Example Sentences

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Not only did my own blood course through the protoplastic but I could feel it doing so.

From Man Made by Teichner, Albert

My ribs weren't, though, and a protoplastic casing, exactly like the thoracic cavity, was substituted.

From Man Made by Teichner, Albert

He was conscious of a constitutional change sweeping like a tempest over his protoplastic tissue.

From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert

“I cannot cut my kin at will,  Or jilt the protoplastic germ; I am sister to the microbe still,  And second-cousin to the worm!”

From The Battle of the Bays by Seaman, Owen, Sir

"For your sake," said Mrs. Gallilee, gently correcting the language of her excitable son, from her own protoplastic point of view.

From Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time by Collins, Wilkie