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  • The consequence of this is the potential introduction of virulent organisms into the present terrestrial ecologic framework.†   (source)
  • It never morphs completely from an aquatic larva into a terrestrial form, always staying in between, unsure of whether it's a fish or a reptile.†   (source)
  • Smuggling, both terrestrial and interstellar, was a profitable and entertaining business.†   (source)
  • The Extra Terrestrial she got wrong.†   (source)
  • They also integrate with terrestrial systems seamlessly.†   (source)
  • My own pessimism, my insecurity, was a more terrestrial affair.†   (source)
  • Though they seemed able to breathe terrestrial air, they sometimes carried small cylinders of gas from which they refreshed themselves occasionally.†   (source)
  • Terrestrial to several decimal places it certainly seemed to be-except for the inconveniently long day— and probably one just opened, or it would be swarming with colonists.†   (source)
  • Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij.   (source)
  • Peter, those are not post-terrestrials.   (source)
  • Would my spirit be happier wandering the Terrestrial Kingdom—planet Earth—forever?†   (source)
  • If you terrestrial cops ever came up here, you'd give tobacco a shot.†   (source)
  • The Glatun bankers, though, acted like Terrestrial old money.†   (source)
  • "Mr. Vernon," an older Glatun said, nodding in a gesture that was oddly Terrestrial.†   (source)
  • They had taken him across in a ship no larger than a terrestrial airliner.†   (source)
  • It called for the placement of a limited thermonuclear weapon at the site of exposure of terrestrial life to exogenous organisms.†   (source)
  • You better give us something or we'll have to soap your windows, Mrs. Ruiz," the Extra Terrestrial said half-heartedly.†   (source)
  • It was smaller than a Terrestrial "Two-Fer" car and didn't look as if it should be able to stand upright.†   (source)
  • There was an MBA with extensive experience of terrestrial mining and materials sales as the CEO, an Army general as chief of operations.†   (source)
  • We may have some similarity in appearance to terrestrial organisms but our chemistry is radically different.†   (source)
  • He said that if tests were held on Earth, the candidates would just study up on terrestrial environments.†   (source)
  • Terrestrial planet, right?†   (source)
  • Jan had spent several hours here, talking into a recording device while the Overlords presented various terrestrial objects to him.†   (source)
  • Of course, it might have been a model, enormously enlarged as were microbes and insects in terrestrial museums.†   (source)
  • Unfortunately, as he knew little about terrestrial biology, he was not able to learn much that he did not already know.†   (source)
  • As a result his head was a mere two metres from the ground, and George had a unique chance of studying extra-terrestrial biology.†   (source)
  • He had never thought, when he said goodbye to Suffivan eighty terrestrial years ago, that the last generation of mankind was already in the womb.†   (source)
  • It was obvious that little could be learned from a study of this primitive vehicle, even if its owners handed it over without reservation to inquisitive terrestrial scientists.†   (source)
  • The old nails were still in the door and neighbors helped her break it in with axes and they found him, who had seen his sole means of support looted by the defenders of his cause, even if he had repudiated it and them, with three days' uneaten food beside his pallet bed as if he had spent the three days in a mental balancing of his terrestrial accounts, found the result and proved it and then turned upon his contemporary scene of folly and outrage and injustice the dead and consistent impassivity of a cold and inflexible disapproval.†   (source)
  • Number XVII appears to have been composed before rationing became serious; but in general the diabolical method of dating seems to bear no relation to terrestrial time and I have not attempted to reproduce it.†   (source)
  • t The serpent (in mythology a symbol of the terrestrial waters) corresponds precisely to Daphne's father, the river Peneus.†   (source)
  • You will find, if you look carefully into any human's heart, that he is haunted by at least two imaginary women—a terrestrial and an infernal Venus, and that his desire differs qualitatively according to its object.†   (source)
  • The Taoist landscape paintings of China and Japan depict supremely the heavenliness of this terrestrial state.†   (source)
  • "0 ye," writes Dante, departing from the Terrestrial Paradise, "0 ye who in a little bark, desirous to listen, have followed behind my craft which singing passes on, turn to see again your shores; put not out upon the deep; for haply, losing me, ye would remain astray.†   (source)
  • For just as the figments of a dream derive from the life energy of one dreamer, representing only fluid splitting and complications of that single force, so do all the forms of all the worlds, whether terrestrial or divine, reflect the universal force of a single inscrutable mystery: the power that constructs the atom and controls the orbits of the stars.†   (source)
  • 'Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.†   (source)
