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These vertebras are piled up one upon the other; for God has made our bodies upright; our faces, are lifted upwards, and our eyes look straight before us.

From Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Pridham, Caroline

Its peculiar characteristic is its extraordinary fragility— arising from the muscles being articulated quite through the vertebras.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by Kingston, William Henry Giles

They consist of one of the bones of the cranium, fifteen or twenty vertebras, two entire ribs, and part of a third, one thigh bone, two bones of the leg, &c.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829 by Various

A little aft of “midships” a pyramidal lump of fatty substance projected several feet above the line of the vertebras.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne

These are the Rocky Mountains, the American Andes, the colossal vertebras of the continent!

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.