| 单词 | cottony |
| 例句 | “It’s like a cottony dream, but not as warm.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A few cottony white clouds drifted across a pale blue sky, moved along by just enough of a breeze to keep things pleasantly cool. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All was warmth and light and cottony softness. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And as I approached him I saw his drawn face and the cottony white hair showing beneath his tight, striped engineer's cap. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The day had dawned clear, but now there were clouds beginning to patch the sky with hazy blots of cottony white, and not even any motion there, just the white silence against the blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I look out at the sky—it’s kind of a purple-rose color, with cottony puffs of clouds here and there, like a painting. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z My limbs felt heavy as wood, my head cottony. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Already the pink had faded; it was being replaced by delicate mauve interlaced with cottony cloud wisps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He fixed his eyes on the cottony bits of cloud stuck in the gaps between the pines above him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was white and cottony, and her skin was brown and uneven in texture like roughly hewn wood. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I’d wake in the night and hear that cottony flapping coming from the living room. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z They varied in age—several of the women had cottony white hair, while others looked to be no older than her mother—but all of them shared a sameness she couldn’t place. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I woke at noon, with a large, cottony skull, pulsing with hangover, to discover I'd missed my plane. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Moist soft flakes are falling out of it, piling up on roofs and branches, sliding off now and then to hit with a wet cottony thunk. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z You are the little faceless figure falling through a world of shadow and substance at the beginning of The Twilight Zone, cottony thoughts leaking from your oblong head. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, however, Mr. Sweeney had noticed that a city-wide infestation of the cottony maple scale was worse after the spraying recommended by “the books and the authorities” than it had been before. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I lie in bed on weekend mornings, looking up at the ceiling, my head clogged and cottony. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Bits of white cottony hair stuck out from her head wrap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Sparks fly from hammers as big as my head, forge fires glow a red deeper than blood, and cottony plumes of steam erupt every few feet from freshly quenched swords. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In the north, wispy and cottony streaks extended down from fiery clouds, a gorgeous pink rain falling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw short cottony hair, dark skin, and an amulet hanging from a leather cord around her neck. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A thin, cottony layer of clouds veiled the sky. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The cold, cottony light of a winter storm was something he gave thanks for after living without windows for seventy-seven days. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Uncle C grunted as he struggled beneath the weight of the sap being absorbed by his cottony self. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The cottony bread and indifferent toppings taste like a convenience-store stab at the appetizer. Noelia Italian Kitchen, trending toward ho-hum On this overcast June afternoon, cottony clouds of varying thickness hang overhead, the sun and splashes of blue visible in the gaps between puffs. Following the Lead of the Diving Girl 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Say goodbye to sweet, cottony, lightweight toast, the kind that squishes under a butter knife or slumps under a blanket of jam. The Secret to Good Toast? It’s Your Freezer 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z This seems like the place to mention that Mr. Hens compares the cottony insides of a cigarette filter, perfectly, to “artichoke hair.” Review: ‘Nicotine,’ the Stuff of Burning Desire 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Readers getting into the spirit of his photos may interpret the tufted expanses as rooster heads, trampled books, motherboards and the awful cottony flashes that laptops make just before they die. 4 Books to Inspire Your Inner Designer 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Leidenheimer bakery loaves, with their thin, crisp crusts and cottony insides, are preferred. A Field Guide to the American Sandwich 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z The sand is still cottony and cool by the naupaka shrubs at the top of the beach, sloping down to firm wet velvet under the foam. Return to Kailua, Hawaii 2011-09-02T18:14:23Z “Just keep breathing,” she tells him, her voice cottony and soothing. Review: Why 'Money Monster' Will Make You Mad as Hell 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The depth of perspective in the canyon is astonishing, especially when cottony white clouds in a sapphire sky and pyramid-shaped peaks in the distance add an extra dimension to the tableau. The Austere Beauty of Egypt’s Long-Distance Hiking Trails 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z A grey-haired worker with a cottony beard limped by my table and said, “Good to see ya in the hood, where everybody’s up to no good.” A Taste of History in the South, and a Hint of Home in New York 2010-09-08T03:00:00Z The forest girls wear layers of thin cottony dresses, thick tights and boots, unpretentious makeup and cloth tote bags, the intention being to resemble a handmade doll from some romantic, Black Forest setting. 