There were some men's eyes that
dilated in the darkness and shone like stars or like cats' eyes.
He seemed to see the fat Kentish fields with their stately elms; and his nostrils
dilated with the scent of the air; it is laden with the salt of the North Sea, and that makes it keen and sharp.
Michael sat on his haunches, the length of his lower jaw resting on Daughtry's knee, the while his eyes
dilated, contracted and glowed, his ears ever pricking and repricking to listen, his stump tail thumping ecstatically on the floor.
Vronsky patted her strong neck, straightened over her sharp withers a stray lock of her mane that had fallen on the other side, and moved his face near her
dilated nostrils, transparent as a bat's wing.
But as soon as two drops of blood have thus passed, one into each of the cavities, these drops which cannot but be very large, because the orifices through which they pass are wide, and the vessels from which they come full of blood, are immediately rarefied, and
dilated by the heat they meet with.
She, however, having groped in dark cupboards, must have had her pupils sufficiently dilated to have seen that I had my hat on my head.
But when I ventured at last to look at her face I saw her flushed, her teeth clenched - it was visible - her nostrils dilated, and in her narrow, level-glancing eyes a look of inward and frightened ecstasy.
But, doubtless, this noble savage fed strong and drank deep of the abounding element of air; and through his
dilated nostrils snuffed in the sublime life of the worlds.
But while memory lane plays a big part in
Dilated Peoples' latest work, they haven't lost their world view which appeals to any listener.
(1) In a case-control study of 325 nulliparous women who delivered in a Colorado hospital in 1998-2001, five factors that were known within two hours of admission were independently associated with the risk of cesarean: A woman's likelihood of having a cesarean increased with her weight (odds ratio, 1.02) and with gestational age (1.1), and was sharply elevated if she had preeclampsia (5.8); the more the cervix
dilated and the more progress the fetus made along the birth canal in two hours, the lower the likelihood of this outcome (0.5 and 0.6, respectively).
On closer inspection, however, she found that vessels that had initially been
dilated became constricted, and those that had been constricted were
dilated.