatic of parasites. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Head turned to the side and up, eyes closed, nostrils distended and quivering, he rose suddenly to his feet and sniffed the air. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tunes that crowd her sophomore album, "Wounded Rhymes," sound dense, distended and dipped in oceans of reverb deep enough to drown even her tremendous charisma. ❋ Unknown (2011)