 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...back-bone and the hones of his legs and thighs. If there were room for them, he could bear three or four, or, in their stead, a great stone, to be broken with one blow. A number of feats of real and extraordinary strength were exhibited about a century ago, in London,... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...back-bone and the bones of his legs and thighs. If there were room for them, he could bear three or four, or, in their stead, a great stone, to be broken with one blow. A number of feats of real and extraordinary strength were exhibited about a century ago, in London,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Natural history - 1856 - 724 pages
...back-bone and the bones cf his le^ and thighs. If there were room for them, he wnu.J bear three or four, or, in their stead, a great stone, to be broken with one blow. A number of feats of ml and extraordinary strength were exhibited about a crntury ago, in London, by... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1857 - 712 pages
...back-bone and the booes of his legs and thighs. If there were room for them, he would bear three or four, or, in their stead, a great stone, to be broken with one blow. A number of feats of retí and extraordinary strength were exhibited about a century ago, in London,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1862 - 702 pages
...back-hone and the bones of his legs and thighs. If there were room for them, he would bear three or four, or, in their stead, a great stone, to be broken with one blow. A number of feats of real and extraordinary strength were exhibited about a century ago, in London,... | |
 | Medicine - 1882 - 610 pages
...backbone and the bones of legs and thighs. If there were room for them, he could support three or four, or in their stead a great stone, to be broken with one blow." As a physicist Sir David can hardly be expected to take account of the condition of Eckeberg's viscera... | |
 | Harry Houdini - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2007 - 125 pages
...which it does when the blow is strong, and struck upon the centre of gravity of the stone. In the 6th Fig. of Plate 19, the man IHL (the chairs IL, being...CM, by the knees of the strong man IHL lying upon bis back. A trial will suffice to show that this is not a difficult feat for a man of ordinary strength.... | |
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... and if the blow is not very quick, the water will be spilt without breaking the glasses. When the performer supports a man upon his belly, he does it by means of the strong arch formed by his back-bone and the bones of his legs and thighs. If there... 