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  • In its color, aroma, and taste, it would certainly express the idiosyncratic geology and prevailing climate of its home terrain.†   (source)
  • I felt satisfaction because such a geology confirmed that I was right, that this island was a chimera, a play of the mind.†   (source)
  • The eighteen folios—now known as Leonardo's Codex Leicester after their famous owner, the Earl of Leicester—were all that remained of one of Leonardo's most fascinating notebooks: essays and drawings outlining Da Vinci's progressive theories on astronomy, geology, archaeology, and hydrology.†   (source)
  • "Kate's right," said Sticky, looking up from a geology book.†   (source)
  • Grant knew that people could not imagine geological time.†   (source)
  • "GEOLOGY," he said.†   (source)
  • Dad tried to find the geological surveys for the Lake Windsor campus, but he couldn't.†   (source)
  • One south with a young geologist.†   (source)
  • There had been a time when many people knew of his shop: Arab merchants, French and English geologists, German soldiers who were always well-heeled.†   (source)
  • With some digging, we could get a broad geological history.†   (source)
  • At the age of twelve, he began corresponding with local geologists about rock formations he had seen in Central Park, and he so impressed them that they invited him to give a lecture before the New York Mineralogical Club.†   (source)
  • 'Eons' sounds too geological.†   (source)
  • Central Africa is a rowdy society of flora and fauna that have managed to balance together on a trembling geologic plate for ten million years: when you clear off part of the plate, the whole slides into ruin.†   (source)
  • Kai Jing, who was a geologist, was actually a very good calligrapher, especially for someone whose right side had been weakened by polio when he was a child.†   (source)
  • Only analysis of the Tombs in relation to the erosion of the canyon and other surrounding geological features had suggested an age of at least half a million years.†   (source)
  • He wondered how the tides and waves had come into play on that afternoon along the Jersey shoreline when Martha saw the pebble and bent down to rescue it from geology.†   (source)
  • — 42 As Hiro crests the pass on his motorcycle at five in the morning, the town of Port Sherman, Oregon, is suddenly laid out before him: a flash of yellow loglo wrapped into a vast U-shaped valley that was ground out of the rock, a long time ago, by a big tongue of ice in an epochal period of geological cunnilingus.†   (source)
  • He's a college professor somewhere in the Midwest, Mom thinks in Geology.†   (source)
  • Is it biology or geology?†   (source)
  • They would try to tell themselves that in terms of geological time it was an insignificant event.†   (source)
  • But the release of magical energies in the Shadowrealms will certainly have an effect on the climate and local geology: there may be earthquakes, a tornado or two, hurricanes and rain, lots of rain.†   (source)
  • He was knowledgeable in all the sciences: botany, astronomy, psychology, anatomy, alchemy, geology, chemistry….†   (source)
  • It is mostly dry land biology and botany …. some geological work—core drilling and testing.†   (source)
  • He left Caen, where he was living, to go on a geologic excursion.†   (source)
  • His point was that even quite small changes could cause huge geological upheavals, considering the aeons of time that have elapsed.†   (source)
  • We took scrapings when we were teenagers, and took them to the geology teacher at the high school.†   (source)
  • The pathologist stood up at his desk to tell the story, in a loud voice, at moments practically declaiming, recounting how they had done mathematical modeling, employed their own Cuban archaeologist, soil chemist, geologist, and botanist, and how, after searching for three hundred days, they had finally come upon the bones and identified them and sneaked them back to Cuba.†   (source)
  • A newscaster's voice was saying "—even larger than last year's eruption, and geologists warn that the mountain may not be done."†   (source)
  • That was the next level in this geological column of knowledge.†   (source)
  • They told me their kid was an amateur geologist.†   (source)
  • My cousin works at Trent as a geological engineer.†   (source)
  • They bounced along a branch of the Indus for hours until it turned south toward India, then climbed up the Hushe Valley, alongside the Shyok River, with its chill blue glacial melt thundering over boulders recently departed, in geological time, from eroding cliffs on both sides of the slender valley.†   (source)
  • In the 1890's, agents of the U.S. Geological Survey arrived with plans to rectify the situation.†   (source)
  • His earliest memory was of a geologist.†   (source)
  • Missing sat on a verdant rise, the irregular cluster of whitewashed one- and two-story buildings looking as if they were pushed up from the ground in the same geologic rumble that created the Entoto Mountains.†   (source)
  • Anyway, last year, some folks from Duke University came to investigate; I think they were meteorologists or geologists or something.†   (source)
  • It was as if the seismic geologists of the world were forgotten, their discoveries unfounded.†   (source)
  • Allow another layer to settle unquestioned with the night between them, as if there were some inexorable geology at work?†   (source)
  • Not that I'm a geology expert or anything, but that stone looked just like every other stone in the batch.†   (source)
  • Tossing her cigar aside, the hag gripped the table and seemed to swell like some nascent geological disaster.†   (source)
  • Depending upon the geology of a specific region, it is sometimes possible to hear, through the ground, a large group of cavalry as it approaches.†   (source)
  • Bella kept track of every scrap of food that entered her husband's mouth and monitored his weight with the care of a geologist watching a rumbling volcano.†   (source)
  • The head of the Aten Mining Project, he had degrees in optics, astronomy and geology.†   (source)
  • This suffering allowed them no rest; it was simple but relentless as a geologic cycle.†   (source)
  • Though the submarine canyon had been formed geological ages ago, the tortured rocks had never reconciled themselves to their new positions.†   (source)
  • The result was that in some states the plates were broken up after a few copies were printed, and that is a shame because they were reservoirs of organized, documented, and well-written information, geological, historical, and economic.†   (source)
  • But consider something else: sure, it's true that a sampling of the mantle would provide some answers to questions involving radioactivity and heat flow, geological structure and the age of the Earth.†   (source)
  • (Staring straight at BRADY) Deacon of the Congregational Church— and professor of geology and archeology at Oberlin College.†   (source)
  • It was a risk, but I thought it was only a geological risk.†   (source)
  • Who knows most about geology?†   (source)
  • (MINERALOGY, PETROLOGY, GEOLOGY, PHYSIOGRAPHY) DISPERSE.†   (source)
  • Spender watched as the small port opened and Hathaway, the physician-geologist--they were all men of twofold ability, to conserve space on the trip--stepped out.†   (source)
  • Mac also developed a geological mania, and went tapping about at rocks and stones, discoursing wisely of "strata, periods, and fossil remains"; while Rose picked up leaves and lichens, and gave him lessons in botany in return for his lectures on geology.   (source)
  • Natural selection can act only by the preservation and accumulation of infinitesimally small inherited modifications, each profitable to the preserved being; and as modern geology has almost banished such views as the excavation of a great valley by a single diluvial wave, so will natural selection, if it be a true principle, banish the belief of the continued creation of new organic beings, or of any great and sudden modification in their structure.   (source)
  • When Kai Jing was not at the quarry, he taught the girls in my class about geology.†   (source)
  • The biggest mistake I made was to take Geology!†   (source)
  • They were followed by a geologist from the University of Florida, Dr. Judith Something.†   (source)
  • She doesn't think Geology is in the Midwest, she thinks that's what he teaches.†   (source)
  • The young writer John Ruskin put it like this: 'If only the geologists would leave me alone.†   (source)
  • She'd love it there, geology nerd that she is.†   (source)
  • There's nothing romantic about geology, I assure you."†   (source)
  • The thick hand that first reminded her of a gardener's or a geologist's.†   (source)
  • The Geologist's manner indicated a change in attitude toward the House of Atreides.†   (source)
  • Fremen: an ecological and geological force of almost unlimited potential.†   (source)
  • It'll be mostly EVAs, geological sampling, soil tests, and weekly self-administered medical tests.†   (source)
  • The hand that cups her cheek is strong: the hand of a geologist or a gardener.†   (source)
  • He was proud to do so, because his son was one of the geologists.†   (source)
  • For some geological reason, there's a valley called Mawrth Vallis that's perfectly placed.†   (source)
  • If I survive, geologists will love me for it.†   (source)
  • In addition to being our commander, Lewis was also the geologist.†   (source)
  • I used a geological sample container (also known as "a box").†   (source)
  • His geologists believe there is oil to be found under the deserts of Saudi Arabia-of all places!†   (source)
  • There are geologists and game theorists and energy experts and a journalist with a book contract.†   (source)
  • You're Southern Valley's chief geologist?†   (source)
  • Problem is, when they dump the overburden like that they've turned the geology upside down.†   (source)
  • But he knew how to read a geological report.†   (source)
  • Well, this office keeps geological reports on the location of coal seams and other related data.†   (source)
  • At least the geologists say it's extinct, ha-ha!†   (source)
  • The guest waiting here looked nothing like the usual bookish, flannel-clad doctors who entered this building—those of anthropology, oceanography, geology, and other scientific fields.†   (source)
  • Among mountaineers and other connoisseurs of geologic form, Everest is not regarded as a particularly comely peak.†   (source)
  • Exquisitely detailed, it indicates that half a mile downstream, in the throat of the canyon, is a gauging station that was built by the U.S. Geological Survey.†   (source)
