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  • By fusing pagan symbols, dates, and rituals into the growing Christian tradition, he created a kind of hybrid religion that was acceptable to both parties.†   (source)
  • There are Vanilla Ice and Chianti Hybrids.†   (source)
  • You know that the new hybrid breeds of chickens fatten so fast that they can't support themselves on their own legs?†   (source)
  • We were so full of wonder at how fast he became American, but he's a hybrid, like the fantasy appliances he wants to build.†   (source)
  • Five months into it and I'm still not sure if the 4th Wave is human or some kind of hybrid or even the Others themselves, though I don't like to think that the Others look just like us and talk just like us and bleed just like us.†   (source)
  • And then the weird hybrid creature.†   (source)
  • It's like he's waiting for me to transform into a hybrid drooling wolf right before his eyes.†   (source)
  • Finally, by accosting strangers for directions (rosy housewives with armloads of flowers, tobacco-stained hippies in wire-rimmed glasses), I retraced my path over canal bridges and back through narrow fairy-lit streets to my hotel, where I immediately changed some dollars at the front desk, went up for a shower in the bathroom which was all curved glass and voluptuous fixtures, hybrid of the Art Nouveau and some icy, pod-based, science fiction future, and fell asleep face down on the bed—where I was awakened, hours later, by my cell phone spinning on the bed table, the familiar chirrup making me think, for a moment, I was at home.†   (source)
  • Worse still, they were Half-Hindu Hybrids whom no self-respecting Syrian Christian would ever marry.†   (source)
  • Within fractions of a second, an out-of-breath elf/goblin hybrid was bobbing at his elbow.†   (source)
  • Johnny told me, his voice very soft, almost melodic, lapsing sometimes into an English too archaic to be understood but far more beautiful to the ear than the hybrid tongue we speak today.†   (source)
  • Most children recognize the hypocrisy of emphasizing a linear, clean and de-sexed past while they confront daily the muddy, uncertain and hybrid truths.†   (source)
  • The other two were driven by harpies, who are basically demonic human/chicken hybrids with bad attitudes.†   (source)
  • On his ranch, he had a special hybrid of deer that he bred with American whitetail deer.†   (source)
  • It was unlikely that the three Amazon vampires had anything to do with the legends of vampire hybrids themselves, as they were all female.†   (source)
  • Hybrid Inglo-Slavic with strong traces of cultural-specialization terms adopted during the long chain of human migrations.†   (source)
  • One of the most famous diffusion studies is Bruce Ryan and Neal Gross's analysis of the spread of hybrid seed corn in Greene County, Iowa, in the 1930s.†   (source)
  • Although many believe the Great Flood at the time of Noah was intended to cleanse the Earth of Nephilim, we have no way of knowing if this hybrid race died out and whether or not fallen angels have continued to reproduce with humans since that time.†   (source)
  • One was an Alphonso and the other a hybrid with flesh that felt rubbery at first bite but then melted in the mouth like ice cream.†   (source)
  • He went to a bar in a sidestreet where the raucous hybrid beerhall music of the north was blaring from an open door and he got very drunk and got in a fight and woke in the gray dawn on an iron bed in a green room with paper curtains at a window beyond which he could hear roosters calling.†   (source)
  • Larry was perplexed when I asked him to put in the mail some basic Web articles on hybrids.†   (source)
  • The room was half-heartedly decorated in a hybrid fashion.†   (source)
  • As Annie looked at her, something that was neither fear nor pain, but a hybrid of both, seemed to cross the girl's face.†   (source)
  • Max lingered at a weapon that was a hybrid of sword and spear.†   (source)
  • I had used nearly all my savings last year on the hybrid—to be honest, I didn't understand why car manufacturers charged a premium if you were a buyer with a modicum of social conscience.†   (source)
  • The other ones who function pretty well and last more than a couple days are human-lupine hybrids, or wolf people.†   (source)
