| 单词 | excrescence |
| 例句 | Metaphorical journeys are so commonplace as to be pretty much unavoidable, though that's no excuse for such bureaucratic excrescences as "direction of travel" and "going forward". Rules for writing: block that metaphor! 2013-05-23T14:40:46Z Jewels are to art what celebrities are to society, at best an ornament, more commonly an excrescence. At the Met, the artistic riches of India’s Deccan Plateau 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The ceiling was unbreached, the man said, and added, a little starchily, that the excrescence clearly was what it appeared to be. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z “Do you take this excrescence to be your husband?” Style Invitational Week 1388: Turning around a business 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z It is a form that one dares not mar with the excrescence of a grip. Design: Some Handles Go Into Hiding; Others Make Grand Entrance 2011-07-03T03:27:01Z Along comes cultural critic Ben Yagoda to argue that “Doggie,” far from being a one-off excrescence, was an all-too-typical product of its time — that benighted era of “novelty numbers, lachrymose ballads, simplistic jingles, hillbilly hokum.” ‘The B-Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song’ 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z “You’re talking about excrescences,” she said with a laugh, using a word more likely to apply to tumors or warts than to appealing detailing. Reviving the Joy of Decoration at Nike’s New SoHo Building 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Contemporary dramaturgy is committed to the ahistoric piety that only the singing and drama matter, that scenic design and spectacle are merely excrescences of the melodramatic mind-set. Review | Pared down and dumbed down, ‘Don Carlo’ still dazzles at the Kennedy Center 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z If the pronoun police of Wisconsin’s Kiel Area School District were just another woke excrescence on American education, they would be merely local embarrassments. Opinion | When the pronoun police come for eighth-graders 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z One British news report from the era featured an interview with a bloke on the street who described it as “an abortion — it’s an excrescence.” For Pompidou architect Richard Rogers, Los Angeles was inspiration and cautionary tale 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z To press a button and see your own excrescence appear in the preordained format, minted, can feel like a kind of magic. Infinite scroll: life under Instagram 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Things didn't improve from there, with the Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017. How Mrs Brown's Boys became a critic-proof hit 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Things didn't improve from there, with The Observer calling it "shameless excrescence" in 2017. How Mrs Brown's Boys became a critic-proof hit 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z "This should embarrass absolutely everyone who votes yes on such an excrescence," wrote typographer Michael Everson in a response to the proposal. Sad poop emoji gets flushed after row 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Its head is a sculptural confection of broken cycles, its rear a writhing excrescence of black rubber loops. How China’s artists made sense of their country 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z What is shared by most of those who are opposed to anything but regret for 1917 is the conviction that the later excrescence of Stalinism was the inevitable outcome of the revolution. Why does the Russian revolution matter? 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z “It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man.” Truth, beauty and annihilation: my quest for chess mastery | Stephen Moss 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z But Trumpism isn’t just a triumph of marketing or the excrescence of a personality cult. Hillary: The Conservative Hope 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z There was a listing for AOI’s annual Washington’s Birthday celebration, along with ads for all manner of patent medicines: tonics and ointments to cure catarrh, consumption, bronchitis, vascular excrescences . On its birthday, this D.C. history group gave some big gifts. 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z France, for instance, has banned GM, and Gauloises-smoking, beret-wearing toughs now patrol French fields to ensure that the excrescence of GM never sullies la belle France again. What is TTIP and why should we be angry about it? 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z But Miloševic complained to the Contact Group’s negotiator, an American, Robert Frasure, that the safe areas constituted “a monstrous excrescence” within Serbian territory. How Britain and the US decided to abandon Srebrenica to its fate 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Every muddy outhouse had a small pile of old school notebooks inside it, each excrescence cleaned by the leftovers of math homework or French grammar before falling into the breach. Gamergate And The Unbearable Maleness Of Computers 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Here are ladies' noses eaten away at by chancres, or gentlemen's foreheads and cheeks covered with warty excrescences. From weeping warts to leprosy: the gruesome art of medical illustration 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Why should we feel nostalgic about the demise of an excrescence of capitalism? HMV and the death of the British high street: why do we care? 2013-01-15T19:13:00Z We have, indeed, only a hideous human face with a marginal excrescence of leafage. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z Bill elongated, thick, hollow, deflexed, the margins obtusely crenated, with excrescences of various forms placed on the upper mandible. Zoological Illustrations, Volume III or Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals 2012-04-20T02:00:06.887Z An excrescence or appendage at or about the hilum of a seed. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z The woman who was to perform the operation sat down on the floor, made the little girl seat herself before her, and without any preparation, cut off the excrescence just described with an old razor. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z But there was another and a sadder use for words, in the task of resisting the heresies that seemed to grow like foul excrescences from the very growth of the Church herself. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The grotesqueness of some of these sepulchral excrescences may in future centuries be still more apparent, though to many even time cannot supply interest. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z The surgeon deals essentially with the swelling, which, producing irregularities in the outline of the accessible surfaces of the body, is regarded as an excrescence or outgrowth. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Properly fitted boots and shoes, together with frequent bathing, will best secure the feet from the torturing excrescences by which poor mortals are so often afflicted. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z Corky excrescences on leaves occur occasionally in the Gooseberry, Holly and other plants, for which no cause has been discovered. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z These Fuegians appeared to think the excrescences which grow on the birch trees, like the gall-nuts on an oak, an estimable dainty. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The Chinese quarter is barbarous; it is exotic; it is extraneous; it is a mere accidental excrescence on New York. Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color 2012-02-20T03:00:20.550Z His tumor is therefore a morbid growth, a new formation, a neoplasm or pseudoplasm, rather than a swelling, a bunch, or an excrescence. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z They say he may at any moment, as the excrescence in his throat may increase, and then he would suffocate. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Small irregular excrescences on Willow stems are referred to Phytoptus, and another species of the same insect induces similar swellings on Pines which are not surcharged with resin. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z Professor Briggs wishes to free the Old Testament from interpolations, from excrescences, from fungus growths, from mistakes and falsehoods. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:47.297Z Disregarding all the accidental excrescences of the doctrine, Cynicism must be regarded as a most valuable development and as a real asset in the sum of ethical speculation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Another irregularity of the pock is what is familiarly termed the raspberry excrescence. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Ul′min, a dark-brown gummy substance exuded from excrescences in the elm, oak, &c., and present in peat, vegetable mould, &c.; Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Cankers—Burrs—Sphaeroblasts, and other excrescences of woody tissues—Witches' Brooms. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z Proud′-flesh, a growth or excrescence of flesh in a wound.—adjs. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) 2012-01-30T03:00:13.887Z Where an excrescence has to be extirpated, the people can use the knife themselves. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z Thus Homer describes; this is the mystery, without which the most exquisite description becomes an excrescence, and only clogs and wearies the indignant and disappointed reader. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume I (of 3) 2012-01-18T03:00:13.193Z Occasionally a knob or excrescence, formed by the residue of the glass beyond the point at which the base has been pinched together, remains as a silent witness of the process. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z Cankers are irregular excrescences due to the perennial struggle between tissues attempting to heal up a wound, and some organism or other agent which keeps the lesion open. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z It has neither warts nor other excrescences, and is found in shallow water on the coral flats, and frequently also among the sea-tangle along the shore. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-03T03:00:07.630Z The wart-like excrescences that result are arranged in lines with intervals of about an inch, in half-moons or curves, or in concentric circles. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z It was easy to see that the right lateral wall was covered to an extent of from three to four centimeters with thick masses of verrucous and fungiform excrescences. Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. 2011-12-26T03:00:15.410Z Epithelial cancer of the cervix may assume a proliferating ulcerative type, forming the well-known “cauliflower” excrescence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Galls and similar excrescences result from the hypertrophy of young living tissues pierced by the ovipositors of various insects, and irritated by the injected fluid and the presence of the eggs and larvae left behind. Disease in Plants 2012-03-01T03:00:22Z O'Byrn told himself fiercely that it could not be, that earth must long since have wearied of such an excrescence and cast it forth to annihilation. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z In the next stage a soft warty excrescence, which is the matrix of the sore, pushes its way through the true skin by forcing it aside rather than breaking down its substance. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z It is a part of the very fiber of her national being, and not an excrescence, as is our standing army. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z Then little things peep out, selfishnesses—like ugly excrescences upon the smooth surfaces you fancied were rather fine and noble. The Stronger Influence 2011-12-02T03:00:23.630Z A form of “Moloch horridus,” bristling all over with polygamous excrescences, and cruel sharp-pointed spines, ever ready to thrust their awful venom into the unoffending human species. Islam Her Moral And Spiritual Value A Rational And Pyschological Study 2011-11-25T03:00:15.820Z In the rare instances where vitality is the ground-quality, readers forgive all kinds of excrescences and defects, as they did twenty years ago in Mr. Kipling, and later, for example, in Jack London. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z It was an excrescence upon the religious and social system, and it might have been swept away without disturbing them in any way. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z And from its middle branch it made him a war club, and from a gall, or excrescence, which grew on its limb, it made him a vah-quah, or canteen. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z As soon as the campsite had been decided upon, the two guides told the scouts to clear away all excrescences from the ground. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z Water, 1 quart Whenever any fungous excrescence makes its appearance between the claws, apply powdered bloodroot or burnt alum. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z Coarseness is the inevitable excrescence of superabundant vitality, just as effeminacy is the danger limit of delicacy and refinement. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z I love Beatrice; yet more tenderly Unto her bosom mine affections cling, The more this parasite, this foul excrescence Preys on my vitals, wastes mine healthful spirit, Poisoning life's current even at its source. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z Breeding males lack nuptial excrescences on the thumbs. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca 2011-10-24T02:00:14.853Z Warty excrescences on old trees and twisted roots furnished the inlayer with small but beautifully veined and very hard pieces, beautiful in veneer work when polished. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z It acts on fungous excrescences, and is a good substitute for nitrate of silver in the dispersion of all morbid growth. The American Reformed Cattle Doctor 2011-11-14T03:00:19.813Z All round the ends of the twiglets, clustering beneath last year’s leaves, is first seen an excrescence, not unlike that on the beak of a carrier pigeon. The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z Their punctures produce warty excrescences, the limbs become sickly, the leaves turn yellow and drop off, and the whole tree perishes as the insects spread over it. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z We venture to predict, however, that its reign is drawing to a close; for the eyes of the whole nation are now fixed upon it, and its excrescences are discovered! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z The bark is reddish brown, deeply furrowed between rough scaly plates, marked by hard, warty excrescences. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z I had to laugh at the curt way in which he disposed of spiritualism and all its excrescences. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z The count became more guarded in his language, and more prudent in his behaviour, while he set aside the most objectionable excrescences of doctrine and practice that had begun to show themselves in the community. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z 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 One side of Place Victor forms part of the line of the third side of this triangle; but the Place itself is an excrescence from it: it is a large handsome square with arcades. Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith 2011-09-09T02:00:59.237Z Trees become distorted with warty excrescences and the lumber is riddled with burrows made by the larvae. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The adhesion is not produced by sticky matter but by numerous transverse lamellae, each of which is further beset with tiny hair-like excrescences. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" 2011-09-02T02:00:20.450Z Zinzendorf's monarchical prerogative was surrendered to the eldership, and Spangenberg prudently secured the withdrawal of all excrescences and extravagances. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Hard, dry chinks and flaws rent the soil asunder, and as the earth's pangs increased, the hills, the rocks, and the bark of every tree were coated with livid moulds and hideous, sallow excrescences. Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z Perhaps he is an anti-Semite, breathing death and destruction in the newspapers; perhaps now we Jews are the excrescences that need removing from Europe's shapely nose. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z These warty excrescences are eagerly bought by special agents for cabinet-makers. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z An American Aphid of the genus Pemphigus produces black, ragged, leathery and cut-shaped excrescences on the young branches of the hickory. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z They are remarkable for their dark spores developed in gall-like excrescences on the leaves, stems, &c., or in the fruits of the host. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Perhaps you will see it alight upon an alder twig on or above which you are likely to notice curious woolly white excrescences. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z Upon the bark of the ash are innumerable little excrescences which when rubbed exude a small quantity of red juice. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z The bill's many excrescences include assaults on fragile species, including grey wolves and Pacific salmon, America's remaining wilderness lands and the very air we breathe. The EPA: the Tea Party's next target 2011-08-03T18:00:00Z Their insect origin appears to have been entirely unsuspected until within comparatively recent times, though Pliny, indeed, makes the observation that a kind of gnat is produced in certain excrescences on oak leaves. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z So-called physical phenomena are a comparatively modern excrescence on the main growth. Occultism and Common-Sense 2011-07-16T02:00:14.303Z What surprises me most of all is the number of useless excrescences with which the author has encumbered his piece. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z It is a significant fact, as shewing the purpose of the above-described projections and excrescences, that these were covered with blood, and were scored and abraded in an extraordinary manner. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z Then, to the ruin of the simile, the artillery-schools, the aviation-fields, and the base hospitals made excrescences on the handle, so that an apter symbol would be a large and unshapely string of beads. Our Army at the Front 2011-06-26T02:00:07.933Z Its digressions are never excrescences, its episodes are never detached from its main purpose, its form is never arbitrary and accidental, but is always the systematic and deliberate expression of its substance. Dante Six Sermons 2011-06-24T02:00:17.117Z The only thing resembling the obsolete excrescences that would be admitted into a modern 'establishment' is a mullioned window, my good sir! Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z They have also hemispherical bowls, with handles, generally made of the hard knotty excrescences of the birch. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland 2011-05-10T02:01:00.460Z Again: he is charged, as above, with adding to his apparent perfidy a superfetation of insolence, an accretion or excrescence of insult. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z But we may well fail to imagine the conversation in which such anecdotes could have a part, not as excrescences but one in texture with the rest. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z We have all our little peculiarities, excrescences of character which are apt to rub roughly against our neighbours' sensibilities, let us not, when feeling these drawbacks, forget our own. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z By the artists of the time of Pericles it was considered as an excrescence,16 indicated by few and rude lines, and subordinated in every particular to the principality of the features and person. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z Exosto'sis, in medicine, an excrescence or growth from one of the bony structures of the body. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z But now a Hunnic arrow pierced the excrescence on his throat. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z In one box, Silas saw about forty or fifty perfect pearls, free from all excrescences, with perfectly smooth surfaces, and possessing a brilliant even lustre. The Second String 2011-04-08T02:00:07.383Z With the exception of the enlargement of Master Fenton's part, Nicolai's librettist sticks closely to Shakespeare's text; but there are occasional excrescences, mostly harmless. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z So, secretly they found the right bole of the tree where an excrescence grew and it was cut out. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z The octagonal tower of the west has, in its higher story, been replaced by an ugly dome-shaped excrescence surmounted by an enormous gilded cross which is by no means beautiful. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Its food consists exclusively of ants, that construct huge earthy nests high up among the branches or against the trunks of the trees, where they present the appearance of grotesque excrescences. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Her long boat, amidships, was rather an ornament than an excrescence, as in most merchantmen. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 2011-02-02T03:00:22.253Z “O Frenchman, remove the excrescence that grows So horribly tight on the bridge of his nose, And home to your friends you shall safely return Instead of remaining among us to burn!” Wayside Weeds 2011-01-23T03:00:17.230Z A group of children were playing ball with a woody excrescence which they had found in the bole of a tree. The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z This perhaps was fortunate; otherwise they might have been topped with such an excrescence as looms up over the doorless west fa�ade. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Many kinds lead an arboreal life, and their nests may be seen sticking like huge excrescences to the trunks of the forest-trees, and as often suspended from the branches. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z Modern sides, army classes and engineering classes grow up as excrescences upon an originally classical type, with the waste of power that results from loss of consistency and concentration of purpose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z I try to keep my mind off it by drilling with the Shrewsbury last line of volunteers and training down the excrescences of my physical style. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z And I see an excrescence of some sort protruding from Severance's. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z I conceive these excrescences to be caused by some minute insects. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z I had two miraculous cures: one would cause to disappear from the human nose pimples, warts and all other disfiguring excrescences; the other would transform silver into gold. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Let us, therefore, flee from both; knowing that the manners of this corrupt age are like baneful excrescences, which consume the vital sap of a tree, and, in a short time, cause it to wither. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z The flies which produce the excrescences named gall-nuts, and the worms from which come the dipterous insects, so diversified in their forms, manners, and places of abode, occupy the fourth volume. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History In disgust at these rotting excrescences of damp weather, Hertha strode over them and struck into the thick of the thorny shrubs, which sorely thwarted her progress. The Undying Past Again there are so many legends that have gathered around the great lyrics of the ages, many of them generally accepted, that it becomes a painful process to get rid of these excrescences. The Story of Our Hymns Then in the same second they both went out, at a point where the overhead excrescences made it difficult to stand upright. Witching Hill Pull aside the tawdry excrescences, Mr. Briarfield, and all places are alike, all men are alike. The Man Who Rose Again They become at once an integral part of the structure instead of the unsightly excrescence which the presence of a sleeping-porch so often proves. Remodeled Farmhouses It's a trick of memory, no doubt, but these excrescences of yours don't seem nearly so large as they did yesterday. The Wonderful Visit It dwells only in little minds and pinches them as dandy boots do the feet—covering them with excrescences as painful as corns and chilblains. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Here and there a willow stump stretched its gnarled excrescences into the fog-laden air, all saturated with moisture and glistening with the drops which hung in long rows on its bare branches. The Wish A Novel Those independent rulers who establish themselves for a space on the confines of China are mere ephemeral excrescences; birds of passage who must betake themselves away, if they can, when their little hour has struck. The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar We alighted almost in front of a quaint building which looked like an excrescence—a wart—on the visage of a dilapidated chapel. Love's Usuries Fleda, dismayed, could see the thing—something glazed and piped, on iron pillars, with untidy plants and cane sofas; a shiny excrescence on the noble face of Poynton. The Spoils of Poynton This excrescence, which should only be covered by a thin layer of soil, stores up nutriment for the plant’s use, in much the same way as a hyacinth or daffodil does. Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them There was a little spot, or excrescence, on the brick near the seam of the corner. Shadows of Flames A Novel Forward from that stack her body stretched five 180 hundred feet to her bow without excrescences and without apertures. The Women of Tomorrow If we succeed not in the immediate restoration of her rights, nevertheless we are contented if the excrescence of the adversary does not increase in growth. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle The chalice was deep enough to hold two gallons of liquid, the pistil was red, and the supporting stem was gnarled and irruptive with excrescences. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes Population gathered about the southern front, probably using the material of the old city of Yenking, and the excrescence so formed was, in 1544, enclosed by a wall and called the “outer city.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" “I should like to be a bird,” said Fin, placing one foot on an excrescence of a stumpy pollard oak, and, making a jump, she caught hold of a low bough. Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One However, taking advantage of every excrescence in the rock likely to afford passing foothold, Renshaw accomplished the descent in safety. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt She was very comfortable, and plump, and placid, was Mrs. Wix, and Jonathan Reuben was merely an excrescence upon her scheme of life. Young Wallingford Nevertheless, all these things are but excrescences and not germane to the main theory, and they will doubtless correct themselves by the constant self-evidence of their absurdity or evil tendencies. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) Around these excrescences grow creeping thorns, long-pointed, without flowers or leaves, which, intertwining spirally, surmount them with a sort of net-work cap. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Besides, a hole, an excrescence in the ground, a false step, anything, and he would be at their mercy. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley They consider that the child is the expression of the feminine personality, while after the child's birth, the husband becomes a mere excrescence. The Intelligence of Woman The handsome contour of Madame G's face has been spoiled by an excrescence like a raspberry on her nasal organ. Every-Day Errors of Speech The meat, as it fell out, wore a portion of skin, remarkable for prickly excrescences, and hinting that I was about to batten on the relics of a young porcupine, or at least peculiar pork. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday If these excrescences are removed in time, the mules are saved, and recover by degrees their original vigour; if not, they pine for a few days, and then die. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] It was a kind of excrescence on the natural formation of the ground, which was there smooth. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley It stood in the midst of the solitary plain—an obscure block, a hideous but symmetrical excrescence; a high square mass with right-angled corners, like an immense altar in the darkness. Toilers of the Sea It would be an act of justice to the memory of Jocelin if these trivial excrescences were removed. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See The bulky, blue excrescence changed the rifle from a thing of beauty to one of murder. Assassin There is a curious white excrescence on each side the column, dotted with scarlet. The Woodlands Orchids The Spanish Conquest, antedating the divisions that followed the reformation, has no such covert for their lustful excrescences. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation From the spot to which he had climbed, Gilliatt saw more distinctly the rocky excrescence which partly covered the plateau of the Great Douvre. Toilers of the Sea Chapels, furnishings, pulpits, trascoro, choir stalls, glazing, all belong to later times, as well as the sixteenth-century mutilations of the front and the various exterior Renaissance excrescences. Cathedrals of Spain The real genius, which exists in several of this whimsical school, I trust, will at length lead them to prune their excrescences, and reform their youthful eccentricities. Coelebs In Search of a Wife What my good friend started, dwelt upon me after I came home this evening, and led me into an inquiry with myself, whence should arise such strange excrescences in discourse? The Tatler, Volume 3 And, indeed, on my right hand, just below the thumb, was a not very ornamental excrescence, which everybody could see when I was writing or painting. Eyes Like the Sea This French business, on the other hand, is a nostrum and a mere excrescence. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Bereft of light, of sound, of speech, it spoke through pains and ominous excrescences. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages But once dismissed to the reserve, how many, many thousands of them will naturally turn to the only political party with us which dares to oppose with courage militarism and all its fearful excrescences! A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day There have been excrescences, eccentricities, peculiarities, about the camp of these reformers; but the body of them have been true and noble women, and worthy of all the reverence due to such. Household Papers and Stories He is in a forlorn condition, suffering from itch, with large excrescences growing on his toes. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. These bowls, made of the semicircular excrescences on a species of maple, serve various uses in the cooking line, in a squaw's ménage, along with basins and boxes of the universally useful birchen bark. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement But this talk about 'excessive attention to the article,' and 'particles being often mere excrescences of style,' is of no effect except to expose the writer to ridicule. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford These nameless feline creatures hold what appear to be portions of sheep, one of them having at its flank a curious excrescence like the stinging scorpion of the Mithra groups. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion The snout is furnished with two horn-like appendages; tooth-like features are formed by setting in pellets of clay, and the gills are indicated by a punctured excrescence at the side of the mouth. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 Excessive ulceration sometimes assumes the form of fungous excrescence upon the cornea, appearing to derive its nourishment from loops of blood vessels of the conjunctiva. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle It is one of those excrescences of the human mind that cannot be extirpated. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 And at the other end the glass studio, which was added later still, is also clearly an excrescence. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work Present excrescences or aberrations of belief will have their day and disappear. The Canon of the Bible These were and are the sad excrescences of an otherwise laudable aspiration; but it may be hoped that in course of time the excrescences will disappear. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Every other kind of excrescence attached to this membrane continues firmly adherent to it, and can not be folded and raised from the surface of the cornea in any manner whatever. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle From the outside this excrescence on the Castle has but a poverty-stricken look. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 Manlike he was in every essential, but the skin of his face was a pasty dull gray, and ridged and furrowed with warty excrescences. Slaves of Mercury If one of them be perfect by itself, the other will be an excrescence. Modern Painters Volume II (of V) I had thought the bodies were perfect globes; I could see now that at the rear there was a humplike excrescence across the shoulders. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 For him the charms of scenery, lights, odor, costume, singers, and the subtle voice of the prompter seemed factitious, mere excrescences on the fair surface of art. Melomaniacs Upon certain roots of beans and peas it was noted that there were little round excrescences about the size of a small pin's head. