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Steyr rifle dug into the big latissimus dorsi muscle just below the shoulder blade.

Flaring latissimus dorsi joined at the spine in tightly knit striations.

And there was, I thought, a small broadening of his back as the latissimus dorsi developed.

Tore up the latissimus dorsi a bit, caused a lot of blood loss and some shock.

She went to the weight area, did a few more bench presses, a few more curls, then went to work on her latissimus dorsi, always using light weights and many repetitions to keep the muscles supple and avoid adding ugly body mass.

There were knots in my trapezius muscles and in my latissimus dorsi and my head throbbed.

Right where the latissimus dorsi first starts to spread to his broad shoulders.

Hamstrings and glutes, latissimus dorsi and abdominals-all the names his trainer had mentioned came back in vivid and excruciating detail.

The deltoideus, triceps brachia, latissimus dorsi and trapezius are like great marvelous wads of brown weathered stone.

Over at the free weights I do three sets of fifteen repetitions of leg extensions, leg curls and leg presses, then three sets and twenty repetitions of barbell curls, then three sets and twenty repetitions of bentover lateral raises for the rear deltoids and three sets and twenty repetitions of latissimus pulldowns, pulley rows, dead lifts and bent‑over barbell rows.

Over at the free weights I do three sets of fifteen repetitions of leg extensions, leg curls and leg presses, then three sets and twenty repetitions of barbell curls, then three sets and twenty repetitions of bentover lateral raises for the rear deltoids and three sets and twenty repetitions of latissimus pulldowns, pulley rows, dead lifts and bent‑.

Its only real function was to protect the floor from Gwendolyn's exercise equipment, which gleamed in the dim light scattering off the clouds from Shanghai: a step unit done up in Beaux-Arts ironmongery, a rowing machine cleverly fashioned of writhing sea-serpents and hard-bodied nereids, a rack of free weights supported by four callipygious caryatids-not chunky Greeks but modern women, one of each major racial group, each tricep, gluteus, latissimus, sartorius, and rectus abdominus casting its own highlight.

If the pistol had been undercharged with powder, and if the ball had struck the trigger guard, it was just possible that it had not had the velocity to penetrate the, rib cage, it had been turned by the bone and ploughed along under the skin, skidding along the groove between two ribs following the track that she had just probed, and lodging at last in the thick bed of the latissimus dorsi and tenes major muscle.