2010-02-08T20:50:00Z Across the parking lot were bluebells, cottony willow plants, white-flowered Labrador tea, mountain avens and blue forget-me-nots. This 414-mile road to the Arctic Ocean is one of the world’s most remote highways 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Springsteen sustains a croon, backed by a pedal steel guitar, a cottony bass line and a string section; there’s a meditative instrumental outro. The Playlist: Taylor Swift Wants to Start Over, and 7 More New Songs 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z In a half-sleep, I dreamed of the cottony white cloud covering the lake. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The images are crisp but shot with long exposures that turn the action of clouds and waterfalls into cottony blurs. Review | In the galleries: A virtual visit to Scotland’s remote Isle of Skye 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Afghan Bistro currently buys the staple, which resembles a cottony baguette run over by a cement truck. Afghan Bistro review: In a Virginia strip mall, kebabs that evoke Kabul 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z It still brings a cottony wad to the throat. Rufus Wainwright and Loudon Wainwright III ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:43Z She is posing exuberantly, her arms up-flung, with a cloud of blonde hair and, affixed to her swimsuit, a cottony, torso-sized mushroom cloud. Patt Morrison: L.A. used to be awash in beauty pageants. Where'd they go? 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z At one of Uganda’s Green Shops, a chain specializing in used clothes, apparel reseller Glen Kalungi shopped for items his customers might want: vintage pants for men and cottony tops for women. Used clothing from the West is a big seller in East Africa. Uganda’s leader wants a ban 2023-10-15T04:00:00Z These slow-moving pests are covered with a mealy wax and tend to cluster in large numbers to feed, appearing as cottony masses in leaf axils and other protected areas. Tips and tricks from master gardeners — from pruning best practices to dealing with pests 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z This is for all you desert dwellers out there — an airy green shrub with bright yellow flowers that mature into cottony fluff balls. The most fragrant native plants are just heavenly. Here's what to plant now 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z The fungus, known by stomach-turning names such as “white mold” and “watery soft rot,” manifests as a cottony, cream-colored fuzz that attaches to stems, where it gouges wound-like lesions. Infected by a Virus, a Killer Fungus Turns Into a Friend 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The Santa Ana Mountains between Orange and Riverside counties are seen poking through the cottony white shroud. An unusual spring draws to a close on a somewhat normal June-gloom note 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z One example is a fibrous or cottony growth that appears on fruit as it rots. Missouri researchers share lessons from humongous fungus 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z “Dry, cottony cake that does not taste like chocolate.” Does Georgetown Cupcake really have the best cupcakes in D.C.? We tested seven shops to find out. 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The cab is painted an industrial orange that contrasts cartoonishly against the cottony landscape. Tucker Sno-Cats are the latest toys of owners of mountain retreats 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The cab is painted an industrial orange that contrasts cartoonishly against the cottony landscape. A $125,000 snow machine is the latest luxury vehicle for rich land barons 2018-01-01T05:00:00Z Twenty to 30 minutes later, she said, her mouth got “cottony,” and her legs turned “rubbery,” leaving her unable fend off Crosby’s advances. Bill Cosby’s fate still hangs in the balance as weary jury seems intent on replaying the whole trial 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Constand, a lanky former athlete who wears her hair in a tall, curly pile, said her “mouth was cottony.” ‘I said, I trust you’: Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand takes the stand 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z For instance, Australian lady bugs were spectacularly successful in controlling the cottony cushion scale in North America. A tiny wasp could save Christmas Island’s spectacular red crabs from crazy ants 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z It’s like stepping into a sun-filled cumulus cloud, a dazzling, cottony glow all about your person and nothing but air beneath your feet. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain – extract 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z The machine works by turning used pages back into long, thin, cottony fibers. This Machine Could Mean Never Running Out of Printer Paper Again 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Only in the world of competitive Angora breeding is “cottony” a disparagement; if your bunny feels merely as soft as cotton, you’re a failure. The Cuddly, Fluffy, Surreal World of Angora Show Bunnies 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Boulding’s hair is not as cottony as the Oats Quaker’s, and it falls less down and more back, skirting the tops of his ears along the way. Frames of Reference 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z From the summit of a hill named after St. Thomas the Apostle, Aqel Nasrallah peered into an impenetrable fog, scanning for potential infiltrators in the cottony horizon melding into the Syrian border. Ancient Christian town in Lebanon perched at edge of deadly struggle 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Varieties like puffy, cottony cumulus clouds; wavy stratocumulus clouds; and tall, thundering cumulonimbus clouds behave differently as well. Mobile Lab Set to Study Clouds' Influence on Weather and Climate 2012-10-01T18:15:00.447Z These two types of fungus leave a dusty or cottony coating on grapes and leaves. Bad News for the Bubbly 2012-08-17T08:45:00Z Drifts of white cottony fluff floated by, piling up among blades of a grassy lawn. City Room: Spring Time: Under a Leafy Canopy, a Taste of Summer 2012-05-24T15:26:26Z They should appear as little cottony puffs about ten or eleven in the morning, increase slowly in size, rear their dazzling heads and then start to melt about four in the afternoon. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Besides, the octaves, when all played from the wrist, would sound "cottony." Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered 2012-03-22T02:00:35.350Z But they couldn't if there were not some cottony cushion scale insects here too. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z It has a dry, cottony look; and is a poor, unsalable article, however fine the fibre. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Kapok, ka-pok′, n. a cottony or silky fibre covering the seeds of a species of silk-cotton tree, used for stuffing pillows, &c. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z The storm will be upon you in ten minutes likely after the arc of foreboding blue and white cottony cloud has begun its charge across the sky. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z A second problem is cottony scale, an insect that taps into tree bark, introducing another fungus, nectria. Trouble for Gilded-Age Beech Trees in Newport, Rhode Island 2011-10-24T20:35:38Z Years and years ago, there lived in some fragrant-leaved orange-trees in Australia some white cottony cushion insects whose life was untroubled by other cares than those of eating and of looking after the children. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z The white poplar is sometimes called the silver-leaved poplar because its dark, glossy leaves are lined with cottony nap. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The fruit is a conical capsule filled with tiny cottony seeds which ripen in late spring before the leaves are fully expanded. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z With the Johnsons I’m afraid I lost many opportunities; the whole outlook or at least the whole medium—of feeling, of appreciation—was grey and cottony, I might almost say woolly. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z The eggs of this insect are microscopic, and are enveloped in a cottony substance. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z They were put into a tree in a California orange-orchard in which there were many cottony cushion scale insects. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z One striking feature of this tree is the pale, cottony down on its twigs, which sometimes persists three or four years. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The seeds are covered with white cottony hairs. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z It was a thirst that started in his throat, spread to his dry cottony mouth, sank deep into his drying insides. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z It is composed of warty excrescences upon the roots, containing in their crevices minute lice, having their bodies covered with a white cottony substance. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z There was no track or sign to show what had caught it, but clinging to a nearby reed, Andy found a cottony puff of fur from a bobcat. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z The cotton gum is draped in cottony white down as the new shoots start and the leaves unfold in spring. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z Its leaves are more elliptic in shape, covered above with silky hairs and below with cottony filaments. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z This was the cottony down obtained from some plant that, no doubt, grew in that neighbourhood, but which the boys could not see anywhere around. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z A cottony substance was extruded from one end of the scale, and this increased until July, when minute insects crept out and scattered over the bark, upon which they fixed themselves. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z At the front was a float with posters of Mary and Thomas and other saints perched on cottony white clouds. Indian Church?s Ascension Day Parade Makes Its Colorful Annual Appearance 2010-08-16T23:45:00Z If his razor decides to skip its mandatory workout on any given day, Galloway's stubble is unquestionably cottony. Redskins veteran camper Joey Galloway knows what to write home about 2010-08-03T04:00:00Z These leaves have a waved margin, a smooth upper surface, and are snowy white and cottony beneath. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z Another canister of tear gas rolls past my feet, spewing cottony clouds that claw at my eyes and tear at my lungs. Believers Under Siege in Pakistan 2010-06-18T09:25:00Z Barberis Canonico starts with soft cottony bales of raw wool, combing them successively into ribbons that become the threads that are dyed and later woven. In Italy's Mills, a New Spin 2010-02-25T02:11:00Z Wednesday’s storm looked like a huge cottony blob swirling across the satellite images on weather Web sites. 2010-02-10T16:20:00Z But the darkness was all around, and Burl felt a great sleepiness and a desire only to sink deeper into the cottony nothing in which he seemed to be cradled. The Secret of the Ninth Planet P. 3-5 cm. convex, edge incurved, delicately hispid or scurfy, yellow, fixed by cottony mycelium, stem obsolete; g. rather broad, ventricose, pale tan, edge whitish; sp. European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae It is generally white, soft, slightly spongy, cottony, at times fibrillose or even slightly fibrous, again in texture comparable to the spider's web, and may be even powdery or glutinous. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Past rock pools and a great zoo full of animals that stared out of vacant eyes; and everywhere, the seasons changing gently: crisp autumn, cottony summer, windy spring and winters cool and white.... Elegy The cottony billows swept up to meet them—and then they were submerged in a dense and yellowish fog. The Golden Amazons of Venus He was conscious of a hunger that was beyond discomfort, and a thirst that left his mouth dry and cottony. Insidekick Veil very evident—at least in young state—as a felty coating, which breaks up during expansion of p. into patches; cottony, squamulose, fibrillose or mealy. European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae This substance changes, when mature, to an elastic, yellowish or olivaceous brown, cottony but dusty mass of filaments and spores. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Summersby stretched and blinked his eyes; they felt gummy, as though he'd been asleep a long time, but his mouth wasn't cottony, so he figured the blacked-out interval must have been fairly short. The Enormous Room Flowers in dense cottony heads; plants more or less white-woolly 79, in COMPOSITAE, p. The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State It was a stood sight to see old Earth, bundled up in her cottony clouds, growing larger and larger in the television disc. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 Veil very evident—at least in a young state—as a felty coating, which breaks up during expansion of the pileus into patches, cottony, squamulose, fibrillose or mealy. European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae "Of course," the Earthling agreed weakly, licking cottony lips. Skin Game A nest sent me from Lee county, Texas, is compactly built of a cottony weed, a few stems of Spanish moss, and lined with fine grass stems.” Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897 These were at first of a snowy whiteness, cottony and dense, just like large tufts of cotton wool, of considerable expansion, but of miniature elevation. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses Nest composed of cinquefoil vines, grasses, wool and cottony substances; situated on an apple tree branch about 10 feet from the ground. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The mouse gleans and constantly brings in the light down of the willow, grains with cottony crests, and the petals of flowers. The Industries of Animals Fruit small, dry pods in catkins, having seeds, coated with cottony down, which early in the season escape and float in the wind. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination It is a large, meaty, acrid white species, with a thick, soft, cottony tomentum on the margin of the pileus of the young plant. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth The cottony tufts of white mould, which were the first to appear, had an abundant mycelium, but the erect threads which sprang from this were for a long time sterile, and closely interlaced. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses The vedolia attacked the cottony scale with intense vigor, and everywhere killed it. Our Italy I ought to have expected this: had I not just seen them wandering without pause upon the everlastings enveloped with cottony flock? The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Base of stem sometimes with white cottony threads, especially in damp situations. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. The stem is hollow, with a soft cottony pith in the young plants. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth On breaking it open the edible portion of the fruit is seen, consisting of 6–18 seeds covered by a white, sweet pulp, cottony in appearance, of a delicious slightly acrid flavor. The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Some foreigners put in glass windows in place of the thick, cottony paper windows of the Chinese. Peking Dust At a certain time these little insects lay thousands of eggs, and their bodies become covered with a cottony moss, which is intended as a shelter for their young. Adventures of a Young Naturalist It is easily recognized by the reddish cottony layer of mycelium threads which cover the entire plant when young, and form a veil which covers the gills at this time. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. He has a little shrivelled face, looking as if it had been in the fire, and a short cottony beard, like moss on an old stone. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Shrapnel leisurely unfolded its cottony coils overhead and the iron helmets rang under the hail. Barbarians Up and down, in and out, here and there, into every chink and crevice, rolled the blue-white incense-cloud, dense as the cottony puff at the mouths of the guns in Vernet's "Siege of Algiers." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 It is one of the smallest of its tribe—the nest being also of a proportionate size, formed of various delicate fibres, such as spider’s webs and cottony down, and covered with lichens. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America One of the molds, so common on bread, forms at first a white cottony mass of loosely interwoven threads. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. These insects secrete from the surface of the body a downy, cottony substance which conceals the animal, and when they are, as usual, grouped together on the trees, makes them look like patches of mould. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses The antiseptic air that I drew into my lungs was beginning to seem inadequate, I felt slippery all over, and there was a cottony taste in my mouth. Attrition Many are green while some are red or black or covered with a cottony secretion. An Elementary Study of Insects The interior is lined with a cottony substance; and the innermost, with the silky fibres obtained from various plants. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Floccose, term applied to indicate delicate and soft threads, cottony extensions from the surface of any part of the mushroom. Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. He stopped short as he spoke, watching the scuttling away of a rabbit, whose white cottony tail was seen for a moment before it disappeared in a tunnel beneath a hazel clump. Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story Then it was lined with grass, horse hair, a blue jay's feather, some hen's feathers, and some cottony material like lint. Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State Secretion: any matter produced by a gland: in Coccidae, specifically, the waxy, fibrous, cottony or silky substances forming the "scales." Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology The inaja-palm, of various species, produces pellucid pods, from one to two feet in length, containing a row of beans—enveloped in white cottony pulp—grateful to the taste. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The mealy bug inhabits a white, cottony looking mass, which is easily seen. Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse The view plate was full of the cottony whiteness of a cloud heart. Legacy We looked, and could see at least a dozen little fellows that had been scared out of their holes, scuttling about among the stones, their white cottony tails showing quite plainly in the clear air. Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore Sac: in Coccidae, the separate cottony envelope secreted by many species. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Drew was thirsty, so thirsty his tongue was a cottony mass in his mouth. Rebel Spurs It also eats other weed seeds but the greatest thing to be said in its favor is that it feeds on the cottony maple scale. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Fruit.—Capsules ovate, rough, short-stalked; seeds densely cottony. Handbook of the Trees of New England Through the whole room, it seemed, swept a curious cottony sense of Something-About-to-Happen! Peace on Earth, Good-will to Dogs The question of litter while of importance with city street trees does not matter so much in the case of highway trees, but the cottony seed from poplars is very objectionable anywhere. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twelfth Annual Meeting Lancaster, Pennsylvania, October 6 and 7, 1921 Though there was no cottony mist as had enclosed them the night before, there was an odd muting of sea and sky, limiting vision. Key Out of Time I had waked up with a kind of cottony feeling in my throat, and as hot coffee and toast didn't seem to help it, I made an examination with a hand-mirror after breakfast. The Fifth Wheel A Novel Winter Buds and Leaves.—Buds not viscid, cottony. Handbook of the Trees of New England They appear late in March, being green above, with an undersurface which is white, and cottony. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure Ah, yes, an alder branch, with a white, cottony substance on it. The Insect Folk The ants were fetching the cottony dried blossom of a withered plant, and were amazingly busy. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government Stem 1 to 3 inches long, ¼ to ⅓ inch thick, growing thicker toward the base, as if it had a bulb, white, hollow, but stuffed with a cottony pith. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners I have seen a young grub, hatched under my eyes, eat as his first mouthfuls this tender cottony layer, which is moist and flavoured with tannin. Social Life in the Insect World In some rural districts the cottony leaves of Henbane are smoked for toothache, like tobacco, but this practice is not free from risk of provoking convulsions, and even of causing insanity. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure It is not easy to separate them from their cottony covering without crushing them, but now we can see quite well with the magnifying glass—and yes—you see they are little insects. The Insect Folk The cottony appearance does not show until the second year and then the scale has really done its injury. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 At first it looks like a cottony knot, closely covered; its apex is closed by a membrane, then its covering is thrown off, and the apparent tiny eggs are merely smaller envelopes, called the peridiola. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners The egg, as I have said, is always at the base of the acorn, in the midst of a soft cottony layer which is moistened by the sap which oozes from the stalk. Social Life in the Insect World The breakers were racing in, and after crumbling, they scudded, a film of green, crested by cottony white, across the hard sand to the young man's feet. Visionaries The under north-west stratum of clouds is composed of fluffy cottony masses, the edges spread out as if on an electrical machine—the upper or south-east is of broad fields like striated cat's hair. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi From the southeast little fluffs of cloud, little cottony flecks white as virgin snow, sailed before the wind that mothered the swells. Poor Man's Rock Fungi with the outside covering bowl-shaped of one cottony layer, Crucibulum, the Crucible. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners Her black hair was crowned with a low, compact turban,—a purple and white twist of some fine cottony substance, striped with gold. Idolatry A Romance The insect is deep purplish brown in colour, and the well-known bluish white cottony material naturally exudes from it. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition They are complete Negroes, for it is added that their complexion is of a fine black, that their hair is black, frizzled, cottony, and of extreme fineness. History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens In oriental countries, especially Japan, a peculiar, tough, cottony paper is produced. What Philately Teaches A Lecture Delivered before the Section on Philately of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, February 24, 1899 Upon the growing part of the stem, the spines are intermingled with long, white, cottony hairs, often matted together like an unkempt head; these hairs fall off as the stem matures. Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation Our anti air-craft guns opened on him, and we could see the shells bursting with little cottony puffs all around. A Yankee in the Trenches Mealy Bug may be known by its mealy, floury, or cottony appearance. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition But how common is it to see the children gayly caparisoned in silk and feathers and flounces, while the mother is enveloped in an atmosphere of cottony fadiness! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 A "whitish, cottony sediment" was formed at the bottom, with a thin film of the same kind at the top. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 You would see an airplane hovering, and then, close by, suddenly, a ball of cottony white smoke. A Minstrel in France Another nod, another "Whr-r-row?/" from somewhere behind us, and this time the cottony puff was just short of the clump of trees where the Russians had concealed their battery. Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Then, just at sundown, a beautiful cloud-bridge grew up and arched the sky with a single span of cottony pink vapor, that changed and deepened color with the dying of the iridescent day. Chita: a Memory of Last Island Most of the species have brilliantly colored flowers and cottony leaves, which may have anciently answered as wicks for lamps. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L So sprinkled was the pasture with rag-baby blossoms and the cottony herb of Indian tobacco that it spread out like a rare old Persian carpet of cream and rose and delicate green. Main Street He laid down the book with reluctance, thinking the envelope contained some advertisement of slaty coal for his kitchen-fire, or cottony silk for his girls' dresses. Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 Now his feet becoming entangled in the cottony fibres wound about the scaly armor, and a bristling bodyguard thrusting spears at him in his struggles to escape, death happily releases him. Wild Flowers Worth Knowing We first see a low and regular wall of cloud-bank whose coping bears here and there bulges of white, cottony cloud. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Shake not thy cottony locks at me, thou pale-faced "Bobbin Boy!" Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs We mortals have a strange spiritual chemistry going on within us, so that a lazy stagnation or even a cottony milkiness may be preparing one knows not what biting or explosive material. Daniel Deronda I know the nature of that theology, too truly styled cottony, which is displayed in the clerical columns of the New York Observer. The Uprising of a Great People The United States in 1861. to Which is Added a Word of Peace on the Difference Between England the United States. The spawn should be compact, white on all sides and cottony. Free from School Belts from three to four inches broad, of the most delicate cottony substance, were chosen as the ground of this important part of female attire. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 A pink-flowered Arenaria, two kinds of Corydalis, the cottony Saussurea, and diminutive primroses, were the most conspicuous.* Himalayan Journals — Complete A pink-floweerd Arenaria, two kinds of Corydalis, the cottony Saussurea, and diminutive primroses, were the most conspicuous.* Himalayan Journals — Volume 2 Tepid wind, and cottony white clouds,—cirri climbing up over the edge of the sea all around. Two Years in the French West Indies His head ached and throbbed, his tongue and throat felt dry and cottony; he seemed to have been wandering in a weary land for a long time, for no definite reason, and he was thirsty. The Long Chance And sure enough, it had that altogether loose appearance, with those wind-torn, cottony appendages hanging down from its darker upper body which are sure to bring snow. Over Prairie Trails He sprang from the bed and danced a tarantella, pranced in his cottony nightgown like a drunken Yaqui. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Upon the white cottony stem was an assemblage of these little animals, green, brown, yellow, and transparent, all plump, singularly alike, grave, immovable, like a Roman senate. Piccolissima "Something cottony in that cloth of yours," she said. In the Days of the Comet The curious weapons shot small arrows, tipped with tufts of a cottony substance in place of feathers, and could be sent for a long distance. Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land Again a cloud had torn loose from that squall-bag on the horizon, and again it showed that cottony, fringy, whitish under layer which meant snow. Over Prairie Trails But on arid ground, the Micropus erectus, or upright micropus, abounds and is a satisfactory substitute for the Filago so far as its tiny, cottony leaves and its little fluffy balls of flowers are concerned. Bramble-Bees and Others Stem: 1 to 2 1/2 ft. high, unbranched, cottony when young. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors With the Johnsons I am afraid I lost many opportunities; the tone was gray and cottony, I might almost say woolly. A Bundle of Letters But how common is it to see the children gaily caparisoned in silk and feathers and flounces, while the mother is enveloped in an atmosphere of cottony fadiness! Gala-days Clematis, with head lowered close to Flopit's, perceived something peering at him from beneath the tangled curtain of cottony, violet-scented stuff which seemed to be the upper part of Flopit's face. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William A few long sprigs of another cottony plant, the Helichrysum staechas, or wild everlasting, inserted here and there, will give body to the structure. Bramble-Bees and Others While there is a chance of nectar being pilfered from the flowers by ants, the stem is cottony and ensnares their feet. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors A cottony mouldiness extended round its head; and in the corners of its eyelids might be seen little red specks which appeared to move. Salammbo I had caught sight of a sort of white, cottony ball among the branches. Bramble-Bees and Others Presently, a nest being filled, the mother emits a substantial froth at the end of her ovipositor, and proceeds to construct the cottony, corrugated dome over her nursery which first attracted our attention. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors We must distinguish between two genera in the Shrike's rough classification: the cottony plants and the smooth plants. Bramble-Bees and Others Leaves: Large, the lower ones often 1 ft. long, broadly ovate, entire edged, pale or loosely cottony beneath, on hollow petioles. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors What mean the little cottony tufts all along the stems of so very many bittersweet vines, but that these have foes as well as friends? Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Occasionally one finds the cottony nursery domes of this little hopper on the locust tree - the favorite home of its big, noisy relative, the so-called locust, or cicada. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors Now his feet becoming entangled in the cottony fibers wound about the scaly armor, and a bristling bodyguard thrusting spears at him in his struggles to escape, death happily releases him. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors The delicate skin of the larvae needs a well-padded cradle; and the mother collects the softest materials that the cottony plants provide. Bramble-Bees and Others |
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