Farebrother, one day that the Vicar came to his room with some pond-products which he wanted to examine under a better microscope than his own, and, finding Lydgate's tableful of apparatus and specimens in confusion, said sarcastically— "Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
Brother Jonah, for example (there are such unpleasant people in most families; perhaps even in the highest aristocracy there are Brobdingnag specimens, gigantically in debt and bloated at greater expense)—Brother Jonah, I say, having come down in the world, was mainly supported by a calling which he was modest enough not to boast of, though it was much better than swindling either on exchange or turf, but which did not require his presence at Brassing so long as he had a good corner to sit in an
The manufacture was much improved since that time; he had seen some beautiful specimens when last in town, and had he not been perfectly without vanity of that kind, might have been tempted to order a new set.
They then compared the ages of the thumb specimens and their dexterity to key steps in the development of human behavior to see what our ancestors were working with when they made significant leaps in their evolution.
Emei Mountain is a well-known natural museum with more than 3,000 specimens of plants and 2,000 types of animals including groups of monkeys that appear on the mountain roads and fascinate the tourists.
In the course of compiling the work, Li Shizhen made his endeavors all the way throughout the country to pick up specimens in the wild and to search and collect folk recipes.
To do this, they compared the bacterial load in colony-forming units (CFU) of human-pathogenic microorganisms in specimens taken from 18 bearded men and 30 furry dogs.
The incredible pictures have won scientist Roman Fedortsov a cult online following with hundreds of users competing to identify the other-worldly specimens.
Priced at HKD168 a piece, these Kotoka strawberries are apparently hand-picked to ensure that only the finest specimens hit the market, and flown in from Japan.
One fascinating aspect of the barracuda's development is that, while most individual specimens tend to slow in growth once they've reached about 66 inches in length, their weight is a different matter.
Novacek is not bothered by some skepticism that the specimens are from the biggest dinosaur discovered so far, and that these may soon be eclipsed in size by new excavations.
Very seldom do you meet anyone who claims to enjoy the process for itself (and when you do, they're generally such wildly extroverted people that they're fairly rare specimens of humanity in the first place).
Take a pass on bad manners, on thoughtlessness, on unreliability, on carelessness and on all the other ways people distinguish themselves as unappealing specimens.
Even when Scott's men faltered, they continued collecting specimens, including rocks.
Rembrandt kept over 2,000 weapons and pieces of armour, as well many paintings and prints, ethnographic specimens from Asia and the Americas and lots of other items.
I personally haven't tasted any entomological specimens lately, but I am still rejoicing in the limitless curiosity, the draws me to books and people and places.
Some of the man's money--if he had any--was certainly due to us, but it was not likely that our captain's shipmates, above all the two specimens seen by me, Black Dog and the blind beggar, would be inclined to give up their booty in payment of the dead man's debts.
Four-leaved shamrocks grew there; there were seven specimens close to each other.
The second person, who was older and a scholar, proposed to carry the beetle home, as they wanted just such good specimens as this.