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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
rare animals whose English and Latin names mean exactly the same thing,
Venus's girdle, and no wonder: the body is a long, shimmering, ethereally
beautiful ribbon, too good for a goddess (see plate 43). Notice that, although the
Venus's ...
2
Songs, Recitatives, &C. in the New Entertainment of Venus's ...
In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind.
3
Diversity of Life: The Illustrated Guide to the Five Kingdoms
Four genera of ctenophores are shown here: the lobate comb jelly Bolinopsis
infundibulum (A); Venus's girdle, Cestum veneris (B); the sea gooseberry,
Pleurobrachia pileus (C); and the North Sea thimble jelly, Beroe cucumis (D). The
one ...
Lynn Margulis, Karlene V. Schwartz, Michael Dolan,
1999
4
A Collection of Confusible Phrases
Venus 's girdle - a ribbonlike gelatinous sea creature found in the Mediterranean
Sea: ln Cextum, or Venus's Girdle. elongation takes place to an extraordinary
extent. Girl Guide Girl Guider Girl Guide - (UK) a girl aged between about 1 0 and
1 ...
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St. Martin's Anthologies of English Literature: Volume 3, ...
If any wench Venus's girdle wear,* 90 Though she be never so ugly, Lilies and
roses will quickly appear, And her face look wondrous smugly. Beneath the left
ear so fit but a cord (A rope so charming a zone* is!), 95 The youth in his cart hath
...
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The mysteries of the ocean: From the French of Arthur Mangin
From the French of Arthur Mangin Arthur Mangin. aninial, however, is very small,
and the long riband is nothing but a twofold appendage, which prolongs it on the
right and left, and floats in the water with graceful folds. " Venus's Girdle " is ...
Maria Edgeworth. though nobody merely by looking at her would have guessed it
: but she was a striking exemplification of the truth of lady Jane Granville's maxim,
that fashion, like Venus's girdle, can beautify any girl, let her be ever so ugly.
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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the ...
Just as we know that the woman wearing Venus's girdle may be “never so ugly,”
we know that the “youth in the cart” may have nothing to recommend him but the
rope around his neck. Yet we are charmed anyway. Air 3 thus ties aesthetics to ...
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The Astrologer's Magazine, and Philosophical Miscellany
2. The Cephalick line and parts, which is the middle natural line, to the Moon and
Jupiter. 3. The line of the head to Mercury . 4. The Table line, or line of fortune, to
Jupiter. 5- Venus's girdle, to Venus. 6. The line of Death, or sinister of the line of ...
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The nocturnal minstrel; or, The spirit of the wood
you out the star that points the toe of the right foot of Orion, trace the milky way,
spy out Castor and Pollux, and shew you Venus's girdle in the heavens!" " Fool,
Venus's girdle was never placed there : but what said he of the Earl ? be quick, ...