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Asa Gray (1810) Considered one of the most important botanists in American history, Gray laid the foundation for the study of plants in North America. He made botanical expeditions to the western US, established Harvard University's botany department, and wrote prodigiously on the subject of plants, producing several classic, still-valued ...
Gray and grey are both correct; gray is used more in American English and grey used more in British English. One wasn't formed because it was an incorrect spelling of the other. I don't know what's up with patty and pattie, but I do know that spelling variants in general sometimes go back hundreds of years. When words were first coined, they ...
The call of the brook came up through the woods from the valley of birches with all its old allurement; the mellow air was full of the purr of the sea; beyond were fields rimmed by fences bleached silvery gray in the suns of many summers, and long hills scarfed with the shadows of autumnal clouds; with the blowing of the west wind old dreams ...
On the word "turbid"... There is a hilarious parody poem by Sir John Collings Squire [1884 - 1958], published in the 1920s, titled "If Gray Had Had to Write His Elegy in the Cemetery of Spoon River Instead of in That of Stoke Poges", that pokes fun at the well-known work by Illinois poet Edgar Lee Masters [1868 - 1950], "Spoon River Anthology" [1915] and at the well-known poem by Thomas Gray ...
intertrigo - Inflammation caused by the rubbing of one area of skin on another. More... phlegm - Comes from Latin phlegma, "clammy moisture," and Greek phlegma, "inflammation." More... polio - An abbreviation of poliomyelitis, from Greek polios, "gray," and muelos, "marrow," meaning "inflammation of the gray matter of the spinal cord." More...
The coleslaw (The holes by Louise sachar) The toad fried (The road by Cormac McCathy) The firm to the tooth/to the bite (al dente) ( The firm by John Grisham) The woman in white pudding (The woman in white by Wilkie Collin) Tortilla wrap (Tortilla flat by John Steinbeck) Nan bread (Nana by Emil Zola) The name of rosė wine ( The name of the rose by umberto Eco) A time to kill (A time to ...
Hi, I have read this paragraph somewhere and am wondering why "hand" is being used here. The picture appearing in the upper left-hand corner on the gray toolbar is not in my image library or in my Gravatar list.
On the edge of: (= on the verge of) close to the point at which something different, especially something bad, will happen: - Their economy is on the edge of collapse. - She is on the edge of despair. - He was on the edge of winning the election when the sex scandal broke. There is one interesting explanation that I have come across to explain ...
While laying to a hospital bed in the U.S. Navy, back in 1960, with a full leg cast, a "gray-lady" came by pushing her library cart full of books. My response to her, when asked if wanted a book to read; "I don't read..." I then explained to her that I had always had a difficulty reading, so she opted to help me.
Context from "POLITICS" - A TREATISE ON GOVERNMENT BOOK II CHAPTER VIII Thus the science of physic is extended beyond its ancient bounds; so is the gymnastic, and indeed all other arts and powers; so that one may lay it down for certain that the same thing will necessarily hold good in the art of government.