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...se they could not admire Equally him and me. Now every gardener knows that plants grown in cellars Or under stones are twisted and yellow and weak. An... ... in ethics a Christian; Orator apt at the rhine-stone rhythm of Ingersoll. Carnivorous, avenger, believer and pagan. Continent, promiscuous, changeabl... ... body, And was rejected And when my little brochure On the intelligence of plants Began to attract attention Y ou almost voted me in. After that I gre...

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...erby’s Botany also, with thousands of carefully tinted pictures of British plants, and one or two other important works in the sitting-room. I was all... ... as if a party of pigmies in a not too capacious room had been joined by a carnivorous giant—and decided to go on living happily by cutting him dead… ...

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... her windbreaker. "If you must know, it's a kitten..." "A cat?" "Yes, duh. Carnivorous mammal, Felis Catus, long domesticated and made into pets by ma... ...es as their silvery duet rose and floated out over her lavatera and salvia plants. "...A witch seeks to control the forces within her/himself that mak...

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...rumpled heaps, amidst which were thick heaps of very beautiful pagoda-like plants—nettles possibly— but wonderfully tinted with brown about the leaves... ... weed just here and there and cultivate perhaps a score or so of wholesome plants, leaving the greater number to fight out a balance as they can. We i... ...reater number to fight out a balance as they can. We improve our favourite plants and animals—and how few they are—gradually by selective breeding; no... ...f white metal, laid with what seemed a meal. The Morlocks at any rate were carnivorous! Even at the time, I remember won- dering what large animal cou... ...ccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all! I was sorry for that, because I should have been glad... ...he same rich green that one sees on forest moss or on the lichen in caves: plants which like these grow in a per- petual twilight. ‘The machine was st...

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...y hiding-place towards the sound of the sea. I remember a growth of thorny plants, with spines that stabbed like pen-knives. I emerged bleeding and wi... ...ed me. I stretched my limbs, sore and painful from the pricks of the spiny plants, and stared around me at the trees; and, so suddenly that it seemed ... ...ory nerve merely 62 The Island of Dr. Moreau means a humming in our ears. Plants do not feel pain, nor the lower animals; it’s possible that such ani... ...s, ropy creepers catching us under the chin or gripping our ankles, thorny plants hooking into and tear- ing cloth and flesh together. “He has gone on... ...he handle of his whip, and he and Montgomery were keeping away the excited carnivorous Beast People, and par- ticularly M’ling, from the still quiveri...

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... pity she felt for anybody placed in such a distressing situation; and the carnivorous Mrs. Bloss proceeded to arrange the various preliminaries with ... ...d brick and stone front; a pretty spacious hall, ornamented with evergreen plants, terminates in a perspective view of the bar, and a glass case, in w...

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... the interstices with earth, into which he deftly inserted rapidly growing plants, such as the wild myrtle and flowering thorn, then carefully waterin... ...door of the house in which his father had lived. The nasturtiums and other plants, which his father had delighted to train before his window, had all ... ..., sparkling, and deep-set eyes, hooked nose, and teeth white as those of a carnivorous animal; his hair, like his beard, which he wore under his chin,... ...not forthcoming, he blows out the prisoner’s brains with a pistol-shot, or plants his dagger in his heart, and that settles the account.” “Well, Alber... ...nt moonbeams that now illumined the vast pile, grew a quantity of creeping plants, whose delicate green branches stood out in bold relief against the ... ...t, and on the left the salon, looking into the garden. Shrubs and creeping plants covered the windows, and hid from the garden and court these two apa...

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...ind, out of which those who followed him have but selected some particular plants, each accord- ing to his fancy, to cultivate and beautify. If some t... ... floods from high, to bless his bowers, And feed with pregnant streams the plants and flowers: Soon as he clears whate’er their passage stay’d, And ma... ... “a prey to dogs and to all kinds of birds. But all kinds of birds are not carnivorous. 2 i.e. during the whole time of their striving the will of Jov...

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... intricate wild wilderness of trees And flowers and undergrowth of odorous plants, Leave me; the books you brought out of the house To me are ever bes... ...raves the frost Basks in the moonlight’s ineffectual glow, Shrank with the plants, and darkened with the night; 146 Volume 3 His chilled and narrow e... ...ve been found in the north of Siberia, and on the banks of the river Ohio. Plants have been found in the fossil state in the inte- rior of Germany, wh... ...omy teaches us that man resembles fru- givorous animals in everything, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, n... ...rk as this.’ Then, and then only, would he be consistent. Man resembles no carnivorous animal. There is no excep- tion, unless man be one, to the rule... ...d cellulated colons. The caecum also, though short, is larger than that of carnivorous animals; and even here the orang-outang retains its accustomed ... ...ng, _10 Where patriotism red with his guilt-reeking gore Plants Liberty’s flag on the slave-peopled shore, With victory’s cry, with ...

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... growth of the Linum Usitatissimum, divided into a thousand cotemporaneous plants, singularly well conditioned, and remarkable for an equality that re... ...al- culations of industry and trade. The glorious family of cotemporaneous plants from which I derive my being, grew in a lovely vale of Connecticut, ... ...ity of their cis-atlantic field; a happy company of thriving and luxuriant plants. Still, I shall pass them over, merely remarking that a bountiful na... ... Ireland. Now oc- curred one of those chances which decide the fortunes of plants, as well as those of men, giving me a claim to Norman, instead of Mi... ...ection pointed out by Providence for the fulfilment of his or its destiny. Plants have sensation as well as animals. The latter, how- ever, have no co... ...ccess, he seized the governess’ hand, and carried it to his lips in a very carnivorous fashion. The lady, however, succeeded in retaining her hand, if...

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...ular account of their wars and politics, laws, learning, and religion; their plants and animals; their peculiar manners and customs, with other matter... ...nches high, so there is an exact proportion in all other animals, as well as plants and trees: for instance, the tallest horses and oxen are between f... ...y observed by my teeth, which they viewed with great exactness, that I was a carnivorous animal; yet most quadrupeds being an over match for me, and ... ...orth catch ing; whereby it is manifest, that nature, in the produc tion of plants and animals of so extraordinary a bulk, is Gulliver’ s Travels – ... ...e be side common events, without those ornamental descrip tions of strange plants, trees, birds, and other animals; or of the barbarous customs and ...

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...root, Whose quaint face peers green and dusky ‘Mongst the matted growth of plants, While she rises wild and weltering, Speeding on with many pants. T ... ... the noon-ray’s quickening wheat, Ere touch’d, the pendulous flower of the plants of sloth, The plants of rigidness, answered question and squeeze, Re... ...cook, was he, fanged, horned, plumed; Original man, as philosophers vouch; Carnivorous, cannibal; length-long exhumed, Frightfully living and armed to... ...tterly misled, though blindly led, Led round fermenting eddies. Faith she plants In her own firmness as our midway road: Which rightly Y outh has rea... ...he riven forest tree. Look down where deep in blood and mire Black thunder plants his feet and ploughs The soil for ruin: that is France: Still thril...

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...ery supported on col- umns of pale yellow marble. Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of t... ...houses yesterday, and bothered him to death by asking him the names of the plants. Fancy treating Gus as if he were the gardener! “Mrs. Trenor brought... ... table, studying its occupants one by one, from Gus Trenor, with his heavy carnivorous head sunk between his shoulders, as he preyed on a jellied plov... ...s gave them a more con- centrated inner life, as poor soil starves certain plants into intenser efflorescence. She had in truth no abstract propensity...