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer Hundreds of feet across, Spud estimated; smooth in appearance from above, but broken with deep crevasses and excrescences where hot, fluid stone had frozen in its moment of bubbling turbulence. The Finding of Haldgren Not in the grand manner, all this; but, if you like, a sign of vitality and interest; a mere excrescence. Another Sheaf Then he undergoes the oddest changes, becomes indeed a mere vegetative excrescence on the stone, secretes a lot of tough muck round himself, and is altogether lost to free oceanic society. Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences Clearing off one excrescence to see two, There's ever a next in size, now grown as big, That meets the knife: I cut and cut again! Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning These excrescences on examination with a microscope proved to be swarming with bacteria of minute dimensions. Little Masterpieces of Science: The Naturalist as Interpreter and Seer What man who has an ugly excrescence on his face does not dread the surgeon's knife, although he knows that momentary pain will be followed by permanent relief? Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 We Britons, as a breed, are admittedly stolid; we err as much on that score as Americans on the score of restlessness; yet we are both subject to these excrescences. Another Sheaf But a laugh, even a satirical laugh, at the expense of excrescences or follies in one's camp, is a very far cry from going over to its foes. Holbein It has strange excrescences and blotches on it. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index The bark of the willow tree burnt to ashes, and mixed with strong vinegar, forms a lixivium which by repeated applications eradicates, warts, corns, and other cutaneous excrescences. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families It is an excrescence, not an essential garment like the shirt and breeches. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand But, having come to see wherein the essence of Christian truth lies in all varieties of pious experience, we know that this doctrine is an excrescence, weakening always the vital power of the gospel. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors On the other hand, in the French system, the jury is really an 'excrescence' introduced by an afterthought. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice The oak and other trees must have borne galls from primeval times, yet they do not produce inherited excrescences; many other such facts could be adduced. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (of 2) It was first noticed in 1878, and was supposed to be some great mountain or excrescence peeping up through the clouds. The Children's Book of Stars The egg-like excrescence under the nucleus turned in hue to pale translucent amber in whose depths the diamond skeleton gleamed with weird brilliance. Devil Crystals of Arret Before the staring gaze of the speechless men an excrescence appeared—a thick bulb on the mass—that protruded itself into a tentacle. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 They had a crystallized system of truth, perfect, symmetrical—it wanted no novelty, no additions; every addition or growth was an imperfection, an excrescence, a deformity. Pioneers of Science The under edge has two notches cut in it, separated by a curved excrescence. How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use The spongy external cuticle, swelling into excrescences, is only used for floats of the fishermen's nets in the island. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. The various Rites of modern Freemasonry, with their fantastic and high-sounding degrees, are comparatively recent excrescences upon the original Craft Masonry. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II The aristocracy, then, was regarded as a sort of cancer, or excrescence of society. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The austere citizen would suppress artists as social excrescences that absorb too much of the sap; but this gentleman is fond of vocal music, and so will spare the singers. Famous Women: George Sand Dalton and such men were no longer necessary to bear from the shores of England the excrescences of royalty. The Buccaneer A Tale He showed us great attention, and, by explanation, smoothed all those excrescences of conventional usages which we did not understand. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition This, to a large extent, must depend upon what part the ornament plays in the melody of the composition, whether it is really an integral part or an artificial excrescence. Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression Snuff also frequently occasions fleshy excrescences in the nose, which, in some instances, end in polypi. The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 This process, at Amboise, consists for the most part simply of removing the vulgar excrescences of the last two centuries. A Little Tour of France The word is applied to the excrescence on the tree as well as to the vessel; a bush hand has been heard to speak of a hump-backed man as `cooliman-backed.' Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The head of the giraffe is furnished with a pair of excrescences, usually called horns, although very unlike the horn of any other animal. The Giraffe Hunters The Cetonia-grub4 has shown us how, with the aid of the hairs and the pad-like excrescences upon its spine, it manages to reverse the universally-accepted usage and to wriggle along on its back. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles They lopped great wads from her past, and huge excrescences from her present, and by the time that she had reached the last act, the audience sat dazed at the delicate beauty of her character. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 We must know how to distinguish the excrescence from the real idea. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts And this leads us to a consideration of the Doomsman himself, that foul excrescence upon our modern body politic. The Doomsman At least, he did whatever was done in the way of governing, and therefore did not sink into a mere excrescence or superfluity. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. They were not even a natural and normal growth, but an offending excrescence, a negative quantity, to be subtracted, not to be added up. Lectures on the French Revolution The art is not an accomplishment, an ornament, an excrescence. Appearances Being Notes of Travel The Cathedral of Seville Your first impression when you walk round the cathedral of Seville, noting with dismay the crushed cupolas and unsightly excrescences, the dinginess of colour, is not enthusiastic. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Like an excrescence on the flank of Mother Earth herself, the mound loomed; like an unhealthy, cancerous growth. The Raid on the Termites Furthermore, we have found these imaginations rooted in all lands, and among men whose culture might have been expected to refuse such fruitless excrescences. Moon Lore During one week, I lived solely on the juice expressed from the cactus leaves, which I procured by stripping the plant of its thorny excrescences and paring the leaves with my knife. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography At Worth, however, in spite of the dignity of the lateral arches, the chapels are still porch-like excrescences, larger in scale than usual, but lower in elevation than the nave. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church They were black, with enormous, knotted, open trunks, swelling with great excrescences, and the foliage was sparse. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Here, too, are those balls which grow as excrescences on the leaves of the oak, and which young kittens love so well to play with, rolling them over the carpet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 It was supposed that the dam swallowed this excrescence immediately on the birth of her foal, and that, if prevented doing so, she lost all affection for it. Notes and Queries, Number 208, October 22, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The bark of the common willow burnt to ashes, mixed with strong vinegar and applied to the parts, will remove all warts, corns, and other excrescences. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources The tower formed a separate building, with quoins complete from the ground, and nave, chancel, and transepts, instead of combining to support it, were mere excrescences from it, entered by arches in its walls. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church The unity of the plan, as a work of art, is lost as you ascend above the eaves, all the rest seeming like excrescences growing out of structures otherwise commendable and satisfactory. Woodward's Country Homes The Church, he thought, had too many of these excrescences already, and, instead of adding another to the number, he would gladly have reduced them all to four. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 It is as if the organism itself were only an excrescence, a bud caused to sprout by the former germ endeavoring to continue itself in a new germ. Creative Evolution The small, soft discolorations and excrescences of the skin, popularly called moles, may be removed by touching them every second or third day with strong acetic or nitric acid, or with lunar caustic. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources This is at once noticeable in elevation, when the chapels are seen to be mere excrescences, with roofs lower than the nave. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church "I am not troubled with those—ah, excrescences." The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets The gray, wrinkled, and almost scaly skin of the reptile formed rolls round its neck of a disgusting appearance—one might almost fancy them unhealthy excrescences. Adventures of a Young Naturalist It is from irregular tube-like excrescences that the eruptions take place. A Girl's Ride in Iceland Nor are these stories a mere excrescence of theology, but theology itself. The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 It is quite clear that the transeptal chapel, being nothing more than an excrescence from the wall of a nave or aisle, is a feature which may be treated with some freedom. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church We wish the reader to emphasize every line and accept it as our own views regarding these treacle-beer would-be-genteel excrescences of our noble race. The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad. They had a crystallized system of truth, perfect, symmetrical; it wanted no novelty, no additions; every addition or growth was an imperfection, an excrescence, a deformity. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 Few of them crawl on the ground; the greater part of them live on the leaves and fruits, or under the bark of trees, in flowers, and in the spongy excrescences of the trees. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 So tremendously powerful a body would reduce the other parts of the constitution to mere excrescences, feeble drags upon the new driving-wheel in which the whole real force would be concentrated. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Here, however, the transepts are not only of different lengths, but the south transept is loftier, as well as shorter, than the north, which is little more than a chapel-like excrescence from the tower. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church The external terrace has spoilt the old one, and is altogether a frightful excrescence, and should never have been made. