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embryo
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The Once and Future King
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- 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.†
Book 1embryos = organisms in the early stages of growth prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting; in humans organisms during the first eight weeks of development (prior to the fetal stage)
- "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.†
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- 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.†
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- 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.†
Book 1embryos = organisms in the early stages of growth prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting; in humans organisms during the first eight weeks of development (prior to the fetal stage)
- 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.†
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- All the embryos thought the matter over politely, and then, one by one, they stepped up before the eternal throne.†
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- 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.†
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- This embryo was Man.†
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- '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.†
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- 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.†
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- Here, all you embryos, come here with your beaks and whatnots to look upon Our first Man.†
Book 1embryos = organisms in the early stages of growth prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting; in humans organisms during the first eight weeks of development (prior to the fetal stage)
- 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.†
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- 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.†
Book 1embryos = organisms in the early stages of growth prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting; in humans organisms during the first eight weeks of development (prior to the fetal stage)
- Come along, my dear embryo, and find your tool.†
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Definitions:
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(embryo) an organism in the early stages of growth prior to birth, hatching, or sprouting; in humans the first eight weeks of development (prior to the fetal stage)
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, Embryo can be a person's name.