He makes me say that the dorsal vertebrae vary; this is simply false: I nowhere say a word about dorsal vertebrae--page 522.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
*The 'Edinburgh' Reviewer quotes my work as saying that the "dorsal vertebrae of pigeons vary in number, and disputes the fact." I nowhere even allude to the dorsal vertebrae, only to the sacral and caudal vertebrae.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》
The males of some lizards, when fighting together during their courtship, expand their throat pouches or frills, and erect their dorsal crests.[16] But Dr. Gunther does not believe that they can erect their separate spines or scales.英文原著 · 《The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals》
Above him, at the angle of the steep green bank of the terraced garden, was one of those small picturesque surprises common in the old landscape gardening; a kind of small round hill or dome of grass, like a giant mole-hill, ringed and crowned with three concentric fences of roses, and having a sundial in the highest point in the centre. Kidd could see the finger of the dial stand up dark against the sky like the dorsal fin of a shark and the vain moonlight clinging to that idle clock. But he saw something else clinging to it also, for one wild moment--the figure of a man.英文原著 · 《The Wisdom of Father Brown》
These orcas have the floppiest dorsal fins in town and they can't wait to jump through hoops for you and your kids.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I breathe bleach fumes all day. This baby's gonna come out with, like, five heads and a dorsal fin.美剧 · 《Shameless》