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I. The most important are contractibility and sensibility.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

But simple as it was it had all the fundamental properties of living things—irritability, contractibility, assimilation, and reproduction.

From The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity by Conn, H. W. (Herbert William)

And "Upon this hint" the brain acts in its consequent reflections, and in the nervous impulses which induce muscular contractibility.

From Mind Amongst the Spindles by Various

This, however, has no influence on their chemical composition, a distinctive element of which is muscular fibrin, which has the particular property of contractibility.

From Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration by Dechmann, Louis

Rough and repulsive in appearance, and sluggish in habit, it has great power of contractibility.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)