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..., to the detriment of the two stone lionesses which grin with a doubt- ful carnivorous affability above a coat of arms surmounting each of the pillars... ...y pet animal, any relic of her own childhood even? Not one. There are some plants that have hardly any roots: you may tear them from their native nook... ... Eliot something better to do. A man that’s got the names and the natur o’ plants in’s head isna likely to keep a hollow place t’ hold tunes in. But a... ...en boughs, and Mr. Craig had been proud to show his taste and his hothouse plants on the occasion. The broad steps of the stone staircase were cov- er... ...ls, leading Mrs. Irwine to a carpet-covered dais ornamented with hot-house plants, where she and Miss Anne were to be seated with old Mr. Donnithorne,...

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...room. A poor first-floor to us, but a bower to them. Very neat. Very airy. Plants you observe; hyacinths; books again; birds.’ These birds, by the bye... ...ere were two or three tea- chests out there, full of earth, with forgotten plants in them, like old walking-sticks. Whoever climbed to this observator... ...l your doing, Mark!’ said Martin. ‘P’raps,’ pursued the agent, ‘them ain’t plants of Eden’s raising. No! P’raps that desk and stool ain’t made from Ed... ...TY-TWO TREATS OF TODGER’S AGAIN; AND OF ANOTHER BLIGHTED PLANT BESIDES THE PLANTS UPON THE LEADS E ARLY ON THE DAY NEXT after that on which she bade a... ...residence was, he still preserved some rustic recollections; that he liked plants, hung up bird-cages, was not wholly cut off from fresh groundsel, an... ...ious maws, and staining their offensive beaks, with every descrip- tion of carnivorous enjoyment!’ As he stopped to fetch his breath, he waved them of...

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...white fangs to their roots, all her wistfulness vanishing, being replaced by a carnivorous malignity that made him shudder. He glanced at the hand tha... ... toward the dark corners of the back wall. The light drew them as if they were plants; the chemistry of the life that composed them demanded the light... ... little cub. So were his brothers and sisters. It was to be expected. He was a carnivorous animal. He came of a breed of meat killers and meat eaters.... ...rue, but nevertheless so terrible a beast that he can best be characterized as carnivorous. In San Quentin prison he had proved incorrigible. Punishme...

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...f a low dingy public-house; long rows of broken and patched windows expose plants that may have flour- ished when ‘the Dials’ were built, in vessels a... ...ome-looking heads thrust out of every window, and old red pans and stunted plants exposed on the tottering parapets, to the manifest haz- ard of the h... ... pity she felt for anybody placed in such a distressing situation; and the carnivorous Mrs. Bloss proceeded to arrange the various preliminaries with ... ...d brick and stone front; a pretty spacious hall, ornamented with evergreen plants, terminates in a perspective view of the bar, and a glass case, in w...

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...us, but at the same time I think that we should remember how repulsive our carnivorous habits would seem to an intelli- gent rabbit. The physiological... ...ng while I lay close to the peephole, but not daring to move aside the red plants that obscured it. Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like t... ...work, clay, and gravel, over which spread a multitude of red cactus-shaped plants, knee- 123 H G Wells high, without a solitary terrestrial growth to... ...ly seized upon it. Now by the action of natural selection, all terrestrial plants have ac- quired a resisting power against bacterial diseases—they ne...

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...ell as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;... ...od deal to say, There being no such profusion in the North Of oriental plants, ‘et cetera,’ But that of late your scribblers think it worth ... ...od use. The gentle Juan flourish’d, though at times He felt like other plants called sensitive, Which shrink from touch, as monarchs do from r...

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...o-day,” he continued, after a pause, “Peters’ are going to sell a batch of plants from the Andamans and the Indies. I shall go up and see what they ha... ...d some of them have never been found with seed.” “But how do they form new plants?” “By runners and tubers, and that kind of outgrowth. That is easily... ...to it now,” said Hooker. The vegetation was thick by the river bank. Great plants, as yet unnamed, grew among the roots of the big trees, and spread r... ...r him sideways and col- lapsed into a sitting posture among the strawberry plants, proved to be our long-lost Mr. Gottfried Plattner, in an ex- tremel... ...s. They obeyed greater leaders even as the leaf-cutting ants do. They were carnivorous, and where they came they stayed… The forest was very still. Th... ...ater- channel, from which the little trickles of water that fed the meadow plants came, and on the higher slopes above this flocks of llamas cropped t...