  • That close-twenty yards-and I could see the delicate latticework of the leaves, the texture of the soil, the browned needles beneath the pines, the configurations of geology and human history.†   (source)
  • Mom and Lori could paint, and Dad and Brian and I could climb the cliffs and study the canyon's geological strata.†   (source)
  • … Geology B+.†   (source)
  • The petroleum geologists.†   (source)
  • But in the end, the seeds of life managed to germinate here, and as the geology of the mother planet settled down, evolution began its tottering steps in new oceans and on new continents, until civilization reappeared for the one hundred and ninety-second time.†   (source)
  • "I know how it sounds, but I knew we weren't supposed to take it to, what, a geologist or some Wiccan high priestess, or the damn Pentagon.†   (source)
  • The startled audience of geologists and amateur rock collectors burst out laughing when he stepped up to the podium: a wooden box had to be found for him to stand on so that the audience could see more than the shock of his wiry black hair sticking up above the lectern.†   (source)
  • Summers he worked for scientists conducting geologic research in Antarctica or escorted climbers into New Zealand's Southern Alps.†   (source)
  • The first sun shook the deepest geological structure of the planet; the second sun tore open a great rift in the planet that went straight to the core; and the third sun ripped the planet into two pieces.†   (source)
  • On November 22, 1963, Owen Meany and I were in my room at 80 Front Street, studying for a Geology exam.†   (source)
  • I told him I was studying hard because I wanted to become either a veterinarian or a geologist specializing in the Miocene period, when the mountains out west were formed.†   (source)
  • They let the developers conduct their own geological surveys, too—including the missing one for the Lake Windsor campus.†   (source)
  • But when Darwin set sail on the Beagle, he had with him the first volume of the English biologist Sir Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology.†   (source)
  • If McCandless had possessed a U.S. Geological Survey topographic map, it would have alerted him to the existence of a Park Service cabin on the upper Sushana River, six miles due south of the bus, a distance he might have been able to cover even in his severely weakened state.†   (source)
  • I wanted to feel the desert sun on my face and breathe in the dry desert air and climb the steep rock mountains while Dad led us on one of the long hikes that he called geological survey expeditions.†   (source)
  • GRABEN: a long geological ditch formed when the ground sinks because of movements in the underlying crustal layers.†   (source)
  • He studied geology, didn't he?†   (source)
  • "Maybe if you weren't a stupid Geology major, you could be a little more enthusiastic about your courses," I told him.†   (source)
  • Lyell held that the present geology of the earth, with its mountains and valleys, was the result of an interminably long and gradual evolution.†   (source)
  • He explains the branches of marine evolution and the sequences of the geologic periods; on her best days, she glimpses the limitless span of millennia behind her: millions of years, tens of millions.†   (source)
  • But while he was still at college, he gained himself a reputation as a natural scientist, not least due to his interest in geology, which was perhaps the most expansive science of the day.†   (source)
  • And after a long silence, I told him what had happened that day: who was sick, who was smart, how we had no more medicine, how it was too bad he wasn't there to teach the girls more about geology.†   (source)
  • This particular summer afternoon, in a dusty geological library in Vienna, Sergeant Major von Rumpel follows an underweight secretary wearing brown shoes, brown stockings, a brown skirt, and a brown blouse through stacks of periodicals.†   (source)
  • GEOLOGY IS THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH.†   (source)
  • Most geologists swore to a 'catastrophe theory/ according to which the earth had been subjected to gigantic floods, earthquakes, and other catastrophes that had destroyed all life.†   (source)
  • Meany, Jr., with a B.S. in Geology.†   (source)
  • The missionaries later helped him get a scholarship at the famous university in Peking where he studied to become a geologist.†   (source)
  • "GEOLOGY IS EASY FOR ME," Owen said.†   (source)
  • Because one thing, at least, was clear: neither Lyell's theory of gradual geological evolution nor Darwin's own theory of evolution had any validity unless one reckoned with tremendously long periods of time.†   (source)
  • She had added the one-meter bits to her equipment that morning, anticipating geological sampling later in the day.†   (source)
  • From my Geology course, I knew that everything below me had once been a shallow ocean; and at dusk, when I flew into Phoenix, the shadows on the rocks were a tropical-sea purple, and the tumbleweeds were aquamarine—so that I could actually imagine the ocean that once was there.†   (source)
  • Commander Lewis is our geologist.†   (source)
  • I was angry with Owen for manipulating me into taking Geology, the true nature of which was concealed—at the University of New Hampshire—in the curriculum catalog under the hippie-inspired title of Earth Science.†   (source)
