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The epidermoid papillæ are of a nature similar to those retroverted prominences so remarkable on the tongue of the cat; as well as in the lion, and some other animals.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin

Thus absorbed was I in thought When there came to me the echo Of a sigh half heard, for half To its owner retroverted.

From The Wonder-Working Magician by MacCarthy, Denis Florence

Another leaped, and landed with his feet on the other bank, his haunches in the water, and his rider curled round his neck, and glaring out between his retroverted ears.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

The state of happiness so exalted that it became almost holiness, in which he had been that very night, flung him to lower depths when it was retroverted.

From Pembroke A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

As he washed he saw with half a retroverted eye the round table spread with china and glass and silver.

From The Literary Sense by Nesbit, E. (Edith)