10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STERCORARIOUS»
Discover the use of
stercorarious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stercorarious and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Mock-Epic Poetry from Pope to Heine
448–9). Johnson said of Thomas Gray's Odes, 'they are poor plants; they are but
cucumbers after all'. 135 Cowper describes it periphrastically as 'the prickly and
green-coated gourd' (iii. 446), which should be raised in 'a stercorarious heap, ...
2
The Animal Kingdom: Arranged After Its Organization, Forming ...
Coprophages, feeding upon excrementitious or stercorarious matters. a.
Copromorges, deriving their subsistence from the more succulent portions of
excrementitious matters. (Copriens, Aphodiens.) b Xerophages, feeding on dry
animal or ...
Georges Baron Cuvier, Robert Mudie, George Johnston, 1854
3
Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London
They often exude too, when caught, a brown liquid from their mouths, smelling
strongly of stercorarious matters. " The larva I have enclosed is one of the larger
ones I have taken, shrunk, of course, a little in size : it was probably full grown.
4
An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural ...
... for two species at least of Ichneumon' know how to oviposit it in stercorarious
larvae without soiling their wings or bodies. The ichneumonidan parasites are
either external or internal. Thus the species above alluded to, which attacks
spiders, ...
William Kirby, William Spence, 1843
5
Last Places: A Journey in the North
Not only does the island boast the world's largest colony of great skuas —
upwards of 8,500, or 225 for every man, woman, and child on the island — but it
also plays host to a colony of arctic skuas (Stercorarious parasiticus), a slightly
smaller, ...
... Shilling ;' the Monitor is a copy of something still lower ; and the tedious
directions for raising cucumbers, which begin with calling a hotbed ' a
stercorarious heap,' seem to have been intended as a counterpart to the tragedy
of Tom Thumb.
7
Odorographia a natural history of raw materials and drugs ...
... Spain, Greece, and Cyprus, is perceptible at a distance by its strong odour of
human eterements ; stercorarious flies deceived by the stench congregate in
great numbers about it. The leaves possess purgative prepcrties, and are used
by the ...
8
Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation
Living where she did, and reading as she did, Austen knew all about dung, both
from experience and from The Task's 'stercorarious heap',197 and her last two
works begin to develop their narrative sense of smell; in Persuasion, Mrs Croft's ...
9
Life and Works, by Robert Southey. - London, Baldwin and ...
... Pant for the praise of dressing to the taste 460 Of critic appetite, no sordid fare,
A cucumber, while costly yet and scarce. The stable yields a stercorarious heap
s. c.—9. L Impregnated with quick fermenting salts, And potent to resist the e. 11I.
William Cowper, Robert Southey, 1836
10
Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain, and ...
So far, also, as they could appreciate his merit, and endure that aristocracy of
mind which pressed hard upon the heels of hereditary rank, or mushroom vanity
raised from stercorarious heaps in ecclesiastical hotbeds, his society was courted
...
James Montgomery, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1835