  • But there will always be granite in the Granite State, and little Owen Meany's family was in the granite business—not ever a recommended business in our small, seacoast part of New Hampshire, although the Meany Granite Quarry was situated over what geologists call the Exeter Pluton.†   (source)
  • "She's a geologist.†   (source)
  • The caption on the paper was printed boldly across the top: "Southern Valley Coal and Gas Geological Survey."†   (source)
  • Upon further analysis, another geologist concluded that it might be possible to "age" the surface of a dolomite marble statue in a couple of months using potato mold.†   (source)
  • The pictures were false-color composites that revealed signs of soil erosion, geological fracture and a hundred other events and features.†   (source)
  • The name, when it is spoken, is Jade Tower Mountain, which refers not to a geological mountain but to an immense hill that rises above the others.†   (source)
  • She breakfasted alone in the Panorama's dining room, she roasted her skin on the black-pebble beach at Perissa, she hiked the rim of the caldera, she toured the island's archaeological and geological sites, she took her wine at sunset on the terrace.†   (source)
  • The geologist Stanley Margolis was so convinced by his own analysis that he published a long account of his method in Scientific American.†   (source)
  • They'd built a fancy new viewing place above the Bighorn Canyon since he was last there, with a big parking lot and maps and signs that told you about the geology and all.†   (source)
  • A geologist from the University of California named Stanley Margolis came to the museum and spent two days examining the surface of the statue with a high-resolution stereomicroscope.†   (source)
  • When the kid fast-pedals the bike, the generator ekes out a flow of electricity to the television set—a brave beat-up model that two of the other kids dug out of the garbage pits, where it was layered in the geological age of leisure-time appliances.†   (source)
  • Coal companies will tell you the decision to do surface versus deep mining is based on geology, topography, and pure economics.†   (source)
  • Like Johnson said, geological maps.†   (source)
  • "He's been talking himself hoarse for days, and the scribes are taking it all down-geology, mining, metallurgy, petroleum chemistry …."†   (source)
  • If you study the International Union of Geology and Geophysics publication, Active Volcanoes of the World, and if you map out all those which are no longer active, you will note certain volcanic and seismic belts.†   (source)
  • For these are the last remaining members of a race that flourished over four continents as far back in geologic time as the upper Jurassic period.†   (source)
  • The geologist exercised his options and bought up the remaining shares of the company for virtually nothing.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND (Astonished) In one breath, does the court deny the existence of zoology, geology and archeology?†   (source)
  • The authorized capital, though, was to be more than that, and the arrangement was that if we struck oil the geologist was to buy the rest of the shares at nominal rates.†   (source)
  • The man was a geologist.†   (source)
  • …the other in Mississippi; born half a continent apart yet joined, connected after a fashion in a sort of geographical transubstantiation by that Continental Trough, that River which runs not only through the physical land of which it is the geologic umbilical, not only runs through the spiritual lives of the beings within its scope, but is very Environment itself which laughs at degrees of latitude and temperature, though some of these beings, like Shreve, have never seen it—the two of…†   (source)
  • There was a rush on for Weather Bureau, Geological Survey, and post-office jobs, from the heavy-print announcements in layers of paper on the school and library bulletin boards.†   (source)
  • In the Beta-Minus geography room John learnt that "a savage reservation is a place which, owing to unfavourable climatic or geological conditions, or poverty of natural resources, has not been worth the expense of civilizing."†   (source)
  • He hired the Tokyo Geological Engineering company to do a survey, and it assured him that if he drilled down eight hundred metres he would get from sixty to a hundred litres of water a minute, at between 79 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit.†   (source)
  • I asked him if he thought it possible for a valley to exist of the kind Conway described, and he said he wouldn't call it impossible, but he thought it not very likely--on geological grounds, at any rate.†   (source)
  • I could be a geologist.†   (source)
  • You know German, and geology, and things of that kind influence a man very much.†   (source)
  • But that neat idea hit the boy in a blank place, for geology hadn't been invented yet.†   (source)
  • I told him I don't want to keep quiet, and he talked about the geological cataclysm …. idiocy!†   (source)
  • I could understand them, and in spite of myself I felt interested in this last geological study.†   (source)
  • This is merely the moral view of the subject; as to the more exact and geological—†   (source)
  • GEOLOGICAL STUDIES IN SITU Next day, Tuesday, June 30, at 6 a.m., the descent began again.†   (source)
  • Ropes could not hold him, such a determined geologist as he is!†   (source)
  • Eminent geologists have denied his existence, others no less eminent have affirmed it.†   (source)
  • I could hear him murmuring geological terms.†   (source)
  • To the geologists of the United Kingdom, who believed in the certainty of the fact—Messrs.†   (source)
  • For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning.†   (source)
  • The books were of the most varied kind, history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law, all relating to England and English life and customs and manners.†   (source)
  • Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.†   (source)
  • Balbec! the oldest bone in the geological skeleton that underlies our soil, the true Armor, the sea, the land's end, the accursed region which Anatole France—an enchanter whose works our young friend ought to read—has so well depicted, beneath its eternal fogs, as though it were indeed the land of the Cimmerians in the Odyssey.†   (source)
  • One of them was a big, snow-white fellow from Spitzbergen who had been brought away by a whaling captain, and who had later accompanied a Geological Survey into the Barrens.†   (source)
  • To me, at least in my present circumstances, these would be vastly more interesting than this spectacle of oldtime geology in decay.†   (source)
  • Geology, looking further than religion, knows of a time when neither the river nor the Himalayas that nourished it existed, and an ocean flowed over the holy places of Hindustan.†   (source)
  • The very place, where he have been alive, Undead for all these centuries, is full of strangeness of the geologic and chemical world.†   (source)
  • And that region, which, until then, had seemed to me to be nothing else than a part of immemorial nature, that had remained contemporaneous with the great phenomena of geology—and as remote from human history as the Ocean itself, or the Great Bear, with its wild race of fishermen for whom, no more than for their whales, had there been any Middle Ages—it had been a great joy to me to see it suddenly take its place in the order of the centuries, with a stored consciousness of the…†   (source)
  • …saying: "I don't know how to espress myself"—I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological relation; there is always the respect due to your geology," I would shrug my shoulders and say: "It is really very good of me to discuss the matter with an illiterate old woman who cannot speak her own language," adopting, to deliver judgment on Francoise, the mean and narrow outlook of the…†   (source)
  • …substance, but had not so far coalesced that I could not discern between the three strata, between my oldest, my instinctive memories, those others, inspired more recently by a taste or 'perfume,' and those which were actually the memories of another, from whom I had acquired them at second hand—no fissures, indeed, no geological faults, but at least those veins, those streaks of colour which in certain rocks, in certain marbles, point to differences of origin, age, and formation.†   (source)
  • …memories, were to plead her inability to rebut my theories, saying: "I don't know how to espress myself"—I would triumph over her with an ironical and brutal common sense worthy of Dr. Percepied; and if she went on: "All the same she was a geological relation; there is always the respect due to your geology," I would shrug my shoulders and say: "It is really very good of me to discuss the matter with an illiterate old woman who cannot speak her own language," adopting, to deliver…†   (source)
  • …Gilberte, as if, in the moments when my love seemed no longer to have any existence, they gave it a kind of consistency, were, I perceived, anterior to that love, which they in no way resembled; their elements had been determined by the writer's talent, or by geological laws, before ever Gilberte had known me, nothing in book or stone would have been different if Gilberte had not loved me, and there was nothing, consequently, that authorised me to read in them a message of happiness.†   (source)
  • AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION The geological formation of that portion of the American Union, which lies between the Alleghanies and the Rocky Mountains, has given rise to many ingenious theories.†   (source)
  • No doubt many a smiling valley with its stretching cornfields occupies exactly such a "horrid chasm," from which the waters have receded, though it requires the insight and the far sight of the geologist to convince the unsuspecting inhabitants of this fact.†   (source)
  • Soon his steady, ivory stride was heard, as to and fro he paced his old rounds, upon planks so familiar to his tread, that they were all over dented, like geological stones, with the peculiar mark of his walk.†   (source)
  • And yet the former history continues to be studied side by side with the laws of statistics, geography, political economy, comparative philology, and geology, which directly contradict its assumptions.†   (source)
  • But Eagles was only a quiet old gentleman, husband to Mrs. Eagles, with a taste for geology, and not tall enough to reach anybody's ears.†   (source)
  • But science, in particular, represented the major investment of this library: books on mechanics, ballistics, hydrography, meteorology, geography, geology, etc., held a place there no less important than works on natural history, and I realized that they made up the captain's chief reading.†   (source)
  • 'Excuse me; but as a geologist, you would sooner have recourse to a book, to a special work on the subject, and not to a drawing.'†   (source)
  • With the exception of an aged highway, and a still more aged barrow presently to be referred to—themselves almost crystallized to natural products by long continuance—even the trifling irregularities were not caused by pickaxe, plough, or spade, but remained as the very finger-touches of the last geological change.†   (source)
  • He was rewarded by seeing Maggie let her work fall, and gradually get so absorbed in his wonderful geological story that she sat looking at him, leaning forward with crossed arms, and with an entire absence of self-consciousness, as if he had been the snuffiest of old professors, and she a downy-lipped alumna.†   (source)
  • Geology has initiated us into the secularity of nature, and taught us to disuse our dame-school measures, and exchange our Mosaic[501] and Ptolemaic schemes[502] for her large style.†   (source)
  • And the Geological Cataclysm.†   (source)
  • This was taken in ill part by a great many people, who persisted in believing that Flintwinch was lying somewhere among the London geological formation.†   (source)
  • There is nothing more difficult to pierce and to penetrate than the geological formation upon which is superposed the marvellous historical formation called Paris; as soon as work in any form whatsoever is begun and adventures upon this stretch of alluvium, subterranean resistances abound.†   (source)
  • In the active superintendence of this young person, Judy Smallweed appears to attain a perfectly geological age and to date from the remotest periods.†   (source)
  • It is necessary rather to know the composition of the substances in question—the geological strata, the atmospheric actions, the quality of the soil, the minerals, the waters, the density of the different bodies, their capillarity, and what not.†   (source)
  • But may it not be, that while the whales of the present hour are an advance in magnitude upon those of all previous geological periods; may it not be, that since Adam's time they have degenerated?†   (source)
  • "People objected to Professor Dingo when we were staying in the north of Devon after our marriage," said Mrs. Badger, "that he disfigured some of the houses and other buildings by chipping off fragments of those edifices with his little geological hammer.†   (source)
  • …the one which makes the face, and the one which makes the brain; he kept up with what was going on, followed science step by step, compared Saint-Simon with Fourier, deciphered hieroglyphics, broke the pebble which he found and reasoned on geology, drew from memory a silkworm moth, pointed out the faulty French in the Dictionary of the Academy, studied Puysegur and Deleuze, affirmed nothing, not even miracles; denied nothing, not even ghosts; turned over the files of the Moniteur,…†   (source)
  • What is there in a pair of pink cheeks and blue eyes forsooth? these dear Moralists ask, and hint wisely that the gifts of genius, the accomplishments of the mind, the mastery of Mangnall's Questions, and a ladylike knowledge of botany and geology, the knack of making poetry, the power of rattling sonatas in the Herz-manner, and so forth, are far more valuable endowments for a female, than those fugitive charms which a few years will inevitably tarnish.†   (source)
  • I said "petrified" was good; as I believed, myself, that the only right way to classify the majestic ages of some of those jokes was by geologic periods.†   (source)
  • "The common man may still believe in fabulous comets crossing outer space, or in prehistoric monsters living at the earth's core, but astronomers and geologists don't swallow such fairy tales.†   (source)
  • During dinner and supper-time he used to try to turn the conversation upon physics, geology, or chemistry, seeing that all other topics, even agriculture, to say nothing of politics, might lead, if not to collisions, at least to mutual unpleasantness.†   (source)
  • It is a truly grotesque vegetation, whose forms and color we see imitated in bronze, a sort of architectural foliage more ancient and typical than acanthus, chiccory, ivy, vine, or any vegetable leaves; destined perhaps, under some circumstances, to become a puzzle to future geologists.†   (source)
  • So Owen rechristened the monster Zeuglodon; and in his paper read before the London Geological Society, pronounced it, in substance, one of the most extraordinary creatures which the mutations of the globe have blotted out of existence.†   (source)
  • Indeed so very striking was the resemblance between the water and the land, that, however much the geologist might sneer at so simple a theory, it would have been difficult for a poet not to have felt, that the formation of the one had been produced by the subsiding dominion of the other.†   (source)
  • You said so, because you suppose me to have no feeling for art, and as a fact I haven't any; but these views might be interesting to me from a geological standpoint, for the formation of the mountains, for instance.'†   (source)
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