"Umbilical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... oscillation, center of buoyancy &c; metacenter^. V. be central &c adj.; converge &c 290. render central, centralize, concentrate; bring to a focus. Adj. central, centrical^; middle &c 68; azygous, axial, focal, umbilical, concentric; middlemost; rachidian^; spinal, vertebral. Adv. middle; midst; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... on his knees by midnight and by the morning star; he wets them with his tears: they are sacred; too good for the world, and hardly yet to be shown to the dearest friend. This is the man-child that is born to the soul, and her life still circulates in the babe. The umbilical cord has not yet been cut. After some time has elapsed, he begins to wish to admit his friend to this hallowed experience, and with hesitation, yet with firmness, exposes the pages to his eye. Will they not ...
— Essays • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... practice with the Mafulu for mothers to wear the umbilical cords of any of their children, though apparently the Kuni people ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson
... 1770, Gleichen,** adopt the hypothesis of Morland, somewhat modified, however, as they consider the particles in the grains of Pollen, not the grains themselves, to be the embryos, and that they enter the ovula by the umbilical cord. ...
— Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2] • Phillip Parker King
... writer his theme. People who have not lived, no matter how grammatically they may write, have no real message. Robert Louis had now severed the umbilical cord. He was going to live his own life, to earn his own living. He could do but one thing, and that was to write. He may have been a procrastinator in everything else, but as a writer he was a skilled mechanic. And so ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 13 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers • Elbert Hubbard
... Am I not at work from morn till night Sounding the deeps of oracles umbilical Which for man's guidance never come to light, With all their various aptitudes, until I call?' 'And I, do I not twirl from left to right For conscience' sake? Is that no work? Thou silly gull, He had thee in his eye; 'twas Gabriel Sent ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell |
