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Brewer's: Chrysalis
[ch = k]. The form which caterpillars assume before they are converted into butterflies or moths. The chrysalis is also called an aurelia, from the Latin aurum, gold. The external covering…Brewer's: Blown
in the phrase “fly-blown,” has nothing to do with the verb to blow (as the wind blows). It means that flies have deposited their eggs and tainted the article. In French, deposer des oeufs…Brewer's: Antipathy, of animals
According to tradition, wolves have a mortal antipathy to scillaroots; geese to the soil of Whitby; snakes to soil of Ireland; cats to dogs; all animals dislike the castoroil plant;…Brewer's: Sylphs
according to Middle Age belief, are the elemental spirits of air; so named by the Rosicrucians and Cabalists, from the Greek silphe (a butterfly or moth). (See Gnomes.) Sylphs. Any…insect
(Encyclopedia) CE5 External anatomy of a female grasshopper, representative of the class Insecta insect, invertebrate animal of the class Insecta of the phylum Arthropoda. Like other arthropods,…Christina Rossetti: A Testimony
A TestimonyI said of laughter: it is vain. Of mirth I said: what profits it? Therefore I found a book, and writ Therein how ease and also pain, How health and sickness, every one Is…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Woodman and the Nightingale
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Stanzas Written in Dejection, ...MarenghiThe Woodman and the Nightingale Published in part (1-67) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824; the remainder (68-70)…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Sensitive Plant Part 2
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Part 1 Part 3 Part 2 There was a Power in this sweet place, An Eve in this Eden; a ruling Grace Which to the flowers, did they waken or dream, Was as God is to the…Brewer's: Antipathy, of human beings
To Animals: Henri III. and the Duke of Schoenberg felt faint at the sight of a cat: Vanghelm felt the same at the sight of a pig, and abhorred pork; Marshal Brézé sickened at the sight of…Coaches Find Stress Harder to Handle
It began with Southern Cal's George Raveling and eventually grew into a conga line of coaches who no longer could, or would, handle the pressures of college basketball. Raveling's awakening…Trending
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