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Definition of Thoraxes

1. thorax [n] - See also: thorax

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thoraxes

Literary usage of Thoraxes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"We hope nobody regrets it. It spoils the works of human trunk-makers, by severing heads from bodies. It opens thoraxes with una- ..."

2. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1835)
"We hope nobody regrets it. It spoils the works of human trunk-makers, by severing heads from bodies. It opens thoraxes with una- ..."

3. The American Occupation of the Philippines, 1898-1912 by James Henderson Blount (1912)
"... in the wake of the most inspiring single personality of this age—Senator Lodge's friend, Colonel Roosevelt—some of our American thoraxes inflated with ..."

4. The American Occupation of the Philippines, 1898-1912 by James Henderson Blount (1913)
"... in the wake of the most inspiring single personality of this age—Senator Lodge's friend, Colonel Roosevelt—some of our American thoraxes inflated with ..."

5. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"... to three-quarters inch long, decidedly flattened, dark brown, often with darker markings, with short heads, and shield-shaped thoraxes, as shown in Fig. ..."

6. Insect Pests of Farm, Garden and Orchard by Ezra Dwight Sanderson (1921)
"... with short heads, and shield-shaped thoraxes, as shown in Fig. 58. Although the common wireworms look much alike, ..."

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