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  • If you compare the embryos of dogs, bats, rabbits, and humans at an early stage, they look so alike that it is hard to tell the difference.†   (source)
  • She rested her hand on her abdomen, awareness focused on the embryo there.†   (source)
  • She looked at the secretive Michael, curled on his side like a worm or an embryo, hands hidden between his legs, and the hair damp on his forehead.†   (source)
  • But if a single embryo in a mother happened to split very early on in its growth into two separate halves, the result was identical twins like me and Shiva.†   (source)
  • Facing up to it, he resigned as county agent after four years and, on land leased with borrowed money, created, in embryo, River Valley Farm (a name justified by the Arkansas River's meandering presence but not, certainly, by any evidence of valley).†   (source)
  • Could people who hatch their own chicks and eat the embryos and the heads for delicacies and boil the feet in vinegar for party food, leaving only the gravel, eating even the gizzard lining-could such people engender a prodigal aunt?†   (source)
  • The embryos return
    Into my dulled body.†   (source)
  • But once you were a viable embryo, she was locked out of the process.†   (source)
  • I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching oversized braincase and the opposable thumb—this animal barely up from the apes—will endure, will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets—to the stars and beyond—carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage, and his noble essential decency.†   (source)
  • "Italians make their sausage out of pig embryos and Vitalis, Tradd," I said seriously.†   (source)
  • I was as helpless as an embryo.†   (source)
  • You are a feeble, hairless embryo, remarkably easy to kill.†   (source)
  • Fifty thousand on delivery of each embryo.   (source)
  • But, left to its own devices, the embryo will naturally become female.   (source)
  • Each embryo in a thin glass container, wrapped in silver foil, stoppered with polylene.   (source)
  • This plastic could be shaped into an egg and used to grow chick embryos.   (source)
    embryos = organisms in the early stages of growth prior to birth (and prior to the fetal stage)
  • The embryos must extract water from the surrounding environment.   (source)
  • The embryos have to be back in San Jose by then.   (source)
  • The embryos were arranged by species: Stegosaurus, Apatosaurus, Hadrosaurus, Tyrannosaurus.   (source)
  • The embryos are mechanically inserted, and then hatched here.   (source)
  • Hayflick investigated them and concluded that the original chicken-heart cells had actually died soon after Carrel put them in culture, and that, intentionally or not, Carrel had been putting new cells in the culture dishes each time he "fed" them using an "embryo juice" he made from ground tissues.   (source)
    embryo = an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth (and prior to the fetal stage)
  • In it, an infertility doctor secretly harvests extra embryos from one of his patients and uses them to create a colony of clones of the woman's son, who died young in an accident.   (source)
    embryos = organisms in the early stages of growth prior to birth (and prior to the fetal stage)
  • Defler paced the front of the classroom telling us how mitosis—the process of cell division—makes it possible for embryos to grow into babies, and for our bodies to create new cells for healing wounds or replenishing blood we've lost.   (source)
  • It takes some kind of added effect—such as a hormone at the right moment during development—to transform the growing embryo into a male.   (source)
    embryo = an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth (and prior to the fetal stage)
  • For example, Hammond was starting a genetics company, but the tiny elephant hadn't been made by any genetic procedure; Atherton had simply taken a dwarf-elephant embryo and raised it in an artificial womb with hormonal modifications.   (source)
  • Hammond knew that in two separate vaults at InGen headquarters in Palo Alto were dozens of frozen embryos.   (source)
    embryos = organisms in the early stages of growth prior to birth (and prior to the fetal stage)
  • To obtain them, he needed an InGen employee who had access to the embryos, who was willing to steal them, and who could defeat the security.   (source)
  • Just so that Dodgson wouldn't forget he owed the rest of the money, Nedry was including a copy of the tape with the embryos.   (source)
  • And there were big walk-in freezers with shelves of frozen embryos, each stored in a tiny silver-foil wrapper.   (source)
  • The whole idea behind the plan was that he could drive to the east dock, drop off the embryos, and be back in a few minutes, before anyone noticed.   (source)
  • Dodgson wanted more than bacterial DNA; he wanted frozen embryos, and he knew InGen guarded its embryos with the most elaborate security measures.   (source)
  • I think I better go count my embryos.   (source)
  • Fifteen species, frozen embryos.   (source)
  • And now that InGen was inviting contractors and advisers to visit the island, it was the moment that Dodgson had been waiting for—because it meant his man would have access to embryos.   (source)