  • "Extra-terrestrial" had no meaning for most of the onlookers.†   (source)
  • The ball represented the terrestrial globe and the stick in his other hand a scepter.†   (source)
  • All which is terrestrial is subject to sin.†   (source)
  • "That is what we must find out," returned Gaetano, fixing his eyes on this terrestrial star.†   (source)
  • Do you feel, yet, that you belong to this terrestrial scheme again, Mr. Darnay?†   (source)
  • To demolish the constructed word, a social revolution, a terrestrial revolution are required.†   (source)
  • You've taken your studies as far as terrestrial science can go.†   (source)
  • He sacrifices not to Ceres and the Terrestrial Jove, but to the infernal Plutus rather.†   (source)
  • Flamel esteemed it more simple to operate upon terrestrial fire.†   (source)
  • Sir, I should make a terrestrial paradise of it.†   (source)
  • I renounced terrestrial foods long ago, and I'm none the worse for it.†   (source)
  • THE WONDERS OF TERRESTRIAL DEPTHS At eight in the morning a ray of daylight came to wake us up.†   (source)
  • No paradise becomes terrestrial in our day.†   (source)
  • This craft was discovered in the days of the terrestrial paradise.†   (source)
  • do you know that he holds terrestrial beings under his control?†   (source)
  • It was enough to distract the most ingenious classifier of terrestrial botany.†   (source)
  • I am passed, against my will, in retrograde order, through the long series of terrestrial changes.†   (source)
  • One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light.†   (source)
  • She had never heard the word uttered in its terrestrial sense.†   (source)
  • We had above us a league and a half of terrestrial crust.†   (source)
  • At most terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise.†   (source)
  • Yet however terrestrial and lumpy their appearance just now to the mean unglamoured eye, to themselves the case was different.†   (source)
  • What moved me was the thought that this Florence which I could see, so near and yet inaccessible, in my imagination, if the tract which separated it from me, in myself, was not one that I might cross, could yet be reached by a circuit, by a digression, were I to take the plain, terrestrial path.†   (source)
  • One would think that, appointed to rule on earth, it seeks to revenge itself upon the beings that come nearest to rising above the trammels of earthly caution; for it is only women who manage to put at times into their love an element just palpable enough to give one a fright—an extra-terrestrial touch.†   (source)
  • Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping—not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.†   (source)
  • If I may state my intellectual position I am, so far as concerns things purely terrestrial, somewhat in the position which Enoch occupied spiritually!†   (source)
  • The Lannings survived only in the person of two very old but lively Miss Lannings, who lived cheerfully and reminiscently among family portraits and Chippendale; the Dagonets were a considerable clan, allied to the best names in Baltimore and Philadelphia; but the van der Luydens, who stood above all of them, had faded into a kind of super-terrestrial twilight, from which only two figures impressively emerged; those of Mr. and Mrs. Henry van der Luyden.†   (source)
  • Vague and quaint imaginings had haunted Sue in the days when her intellect scintillated like a star, that the world resembled a stanza or melody composed in a dream; it was wonderfully excellent to the half-aroused intelligence, but hopelessly absurd at the full waking; that the first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage; that at the framing of the terrestrial conditions there seemed never to have been contemplated such a development of emotional perceptiveness among the creatures subject to those conditions as that reached by thinking and educated humanity.†   (source)
  • The stranger had sojourned in many more lands and among many more peoples than Angel; to his cosmopolitan mind such deviations from the social norm, so immense to domesticity, were no more than are the irregularities of vale and mountain-chain to the whole terrestrial curve.†   (source)
  • And speaking of the differences between the life on Mars and terrestrial life, I may allude here to the curious suggestions of the red weed.†   (source)
  • They reached the feeble light, which came from the smoky lamp of a little railway station; a poor enough terrestrial star, yet in one sense of more importance to Talbothays Dairy and mankind than the celestial ones to which it stood in such humiliating contrast.†   (source)
  • Only that known popularly as the red weed, however, gained any footing in competition with terrestrial forms.†   (source)
  • I think everyone expected to see a man emerge—possibly something a little unlike us terrestrial men, but in all essentials a man.†   (source)
  • At any rate, in all the bodies of the Martians that were examined after the war, no bacteria except those already known as terrestrial species were found.†   (source)
  • Now I stood on a mound of smashed brickwork, clay, and gravel, over which spread a multitude of red cactus-shaped plants, knee-high, without a solitary terrestrial growth to dispute their footing.†   (source)
