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    distended


    1. The officer's puffy and protruding beady eyes, his distended nostrils and near flopping ears were all very much focused at that instant on the obviously demented wench in front of him


    2. Raven wondered whether her stomach was distended through starvation or if Salverford had begun admitting pregnant women


    3. Even when distended with blood it escapes by a rapid flight sideways


    4. Em moved Kay’s hand to her distended abdomen, and indeed, Kay could feel a solid kick come through the skin


    5. Ribs stuck out above distended abdomens and made both males and females appear pregnant


    6. Moments later, his face was distended with a smile and whispered:


    7. His female, about the same size and colour as Jarek, with her youngest joey’s legs sticking out of her distended pouch, was sitting on her haunches beside him


    8. Passing through the solid, seamless wall made the children instantly nauseous; the colors warped, waned, and distended even as the coral itself seemed to stand still


    9. Her tiny half-circle of chin dissolved in concentric rings of fat into her neck, and massive breasts capped by distended nipples hung diagonally to each side of the gigantic belly whose navel was as large as a saucer


    10. Her stomach was quite distended

    11. He screamed again and his eyes became distended, his features purple


    12. Baal-pteor's eyes were distended; in them grew an awful surprize and the glimmer of fear


    13. He wheeled back to see Topal standing in an attitude of horror, one arm out as if to fend off some threatening peril, his distended eyes fixed with hypnotic intensity on something protruding from behind a divan


    14. With distended eyes the man looked down; and to his utter horror he saw the buckle of his girdle rear up at him


    15. His hands flew to his neck, his eyes were distended, his tongue protruded


    16. other girls who tormented me with their big smiles and distended


    17. distended stomachs will get back what they gave to me


    18. have a distended stomach


    19. children many of them with toothpick legs and distended stomachs


    20. David smiled at her as she stroked his distended salami

    21. One thing that Paul teaches that will be of major interest to people who want better abs and a flatter stomach is that food intolerances can be a contributing cause to a distended lower abdominal area


    22. Most people realize that bloating and a distended stomach can result from gastrointestinal disturbances, but Paul points out that it can actually go further than that


    23. As swift as a cat pouncing upon a mouse, Emory swung his fist into the older man’s distended gut


    24. Her stomach—once smooth—is distended, pregnant with her child of decay


    25. The man who called him in was distended on a sofa filled with


    26. distended toward them, offering his saving hands


    27. distended in the air and started grating its nail


    28. A macho-pig culture of strutting aristocrats gone to fat; with their huge distended, fat protruding bellies sticking out in front of them and their sausage and beer culture of self-gratification for the lower masses turning their distended bellies into fat


    29. When he did he began to convulse with laughter, squirting coke from his distended nostrils


    30. Prolapsed internal hemorrhoid are enlarged hemorrhoids that get so distended that they push through the anal opening

    31. In the twilight of the workshop the white dust was flying from his tools like a shower of sparks under the hoofs of a galloping horse; the two wheels were turning, droning; Binet smiled, his chin lowered, his nostrils distended, and, in a word, seemed lost in one of those complete happinesses that, no doubt, belong only to commonplace occupations, which amuse the mind with facile difficulties, and satisfy by a realisation of that beyond which such minds have not a dream


    32. Beneath their pierced, distended earlobes there dangled strings of beads made from bone


    33. Then, as specimens of other genera, blowfish resembling a dark brown egg, furrowed with white bands, and lacking tails; globefish, genuine porcupines of the sea, armed with stings and able to inflate themselves until they look like a pin cushion bristling with needles; seahorses common to every ocean; flying dragonfish with long snouts and highly distended pectoral fins shaped like wings, which enable them, if not to fly, at least to spring into the air; spatula–shaped paddlefish whose tails are covered with many scaly rings; snipefish with long jaws, excellent animals twenty–five centimeters long and gleaming with the most cheerful colors; bluish gray dragonets with wrinkled heads; myriads of leaping blennies with black stripes and long pectoral fins, gliding over the surface of the water with prodigious speed; delicious sailfish that can hoist their fins in a favorable current like so many unfurled sails; splendid nurseryfish on which nature has lavished yellow, azure, silver, and gold; yellow mackerel with wings made of filaments; bullheads forever spattered with mud, which make distinct hissing sounds; sea robins whose livers are thought to be poisonous; ladyfish that can flutter their eyelids; finally, archerfish with long, tubular snouts, real oceangoing flycatchers, armed with a rifle unforeseen by either Remington or Chassepot: it slays insects by shooting them with a simple drop of water