  • You probably know that all vertebrate embryos are inherently female. We all start life as females. It takes some kind of added effect—such as a hormone at the right moment during development—to transform the growing embryo into a male.   (source)
  • Wu says fifteen embryos.   (source)
  • The embryos have been pickled; the scent of formaldehyde is very strong.†   (source)
  • No, Mother sent me to this back end of the outback on a Phase Three ramship, slower than light, frozen with the cattle embryos and orange juice concentrate and feeder viruses, on a trip that took one hundred and twenty-nine shipboard years, with an objective time-debt of one hundred and sixty-seven standard years!†   (source)
  • In the first room there are chicken embryos at various stages of development, from a red dot to a big-headed, bulgy-eyed, pin-feathered chick, looking not fluffy and cute the way they do on Easter cards, but slimy, its claws curled under, its eyelids a slit open, showing a crescent of agate-blue eye.†   (source)
  • I learned that when two embryos just happened to grow in the mother at the same time, the result was fraternal twins—they didn't look alike and they could be boy and girl.†   (source)
  • It was the darkness of the womb, the prenatal darkness of embryos in that house, which was a little disconcerting but made for deep and luxuriant sleeping.†   (source)
  • You cannot distinguish a human embryo from a rabbit embryo until a very late stage.†   (source)
  • The light lets you see through the shell so you can watch the embryo develop.†   (source)
  • The development of the embryo in mammals.†   (source)
  • They went from embryo to infant in five weeks, and from infant to young adult in about four years.†   (source)
  • Only her own Bene Gesserit training had allowed her to read the first faint signals of her body, to know of the embryo only a few weeks old.†   (source)
  • An embryo.†   (source)
  • You can see the embryo.†   (source)
  • The major dams against anarchy in these times were the embryo Guild, the Bene Gesserit and the Landsraad, which continued its 2,000-year record of meeting in spite of the severest obstacles.†   (source)
  • We were then at the embryo stage.†   (source)
  • A tiny percentage made it past the embryo stage, and a few struggled along for a year or two before their horrific deficits caught up with them.†   (source)
  • Here, all you embryos, come here with your beaks and whatnots to look upon Our first Man.†   (source)
  • This law and its subsequent modifications defined four classes of people who would be eligible for support: those who had been in the city limits on the day of the bombing; those who had entered an area within two kilometres of the hypocenter in the first fourteen days after it; those who had come into physical contact with bomb victims, in administering first aid or in disposing of their bodies; and those who had been embryos in the wombs of women in any of the first three categories.†   (source)
  • All the embryos thought the matter over politely, and then, one by one, they stepped up before the eternal throne.†   (source)
  • He said: 'Now, you embryos, here you are, all looking exactly the same, and We are going to give you the choice of what you want to be.†   (source)
  • I continue as follows: "The embryos stood in front of God, with their feeble hands clasped politely over their stomachs and their heavy heads hanging down respectfully, and God addressed them.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps I ought to explain," added the badger, lowering his papers nervously and looking at the Wart over the top of them, "that all embryos look very much the same.†   (source)
  • You will look like an embryo till they bury you, but all the others will be embryos before your might Eternally undeveloped, you will always remain potential in Our image, able to see some of Our sorrows and to feel some of Our joys.†   (source)
  • When God had manufactured all the eggs out of which the fishes and the serpents and the birds and the mammals and even the duck-billed platypus would eventually emerge, he called the embryos before Him, and saw that they were good.†   (source)
  • The asking and granting took up two long days—they were the fifth and sixth, so far as I remember—and at the very end of the sixth day, just before it was time to knock off for Sunday, they had got through all the little embryos except one.†   (source)
  • We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.†   (source)
  • Doubtless a vigorous error vigorously pursued has kept the embryos of truth a-breathing: the quest of gold being at the same time a questioning of substances, the body of chemistry is prepared for its soul, and Lavoisier is born.†   (source)
  • Come along, my dear embryo, and find your tool.†   (source)
  • This embryo was Man.†   (source)
  • But it was no summer of a virgin's itching discontent; no summer's caesarean lack which should have torn me, dead flesh or even embryo, from the living or else, by friction's ravishing of the male-furrowed meat, also weaponed and panoplied as a man instead of hollow woman.†   (source)