  • The hybrid car I was aiming for suddenly crumples under the weight of something crashing down on it.†   (source)
  • And many of his phrases had a certain hybrid vigor, a fresh extravagance: "I want to get it out of my chest."†   (source)
  • In layman's terms, sort of a hybrid between the gun and the implosion method, if you understand me.†   (source)
  • Give me a good hybrid any day.†   (source)
  • In right field stood Rafael Estrello, punching his fist into the glove that his mother had helped sew from a hybrid of materials she had scavenged in their neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Language is a growing thing, like a perennial garden, always throwing off new shoots, sometimes even new hybrids, needing constant thinning and pruning to preserve its vitality and beauty.†   (source)
  • " My mother was humming "Strangers on the Shore," as she moved out into the yard and over to the bed of hybrid roses.†   (source)
  • He was going to come out of this smelling like a rare hybrid rose.†   (source)
  • I never felt entirely comfortable in the everyday cotton fields we wore to class, but in full dress I felt like an absurd and fantastic hybrid.†   (source)
  • As such a new-born hybrid, I know what will happen over the ages.†   (source)
  • Perhaps only a man so indefatigably good-hearted could recite the catalogue of his worldly goods without sounding odious, but he was able to, in a guttural hybrid English whose dominant overtone, Sophie's ear had learned to detect, was Brooklynese: "Forty thousand dollars a year income before taxes; a seventy-five-thousand-dollar home in the most elegant part of St. Albans, Queens, free of mortgage, with wall-to-wall carpeting plus indirect lighting in every room; three cars, including a Cadillac Fleetwood with all accessories, and a thirty-two-foot Chris-Craft sleeps six in comfort.†   (source)
  • Many exotic plants have pollen utterly worthless, in the same exact condition as in the most sterile hybrids.   (source)
  • a hybrid security that has the characteristics of both debt and common equity
  • the vice-presidency is a hybrid of administrative and legislative offices
  • a hybrid approach to measuring electrical activity in genetically specified neurons
  • a hybrid mixture of funk and rock
  • Chapter 18 — "Strangest Hybrid"†   (source)
    hybrid = something of mixed origin
  • But these ...these survived as hybrid creatures.†   (source)
  • This archetypal hybrid was the grandfather of them all.†   (source)
  • I wonder if there is a name for what she does, or if it is the norm for a vampire hybrid.†   (source)
  • Today's hybrid corn is bred to keep its sweetness over long-distance transport.†   (source)
  • The catch is that hybrid corn does not "come true."†   (source)
  • Chemical fertilizer was needed to grow hybrid corn because it is a very hungry crop.†   (source)
  • The result is a hybrid — a disease-resistant plant that produces a lot of corn.†   (source)
  • Soon, the only way for a farmer to compete was to buy hybrid seed every year.†   (source)
  • That means using more chemical fertilizer or maybe trying new hybrid or GMO seeds.†   (source)
  • When farmers first planted hybrid corn in the 1930s their yields doubled or tripled.†   (source)
  • Some plants will be like their hybrid parents, but most will not.†   (source)
  • Then in the 1930s seed companies came up with a new kind of corn seed — hybrid corn.†   (source)
  • The first crop planted from hybrid corn seed will all be identical.†   (source)
  • Now Iggy was almost six feet tall and blind, and "genetic hybrid" was the kind description.†   (source)
  • "You're not the only successful hybrid, you know," the Director said.†   (source)
  • I tried to explain to her what a hybrid car was.†   (source)
  • Like the pinlegs, the dreadnoughts appeared to be a hybrid of animal, demon, and machine.†   (source)
  • "An experimental hybrid," Engrave explained.†   (source)
  • She did kiss him, enthusiastically enough to have him going red as a hybrid beet.†   (source)
  • A light suddenly flickers and turns on above the crushed hybrid.†   (source)
  • Spanglish is not the only Spanish-English hybrid.†   (source)
  • You're a human-avian hybrid," the first doctor said.†   (source)
  • As far as I knew, we, the flock, had been by far the most successful hybrid.†   (source)
  • After all his crusading against their evil hybrid spawn?†   (source)
  • I'm a weird, mutant hybrid, and they've never seen anything like me.†   (source)
  • Ah, the joys of being an adolescent hybrid runaway.†   (source)
  • He is an unqualified success and far surpasses any hybrid made before.†   (source)
  • And uh, wait-let me guess-I'm some kind of bird-kid hybrid.†   (source)
  • Anderson clenched his jaw and guided them on in silence through what was now feeling like a hybrid self-storage facility and epic labyrinth.†   (source)
  • Six or seven times larger than even the most luxurious of office spaces, the knight's cabinet de travail resembled an ungainly hybrid of science laboratory, archival library, and indoor flea market.†   (source)
  • Dominated by eight Doric columns of green granite, the atrium looked like a hybrid sepulcher—Greco-Roman-Egyptian—with black marble statues, chandelier fire bowls, Teutonic crosses, double-headed phoenix medallions, and sconces bearing the head of Hermes.†   (source)
  • A vampire hybrid, indeed!†   (source)
  • In addition to the HeLa-mouse hybrid, Harris fused HeLa with chicken cells that had lost their ability to reproduce.†   (source)
  • Scientists were ecstatic about hybrids, but throughout the United States and Britain, the public panicked as the media published one sensational headline after the next: MAN-ANIMAL CELLS ARE BRED IN LAB ...THE NEXT STEP COULD BE TREE MEN ...SCIENTISTS CREATE MONSTERS The Times of London called the HeLa-mouse cells the "strangest hybrid form of life ever seen in the lab—or out of it."†   (source)
  • "Anyway," Langdon said, "this story falls into a category we symbologists call an 'archetypal hybrid'—a blend of other classic legends, borrowing so many elements from popular mythology that it could only be a fictional construct ....not historical fact."†   (source)
  • NITROGEN POLLUTION Hybrid corn eats up a lot of nitrogen, but farmers still feed it far more than it can possibly eat.†   (source)
  • Hybrid corn quadrupled the yields of farmers, from about twenty bushels per acre to about eighty bushels per acre.†   (source)
  • Genetically modified corn seed (or GMO, for genetically modified organism) promises even higher yields than hybrid seed.†   (source)
  • The only way to make sure your plants produce the same amount of corn — that they have the same yield as the original hybrid — is to buy new seed every year from a seed company.†   (source)
  • The creature was some sort of revolting hybrid of insect and machine, a Workshop abomination now splayed upon the smuggler's desk.†   (source)
  • The gods could appear in many forms—usually fully human or fully animal, but occasionally as a hybrid form like this.†   (source)
  • Hazel couldn't believe what she was seeing —black mastiffs, giant eagles, a lion-eagle hybrid that must've been a gryphon, and a red ant the size of a compact car.†   (source)
  • He wore tattered jeans, a black T-shirt, and a white linen jacket with glittering rhinestone lapels, like he was trying for an Elvis/Ramones/Beach Boys hybrid look.†   (source)
  • It was a hybrid apartment, between a large closet and a small room; one four-paned window gave scant light and ventilation; all the broken or disused plunder about the house was pitched into it, and in the middle sat a tumbled bed.†   (source)
  • He himself was close to being a hybrid, at least according to the standards laid down by some Belgian colonials, who had weighed and measured Burundians and Rwandans and come up with averages for features such as height — 1.7586 meters for a Tutsi, 1.6780 for a Hutu.†   (source)
  • The weapon was similar to what Max had used against the grylmhoch—a hybrid of spear and sword, with cruel-looking steel barbs that served as a hand guard.†   (source)
  • Bruce Ryan and Ncal Gross, "The Diffusion of Hybrid Seed Corn in Two Iowa Communities," Rural Sociology (1943), vol. 8, pp. 11-24.†   (source)
  • I added additional beds and pots until there were hundreds of flowers, a dozen colors and more shapes, hybrid teas and climbing roses, purple cabbage roses the size of my outstretched hand, and miniatures barely the size of my thumbnail.†   (source)