    34. The long garment beforementioned was unbuttoned and through the opening there protruded a vast expanse of waistcoat and trousers, distended almost to bursting by the huge globe of flesh they contained


    35. The ring of onlookers distended and closed again elastically


    36. And by that way wend the herds innumerable of bellwethers and flushed ewes and shearling rams and lambs and stubble geese and medium steers and roaring mares and polled calves and longwoods and storesheep and Cuffe's prime springers and culls and sowpigs and baconhogs and the various different varieties of highly distinguished swine and Angus heifers and polly bulllocks of immaculate pedigree together with prime premiated milchcows and beeves: and there is ever heard a trampling, cackling, roaring, lowing, bleating, bellowing, rumbling, grunting, champing, chewing, of sheep and pigs and heavyhooved kine from pasturelands of Lusk and Rush and Carrickmines and from the streamy vales of Thomond, from the M'Gillicuddy's reeks the inaccessible and lordly Shannon the unfathomable, and from the gentle declivities of the place of the race of Kiar, their udders distended with superabundance of milk and butts of butter and rennets of cheese and farmer's firkins and targets of lamb and crannocks of corn and oblong eggs in great hundreds, various in size, the agate with this dun


    37. But as before the lightning the serried stormclouds, heavy with preponderant excess of moisture, in swollen masses turgidly distended, compass earth and sky in one vast slumber, impending above parched field and drowsy oxen and blighted growth of shrub and verdure till in an instant a flash rives their centres and with the reverberation of the thunder the cloudburst pours its torrent, so and not otherwise was the transformation, violent and instantaneous, upon the utterance of the word


    38. VIRAG: (His mouth projected in hard wrinkles, eyes stonily forlornly closed, psalms in outlandish monotone) That the cows with their those distended udders that they have been the the known


    39. The quiet breathing of Wade, Ella and Beau came against the fireplace, his cheek distended with tobacco, whittling industriously on a bit of through the open door of the nursery


    40. His head was distended, swollen from the pressure of hanging

    41. It was Yannic’s green strider, riderless, its golden ruff distended, running as fast as its long legs could pump


    42. He was in trouble, his abdomen distended and his nose and ears hot


    43. “He had a distended bladder


    44. It has a sort of howdah on its back, and its distended tusked mouth into which the billows are rolling, might be taken for the Traitors' Gate leading from the Thames by water into the Tower


    45. How is this? Between his ribs and on each side of his spine he is supplied with a remarkable involved Cretan labyrinth of vermicelli-like vessels, which vessels, when he quits the surface, are completely distended with oxygenated blood


    46. Lashed round and round to the fish's back; pinioned in the turns upon turns in which, during the past night, the whale had reeled the involutions of the lines around him, the half torn body of the Parsee was seen; his sable raiment frayed to shreds; his distended eyes turned full upon old Ahab


    47. Yes, notwithstanding the prison garb, the bloated body and the high breast; notwithstanding the distended lower part of the face, the wrinkles on the forehead and the temples, and the swelling under the eyes, it was undoubtedly that same Katiousha who on Easter Sunday looked up to him, her beloved, with her enamored, smiling, happy, lively eyes


    48. “Good-by, Pomona,” said he, gazing up into her sorrowful eyes, distended in the evening dimness


    49. The belly is very flat and broad, about 1¼ inch in diameter; and the skin may be distended on the sides, when, the animal is not fed


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