"Identifiable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mandrakes as something altogether different from the plant now known by the name; but there is really no warrant for such a conclusion. The Mandragora officinalis is quite common in Celicia, Syria, and elsewhere in the East, and is easily identifiable with the root of Baaras, which Josephus describes in the Wars of the Jews. This root, he says, is in colour like to that of flame, and towards the evening it sends out a certain ray like lightning. It is not easily to be pulled, it will ...
— Storyology - Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore • Benjamin Taylor
... nycticalus (Selenicereus pteranthus) * Cereus paucispinus (Echinocereus coccineus ssp. paucispinus) Cereus pentalophus (Echinocereus pentalophus) Cereus peruvianus (Cereus repandus) Cereus pleiogonus (Echinocereus sp.—no longer identifiable)* Cereus polyacanthus (Echinocereus polyacanthus) Cereus procumbens (Echinocereus pentalophus ssp. procumbens) * Cereus reductus (Hybrid with Selenicereus sp. as one probable parent) Cereus repandus (Cereus repandus) * Cereus Royeni (Pilosocereus royenii) Cereus serpentinus (Peniocereus (Nyctocereus) ...
— Cactus Culture For Amateurs • W. Watson
... forests present parallel conditions. When the fallen trunks which have entered into the composition of the bed of coal are identifiable, they are mere double shells of bark, flattened together in consequence of the destruction of the woody core; and Sir Charles Lyell and Principal Dawson discovered, in the hollow stools of coal trees ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
... had tried to stop him from the first. He was a Garvian, alien to Earth's climate and Earth's people. The physical differences between Earthmen and Garvians were small, but just enough to set him apart and make him easily identifiable as an alien. He had one too few digits on his hands; his body was small and spindly, weighing a bare ninety pounds, and the coating of fine gray fur that covered all but his face and palms annoyingly ...
— Star Surgeon • Alan Nourse
... this distance. Unfortunately, a great client was considered as important as a weaver, and it was often his arbitrary sign that was woven. And sometimes a dealer, wishing glory through his dealings, ordered his sign in the galloon. And thus comes a long array of signs which are not identifiable always. In general, one or two initials were introduced into these symbols, which were fanciful designs that any idle pencil might draw, but in the lapse of years it is not possible to know which able weaver ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee |
