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...bud into the air. In a little while the whole slope was dotted with minute plantlets standing at attention in the blaze of the sun. They did not stand... ...as we watched. The movement was slower than any animal’s, swifter than any plant’s I have ever seen before. How can I suggest it to you—the way that g... ...and and watched the little thread of mercury creep up the tube? These moon plants grew like that. In a few minutes, as it seemed, the buds of the more... ...t. In a few minutes, as it seemed, the buds of the more for- ward of these plants had lengthened into a stem and were even putting forth a second whor... ... blinding glare of the sun. And beyond this fringe was the silhouette of a plant mass, branching clumsily like a cactus, and swelling visibly, swellin... ...classification of earthly creatures, and he points out “the insect type of anatomy had, fortunately for men, never ex- ceeded a relatively very small ... ...l class is rendered possible by the absence of any body skull in the lunar anatomy, that strange box of bone that clamps about the developing brain of...

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...s: there are not many certain truths in this world. It is there fore in the anatomy of the mind as in that of the body; more good will accrue to ma... ... action could attend, And, but for this, were active to no end: Fix’d like a plant on his peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot: Or, me... ...fin’d, And in one int’rest body acts with mind. As fruits, ungrateful to the planter’s care, On savage stocks inserted, learn to bear; The surest virt... ... Man by Alexander Pope 28 O’er–look’d, seen double, by the fool, and wise. Plant of celestial seed! if dropt below , Say , in what mortal soil thou ... ...confin’d, It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind. He sees, why nature plants in man alone Hope of known bliss, and faith in bliss unknown: (Nat...

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...d a tale, or heard of a romance; their very drawings were of figures whose anatomy would have been masterpieces of the impossible to Cuvier, designed ... ...ert of sentiment, the countess, feeling herself developed like a beautiful plant in a fertile soil, caressed by the sun of a cloudless sky, awoke to a... ...ike that which would undoubtedly precipitate all Paris into the Jardin des Plantes to see a unicorn, if such an animal could be found in those mountai... ...ses which women give each other from afar. Receiving it, the old man stood planted on his feet for a long time after the carriage had disappeared. A f...

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... that damp is unwhole Mudfog and Other Sketches Charles Dickens 3 some: plants thrive best in damp situations, and why shouldn’t men? The inhabit... ... pig might be his half brother, he must decline answering it. ‘SECTION B. ANATOMY AND MEDICINE. COACH HOUSE, PIG AND TINDER BOX. PRESIDENT Dr. To... ... of the curiosity. ‘MR. FLUMMERY expressed his opinion that it was adecided plant. ‘SECTION B. DISPLAY OF MODELS AND MECHANICAL SCI ENCE. LARGE RO... ...t all. ‘MR. BLANK. Nobody can, and that is the beauty of it. ‘SECTION C. ANATOMY AND MEDICINE. BAR ROOM, BLACK BOY AND STOMACH ACHE. PRESIDENT D... ...a seat nearly op posite him. Of course the keeper was there already. He had planted himself at precisely that distance from his charge which afforded...

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...ich could be raised at will. The mayoralty was blamed for having, in 1820, planted poplars along the banks of the moat to shade the promenade. It excu... ...ern, flanked with a wall of masonry, beyond which rises a bouquet of trees planted by the hands of Breton nature, one of the most luxuriant and fertil... ...edges are full of flow- ers, honeysuckles, roses, box, and many enchanting plants. It is like an English garden, designed by some great architect. Thi... ... for at its summit may still be seen an iron socket, from which a few weak plants are straggling. This detail, in harmony with the vestiges of sculptu... ...aps his fossil life at Guerande hid many memories. When he stood, solemnly planted on his two heron-legs in the sun- shine on the mall, gazing at the ... ... Maupin knew the passion within her as those men of science knew their own anatomy. “I have brought him here to judge him, and he is already bored,” s...

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...he former young enthusiast for arms, dwarfed it to appear like the starved plants under Greenland skies. But those are of a sturdy genus; they mean to... ...f shade,—and now the wedded riddle; illusion dropping mask, romance in its anatomy, cold English mist. Ah, what a background is the present when we ha... ...he had never been loved. Memory had of late been paying visits to a droopy plant in the golden summer drought on a gorgeous mid-sea island, and had ta... ... more terribly divine. Those eyes had elsewhere once looked love: they had planted their object in a throbbing Eden. The man on whom they had looked s... ...must be careful not to cross me.’ Aminta had confused notions of her being planted in hos- tile territory, and torn and knitted, trumpeted to the worl... ...had deceived her, though he had done it—much as if she had assisted at the planting and watched aforetime the promise of a noble tree, to find it, aft...

