After this violent and rough method of operating, the cord retracts into the abdomen and its stump becomes adherent to some part of the peritoneum, or it may wind around the bowel and then the stump becomes adherent, so that strangulation of the bowel results.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
The speaker retracts this wish, in justice to the many pairs of friends who have each their right to happiness.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
His hands tremble in the hands that hold them, I have an impression that every fibre of his body trembles, that the raw flesh of the wound trembles and retracts.
"The New Book Of Martyrs"
Georges Duhamel