  • My books were meager and commonplace—Roger Fry's Vision and Design, the Medici Press edition of A Shropshire Lad, Eminent Victorians, some volumes of Georgian Poetry, Sinister Street, and South Wind—and my earliest friends fitted well into this background; they were Collins, a Wykehamist, an embryo don, a man of solid reading and childlike humor, and a small circle of college intellectuals, who maintained a middle course of culture between the flamboyant "aesthetes" and the proletarian scholars who scrambled fiercely for facts in the lodging houses of the Iffley Road and Wellington Square.†   (source)
  • 'Please God,' said the embryo, 'I think that You made me in the shape which I now have for reasons best known to Yourselves, and that it would be rude to change.†   (source)
  • You will look like an embryo till they bury you, but all the others will be embryos before your might Eternally undeveloped, you will always remain potential in Our image, able to see some of Our sorrows and to feel some of Our joys.†   (source)
  • I will not alter any of the parts which You gave me, for other and doubtless inferior tools, and I will stay a defenceless embryo all my life, doing my best to make myself a few feeble implements out of the wood, iron and the other materials which You have seen fit to put before me.†   (source)
  • They are what you are before you are born—and, whether you are going to be a tadpole or a peacock or a cameleopard or a man, when you are an embryo you just look like a peculiarly repulsive and helpless human being.†   (source)
  • Thus, even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.†   (source)
  • In the meanwhile, feeling strangely alone and restless in Commons, with new desires and ambitions stirring in his mind, he let the first term go by between an envy of the embryo successes and a puzzled fretting with Kerry as to why they were not accepted immediately among the elite of the class.†   (source)
  • The theft of the brigand-poetaster from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is deliberate; and the metamorphosis of Leporello into Enry Straker, motor engineer and New Man, is an intentional dramatic sketch for the contemporary embryo of Mr H. G. Wells's anticipation of the efficient engineering class which will, he hopes, finally sweep the jabberers out of the way of civilization.†   (source)
  • They had stood parting in the silent highway, and their tense and passionate moods had led to bewildered inquiries of each other on how far their intimacy ought to go; till they had almost quarrelled, and she said tearfully that it was hardly proper of him as a parson in embryo to think of such a thing as kissing her even in farewell as he now wished to do.†   (source)
  • The Little Theaters, which were to give piquancy to American drama three or four years later, were only in embryo.†   (source)
  • And according to one branch of science, whose notions of reality were equally unflattering and lurid, the embryo's development seemed to be a hasty recapitulation of zoological genealogy.†   (source)
  • A hundred times had Martin obediently looked at the specimens in the brown, crackly-varnished bookcase: the beetles and chunks of mica; the embryo of a two-headed calf, the gallstones removed from a respectable lady whom the Doc enthusiastically named to all visitors.†   (source)
  • The report was only partially true, the marriage project being only in an embryo condition; but a great change now came over Nastasia Philipovna.†   (source)
  • Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy, with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and every speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo?†   (source)
  • He knew well that Nastasia thoroughly understood him and where to wound him and how, and therefore, as the marriage was still only in embryo, Totski decided to conciliate her by giving it up.†   (source)
  • The human embryo lay there crouched and cowering, it had a tail— and with its monstrous abdomen, stubby shapeless extremities, and larval face bent down over a bloated belly, it was indistinguishable from an embryonic pig.†   (source)
  • Leora and he had assured each other that, for a student affair, dinner jacket and black waistcoat would be the thing, as stated in the Benson, Hanley and Koch Chart of Correct Gents' Wearing Apparel, but he grew miserable at the sight of voluptuous white waistcoats, and when that embryo famous surgeon, Angus Duer, came by, disdainful as a greyhound and pushing on white gloves (which are the whitest, the most superciliously white objects on earth), then Martin felt himself a hobbledehoy.†   (source)
  • So the barricade of the Rue de la Chanvrerie was only an outline, and an embryo compared to the two colossal barricades which we have just sketched; but it was formidable for that epoch.†   (source)
  • —not the mother's smile, responding to it, as other babies do, by that faint, embryo smile of the little mouth, remembered so doubtfully afterwards, and with such fond discussion whether it were indeed a smile.†   (source)
  • This difference in opinion had long been a subject of amicable dispute between them: but, Latterly, the contest was getting to be too important to admit of trivial discussions on the part of Marmaduke, whose acute discernment was already catching faint glimmerings of the important events that were in embryo.†   (source)
  • And why, just at the moment when he had brought away the embryo of his idea from the old woman had he dropped at once upon a conversation about her?†   (source)
  • Puns are sometimes serious factors in politics; witness the Castratus ad castra, which made a general of the army of Narses; witness: Barbari et Barberini; witness: Tu es Petrus et super hanc petram, etc., etc. The Friends of the A B C were not numerous, it was a secret society in the state of embryo, we might almost say a coterie, if coteries ended in heroes.†   (source)
  • Over twelve thousand seven hundred children already, either decanted or in embryo.   (source)
    embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
  • Some one I know knew some one who was working in the Embryo Store at the time.   (source)
  • The Chemical and Bacteriological Conditioning of the Embryo.   (source)
  • ...and every embryo into a full-sized adult.   (source)
  • Henry Foster loomed up through the twilight of the Embryo Store.   (source)
  • Practical Instructions for Beta Embryo-Store Workers.   (source)
  • The faint hum and rattle of machinery still stirred the crimson air in the Embryo Store.   (source)
  • Told them of the growing embryo on its bed of peritoneum.   (source)
  • One egg, one embryo, one adult--normality.   (source)
  • From eight to ninety-six buds, and every bud will grow into a perfectly formed embryo,   (source)
  • After which they are sent down to the Embryo Store.   (source)
  • "But why do you want to keep the embryo below par?" asked an ingenuous student.   (source)
  • "Embryos are like photograph film," said Mr. Foster waggishly, as he pushed open the second door.   (source)
    embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
  • And she turned back to her neglected embryos.   (source)
  • So we allow as many as thirty per cent of the female embryos to develop normally.   (source)
  • No time for the intellectual embryos, I'm afraid.   (source)
  • By the time they were decanted the embryos had a horror of cold.   (source)
  • The embryo is hungry; day in, day out, the blood-surrogate pump unceasingly turns its eight hundred revolutions a minute.   (source)
    embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
  • Could the individual Epsilon embryo be made a revert, by a suitable technique, to the normality of dogs and cows?   (source)
    embryo = an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth
  • And then the reading lessons: The tot is in the pot, the cat is on the mat; and the Elementary Instructions for Beta Workers in the Embryo Store.   (source)
    embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
  • Hasn't it occurred to you that an Epsilon embryo must have an Epsilon environment as well as an Epsilon heredity?   (source)
  • The surrogate goes round slower; therefore passes through the lung at longer intervals; therefore gives the embryo less oxygen.   (source)
  • Referred to the embryo's troublesome tendency to anaemia, to the massive doses of hog's stomach extract and foetal foal's liver with which, in consequence, it had to be supplied.   (source)
  • And as they sang, the lights began slowly to fade–to fade and at the same time to grow warmer, richer, redder, until at last they were dancing in the crimson twilight of an Embryo Store.   (source)
  • Hinted at the gravity of the so-called "trauma of decanting," and enumerated the precautions taken to minimize, by a suitable training of the bottled embryo, that dangerous shock.   (source)
  • She looked round; saw John and Bernard had left them and were walking up and down in the dust and garbage outside the house; but, none the less confidentially lowering her voice, and leaning, while Lenina stiffened and shrank, so close that the blown reek of embryo-poison stirred the hair on her cheek.   (source)
  • My job was always with the embryos.   (source)
    embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
  • Who give them the embryos they ask for.   (source)
  • For of course, they didn't content themselves with merely hatching out embryos: any cow could do that.   (source)
    embryos = an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth
  • By which time the original egg was in a fair way to becoming anything from eight to ninety-six embryos–a prodigious improvement, you will agree, on nature.   (source)
    embryos = in this book: human organisms between the time of fertilization and birth
  • Showed them the simple mechanism by means of which, during the last two metres out of every eight, all the embryos were simultaneously shaken into familiarity with movement.   (source)
  • The embryos still have gills.   (source)
  • Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos.   (source)
  • And when, exhausted, the Sixteen had laid by their saxophones and the Synthetic Music apparatus was producing the very latest in slow Malthusian Blues, they might have been twin embryos gently rocking together on the waves of a bottled ocean of blood-surrogate.   (source)
  • Hither of ill-joined sons and daughters born
    First from the ancient world those giants came
    With many a vain exploit, though then renowned:
    The builders next of Babel on the plain
    Of Sennaar, and still with vain design,
    New Babels, had they wherewithal, would build:
    Others came single; he, who, to be deemed
    A God, leaped fondly into Aetna flames,
    Empedocles; and he, who, to enjoy
    Plato's Elysium, leaped into the sea,
    Cleombrotus; and many more too long,
    Embryos, and idiots, eremites, and friars