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I Some of these excrescences are tiny bumps and others develop into large welts that disfigure the anatomy. An African Adventure Near the top of the knoll, on the steepest side, just behind their camp, was a huge rock, like an excrescence, although the rest of the elevation was almost smooth. The Young Berringtons The Boy Explorers One was a boy of fourteen, upon whose face wart-like excrescences were beginning to appear; while a woman, who seemed to be his mother, was hideously swollen and disfigured. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Not until the church had been fully aisled, and afforded no further room for new altars, were chantry chapels usually added in the shape of excrescences from the fabric. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church On close inspection, I found the bush contained numerous warty excrescences, the size and shape of a hickory-nut. Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained “What strange excrescences do grow up on our so-called civilization,” he said. The Cricket They seemed to start and finish abruptly—an excrescence in the all-pervading flatness. Mufti In this case, instead of hideous swellings and fungous excrescences, the limbs gradually dry up and drop off piecemeal at the joints. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland This cheerful excrescence on the face of suffering nature is a native church. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Procter has got a wen growing out at the nape of his neck, which his wife wants him to have cut off: but I think it rather an agreeable excrescence; like his poetry, redundant. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 “Is thee calling the rich an excrescence?” she smiled. The Cricket In a near view of the north side, they form an ugly excrescence against the church, but they are lost in the more distant and general view. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Now, we may suppose that the secretions of certain of these insects caused a swelling to appear where the larvae lived, and on this excrescence the larvae fed. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions Each rounded steel band ran unbroken except for the smooth, almost jointless hinge and the small lock which sat perched on the back of the wrist in a little rounded excrescence like a steel wart. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights The skin of the back and the long stiff tail, instead of being warted like the true toad’s upper surface, is set with thorny excrescences. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America These with sharp sickle or with sharper tooth, Pare each excrescence, and each angle smooth, Till now, in finish'd pride, two radiant rows Of snow white cells one mutual base disclose. Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee A Bee Keeper's Manual The west front of Coutances also is a mass of meaningless breaks and projections, and the form of the towers is completely disguised by the huge excrescences in the shape of turrets. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Dr. Devine very frankly and bravely admits that poverty is an unnecessary evil, "a shocking, loathsome excrescence on the body politic, an intolerable evil which should come to an end." The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg Others there are who have marred the simple and classic beauty of the building with strange excrescences. American Men of Mind Ill-bred boys kicked off portions of the various excrescences, and the tower-wearer was jeered at until she was glad to escape with her own few natural locks. Customs and Fashions in Old New England But he was convinced that in the best interests of the nation they ought to be purged of the excrescences and anomalies which militated against their utility. Punch, or the London Charivari, May 27, 1914 An excrescence is produced round the egg, and the insect, when developed, pierces a hole and escapes. Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer Thus in the Lambert family, before referred to, the porcupine excrescence on the skin began to grow in the father and sons at the same age, namely, about nine weeks after birth. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother He knows that the four winds will bring drifting sand to the spot where his body lies; it will gather and gather, as it does against any excrescence, until his body is well covered. There was a King in Egypt The beak has on the upper mandible an excrescence which in some species is nearly as large as the bill itself. Birds of the Indian Hills All these schemes, from the laughably absurd to the contemptibly mean, should be regarded merely as an excrescence upon the legitimate subscription-book business. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing When she finds that her wax shows her nothing but the natural excrescences and roughnesses of an unhewn stone, will she persist in her visits to the garden? The Forsaken Inn A Novel She bore a child with a fleshy excrescence exactly resembling a lizard, growing from the breast, adhering by the head and neck. Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage Its foot is formed curiously, like that of the camel; and it has also excrescences on its breast, on which it leans whilst sleeping. In the Wilds of Africa In this species the casque or excrescence on the upper mandible is very slight. Birds of the Indian Hills A long tuft of coarse hair grows out of an excrescence on the throat, in the angle between the head and neck. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Sometimes the valves become covered by fibrinous, fleshy, or hard vegetations, or excrescences. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse This was therefore built with her cargo, as were several of the excrescences run out from the ground-floor, while rough stones, and especially wood cast on shore from wrecks, had been chiefly employed. Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars These partake of the nature of excrescences or of exaggerated developments, and hence will be more fully treated of under the head of hypertrophy. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants It was probably the cause of the excrescence, having been, perhaps, thrust under the bark to escape the danger of its apparently political allusion. Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Yet with all these excrescences and defects, the unbounded popularity of the Robbers is not difficult to account for. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works The small, wartlike excrescences occurring sometimes in endocarditis may occasionally form a foundation on which a thrombi may develop. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse He seldom had less than five or six boys at a time with him stowed away in the before-mentioned little excrescences of the mansion. Tales of the Sea And of our Jack Tars These excrescences occur sometimes on the inner surface of the petals, or of the corolla; at other times on the outer surface, as in some gloxinias, &c. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants It may be that the Mississippian backwoodsman, Woodley, could give a better account of these singular excrescences than all the closet scientists in the world. The Death Shot A Story Retold Girls are apt to be found affected with polypoid excrescences at the meatus, which when removed will cause the enuresis to disappear. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance At one time it went all around; later appeared only behind, like an excrescence on a bilbol-tree. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home The tone is not truly philosophic, because the writer habitually regards the notion of a God as an abnormal and morbid excrescence, and not as a natural growth in human development. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. In such cases the hairs are mere excrescences from the epidermis. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants But these tasteless excrescences can easily be removed, the ravages of time reverently repaired, and the grand old edifice restored to its pristine symmetry and magnificence. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Gall: an abnormal swelling or excrescence on a plant, produced by an insect: = cecidium. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology It is pleasant to observe the beauty of their fine-formed feet, uninjured by tight shoes, and free from corns and all excrescences. An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Without use it dries, hardens, and becomes a shelly excrescence upon a foot, benumbed by the percussion of heavy iron upon hard roads. Rational Horse-Shoeing Besides the above varieties of ascidia formed from the union of one or more leaves, there are others which seem to be the result of a peculiar excrescence or hypertrophy of the leaf. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants And the humour is always essential to the delineation of character—it is never an excrescence. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Wart: a spongy excrescence, more or less cylindric, with a nearly truncated tip: the enlarged, common base of a group of seta: in Trichoptera, a pitted elevation. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology From the roots upwards, it has not a single branch or shrubby excrescence, but grows beautifully smooth and straight, tapering towards the top. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852 The garish brick villas of the head of the gulf are excrescences in their lovely garden setting. Riviera Towns The extraordinary tendency in some Begonias to develop leaves or leafy excrescences from their surfaces is elsewhere alluded to, and is, in reality, a species of hypertrophy or over-luxuriant growth. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants So disproportionate was it to the slender ring of the atoll that it showed out upon the sand-strip and above it like some monstrous excrescence. A Son Of The Sun Caruncle: a soft, naked, fleshy excrescence or protuberance. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Not another signal of man was to be seen, nothing but the excrescence on the big wedding-cake house of a Bonanza king. The Californians Disliking, as I do, prefaces and annotations, excrescences which hang loose like the deciduous bark on a plane-tree, I will here notice an omission of mine on Alfieri, in the 'Imaginary Conversations.' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 The knaurs or excrescences which are sometimes found on the roots or stems of trees afford other illustrations of this universal tendency. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The three walked on beneath the spreading branches and the broad, heart-shaped leaves, until they came to a tree of extraordinary height and girth whose roots bulged out into great, smooth excrescences like inverted bowls. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Lobe: any prominent rounded process or excrescence on a margin: specifically, the rounded, tooth-like processes on the margin of the pygidium of the Diaspinae: also applied to lateral expansions of the abdominal segments. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology The ground on which it stands is rocky; and a small garden, composed chiefly of sand, juts out from the stockades like a strange excrescence. Hudson Bay There was a small excrescence or hut on the roof—about ten feet by six in dimensions—which formed—their residence. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story The adventitious petal or scale is an excrescence or an outgrowth from the primary organ, and formed subsequently to it. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The Diamond-field mail was full, but they kindly made room for me, and plastered my portmanteau, like an excrescence, on the other baggage. Six Months at the Cape When grown in the vicinity of the Bush Summer Crookneck, the surface sometimes exhibits the same wart-like excrescences; but there is little difficulty in procuring seeds that will prove true to the description above given. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. The thought of the interminable deserts of "dead" sand and the vast polar ice fields and the monstrous excrescences that we call "mountains" have the same effect. The Complex Vision Behind this, hiding itself as it were and almost invisible, nestled a smaller excrescence or offshoot. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story As a result of injury from insects or fungi, galls and excrescences of various kinds are very common, but their consideration lies beyond the scope of the present work. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Shoes with very long points, full two feet in length, were invented by Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Anjou, to conceal a large excrescence on one of his feet. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Yet here now were living things crawling toward the machine, just like the excrescence at one end but in no way a part of it! Sweet Their Blood and Sticky It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself. Spirit and Music The white ants of the Mauritius generally build their nests in trees, where one of them looks like a huge excrescence of the stem. My First Voyage to Southern Seas Under the above heading are included certain forms arising from excess not of growth, but of development, and consisting in the formation of supplementary lobes or excrescences from various organs. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Lumps and excrescences of various sizes added to the hideous appearance of its head. The South Sea Whaler There is also a ninth tower, which looks like an excrescence, in the rear. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar It has double fins in addition to those on its back, and a long beard-like excrescence hangs from each side of its mouth. With Axe and Rifle This latter is simply an accumulation of excrescences superimposed on the original by individual whim or personal fancy. Style in Singing No special notice need here be taken of the tubercles on the roots of so many Leguminosæ, nor of the peculiar excrescences on the roots of Taxodium distichum, as these appear to be normal formations. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants They are eccentric and accidental, probably also morbid excrescences, thrown out by some individuals of the species in irregular forms and at uncertain times. The Parables of Our Lord The many limpets, too, which had been tight up against the smooth rock, like bosses or excrescences, were visibly raising their shells and standing up, partly detached. Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days It was smooth, moreover, offering neither knot nor excrescence for a foothold. The Castaways They denounced abuses, but they had regarded abuses as removable excrescences on a satisfactory system. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Formation of scales.—These may be mere epidermal excrescences, or they may be the abortive rudiments of leaves. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Although be it remarked in passing, I am not aware of a single such trifling excrescence which we are not able at once to detect and to remove. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels It may be said that these were excrescences or city fashions; that one must not generalize. The New Society In the centre of this grove there stood an oak, which, though shapely and tall on the whole, bulged out into a large excrescence about the middle of the stem. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 Only the queer excrescence on its top moved, and that stirred vaguely. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 Similar productions are met with within the flower, where they may occur as the representatives of sepals, petals, stamens, or pistils, or as mere excrescences. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants The butts ran right up the ridge of that organ; and nine hundred feet above where we sat, just below an excrescence locally known as "The Pimple," lay mine. The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton The coals of oak beaten and mingled with honey, cures the carbuncle; to say nothing of the viscus’s, polypods, and other excrescences, of which innumerable remedies are composed, noble antidotes, syrups, &c. Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees To each was added new rooms, as the necessities of the inhabiting family demanded, and these additions hung like excrescences from all sides of the ugly huts, like toadstools to decaying logs. Rabbi and Priest A Story It was still again, while the queer excrescence on its back moved vaguely and shells burst about it in a very inferno. Morale A Story of the War of 1941-43 "No one," said the Sage; "the first man went about with only one ear; the second man made himself remarkable with three—and the cut-off ear, although alive and successful, felt itself an excrescence." The Damsel and the Sage A Woman's Whimsies It has an excrescence of horn on its brow like an arrowhead, and it arches its back like a bow when it jumps. Oomphel in the Sky They are really digressions, excrescences—beautiful enough in themselves, perhaps, but assuredly adding no beauty to the narrative. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story Loose sugar-loaf excrescences which stud the sea of prairie with a thousand flat-topped islets, and weave the monotony of landscape peculiar to this great continent. On the Heels of De Wet General Grant wished to place at the head of this establishment a business man who could prune off its excrescences and reform its abuses. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Brown’s hat will not go on, for the excrescence, so he cannot go to church. Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. They are, so to speak, pimples of the soul which synchronise with similar excrescences of the skin. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 Past the half-hidden temple of the holy lake they moved leisurely towards the cluster of tents that showed like a pallid excrescence at the forest's edge. The Great Amulet The farms which the brigadier had indicated were situated at the foot of a spur of rocky excrescence which ploughed into the veldt from the north of Minie Kloof. On the Heels of De Wet The flinty excrescences were as numerous as ever, and he never paused in his ascent until prudence whispered that it was wise to take another breathing spell. Two Boys in Wyoming A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) They wore their hair on their shoulders, they sprinkled it with flour; they even went to such lengths as to paint purplish excrescences on their chins and brows. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques Tammany is not a freak, a strange and monstrous excrescence. A Preface to Politics There have been excrescences, eccentricities, peculiarities about the camp of these reformers; but the body of them have been true and noble women, and worthy of all the reverence due to such. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Excessive development may result in an extra finger or toe, or in the production of some peculiar excrescence. Plain Facts for Old and Young Over the whole, depressions and excrescences, was stretched a faded chintz cover. Cape Cod Folks Pope's taste, indeed, tolerated various old-fashioned excrescences which we profess to despise. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Allowing for the distortion of the growths which had formed lumpy excrescences or reached turrets toward the surface—yes, allowing for those—this was decidedly something out of the ordinary! Key Out of Time Catholicism has a basis of Christianity, and, could the excrescences be hewn away, and this foundation be again discovered, then for Roman Catholicism would dawn a new and greater era. A Hero and Some Other Folks After a further lapse of time, little excrescences, buds, or "pads," appear in the proper positions to represent the arms and legs. Plain Facts for Old and Young If it refers to the future, the worker is having our heads off, severing from a fat and uncontrolled corpus a most unpleasant excrescence in a very shiny top-hat. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 It would be absurd to dismiss it as an excrescence, and untypical of the American mind. A Book of Prefaces Water-cresses squeezed and laid against warts were said by the Saxon leeches to work a certain cure on these excrescences. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure A curious excrescence was cut from the tree. New Word-Analysis Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words Having arrived at this place, however, their numerous excrescences are soon pruned away, and their ugliness converted into elegance. Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. His long back, the red shirt drawn taut across its bowed outline, showed the course of his spine in small regular excrescences. The Emigrant Trail By removing these antiquated and incredible excrescences from the real religion of Christ, we shall save the essential faith from the suspicion which their association with it, their fancied identity with it, invites and provokes. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life If the wart, or gland-like excrescence, is seen while transplanting, throw all such plants away, unless your supply is short; in such case, carefully trim off all the diseased portions with a sharp knife. Cabbages and Cauliflowers: How to Grow Them A Practical Treatise, Giving Full Details On Every Point, Including Keeping And Marketing The Crop Touching the excrescences that sometimes appear on trees will cause warts on the hand of the person who touches them. Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk It is the "swollen imposthume" of refinement, an excrescence on culture, a penalty of which we have suffered enough. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 He had often sat there with Carter; but he had always felt himself an excrescence. The Loom of Youth The exemption is the excrescence called Christ Church, which still disfigures the very finest site in the whole town. Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men These excrescences caught whatever breeze was blowing, and made the craft unmanageable. The Story of Cooperstown On Sundays he sometimes puts on a most comfortless felt hat, but that is merely a chance tribute to social usage, and the ugly excrescence does not disfigure Jim's shaggy head for very long. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary It seemed to have nothing to do with the architecture of the Abbey, and indeed to be a sort of excrescence which had been added to it at some later date. A Popular Schoolgirl To-day, in his Sunday broadcloth, with a brilliant blue neck scarf, a brass horseshoe pin, and a large bunch of primroses in his button-hole, he looked a blot, an excrescence, on the sunny earth. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Very soon the little "pear" becomes covered with gnarled excrescences, black and twisted, which disfigure it like so many warts. Social Life in the Insect World Change in him, in whatever direction it seemed to proceed, meant primarily the dropping off of accidental excrescences. Life of Father Hecker My person, with its human powers and features, seem to me a monstrous excrescence of nature. The Last Man The myth appears in countless forms and with innumerable excrescences, but in the main it is in three successive parts. Among Famous Books How has Canada escaped so much of this fungus excrescence of representative government? The Canadian Commonwealth The origin of these knotted excrescences completely deceived me at first. Social Life in the Insect World Three of these turrets were excrescences stuck on, evidently, with an idea of adornment. Contrary Mary There were also the mysterious cedar apples, and the sour-sweet excrescences sometimes found on swamp bushes. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel These three excrescences upon the face of nature comprised the "improvements" of the "Big B Ranch." Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman From New York to Albany there is only an inconsiderable limb or two, and but few gnarls and excrescences. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention One excrescence the more has been formed; as it dries it becomes black. Social Life in the Insect World The meeting was held in a little chapel built out like an architectural excrescence at the side of the great, oblong, wooden structure, with its piercing steeple. By the Light of the Soul A Novel It is the most absorbing of occupations, the least satisfying of desires, an aimless excrescence upon life. Certain Personal Matters The Alps for the astronomer may be an infinitesimal and negligible excrescence; but they were not this to Hannibal or the makers of the Mont Cenis tunnel. A Critical Examination of Socialism Clearing off one excrescence to see two, 740 There's ever a next in size, now grown as big, That meets the knife: I cut and cut again! Men and Women These last matters, however, are rather excrescences than necessary parts of Shiism. The Future of Islam That is only an excrescence on the design, not an organic portion of it. Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 They are ruled and governed without representation, existing as mere nonentities among the citizens, and excrescences on the body politic—a mere dreg in community, and so are we. The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States Then, looking down at the damp excrescence of his coat, as if he noticed it for the first time, "Oh, that!" with a mirthless smile. More William Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him.—Addison. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age Select some large tree with the trunk free from knots or excrescences. Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making Later on, Cuvier removed from it these wilder excrescences, and amplified the basis of observation upon which the underlying theory of the unity of type of the skull throughout the vertebrates was based. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work Most of the boys were gathered near Sam Brierly's Gothic portico, now in unpicturesque ruins and hanging limply to the school front like an excrescence. The Gold-Stealers A Story of Waddy Prune excrescences in the shape of loose statements; if you err in telling a wonderful story, let it be in cutting down rather than in magnifying. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) The removal of excrescences from the judiciary, is the universal demand. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3 They are excrescences if they exist for their own sake only; they are still worse if they interfere with this current of sympathy, if they distract attention to themselves. Inquiries and Opinions Pearls are excrescences found in the shells of a large species of oyster, which are supposed to be produced by a disease of the fish. A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery. With a Short Explanation of Some of the Principal Natural Phenomena. For the Use of Schools and Families. Enlarged and Revised Edition. The head is very big, and the eyes stand out from it on knob-like excrescences. Adventures in Southern Seas A Tale of the Sixteenth Century A child sees such an excrescence, such an offence upon proportion, in an immoderately long nose. On The Art of Reading All beyond this is monstrous: it is out of nature, it is an excrescence, and not a living part of poetry. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 Therefore onely wipe or wash them well, and pick away the black excrescence at the top; and be sure to leave out all the seeds, which are hot. The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened In its older form the tale consisted mainly of what to the modern mind are excrescences—the intrigues, fights, adventures and what not so dear to the mediæval mind. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas How many things had happened since she had last leaned against its uncomfortable excrescences! The Splendid Folly He spoke of it as though it were a cancer or other painful excrescence, the removal of which would be to the sufferer a boon unspeakable. Idolatry A Romance Possibly the excrescence does not so much mark a vestibule as a second shrine, like that which is said to have existed at the foot of the Belus Tower at Babylon. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. The smaller kinds had a round ball or excrescence on one side just below the head. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 The new Lady Rylton plants a very shapely little foot against an excrescence in the wall, and in a second has her knee on the window-sill. The Hoyden Once inside that labyrinth of rocky excrescences, an army might easily be lost, unless every individual man and officer knew the place thoroughly. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front Ah! they may coin money, but that doesn't prevent them from being excrescences on the face of the earth!' His Masterpiece All these are excrescences on the divine design, transient accompaniments of disordered relations between God and man. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII As the barnacles grew larger, the remains of the velella changed into large excrescences, half the size of a walnut. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 Every particle of the flesh had sloughed off, and the leg began to heal not "by first intention" but by unhealthy granulations like excrescences. Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War It would be an excrescence on the very vitals of nature. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character Harvey tried to remove tumours and excrescences by putting the hand of a dead person that had died of a lingering disease upon them till the part felt cold. Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century To the former all that Russification implied was the removal of the obnoxious excrescences of Judaism but not the demolition of the national organism itself. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) It might even be an excrescence upon a perfection. 'Doc.' Gordon And lo! the absurd excrescence goes west in a puff of smoke. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 6, 1917 In silhouette it appeared no normal animal but some weird monstrosity, a misshapen body covered everywhere with odd wart-like excrescences. The Desert Valley These poor people are an excrescence on the body of Ireland which good government, if it does not wholly remove, may reduce nearly to vanishing point. Against Home Rule (1912) The Case for the Union The "Committee of Old Testament Believers" embarked upon the huge task of civilizing the Jews of Poland and purging the Jewish religion of its superstitious excrescences. History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II From the death of Alexander I. until the death of Alexander III. (1825-1894) A bridge crossed the river from the yard and communicated with the mills—a heterogeneous pile of dim, dun colours and irregular roofs huddled together with silver-bright excrescences of corrugated iron. The Spinners From the time she had mounted her horse, the maiden's face expressed great anxiety, which increased as she alighted and entered the singular excrescence we have mentioned. The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century So a public departure from publicly professed principles will always be noticed, because it will be an excrescence or blemish, too large and protuberant, to be overlooked in the moral character. A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Night, the all-merciful, sometimes hides these excrescences from our sight, and sometimes the moon, Nature's bravest liar, paints and moulds them into a fugitive harmony. Doctor Claudius, A True Story The other is a horn worm, some inches in length, as thick as your little finger, of a vivid green color, with a number of pointed excrescences or feelers from his head like horns. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. The "dumb shows" referred to by Hamlet, however, were not so much distinct entertainments as excrescences upon the regular performances of the theatre, interpolations to win the applause of the groundlings. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character If substantial independence of Parliament and the Ministry could be secured, he was willing to allow the King a vague or imaginary headship until in the course of years that excrescence should slough away. Washington's Birthday Accordingly the crown has dwindled away, in proportion to the unnatural and turgid growth of this excrescence on the court. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Excesses and excrescences must not be carelessly dealt with, for they mark the fertility of a soil that raises rank weeds because no gardener has tilled it. The Negro Problem If it were concentric, but had some excrescence. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities These were purely commercial excrescences upon the original work. Daniel Defoe The waves of affluence and successive rise of various members of the family could be distinctly traced in the enlargements and excrescences which contributed to the casual plan and irregular contour of the building. Vanishing England "What you regard, my lord, as excrescences I regard as fundamentals of our Holy Religion." The Altar Steps These, which were for Burke merely the accidental excrescences of a noble ideal, were for them its inner essence; and where they could not reform they were willing to destroy. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham The Water of the excrescence would be diffused, and consequently the excrescence could not exist: b. Readings in the History of Education Mediaeval Universities Thousands passed over, men and women, vague human forms encumbered with queer projecting excrescences of impedimenta. Jaffery Time has worn away his head and limbs to almost unrecognisable blunt excrescences. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 To him the church and school will seem excrescences and superfluities, nor would he grieve to see them obliterated. The Reconstructed School Notwithstanding the lapse of ages, and although its beauties were for centuries hidden beneath a variety of hideous excrescences, it remains to-day one of the best specimens of early Gothic architecture extant. Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 What Luther, however, could put in its place—the word of the Scriptures—although it gave freedom from a hopeless mass of soulless excrescences, threatened on the other hand new dangers. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 The German, in the highest degree susceptible for foreign ideas and forms of thought, repels nevertheless all foreign words and forms of expression as unnatural excrescences. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations His Latin Secretaryship, we infer, was now regarded as an excrescence from the Whitehall establishment, rather than an integral part of it. The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 But many authors reject this useless excrescence of antiquity, and write, enigma, Cesar. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures When the waters of the Hansag chain rose, the muddy undercurrent threw up great mounds of earth, like enormous excrescences on a diseased body. The Nameless Castle The back of her head was weighted down by an immense excrescence in a bag. Real Folks It is true that the dialects of these latter are at the same time full of Turcisms; but these are mere excrescences, which may easily be removed without touching the essential structure of the language. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations Near each village is a graveyard, also forming a mound-like excrescence on the dead level of the surrounding surface. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama The evolutionary side was essential to it; the idea of revolutionary catastrophe is almost an excrescence. The History of the Fabian Society It might be accounted a rather singular coincidence that the bark just above the inscription had put forth an excrescence shaped not unlike a hand, with the forefinger pointing obliquely at the word of fate. Twice Told Tales Man falls upon every thing that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry, or a mushroom can escape him. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant She passed her hand over his forehead till her fingers encountered the excrescence they sought. The Rocks of Valpre The landlord was almost in despair, but he knew not how to get rid of this sea monster and his sea-chest, which seemed to have grown like fixtures, or excrescences on his establishment. Tales of a Traveller That the general legibility of books would benefit by doing away with this mediaeval excrescence appears to admit of no doubt, although the proposal may seem somewhat startling to the general reader. A Librarian's Open Shelf Drinking—conviviality I think they call it—is not merely an excrescence on the life of the middle class—it is the life; and work, thought, study, seemly conduct, are now the excrescences. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour Associated word: accolade. knightly, a. chivalrous, gallant. knob, n. excrescence, boss, lump, tubercle, knop, stud, hard swelling; finial, knosp. knock, v. rap; clash, bump; strike, beat.--n. blow, stroke; rap. knock about. Putnam's Word Book The bull pen had long since been deserted and, with the foreground swept clean of its human excrescence, his purposeless gaze had wandered instinctively toward the promise of the forest-green hills in the distance. Broken to the Plow The grim excrescence seemed to possess a horrible fascination for the multitude. The Dock and the Scaffold Photography itself could never represent what this incomparable mountain, with all its projections converging to it and its interior excrescences, is really like. The Moon-Voyage On the approach of the revolution they seemed, not organs, but excrescences, deformities, and, so to say, superannuated monstrosities. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History A bloated toad, studded with dermal excrescences, was boasting that she was the wartiest creature alive. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull I should have got rid of some excrescences which, being only a layman, I have not taken the trouble to remove, easy as it would have been for me to do so. Recollections of My Youth But if the person deformed hath an excrescence on his breast instead of on the back, he is for the most part of a double heart, and very mischievous. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy Husbands—modern social husbands—are excrescences—they don't count. Murder in Any Degree You've always known it was just so much irrelevant rubbish, just an excrescence, a passing sickness; never, never your real Chris who loves you. Christine "You have confessed that the elder tree cures the quinsy, but you added that it was not because it has in its root a fairy excrescence." The Man Who Laughs Life must be considered as a whole, not merely in its parasitic excrescences. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters The Dwarf Page is also an excrescence, and I plead guilty to all the censures concerning him. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) He was an excrescence, a kind of sarcoma, who wasted her completely. Note-Book of Anton Chekhov After all, before this higher beauty, royal pomp even seems only a coarse excrescence, and all would be better if the accessories of the rendering were very simple. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe He cured sore throat by means of the vegetable excrescence called Jew's ear. The Man Who Laughs Its Berries.—These are useful in removing warts and excrescences, if bruised and laid thereon. The Botanist's Companion, Volume II For a volcanic island its features are not very remarkable; the highest part is a peak or excrescence, 1700 feet high, rising towards the eastern end out of a rather level ridge. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea They adore his supreme skill in thrusting the irritating lancet of his humour into bulging excrescences on the flank of that monstrous pachyderm of Europe, the German. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 1, 1917. They had no idle thoughts and no one without could say their work, for their industry was not in knots and excrescences embayed. Life's Enthusiasms An excrescence of this theory is the foolish story that "Bishop" Heliodorus, being called upon by a provincial synod either to destroy his erotic books or to abdicate his position, preferred the latter alternative. Primitive Love and Love-Stories Because its stem is covered with soft tubercles, or excrescences, which have a crystalline appearance. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number) By tapping also the knotty excrescences of trees they find the fluid, which they suck out. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea The downward bend of the tentacle-surrounded mouth, the curious excrescence at the bend, the tentacles, and the large intelligent eyes, gave the creatures a grotesque suggestion of a face. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories There passed over its surface stripes of color, reddish clouds changing from crimson to green, circular spots that became inflated in the swelling, forming tremulous excrescences. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Otherwise not an excrescence marred the face of nature. Where the Trail Divides At the same period many important sepulchral monuments, probably stigmatized as "excrescences," were taken down and removed to other parts of the church. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains She owes everything to CHRISTIANITY, which Romanism injured and hampered but could not destroy, and which the Reformation freed at least from the worst of those impure and impeding excrescences. Famous Reviews It looked just like a lumpy excrescence on the landscape; at hame we would not even think of it as a foothill. A Minstrel in France Ferragut only knew of his having four or five, but they were hard, crystallized, tenacious, like the mollusks that stick to the rocks and eventually become a part of the stony excrescence. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel These excrescences are easily separated from the sensitive structures beneath, and the exposed surface is seen to be more or less moist, or even exhibiting a slight oozing of blood. Diseases of the Horse's Foot The chief fact of a moose's person is that pair of strange excrescences, his horns. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 A dead failure, as we well remember them,—miserable modern excrescences, which shame the noble edifice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 An excrescence in a flat country—a little hump of ground! A Minstrel in France The other was not an excrescence, but ingrained with the material: not necessarily, indeed,—far from it; but, from the nature of the case, hopelessly so. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 The attempts to lop off excrescences are not, perhaps, always happy. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers I pruned excrescences a little, but otherwise I had no reason for changing her lively and dramatic way of telling her own story. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Written by Herself What this incomparable mountain really is, with all the projections converging toward it, and the interior excrescences of its crater, photography itself could never represent. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon In the N.S. ship as modified the car has been raised to the same level as the engineers' cabin, and all excrescences on the envelope were placed inside. British Airships, Past, Present, and Future Each excrescence on the plain his half-squinted eyes noticed, and with instant skill relegated to its proper category of soap-weed, mesquite, cactus. Arizona Nights Percy thought the excrescence a prolongation of the coccyx, and said that similar instances were seen in savage men of Borneo. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine There is always danger of this excrescence of speech, where the speaker is the umpire, and feels himself at liberty, unreproved, to say what he pleases. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author It is marked by ulceration of the throat and nose and by pustules and soft fungous excrescences upon the surface of the body. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S As freemen, they were an excrescence, an alien element incapable of absorption into the body politic of white men. The House Behind the Cedars One only he saw,—a sleek gray fellow, flattened against a gray dead limb so that he seemed a part of it, a woody excrescence upon the wood itself. The Call of the Wild Bejau describes a woman of forty from whom he excised an excrescence resembling a ram's horn, growing from the left parietal region. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine In this, as in Hamlet, there are the rococo excrescences—yourselves, let us say. The Innocence of Father Brown On observing the ground, I saw that it was raised in certain places by slight excrescences encrusted with limy deposits, and disposed with a regularity that betrayed the hand of man. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea A large tree, covered with those excrescences which are the warts of vegetation, stood a few paces distant from the pile of stones. Les Misérables Oh, my dear child," said Elma, "do you imagine for a moment that that excrescence at the back of your head is fashionable? Wild Kitty This excrescence was ten inches long, and at the time of presentation reproduction of it was taking place in the woman. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Its function was that of a great sandpaper which should clear the way of excrescences, but its worship was to allow a detail to assume a disproportionate importance. The Centaur |
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