Wonders of the plant-world: or, Curiosities of vegetable life1870 |
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... whole armies of mailed knights , clad in glittering panoply . About powerful enchanters , who change aged and wrinkled beldames into lovely women , or bowed and decrepit old men into stalwart warriors . About mighty and miraculous ...
... whole armies of mailed knights , clad in glittering panoply . About powerful enchanters , who change aged and wrinkled beldames into lovely women , or bowed and decrepit old men into stalwart warriors . About mighty and miraculous ...
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... whole tree from which it fell or was torn . An old Greek jest - book records as an amusing in- stance of the sim- plicity of a certain Hierocles , that , when sent to examine a house , he brought back a single brick as a specimen of it ...
... whole tree from which it fell or was torn . An old Greek jest - book records as an amusing in- stance of the sim- plicity of a certain Hierocles , that , when sent to examine a house , he brought back a single brick as a specimen of it ...
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... whole earth , had not the Creator guarded against it by His wise and beneficent provisions . But this element , so fatal to animals , is the very life of plants . While man dreads it as a poison , the plant absorbs it as food . And by ...
... whole earth , had not the Creator guarded against it by His wise and beneficent provisions . But this element , so fatal to animals , is the very life of plants . While man dreads it as a poison , the plant absorbs it as food . And by ...
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... whole to the sun ; the fluid exhaled will be seen on the side of the tumbler . But put your tumbler in a dark closet , and no exhalation will take place , as the process can only be carried on under the stimulus of light . It is this ...
... whole to the sun ; the fluid exhaled will be seen on the side of the tumbler . But put your tumbler in a dark closet , and no exhalation will take place , as the process can only be carried on under the stimulus of light . It is this ...
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... . Leaves are said to be simple when all their parts are combined into one whole by a continuous cellular tissue- when , in fact , they consist of a single piece , however that 38 NERVES AND VEINS . piece may be divided ,
... . Leaves are said to be simple when all their parts are combined into one whole by a continuous cellular tissue- when , in fact , they consist of a single piece , however that 38 NERVES AND VEINS . piece may be divided ,
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Adansonia digitata Baobab bark beauty belong blossoms botanist boughs branches bright buds called calyx caoutchouc carbonic acid Carrion flowers cedar Cedrus cellular CERBERA TANGHIN cocoa-nut colour crown curious dark Date palm distilled Doum palm drooping earth EGYPTIAN LOTUS enchanted English epiphytous exquisite fecula feet in circumference fibres fibrous flourish flowers foliage forest frequently fruit furnished girth graceful grasses green ground grove grows hundred inches Indian Indies insects Islands juice kind known leaf leaves Lebanon lichen lotus Madagascar marvellous Mimosa moisture mosses Musa native natural Nepenthes Nepenthes distillatoria nourishment numerous nuts palm parasites peculiar pine pitchers plant poet potato properties RAFFLESIA ARNOLDI reader remarkable resembles roots says seeds shade shoots soil spread spring stalk stamens stem substance supply surface sweet thick tion tree tropical trunk Urticacea vegetable VICTORIA REGIA vine whorl wonder Wonder-Land wood yields
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Page 12 - When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn, That ten day-labourers could not end; Then lies him down, the lubber fiend, And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength; And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 66 - THIS is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.
Page 71 - By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially - beneath whose sable roof Of boughs, as if for festal purpose decked With unrejoicing berries - ghostly Shapes May meet at noontide; Fear and trembling Hope, Silence and Foresight; Death the Skeleton And time the Shadow; - there to celebrate, As in a natural temple scattered o'er With altars undisturbed of mossy stone, United worship; or in mute repose To lie, and listen to the mountain flood Murmuring from Glaramara's inmost caves.
Page 84 - I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together: That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the Lord hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Page 57 - ... humble shrub, and bush with frizzled hair implicit : last rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread their branches hung with copious fruit, or gemmed their blossoms. With high woods the hills were crowned, with tufts the valleys and each fountain side, with borders long the rivers: that Earth now seemed like to Heaven, a seat where Gods might dwell, or wander with delight, and love to haunt her sacred shades...
Page 21 - There is not wind enough to twirl The one red leaf, the last of its clan, That dances as often as dance it can, Hanging so light, and hanging so high, On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
Page 59 - Her cradle, and his sepulchre. More dark And dark the shades accumulate. The oak, Expanding its immense and knotty arms, Embraces the light beech. The pyramids Of the tall cedar overarching, frame Most solemn domes within, and far below, Like clouds suspended in an emerald sky, The ash and the acacia floating hang Tremulous and pale. Like restless serpents, clothed In rainbow and in fire, the parasites, Starred with ten thousand blossoms, flow around The gray trunks, and as gamesome infants...
Page 41 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set, but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death...
Page 121 - Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.
Page 242 - We will return no more"; And all at once they sang, "Our island home Is far beyond the wave; we will no longer roam.