Word: insects
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Birds, insects and snails, he continued, do not work gratuitously, being either allured by food, warmth or shelter. They enter flowers either for these purposes, or for that of depositing their eggs. Flowers are peculiarly adapted for various kinds of insect propagation; gnats taking some of the long tubular ones, and being restrained by a kind of a trap till their work is finished. Bees and balancing flies are fond of tubular flowers. Moths fertilize Orchids, carrying pollen balls clinging to their tongue or eyes. Humming-birds attack long necked flowers like the Trumpet Vine. Flowers allure these animal friends...
...originally held in Greece, then at Rome in the time of Seneca, and finally as it was taught by Marcus Aurelius himself in his writings and illustrated in his life. Professor Bailey read a paper a few days ago before the Franklin Society on the "Correlation of Insects with the Flower." He has made several notable discoveries in the line of insect visits to flowers, and on the basis of these has advanced some new botanical theories...
...youth of modern days never attend the feasts of Bacchus before they have assumed the Toga Virilis?" An apothegm on "Hasty Writers" (transformed by some malicious reader before me to "Hasty-Pudding Writers!") is quoted here: "Little writers compose books apace; for naturalists observe that the less the insect is the oftener it lays, and the faster it propagates; but then their brood is very short-lived...
...shell is so mean," said Mnag sententiously, "that it may not contain a pearl; nor do I call petty the smallest insect that owns the mystery of life...
...could admit the canker insect of anxiety to rend my heart unalloyed if it were not for other ploughing inflictions which asset my mind about this Venie. Isaac tells me her neck and bust have been jollified by thousands; think of it, Mr. Brimstone, inflect how improper of that girl to be seen in such an informal, decolleti way! How lacking in maidenly preserve she must be! What a brass face the girl must have! The carmine glow profuses my hectic cheeks as I think of it; and then for Isaac not to be ashamed of such coyness! Really...