"Reticulated" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tree, from forty to fifty feet high when full grown, with shining foliage, somewhat resembling that of the bay, and its fruit looks like a very large nectarine. One fully ripe was gathered for me. It had opened, and revealed the nutmeg with its dark brown shell showing through its crimson reticulated envelope of mace, the whole lying in a bed of ...
— The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither • Isabella L. Bird (Mrs. Bishop)
... some species of Fuci, Lycopodiaceae which were probably arborescent, Equisetaceae, and tropical ferns; they present, however, a singular association of animal forms, consisting of Crustacea (trilobites with reticulated eyes, and Calymene), Brachiopoda ('Spirifer, Orthis'), elegant Sphaeronites, nearly allied to the Crinoidea,* Orthoceraitites, of the family of the Cephalopoda, corals, and, blended with these low organisms, fishes of the most singular ...
— COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 • Alexander von Humboldt
... branching and complex forms of the Arenig, the twin-Graptolites and Dicranograpti of the Llandeilo, and the double-celled Diplograpti and Climacograpti of the Bala group, have now disappeared. In their place we have the singular Retiolites, with its curiously-reticulated skeleton; and several species of the single-celled genus Monograptus, of which a characteristic species (M. Priodon) is here figured. If we remove from this group the plant-like Dictyonemoe, which are still present, and which survive into the Devonian, no known species of Graptolite ...
— The Ancient Life History of the Earth • Henry Alleyne Nicholson
... manufacturing net and lace, the liquid material being poured on one side of a roller and the fabric being reeled off on the other side. The process seems capable of indefinite extension and application to various sorts of woven, knit and reticulated goods. The raw material is cotton waste and the finished fabric is a good substitute for silk. As in the process of making artificial silk the cellulose is dissolved in a cupro-ammoniacal solution, but instead of being forced out through minute ...
— Creative Chemistry - Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries • Edwin E. Slosson
... she had been much loved by others of her own sex and age, and had used to be seen about the village as one of three—all nearly of the same year—walking home from school side by side; Tess the middle one—in a pink print pinafore, of a finely reticulated pattern, worn over a stuff frock that had lost its original colour for a nondescript tertiary—marching on upon long stalky legs, in tight stockings which had little ladder-like holes at the knees, torn by kneeling in ...
— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy |