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...mentary reading in sociology led her to a book on village-improvement—tree-planting, town pag- eants, girls’ clubs. It had pictures of greens and gard... ...and sulky seats, belonging to machinery of which Carol knew nothing—potato-planters, manure-spreaders, silage- cutters, disk-harrows, breaking-plows. ... ...rest. And the Thanatopsis does do a good social work—they’ve made the city plant ever so many trees, and they run the rest- room for farmers’ wives. A... ...laughter, yet she need not be con-tent with village nothingness. She would plant one seed in the blank wall. Was she just? Was it merely a blank wall,... ...was darkened by torn net cur- tains and by a mound of geraniums and rubber-plants. While she was listening to Mrs. Nodelquist’s account of how many th... ...say he was honest. I said he had savvy enough to find the index in `Gray’s Anatomy,’ which is more than McGanum can do! But I didn’t say anything abou...

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...mit that it is long overdue. But this last condition! In vain we study our anatomy to see which part we can best spare. Where is our Portia, to save u... ...took it in hand—and now I hardly know my own pits, with the great electric plants and strange machinery, and the new coal-cut- ters—iron men, as the c...

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...o fit up shelves in a day, and he could procure me two or three dozen good plants— The tips of his thick, round fingers rested composedly on the edge ... ...e a man lost in a dream. Clapping both his hands to that part of his frail anatomy which had received the shock, the poor wretch said to me simply: “W... ...ess about it either. She had no time to make a sound, and the first kiss I planted on her closed lips was vicious enough to have been a bite. She did ...

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...xt his heart — or next his stomach, possibly, for he was not much posted in anatomy, and not hypercritical, anyway. He returned, now, and hung about ... ... presence there? He climbed the fence, threaded his stealthy way through the plants, till he stood under that window; he looked up at it long, and wit... ...nstant she had the book in her hands. The title page — Professor Somebody’s anatomy — carried no information to her mind; so she began to turn the le... ... amount of murderous talk; so he held his breath and stepped gingerly back; planted his foot care fully and firmly, after balancing, one legged, in ... ...mile, but the old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was mone...

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...ntry. The points on the western side of this remarkable plain, on which no plant had taken root, were both larger and more numerous than those on its ... ...d inclination of age, therein forming a very marked contrast to the infant plantations that peered over most of the picketed fences of the village. In... ... escaped him, Monsieur Le Quoi was sus- pected of having been a West-India planter, great numbers of whom had fled from St. Domingo and the other isla... ...e from a peacock’s tail. He had colored his sides so that they looked like anatomy, ribs and all, for Chingachgook had a great taste in such things, s... ...led curiosity . I shall believe him to he the child of Corn-stalk, or Corn-planter, or some other re- nowned chieftain; possibly of the Big Snake hims... ...how much? and in what manner? I hope to live to see the day when farms and plantations shall be devoted to this branch of business. Little is known co... ...t I can’t say so much for her flesh, d’ye see, for she looks somewhat like anatomy with another man’ s jacket on. Now for the skin of her face, it’s a...

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... caught and kept them in cages, dissected them, first studying the general anatomy of insects very elabo- rately, and how he began to experiment with ... ... off his clothes as he ran. ‘The Steel Trust is scrapping the whole of its plant,’ he shouted. ‘The State Railways are going to scrap all their en- gi... ...ncerned with the question whether these patent rights have the novelty the plantiff claims for them. What that admission may or may not stop, and all ... ... in this region, from which attacks could be made upon the vast industrial plant of the lower Rhine, and a flanking raid through Holland upon the Germ... ... to a final collapse. These crowning buds upon the tradition that Napoleon planted and Bismarck watered, opened and flared ‘like waterlilies of flame’... ...citement in his voice, ‘we have to get every atom of Carolinum and all the plant for making it, into our control….’ Firman was not alone in his incred...

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...y-educated class, into the atmosphere of which they pressed like dungeoned plants. The parasite completes the animal, and a dependent assures us of ou... ...ar. And if that was his object, he was paid for it. A great thick kiss was planted on his cheek, with the motto: “Harm to them that thinks ut.” Wilfri... ...f the score of an un- known opera by our Andronizetti, and studies it, and anatomy, English, French, and pure Italian, and can ride a horse. She has m... ...She was critical, too, of that very assured pose of Emilia’s head and firm planting of her feet as the girl paraded the room after the dances in which... ...n? “Countess Branciani made the Austrian Governor her slave,” she uttered, planting one foot upon a stool to lend herself height. “He told her who wer... ...sh is that it were good for my market. What the Philoso- pher means, is to plant in the reader’s path a staring contrast between my pet Emilia and his...

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...eleton map of events: Fiction a picture of figures modelled on no skeleton-anatomy. But each, with Philosophy in aid, blooms, and is humanly shapely. ... ...s a sort of meditative as- sassin. But what were the Fates about when they planted a man of the ability of Tom Redworth in a Government of- fice! Clea... ...ar a village named Storling, on the road to Brasted. The house has a small plantation of firs behind it, and a bit of river—rare for Sussex—to the rig... ... high pedestrian pace, manifestly to have a concluding look at the beloved anatomy. There stood the house. Absolutely empty! thought Redworth. The sou... ...ambition is oversensitive, moral in- dignation is ever consolatory, for it plants us on the Judge- ment Seat. There indeed we may, sitting with the ve... ...than his ideas. He cannot think independently of them:—nor I of my natural anatomy. You will test the truth of that after your omelette and piquette, ... ...would seem to be tried to their shrewdest pitch when Politics and Love are planted together in a human breast. This apparently opposite couple can nev... ...um, and where a slip precipitates us to ruin. When, further, it is a woman planted in a burning blush, having to idealize her feminine weakness, that ...

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...but blow high, blow low, come rain or snow or frost, we four would be each planted in his own particular arm-chair. Fettes was an old drunken Scotchma... ...y his exterior. There was, at that period, a certain extramural teacher of anatomy, whom I shall here designate by the letter K. His name was subseque... ...and full of hang-dog penitence and disgust, took her down by a backway and planted her in the shrubbery, whence she might see the Squire ride by to di... ...save time), she drew him towards her, pushed him past her in the door, and planted him face to face with Mr. V an Tromp, in a suit of French country v... ...a sad, smiling sympathy on all that he beheld; he even asked the name of a plant, and rallied himself gently for an old town bird, ignorant of na- tur...

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...t about the well-set straight nose; his full grey eyes, open nostrils, and planted feet, and a gentlemanly air of calm and alertness, formed a spirite... ...hs of the wood, not stopping till that and half-a-dozen fields and a larch plantation were well behind them. When they halted to take breath, there wa... ...fish Hour—say, Spiritual Seed-time.” He took care that good seed should be planted in Richard, and that the most fruitful seed for a youth, namely, Ex... ...orge Meredith his letters. Sir Austin had him instructed in the wonders of anatomy, to restore his self-respect. Seed-Time passed thus smoothly, and a... ...tion of Captain Algernon. Sir Austin was a specta- tor from the cover of a plantation by the river-side, unknown to his son, and, to the scandal of he... ...he mischief is done in a minute.” “We must take care to have seen where we planted, and that the root was sound, or the mischief will do itself in sit... ...weapon, O Richard of the Ordeal! I’m aware that you’ve had your lessons in anatomy, but nothing will persuade you that an anatomical figure means fles...

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...lly say "Ah!" This actually happened to me when I was staying in a coffee plantation: a mother started beating a child, a little child, you know. She... ...ped us to live in harmony. We have created this moral problem, you see. Plants and animals don't have a religious problem. Man has created this re... ...Otherwise, it becomes like a classroom discussion—somebody talking on the anatomy of anger, the anatomy of how the anger arises or the anatomy of lo...

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...ribs, and thereby displaying his native drollery, and his knowledge of the anatomy of the human frame, at one and the same time, inquired— ‘I say, old... ...kwick, ‘are these subpoenas served upon them, if not for this?’ ‘Very good plant, Mr. Pickwick,’ replied Jackson, slowly shaking his head. ‘But it won... ...ys ARE getting disap pointed there. ‘Well, Mr. Sawyer,’ said Mrs. Raddle, planting herself firmly on a purple cauliflower in the Kidderminster carpet... ...rgency . Mrs. Sanders, whose eyes were intently fixed on the judge’s face, planted herself close by, with the large umbrella, keeping her right thumb ... ...in strict dis charge of the important duties of his all important office, planted himself in the room to receive the company. Bath being full, the co... ...the end of this address, which was unusu ally lengthy for him, Mr. Weller planted his hands on his knees, and looked full in Mr. Winkle’s face, with ...

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... little interest at first; but was soon startled to perceive the germ of a plant shooting upward from the soil. Then came the slender stalk; the leave... ... as itself.” But Georgiana had no sooner touched the flower than the whole plant suffered a blight, its leaves turning coal black as if by the agency ... ... we speak of dying? The draught can not fail. Behold its effect upon this plant.” On the window seat there stood a geranium diseased with yellow blot... ...id upon the soil in which it grew. In a little time, when the roots of the plant had taken 17 Hawthorne up the moisture, the unsightly blotches began... ...n beneath the window and expended its fostering influences on a variety of plants, which seemed to have been cultivated with exceeding care. “Does thi... ...hing, as delicate and minute as the system of a butterfly’s 167 Hawthorne anatomy. “What have we here? Owen! Owen! there is witch craft in these lit...

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...r the relics of a home. Archaeology is to social nature what com- parative anatomy is to organized nature. A mosaic tells the tale of a society, as th... ...ng the worlds with him. When the man had reached the lowest stair, and had planted both feet upon the tiled floor with a hesitating, un- certain movem... ... took such precautions against the theft of a single seed that he kept the plant always in the parlor and often spent whole days in contemplating it. ... ...tem was enormous, erect, firm, and admirably green; the proportions of the plant were in harmony with the propor- tions of the flower, whose seven col... ...fined brilliancy which formerly gave such fabulous value to these dazzling plants. “Here you have at least thirty or forty thousand francs’ worth of t... ...ch served for soil to the cress, nor in the distilled water with which the plant was nourished, whose composition was known. But since they are no mor...