...He also looked on, a malignant smile contracting slightly the lines of his mouth as he was mentally ejaculating by way of consolation, “Captain, Captain! ... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...The fish are taken inwicker baskets or with small cotton nets, and are preserved bybeing first dried in the sun and afterwards rubbed with sheabutter, to prevent them from contracting fresh moisture...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...In contracting, this muscle brings thechest nearer the pelvis, and as a result flexes the vertebralcolumn...
Édouard Cuyer 「Artistic Anatomy of Animals」
...See Food-vacuolesand Contracting vacuoles...
Worrallo Whitney 「A Guide for the Study of Animals」
...The closeassociation and repeated contact of man with these animals has resultedin his contracting such of their diseases as are transmissibleto him...
E. Raymond Hall 「A Synopsis of the North American Lagomorpha」
...For this theoperator must be prepared, and immediately withdraw the catheter; lest thebladder, energetically contracting upon it, should cause the point topierce the sides of the viscus...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...The diameter of the interior of thecell is about one-quarter of an inch, contracting a little at the mouth...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...To be sure, they had never been very well together, but stillthe line lengthened instead of contracting...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...And therehe swayed for a full hour, till it grew too dark to see him, stretching,contracting, stretching, contracting, as if he were an accordion and thewind were playing him...
William J. Long 「Wood Folk at School」
...Thewhole scene was a dizzying blurred sway of contracting movement...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...I ran forward through a shiftingscene of shrinking rock walls and crawling, contracting ground...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...Again it seemed to Alan that our lurching, heedlessly surging bodiesmust be crushed within these contracting walls...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...Suppose that countless ages ago a mighty nebula was slowlyrotating and slowly contracting...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
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