The Popular Science Monthly, 45. köideD. Appleton, 1894 |
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... surface of the corolla and the outer surface of the ovary and style . It is easy for a bee , moth , or fly to push its slender tongue down through these hairs to the base of the corolla , but an ant finds it very difficult to force its ...
... surface of the corolla and the outer surface of the ovary and style . It is easy for a bee , moth , or fly to push its slender tongue down through these hairs to the base of the corolla , but an ant finds it very difficult to force its ...
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... surface of the lake , insects were prob- ably easily seen at any hour by birds accustomed to such gloom as that of my chimney . Still it was wonderful to think of their strength and patience , and of their knowledge of place . Many , if ...
... surface of the lake , insects were prob- ably easily seen at any hour by birds accustomed to such gloom as that of my chimney . Still it was wonderful to think of their strength and patience , and of their knowledge of place . Many , if ...
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... surfaces between the lines . On smooth , narrow bodies , as this process is continued , the deposits along the sides or edges soon become so thick and long as to meet in the middle . On rough surfaces new lines and centers of groups are ...
... surfaces between the lines . On smooth , narrow bodies , as this process is continued , the deposits along the sides or edges soon become so thick and long as to meet in the middle . On rough surfaces new lines and centers of groups are ...
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... surface to another . A post which FIG . 7 . stood twenty feet from the house , in a small court inclosed on three sides , had a deposit on the face toward the house equal to that on the windward side , while the other sides were bare ...
... surface to another . A post which FIG . 7 . stood twenty feet from the house , in a small court inclosed on three sides , had a deposit on the face toward the house equal to that on the windward side , while the other sides were bare ...
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... surface , with their bases to its edges , and point accurately toward the center . On a flat surface having a rim that projects as much as half an inch , they are built on the inner edge of the rim , and extend toward the center at a ...
... surface , with their bases to its edges , and point accurately toward the center . On a flat surface having a rim that projects as much as half an inch , they are built on the inner edge of the rim , and extend toward the center at a ...
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Page 636 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 407 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Page 361 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer...
Page 638 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife.
Page 361 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Page 633 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 636 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Page 576 - WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about.
Page 361 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
Page 819 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.