  • In man, in all the higher terrestrial animals, such a method of increase has disappeared; but even on this earth it was certainly the primitive method.†   (source)
  • It was one of those complicated fabrics that have since been called handling-machines, and the study of which has already given such an enormous impetus to terrestrial invention.†   (source)
  • Even as I saw these Martians for the first time they seemed to be endeavouring to raise themselves on these hands, but of course, with the increased weight of terrestrial conditions, this was impossible.†   (source)
  • Now by the action of natural selection, all terrestrial plants have acquired a resisting power against bacterial diseases—they never succumb without a severe struggle, but the red weed rotted like a thing already dead.†   (source)
  • After getting this sudden lesson in the power of terrestrial weapons, the Martians retreated to their original position upon Horsell Common; and in their haste, and encumbered with the debris of their smashed companion, they no doubt overlooked many such a stray and negligible victim as myself.†   (source)
  • The winds which passed over my dwelling were such as sweep over the ridges of mountains, bearing the broken strains, or celestial parts only, of terrestrial music.†   (source)
  • His heart, swelled by the intoxication of joy, felt ready to dissolve away at the very gate of that terrestrial paradise called Love!†   (source)
  • In presence of this scene after the other there was a natural instinct to abjure man as the blot on an otherwise kindly universe; till it was remembered that all terrestrial conditions were intermittent, and that mankind might some night be innocently sleeping when these quiet objects were raging loud.†   (source)
  • In short, in his bringing up he has been so nursed by Law and Equity that he has become a kind of fossil imp, to account for whose terrestrial existence it is reported at the public offices that his father was John Doe and his mother the only female member of the Roe family, also that his first long-clothes were made from a blue bag.†   (source)
  • Were we to reach a depth of thirty miles we should have arrived at the limit of the terrestrial crust, for there the temperature will be more than 2372 degrees.†   (source)
  • However slight the terrestrial intercourse between Dante and Beatrice or Petrarch and Laura, time changes the proportion of things, and in later days it is preferable to have fewer sonnets and more conversation.†   (source)
  • Even its position terrestrially is one of the elements of a new interest, and for no particular reason save that the incident of the night had occurred there Oak went again into the plantation.†   (source)
  • He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.†   (source)
  • Fanny took a good deal of time: lying back with her eyes shut, and her eyebrows raised with a hopeless expression as if she had utterly given up all terrestrial affairs.†   (source)
  • But the under surfaces of the huge masses of agitated vapor, as well as all terrestrial objects immediately around us, were glowing in the unnatural light of a faintly luminous and distinctly visible gaseous exhalation which hung about and enshrouded the mansion.†   (source)
  • But Phileas Fogg, who was not travelling, but only describing a circumference, took no pains to inquire into these subjects; he was a solid body, traversing an orbit around the terrestrial globe, according to the laws of rational mechanics.†   (source)
  • First, he peopled the worlds below and the heavens above; next, he made the earth ready for terrestrial spirits; then from his mouth proceeded the Brahman caste, nearest in likeness to himself, highest and noblest, sole teachers of the Vedas, which at the same time flowed from his lips in finished state, perfect in all useful knowledge.†   (source)
  • For man's everyday needs, it would have been quite enough to have the ordinary human consciousness, that is, half or a quarter of the amount which falls to the lot of a cultivated man of our unhappy nineteenth century, especially one who has the fatal ill-luck to inhabit Petersburg, the most theoretical and intentional town on the whole terrestrial globe.†   (source)
  • He felt that what he now said and did would be historical, and it seemed to him that it would now be best for him—whose grandeur enabled his son to play stick and ball with the terrestrial globe—to show, in contrast to that grandeur, the simplest paternal tenderness.†   (source)
  • Why they stared at her so helplessly, as if waiting for the touch of some wand that should release them from terrestrial constraint; what that chaos called consciousness, which spun in her at this moment like a top, tended to, and began in.†   (source)
  • On the ninth day after leaving Yokohama, Phileas Fogg had traversed exactly one half of the terrestrial globe.†   (source)
  • When they heard Napoleon's proclamation offering them, as compensation for mutilation and death, the words of posterity about their having been in the battle before Moscow, they cried "Vive l'Empereur!" just as they had cried "Vive l'Empereur!" at the sight of the portrait of the boy piercing the terrestrial globe with a toy stick, and just as they would have cried "Vive l'Empereur!" at any nonsense that might be told them.†   (source)
