Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge, Volume 3W. & R. Chambers, Limited, 1901 - 828 pages |
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... less than one hundred and twenty oak leaves , weighing in all three- fourths of a pound , and had drunk not less than half an ounce of water . The food would weigh 86,000 times the original weight of the larva . Of this , about one ...
... less than one hundred and twenty oak leaves , weighing in all three- fourths of a pound , and had drunk not less than half an ounce of water . The food would weigh 86,000 times the original weight of the larva . Of this , about one ...
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... less Manichæan views , and practised a rigid asceticism . Deliverance from evil was only to be attained by renunciation of the ( material ) world , including marriage , property , and the use of animal food . They distinguished between ...
... less Manichæan views , and practised a rigid asceticism . Deliverance from evil was only to be attained by renunciation of the ( material ) world , including marriage , property , and the use of animal food . They distinguished between ...
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... less shortened and compressed in consequence of their reproductive purpose , we have this peculiarly mani fested in the catkin , which is a crowded spike or tuft of small unisexual flowers with reduced scale- like bracts . Examples are ...
... less shortened and compressed in consequence of their reproductive purpose , we have this peculiarly mani fested in the catkin , which is a crowded spike or tuft of small unisexual flowers with reduced scale- like bracts . Examples are ...
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... less valuable examples were many of Matthew Arnold's occasional essays . Causses , LES . See FRANCE ( p . 770 ) , and Bar- ing - Gould's Deserts of Southern France ( 1894 ) . Caustic ( Gr . , burning ' ) , a term for substances that ...
... less valuable examples were many of Matthew Arnold's occasional essays . Causses , LES . See FRANCE ( p . 770 ) , and Bar- ing - Gould's Deserts of Southern France ( 1894 ) . Caustic ( Gr . , burning ' ) , a term for substances that ...
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... less depth . The accumula- tions in question consist partly of clay , sand , gravel , and shingle , and partly of red earth and sheets of stalagmite . Some of these are doubtless the alluvial detritus carried forward by underground ...
... less depth . The accumula- tions in question consist partly of clay , sand , gravel , and shingle , and partly of red earth and sheets of stalagmite . Some of these are doubtless the alluvial detritus carried forward by underground ...
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