10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «NOCTIVAGOUS»
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1
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology
It is a man whose former career shews him a scoundrel of special magnitude.
march 31, Saturday Chief among the civic notabilia is the Mayor's foray or razzia
among the unhappy fallen women who perambulate Broadway, the noctivagous
...
2
An etymological and explanatory dictionary of the terms and ...
Nitrogen and azote are two names for the same thing. NOCTIVAGOUS (nox,
night; vago, to wander); that fly about by night. Pterodactyles are conjectured to
have been noctivagous. NODULIz (nodulus, alittle knot); a rounded irregular
shaped ...
3
Antedatings and Additions for OED: From the Catalogue of ...
OED: 1818. NO-BOTTOMITES sb. pi. 'This lower scale contains the Broad-
Bottomites, i.e. the Grenvillites, or New Opposition, the other, the No- Bottomites,
i.e. the Foxites, or Old Opposition' (VIII 410-10530; 1806). NOCTIVAGOUS a. '"..
where ...
The eye of the Pterodactyle was very large, and the animal was probably
noctivagous as well as diurnal. Of these anomalous creatures no less than seven
species have been described and named ; nor is there reason for doubting that
more ...
William John Broderip, 1848
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Geology and mineralogy as exhibiting the power, wisdom, and ...
With regard to their food, it has been conjectured by Cuvier that they fed on
insects, and from the magnitude of their eyes that they may also have been
noctivagous. The presence of large fossil Libellulae, or Dragon-flies, and many
other ...
William Buckland, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, 1869
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The Pageant, Or, Pleasure and Its Price: A Tale for the ...
Beasts of prey, burglars, and ladies of fashion are the only three kinds of
noctivagous mammalia. The mob, as has been said, was in high goodhumour,
and to any one who was walking the streets that night it must have afforded much
...
Francis Edward Paget, 1843
7
The Archaeological Journal
e The horn of the castle watchman was troublesome to noctivagous lovers: “
Gaite de la tor! Gardez entor Les murs, se Deus vos voie; C'or sent a séjor Dame
et seignor, Et larron vont en proie. (La gaite come.) Hu, et hu, et hu, et hu! J e l'ni
veu ...
8
Transactions Of The Geological Society
bling nothing that has ever been seen or heard-of upon earth, excepting the
dragons of romance and heraldry. Moreover, it was probably noctivagous and
insectivorous, and in both these points resembled the hat; but differed from it, in
having ...
9
Useful Miscellanies; containing, 1. A preface of the ...
... Numbers of them pour themselves down from 'DruryLane, and the Ne/i's
adjacent upon Covent Garden, the Strand, and Fleetfireet, where they become
Ambulatory and Noctivagous. That as for theirNeflr, it is observable at their first
Sitting, ...
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Transactions of the Geological Society of London
Moreover, it was probably noctivagous and insectivorous, and in both these
points resembled the bat ; but differed from it, in having the most important bones
in its body constructed after the manner of those of reptiles. With flocks of such-
like ...
Geological Society of London, 1835