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...Geometrical powers of increase — Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants —Nature of the checks to increase — Competition universal 5 Charles... ...tion from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature — Struggle for life most severe between individual... ...me probable that a careful study of domesticated animals and of cultivated plants would offer the best chance of making out this ob- scure problem. No... ...the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first points which strikes us, is, that they... ...ine the reproduction of animals under confinement, I may just mention that carnivorous animals, even from the tropics, breed in this country pretty fr... ... finement, with the exception of the plantigrades or bear family; whereas, carnivorous birds, with the rarest exceptions, hardly ever lay fertile eggs... ...imals, and these seem oftenest provided with special weapons. The males of carnivorous animals are already well armed; though to them and to others, s... ...rly see this in the case of animals with simple habits. Take the case of a carnivorous quad- ruped, of which the number that can be supported in any c... ...tations, climbing trees, frequenting water, and some perhaps becoming less carnivorous. The more diversified in habits and structure the descendants o...

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... were collected, and I trust that many others will here- after follow. The plants from the southern parts of America will be given by Dr. J. Hooker, i... ...nsac- tions.’ The Reverend Professor Henslow has pub- lished a list of the plants collected by me at the Keel- ing Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Ber... ... ing Islands; and the Reverend J. M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants. I shall have the pleasure of acknowledging the great assistance whi... ...t part of infusoria with siliceous shields, and of the siliceous tissue of plants. In five little packets which I sent him, he has ascertained no less... ...d, to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete cata- logue. The carnivorous beetles, or Carabidae, appear in extremely few numbers within t... ... the tropics: this is the more remarkable when compared to the case of the carnivorous quadrupeds, which are so abundant in hot countries. I was struc... ... very numerous spiders and rapacious Hymenoptera sup- ply the place of the carnivorous beetles? The carrion- feeders and Brachelytra are very uncommon... ...ct. It is, perhaps, from their meat regimen that the Gau- chos, like other carnivorous animals, can abstain long from food. I was told that at Tandeel... ... in his mind to the Secondary epochs, when lizards, some herbivorous, some carnivorous, and of dimen- sions comparable only with our existing whales, ...

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... may rise in the same propor tion into the heavens above? nfor the nobler plants are valued for the fruit they bear at last in the air and light, far... ...t of mankind. We don garment after garment, as if we grew like exogenous plants by addition without. Our outside and often thin and fanciful clothes... ... Walden 71 benevolence, which are, as it were, his stem and leaves. Those plants of whose greenness withered we make herb tea for the sick serve but ... ...bserver would say that there were no weeds at all in it; and of noticeable plants, except in the little meadows recently overflowed, which do not prop... ...er target or two; all which however a bather might not perceive; and these plants are clean and bright like the element they grow in. The stones exten... ...d fat. I am satisfied that it is not. Is it not a re proach that man is a carnivorous animal? True, he can and does live, in a great measure, by prey...

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...nd said they must test it by experiment by and by; and next they discussed plants, and that interested me, because in the summer Sadie and I had plant... ...nd his body stretched to the four winds of heaven, to be torn to pieces by carnivorous birds. A. What, he is dead, and gone to the world of spirits wi... ...too see the others monuments such that the public pawnbroker’s office, the plants garden’s, the money office’s, the library. That it shall be for anot...

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...lminated. And with him there rose Maupeou, the banisher of Parlements; who plants you a refractory President ‘at Croe in Combrailles on the top of ste... ...t weeping; love, riches, Revolutionary fame, left all at the Prison- gate; carnivorous Rabble now howling round. Palpable, and yet incredible; like a ...

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...ed to be a burden to me; the earth seemed accursed for my sake: all trees, plants, rocks, hills, and vales seemed to be dressed in mourning and groani... ...protest, my friend, wait till you arrive there yourself! To believe in the carnivorous reptiles of geo- logic times is hard for our imagination—they s...