    White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery.†   (source)
  • For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir as this morbidminded esthete and embryo philosopher who for all his overweening bumptiousness in things scientific can scarcely distinguish an acid from an alkali prides himself on being, it should perhaps be stated that staggering bob in the vile parlance of our lowerclass licensed victuallers signifies the cookable and eatable flesh of a calf newly dropped from its mother.†   (source)
  • Before I was born out of my mother generations guided me,
    My embryo has never been torpid, nothing could overlay it.†   (source)
  • These are of us, they are with us,
    All for primal needed work, while the followers there in embryo wait behind,
    We to-day's procession heading, we the route for travel clearing,
    Pioneers!†   (source)
  • answering those of the
    fish-hawk, mocking-bird, night-heron, and eagle,
    His spirit surrounding his country's spirit, unclosed to good and evil,
    Surrounding the essences of real things, old times and present times,
    Surrounding just found shores, islands, tribes of red aborigines,
    Weather-beaten vessels, landings, settlements, embryo stature and muscle,
    The haughty defiance of the Year One, war, peace, the formation of
    the Constitution,
    The separate States, the simple elastic scheme, the immigrants,
    The Union always swarming with blatherers and always sure and impregnable,
    The unsurvey'd interior, log-houses, clearings, wild animals,
    hunters, trappers,†   (source)
  • One of these virtuosi seemed to think that I might be an embryo, or abortive birth.†   (source)
  • The flame, which had before lain in embryo, now burst forth.†   (source)
  • The usurpers, clothed with the forms of legal authority, can too often crush the opposition in embryo.†   (source)
  • Calculating upon the aversion of the people to monarchy, they have endeavored to enlist all their jealousies and apprehensions in opposition to the intended President of the United States; not merely as the embryo, but as the full-grown progeny, of that detested parent.†   (source)
  • This is that quick-sighted penetration whose hawk's eyes no symptom of evil can escape; which observes not only upon the actions, but upon the words and looks, of men; and, as it proceeds from the heart of the observer, so it dives into the heart of the observed, and there espies evil, as it were, in the first embryo; nay, sometimes before it can be said to be conceived.†   (source)
  • He said "seed." I said "embryo."   (source)
    embryo = an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth (and prior to the fetal stage)
  • Nothing like oxygen-shortage for keeping an embryo below par.   (source)
    embryo = in this book: a human organism between the time of fertilization and birth
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  • The thing I like about Embryo is that not only is he predictable, he gets to the point.   (source)
    embryo = a name in this novel
  • There is one from Embryo for my mother, left yesterday afternoon.   (source)
  • And suddenly Embryo is hunched over his desk staring at me with what could only be called alarm.   (source)
  • Embryo stalks around his desk and gathers a stack of "Teens in Trouble" pamphlets.   (source)
  • Embryo once again narrows his eyes to a squint and stares at me hard, trying to induce a sweat.   (source)
  • And the thing is, I actually like Embryo.   (source)
  • Embryo: Have you thought about hurting yourself?   (source)
  • In order to make up for missing Friday, I decide to tell Embryo about Violet.   (source)
  • First, though, Embryo has to ask me if I've tried to hurt myself.   (source)
  • Embryo says, "Let's talk about the SAT."   (source)
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  • I meant what I said to Embryo about drugs.   (source)
  • I'm scheduled to see Embryo now, and I'm afraid he'll notice something's up.   (source)
  • Embryo is talking about symptoms and hypomania and psychotic episodes when the bell rings.   (source)
  • We run through this routine every week, and it goes something like this: Embryo: Have you tried to hurt yourself since I saw you last?   (source)
  • Embryo wants to know what's wrong and why I look like this, and does it have something to do with turning eighteen soon.   (source)
  • I wonder who and how as I pick pick pick and try to silence my brain by thinking up Embryo's epitaph.   (source)
  • At home, I access voicemail on the landline, the one Kate and I get around to checking when we remember, and there's a message from Embryo.   (source)
  • "He doesn't want to be my dad," I say, and Embryo listens so seriously and closely, his thick arms crossed over his thick chest, that I feel bad.   (source)
  • I think I've said too much, but instead of telling me to man up and walk it off, Embryo says, "I thought your father died in a hunting accident."   (source)
  • Embryo: Are you bullshitting me, son?   (source)
  • Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects.   (source)
  • I think of ringing up ol' Embryo.   (source)
  • No, no, no, Embryo, I want to say.   (source)
  • I put on my best Embryo voice.   (source)
  • Screw you, Embryo.   (source)
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