  • Your lab didn't hook into it because the hybrid's on the horticultural colonies' restricted list, and puts it under Galactic Customs' jurisdiction.†   (source)
  • I had finished her final paper, a pretty straightforward essay I had pieced together about the role that hybrid cars might play in the future economy.†   (source)
  • In the language of diffusion research, the handful of farmers who started trying hybrid seed at the very beginning of the 1930s were the Innovators, the adventurous ones.†   (source)
  • If so, we would end up with Mexifornia—he has written a book with this title—a "hybrid civilization," in which "Spanish has equal status with English and there is little Americanization."†   (source)
  • Murders happened everywhere, but Soho was an arty bastion for the young and struggling who more often debated their disagreements over tiny glasses of cheap wine or cups of cafe Oil, watercolor, and compu artists hawked their wares on corners and in storefronts, competing with food vendors who promised hybrid fruits, iced yogurts, or vegetable purees uncontaminated by preservatives.†   (source)
  • "To begin, Omega will vanquish an obsolete but somewhat successful human-avian hybrid," said the Director.†   (source)
  • Before hybrids, a farmer could plant eight thousand corn plants in an acre.†   (source)
  • New hybrids have increased farm yields to about 180 bushels per acre.†   (source)
  • The secret of modern corn hybrids is that they can be planted very close together.†   (source)
  • A fairy tale with fallen angels, human hybrids, and sacrificial killings.†   (source)
  • "So Erasers are human-wolf hybrids," she said.†   (source)
  • We're human-avian hybrids," I said, walking down the hall to the kitchen.†   (source)
  • "Next we have one of our most successful human hybrids," said Dr. Janssen.†   (source)
  • Max, you're the last of the hybrids who still has...a soul.†   (source)
  • Today we were seeing some successful hybrids, like Mara.†   (source)
  • When Langdon taught his students about archetypal hybrids, he used the example of fairy tales, which were recounted across generations and exaggerated over time, borrowing so heavily from one another that they evolved into homogenized morality tales with the same iconic elements—virginal damsels, handsome princes, impenetrable fortresses, and powerful wizards.†   (source)
  • The room buzzed with excitement as everyone talked about cell cloning and hybrids, mapping human genes, and using cultures to cure cancer.†   (source)
  • The British press called the HeLa hybrids an "assault on life," and portrayed Harris as a mad scientist.†   (source)
  • Soon after Harris's HeLa-chicken study, a pair of researchers at New York University discovered that human-mouse hybrids lost their human chromosomes over time, leaving only the mouse chromosomes.†   (source)
  • They used hybrids to create the first monoclonal antibodies, special proteins later used to create cancer therapies like Herceptin, and to identify the blood groups that increased the safety of transfusions.†   (source)
  • Hybrids proved it was possible for DNA from two unrelated individuals, even of different species, to survive together inside cells without one rejecting the other, which meant the mechanism for rejecting transplanted organs had to be outside cells.†   (source)
  • Scientists were ecstatic about hybrids, but throughout the United States and Britain, the public panicked as the media published one sensational headline after the next: MAN-ANIMAL CELLS ARE BRED IN LAB ...THE NEXT STEP COULD BE TREE MEN ...SCIENTISTS CREATE MONSTERS The Times of London called the HeLa-mouse cells the "strangest hybrid form of life ever seen in the lab—or out of it."†   (source)
  • Hybrids have been bred for thicker stalks and stronger root systems, the better to stand upright in a crowd.†   (source)
  • Though hybrids were introduced in the thirties, it wasn't until farmers started using chemical fertilizers in the 1950s that corn yields really exploded.†   (source)
  • A symphony of fruit was there for the sampling, exotic hybrids that sprinkled harmonized flavors on the tongue.†   (source)
  • Erasers are human-lupine hybrids.†   (source)
  • What is evident is that when Spanish and English rub against each other intimately they produce hybrids.†   (source)
