dissecting-table

In his first New York solo show in a decade, Los Angeles native Martin Kersels b. 1960 continues in the Surrealist tradition that celebrates the surprising dislocation and beauty found in what Comte de Lautréamont described as "the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing machine and an umbrella."

Mind Games for the Surreal Lance Esplund 2011

The doctor, however, was treating me as coolly as he might a subject which he was about to place on the dissecting-table for a lecture.

The Room in the Dragon Volant 2003

The eye, the ear, the sense of touch, the general organs of nutrition and respiration and volition are in the main identical, and often differ far more in persons of the same sex than in those of opposite sexes; and even on the dissecting-table the tissues of the male and female are often wholly indistinguishable.

Woman and Labour 2003

Without noticing Nick, Dr. Jarvis advanced directly toward the dissecting-table.

The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories Nicholas Carter

Mr. Anstey has placed Society on the dissecting-table, and probing with

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

He first examined some instruments which lay near the dissecting-table.

The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories Nicholas Carter

Thus, plundered by friends, coveted by neighbours, and assailed by pirates, it lies like a helpless anatomical subject, with the ocean for a dissecting-table, on one side whereof stands a mother sucking its blood, and on the other "Lone Stars" gashing its limbs, while in the background, a young and vigorous republic is seen anxiously waiting for the whole carcass.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray

We may now turn to watch the Reviewers, knife in hand, at the dissecting-table.

English literary criticism Various

If, however, this was only an ordinary subject for the dissecting-table, why did Dr. Jarvis mutilate it with such caution and at such an hour?

The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories Nicholas Carter

There was a certain amount of conversation over the dissecting-table, partly about the work, partly about the prospects of the football season, the demonstrators, and the lectures.

Of Human Bondage 1919