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Her hair looks quite good actually, but the dress looks like a bedazzled doily belted with one of the splint-like contraptions I had to wear when I dislocated my shoulder.

Oscars 2009 – The Curious Case of Slumdog Jackman | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time 2009

Such are the splint-like bones in the leg of the horse, which I here show you, and which correspond with bones which belong to certain toes and fingers in the human hand and foot.

Essays 2007

To produce modern horses and zebras from these nearer ancestors, few additional changes in the structure of the feet are necessary, for the lateral toes need only to become a little more reduced and the middle one to enlarge slightly to give the one-toed limb of modern types, with its splint-like vestiges still in evidence to show that the ancestor's foot comprised more of these terminal elements.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

The veteran saluted as punctiliously, and as he did so a semi-circular desk rose around him from the floor -- a desk whose most striking feature was an intricate mechanism surrounding a splint-like form.

Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

An older Miocene form, called _Mesohippus_, has three toes in front, with a large splint-like rudiment representing the little finger; and three toes behind.

Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splint-like bones, about two-thirds as long as the cannon bone, which gradually taper to their lower ends and bear no finger joints, or, as they are termed, phalanges.

Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work 1904

We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splint-like bones, about two-thirds as long as the cannon bone, which gradually taper to their lower ends and bear no finger joints, or, as they are termed, phalanges.

Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

An older Miocene form, called Mesohippus, has three toes in front, with a large splint-like rudiment representing the little finger; and three toes behind.

Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work Mitchell, P Chalmers 1900

We find in the places of the second and fourth digits only two slender splint-like bones, about two-thirds as long as the cannon-bone, which gradually taper to their lower ends and bear no finger joints, or, as they are termed, phalanges.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

An older Miocene form, termed _Mesohippus_, has three toes in front, with a large splint-like rudiment representing the little finger; and three toes behind.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860