  • Baz Dreisinger, who teaches at Queens College, New York, speaks of "a new racial frontier that shaped American culture and especially American music— the frontier that optimists call racial hybridity and pessimists call cultural theft."†   (source)
  • And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids.†   (source)
  • Then he pulled the speakwrite towards him and rapped out a message in the hybrid jargon of the Ministries: 'Items one comma five comma seven approved fullwise stop suggestion contained item six doubleplus ridiculous verging crimethink cancel stop unproceed constructionwise antegetting plusfull estimates machinery overheads stop end message.'†   (source)
  • The Enemy's determination to produce such a revolting hybrid was one of the things that determined Our Father to withdraw his support from Him.†   (source)
  • There never before was seen on earth such a wonderful hybrid race as was thus produced.†   (source)
  • Some maples that had been planted down in Platz, but were barely surviving, had long since despondently shed their leaves; otherwise there were no hardwoods here to give the landscape the characteristic look of the season—only the hybrid Alpine alders, which drop their soft needles like leaves, were bare and autumnal.†   (source)
  • Dr. Krokowski discussed it by using a hybrid terminology, a blend of poetical and academic styles, all of it uncompromisingly scientific, but in an ornate, lilting tone, which seemed rather unsuitable to Hans Castorp, but which perhaps accounted for the flush on the ladies' cheeks and the way the gentlemen kept flicking their ears.†   (source)
  • The principal building, taken in its entirety, was a juxtaposition of hybrid constructions which, viewed from a bird's-eye view, outlined, with considerable exactness, a gibbet laid flat on the ground.†   (source)
  • In the centre of the eastern side of the Place, rose a heavy and hybrid construction, formed of three buildings placed in juxtaposition.†   (source)
  • Innumerable little streams overlap and interlace one with another, exhibiting a sort of hybrid product, which obeys half way the law of currents, and half way that of vegetation.†   (source)
  • Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.†   (source)
  • We repeat it, these hybrid constructions are not the least interesting for the artist, for the antiquarian, for the historian.†   (source)
  • The hydra of the Romancero and some other hybrid forms, the Vedas and the Nibelungen bristle further on.†   (source)
  • A magnificent decadence, however, for the ancient Gothic genius, that sun which sets behind the gigantic press of Mayence, still penetrates for a while longer with its rays that whole hybrid pile of Latin arcades and Corinthian columns.†   (source)
  • roar; shooting up above the whole, the scaleornamented spire of the Ave-Maria; on the left, the house of the Provost of Paris, flanked by four small towers, delicately grooved, in the middle; at the extremity, the Hôtel Saint-Pol, properly speaking, with its multiplied façades, its successive enrichments from the time of Charles V., the hybrid excrescences, with which the fancy of the architects had loaded it during the last two centuries, with all the apses of its chapels, all the gables of its galleries, a thousand weathercocks for the four winds, and its two lofty contiguous towers, whose conical roof, surrounded by battlements at its base, looked like those pointed caps which hav†   (source)
  • 'He represents in little India in transition—the monstrous hybridism of East and West,' the Russian replied.†   (source)
  • Some thought it was part flying squirrel or some other wild animal, which is not impossible, for, according to naturalists, prolific hybrids have been produced by the union of the marten and domestic cat.†   (source)
  • Just as the Scotch and the Welsh have invaded England, elbowing out the actual English to make room for themselves, so the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, the Scandinavians and the Jews of Eastern Europe, and in some areas, the French, the Slavs and the hybrid-Spaniards have elbowed out the descendants of the first colonists.†   (source)
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