  • The light does not bear away terrestrial perfumes into the azure depths, without knowing what it is doing; the night distributes stellar essences to the sleeping flowers.†   (source)
  • We were long engaged in discussing, amongst other problems, the hypothesis of the liquid structure of the terrestrial nucleus.†   (source)
  • This, be it said, is of course from the restricted point of view of the terrestrial life which is apparent, and without prejudging the profound question of the anterior or ulterior personality of the beings which are not man.†   (source)
  • This beneficent spring, after having satisfied our thirst on the road, would now be my guide among the windings of the terrestrial crust.†   (source)
  • The human race will accomplish its law, as the terrestrial globe accomplishes its law; harmony will be re-established between the soul and the star; the soul will gravitate around the truth, as the planet around the light.†   (source)
  • It seemed as if the genii of the depths were lighting up their palace to receive their terrestrial guests.†   (source)
  • My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised, volatilised.†   (source)
  • Progress advances; it makes the great human and terrestrial journey towards the celestial and the divine; it has its halting places where it rallies the laggard troop, it has its stations where it meditates, in the presence of some splendid Canaan suddenly unveiled on its horizon, it has its nights when it sleeps; and it is one of the poignant anxieties of the thinker that he sees the shadow resting on the human soul, and that he gropes in darkness without being able to awaken that slumbering Progress.†   (source)
  • Who would ever have imagined, under this terrestrial crust, an ocean with ebbing and flowing tides, with winds and storms?†   (source)
  • Its action was felt to the very last coats of the terrestrial crust; the plants, unacquainted with the beneficent influences of the sun, yielded neither flowers nor scent.†   (source)
  • I no longer thought of sun, moon, and stars, trees, houses, and towns, nor of any of those terrestrial superfluities which are necessaries of men who live upon the earth's surface.†   (source)
  • I felt as if I was in some distant planet Uranus or Neptune— and in the presence of phenomena of which my terrestrial experience gave me no cognisance.†   (source)
  • Because this liquid mass would be subject, like the ocean, to the lunar attraction, and therefore twice every day there would be internal tides, which, upheaving the terrestrial crust, would cause periodical earthquakes!†   (source)
  • Where this vault rested upon its granite base no eye could tell; but there was a cloud hanging far above, the height of which we estimated at 12,000 feet, a greater height than that of any terrestrial vapour, and no doubt due to the great density of the air.†   (source)
  • He loved nothing better than a vertical path; but this way seemed indefinitely prolonged, and instead of sliding along the hypothenuse as we were now doing, he would willingly have dropped down the terrestrial radius.†   (source)
  • The walls assumed a crystallised though sombre appearance; mica was more closely mingled with the feldspar and quartz to form the proper rocky foundations of the earth, which bears without distortion or crushing the weight of the four terrestrial systems.†   (source)
  • "Thou marvellous genius!" he cried, "thou hast not forgotten one indication which might serve to lay open to mortals the road through the terrestrial crust; and thy fellow-creatures may even now, after the lapse of three centuries, again trace thy footsteps through these deep and darksome ways.†   (source)
  • "You see, Axel," he added, "the condition of the terrestrial nucleus has given rise to various hypotheses among geologists; there is no proof at all for this internal heat; my opinion is that there is no such thing, it cannot be; besides we shall see for ourselves, and, like Arne Saknussemm, we shall know exactly what to hold as truth concerning this grand question."†   (source)
  • Listener, S. E. by E.: Narrator, N. W. by W.: on the 53rd parallel of latitude, N., and 6th meridian of longitude, W.: at an angle of 45 degrees to the terrestrial equator.†   (source)
  • A couch by midwives attended with wholesome food reposeful, cleanest swaddles as though forthbringing were now done and by wise foresight set: but to this no less of what drugs there is need and surgical implements which are pertaining to her case not omitting aspect of all very distracting spectacles in various latitudes by our terrestrial orb offered together with images, divine and human, the cogitation of which by sejunct females is to tumescence conducive or eases issue in the high sunbright wellbuilt fair home of mothers when, ostensibly far gone and reproductitive, it is come by her thereto to lie in, her term up.†   (source)
  • Satisfaction at the ubiquity in eastern and western terrestrial hemispheres, in all habitable lands and islands explored or unexplored (the land of the midnight sun, the islands of the blessed, the isles of Greece, the land of promise), of adipose anterior and posterior female hemispheres, redolent of milk and honey and of excretory sanguine and seminal warmth, reminiscent of secular families of curves of amplitude, insusceptible of moods of impression or of contrarieties of expression, expressive of mute immutable mature animality.†   (source)
  • and from other constellations some years before or after the birth or death of other persons: the attendant phenomena of eclipses, solar and lunar, from immersion to emersion, abatement of wind, transit of shadow, taciturnity of winged creatures, emergence of nocturnal or crepuscular animals, persistence of infernal light, obscurity of terrestrial waters, pallor of human beings.†   (source)
  • at night above and through a quickset hornbeam hedge of topiary cutting, situate at a given point not less than 1 statute mile from the periphery of the metropolis, within a time limit of not more than 15 minutes from tram or train line (e.g., Dundrum, south, or Sutton, north, both localities equally reported by trial to resemble the terrestrial poles in being favourable climates for phthisical subjects), the premises to be held under feefarm grant, lease 999 years, the messuage to consist of 1 drawingroom with baywindow (2 lancets), thermometer affixed, 1 sittingroom, 4 bedrooms, 2 servants' rooms, tiled kitchen with close range and scullery, lounge hall fitted with linen wallpresses†   (source)
  • Conscious that the human organism, normally capable of sustaining an atmospheric pressure of 19 tons, when elevated to a considerable altitude in the terrestrial atmosphere suffered with arithmetical progression of intensity, according as the line of demarcation between troposphere and stratosphere was approximated from nasal hemorrhage, impeded respiration and vertigo, when proposing this problem for solution, he had conjectured as a working hypothesis which could not be proved impossible that a mor†   (source)
  • Give me thy hand, terrestrial; so;—give me thy hand, celestial; so.†   (source)
  • The Place Of Adams Eternity If He Had Not Sinned, Had Been The Terrestrial Paradise†   (source)
  • From this coarse mixture of terrestrial parts, Desire and fear by turns possess their hearts, And grief, and joy; nor can the groveling mind, In the dark dungeon of the limbs confin'd, Assert the native skies, or own its heav'nly kind: Nor death itself can wholly wash their stains; But long-contracted filth ev'n in the soul remains.†   (source)
  • "Try the test I told thee of, Sancho," said Don Quixote, "and don't mind any other, for thou knowest nothing about colures, lines, parallels, zodiacs, ecliptics, poles, solstices, equinoxes, planets, signs, bearings, the measures of which the celestial and terrestrial spheres are composed; if thou wert acquainted with all these things, or any portion of them, thou wouldst see clearly how many parallels we have cut, what signs we have seen, and what constellations we have left behind and are now leaving behind.†   (source)
  • Jones, being at length arrived at those terrestrial Elysian fields, would now soon have discovered his lordship's mansion; but the peer unluckily quitted his former house when he went for Ireland; and as he was just entered into a new one, the fame of his equipage had not yet sufficiently blazed in the neighbourhood; so that, after a successless enquiry till the clock had struck eleven, Jones at last yielded to the advice of Partridge, and retreated to the Bull and Gate in Holborn, that being the inn where he had first alighted, and where he retired to enjoy that kind of repose which usually attends persons in his circumstances.†   (source)
  • Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without knowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often towards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of noble young ladies.†   (source)
  • What wonder then if fields and regions here
    Breathe forth Elixir pure, and rivers run
    Potable gold, when with one virtuous touch
    The arch-chemick sun, so far from us remote,
    Produces, with terrestrial humour mixed,
    Here in the dark so many precious things
    Of colour glorious, and effect so rare?†   (source)
  • What if that light,
    Sent from her through the wide transpicuous air,
    To the terrestrial moon be as a star,
    Enlightening her by day, as she by night
    This earth?†   (source)
  • 3) Consequences from Qualities of Bodies Terrestrial
    a) Consequences from parts of the Earth that are
    without Sense,
    1] Consequences from Qualities of Minerals, as
    Stones, Metals, &c
    2] Consequences from the Qualities of Vegetables
    b) Consequences from Qualities of Animals
    1] Consequences from Qualities of Animals in
    Generall
    a] Consequences from Vision,
    OPTIQUES
    b†   (source)
  • — "O father, can it be, that souls sublime Return to visit our terrestrial clime, And that the gen'rous mind, releas'd by death, Can covet lazy limbs and mortal breath?"†   (source)
  • Terrestrial Heaven, danced round by other Heavens
    That shine, yet bear their bright officious lamps,
    Light above light, for thee alone, as seems,
    In thee concentring all their precious beams
    Of sacred influence!†   (source)
  • Then, let me not let pass
    Occasion which now smiles; behold alone
    The woman, opportune to all attempts,
    Her husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
    Whose higher intellectual more I shun,
    And strength, of courage haughty, and of limb
    Heroick built, though of terrestrial mould;
    Foe not informidable!†   (source)
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