"Elongate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... bud which becomes an independent plant before it commences to elongate; it is generally fleshy, somewhat after the manner of a bulb, hence its name. Examples occur in the axillary buds of Lilium ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various
... left one. The invalid, facing the apparatus, grasps the movable handle on the crank with his left hand, and revolves the winch with his right. The left hand being thus carried along, the arm is submitted to a motion that obliges it to elongate and contract alternately, and the result is an extension of the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 • Various
... hour later a shadow moved across the blind upstairs: an arm appeared to elongate itself; then, up went the blind, the window followed it, and a bearded face looked out into the moonlight. Behind was the table littered with papers, for Mr. Cathcart, laborious even in the midst of anxiety, had brought down with ...
— The Necromancers • Robert Hugh Benson |
