I could see it quite clearly, as I had seen it one day, while waiting in his kitchen for a sun shower to pass, rays of sun alighting on it, divesting it of its sheath of brown dust, the red ripples flowing through it, so that it seemed to liquefy, as if it were being newly blown.
"He kept pulling it out, and snapping it back into its sheath.
Then, having wielded this mighty weapon, the Court was quick to shove it back into its sheath.
It was dissected from its sheath and released from the navicular and later repaired.
These connective tissues form a sheath around muscle cells that connect them to each other, it sheaths bunches of muscles into fibers, it encases fibers into whole muscles, and it connects muscles to bone in the form of tendons and ligaments.
Certainly, Mrs. Banner's entry is among the raciest: her "irresistible eye" is said to be capable of raising a man's lust to an "unbearable pitch," while her "favourite spot below" apparently "calls for the Priapian weapon," eager "to receive it in her sheath at its most powerful thrust up to the hilt".
The mango-blossom hasn't opened, but it has broken the sheath, so it is fragrant.
As soon as a new poem was posted, Ms. Duffy would devise a plan for obtaining it: scouting out empty subway cars, climbing up onto the scarred seats, easing the poem from its curved plastic sheath, secreting it away beneath her long winter coat.
It's important to remove not only the shriveled petals but also the green swollen sheath it emerges from, as this is the part that will eventually develop into a seedhead.
Now straighten the blade until it is 100% straight or else you will never be able to get it into a sheath and you will lose almost all of your cutting power.
