Derham

Cited as Derham. — 21 quotations

All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another.

Such a barricade as would greatly annoy, or absolutely stop, the currents of the atmosphere.

The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations.

Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen.

The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that.

The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance.

The great Creator and Conservator of the world.

The coats, without, are context and callous.

Commodious declivities and channels for the passage of the waters.

Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather.

An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices.

Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ.

The vanes nicely gauged on each side.

A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites the appetite, and affects the glands and parts of the mouth.

What an immensurable space is the firmament.

An incurvation of the rays.

Others reposit their young in holes.

They serve for stabiliment, propagation, and shade.

Of this stentorophonic horn of Alexander there is a preserved in the Vatican.

That torvous, sour look produced by anger.

The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys.