"Globular" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sea-bug (Halobates micans); three species of Pteropodes, closely allied to the Cliodora; a small and remarkable Hyaloea; two new Janthinae; Firola hyalina, Pyrosoma atlanticum, Salpa coerulescens, and another unknown; Porpita glandifera, and a new species of globular form; a Velella; two new species of Acalephes, of the same family as the Diphyes; and further Pelagia panopyra, and two other very small species. When the sea was a little agitated on the Brazilian coast, we frequently saw the large sea-bladder floating on the surface; here we ...
— A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 • Otto von Kotzebue
... man,' resumed Mr. Grewgious, still sitting and speaking exactly as before, 'are probably erroneous on so globular a topic. But I figure to myself (subject, as before, to Mr. Edwin's correction), that there can be no coolness, no lassitude, no doubt, no indifference, no half fire and half smoke state of mind, in a real lover. Pray am I at all near the mark ...
— The Mystery of Edwin Drood • Charles Dickens
... like the flower ovules, cannot develop without pollen. The anthers containing the pollen are found in the male fish, and look like the ovaries, only they are not so large and their contents are not so firm. They seem filled with a formless substance instead of with little globular eggs. Under the microscope this formless substance is seen to be made of a semi-fluid material in which are held millions of pollen grains! Only we no longer call them pollen grains. We may call them fertilizing cells ...
— The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young • Margaret Warner Morley
... upon globular pillows that when they became so restless as to move and cause the pillow to roll from under their head they might get ...
— The Chinese Boy and Girl • Isaac Taylor Headland
... theory has greatly helped us in tracing the formation of the planetary system, astronomers are strongly opposed to its claim that the planets did not pass through an incandescent stage. The actual features of our spiral nebulae seem clearly to exhibit that stage. The shape of the planets—globular bodies, flattened at the poles—strongly suggests that they were once liquid. The condition in which we find Saturn and Jupiter very forcibly confirms this suggestion; the latest study of those planets supports the current opinion ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe
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