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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 the occasional essays in the later manner of Matthew Arnold . Caustic ( Gr . , burning ' ) , in Medicine and in Chemistry , is the term applied to such substances as exert a corroding or ...
... less valuable examples were many of the occasional essays in the later manner of Matthew Arnold . Caustic ( Gr . , burning ' ) , in Medicine and in Chemistry , is the term applied to such substances as exert a corroding or ...
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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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