How To Use Damsel In A Sentence
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a good deal of comfort in the fact as she sold 7-Cs at $22.50 a pair to behemothian damsels who possessed money in proportion to Myra's beauty.
Gigolo
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This latest fly is based on an earlier marabou tailed damsel nymph that was weighted down with lead wire.
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We often read about overwrought ladies reaching for their vinaigrettes, or of stalwart heroes reviving a swooning damsel by waving a vinaigrette beneath her nose.
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It was to suppose a sequency in the conduct of a variable damsel.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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A member of the order Protodonata, Meganuera closely resembles and is related to modern dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera).
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Three-spot damselfish are common members of Caribbean reef communities.
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Then he repaired to a blacksmith, after stripping her and her damsels of their silken apparel and clothing them in raiment of hair-cloth, and bade him make three pairs of iron shackles.
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Disguises used by female damselflies to avoid unwanted sexual advances can cause males to seek out their own sex, a new study suggests.
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The shape of the pronotum (damselflies) and the head (dragonflies) is very important in reproduction, because the male grasps the female around her neck with appendages on the end of his abdomen.
Insecta (Aquatic)
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There is no shortage of choice, a good variety of butterflyfish, an unusual striped damselfish, puffers and a shoal of small barracuda.
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The wing bases tend to be very slender, as in damselflies (Odonata, Zygoptera).
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The elder maid-servant wore a good stuff gown — the younger snooded up her hair, and now went about the house a damsel so trig and neat, that some said she was too handsome for the service of a bachelor divine; and others, that they saw no business so old
Saint Ronan's Well
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Both the men now gazed in the direction from which they expected the girls to appear, when lo! shouting, laughing, and tearing obstreperously along, the six beauteous and dutiful damsels came racing towards them.
Ralph Rashleigh
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Epics and their contemporary shadows, action-adventure tales, are very much phallocentric genres in which women, when they appear at all, are relegated to the roles of damsels in distress, mother-figures, sex objects, or witches, either good or bad.
Lieutenants, sergeants, squires, free-lances, and the hero-king
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Other important components of the fringing reef ecosystem include algae (brown, red and green), marine invertebrates (shrimp, lobster, crabs and sea urchins) and fishes (parrotfish, wrasses, damselfish, surgeonfish, goatfish, jacks and sharks).
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
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So they hent him by the hand and thrust him out; and I took the lute and sang over again the songs of my own composing which the damsel had sung.
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Feeling rather like a whale among minnows, I found myself in the middle of schools of small green damselfish and a host of mainly yellow and blue angelfish, bannerfish and butterfly fish.
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The bicolor damsel, however, retains its distinctive pattern.
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Dorsey chose to work with the bicolor damselfish because they are not considered a threatened or endangered species.
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Said the old man, “O my son, meseems thou weepest for the damsel who sailed yesterday with the Frank?”
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Wildgoose promptly falls in love with a fascinating damsel-errant, Julia Townsend; and the various adventures, religious, picaresque, and amatory, are embroiled and disembroiled with very fair skill in character and fairer still in narrative.
The English Novel
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You wanna go play knight to the damsel, you'll wake up next Christmas with an ice bag for a brain.
BLOOD IS DIRT
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The heteropterous damselflies have a fat abdomen, a smaller distance between the complex eyes and their frontal wings are different from the back ones.
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A woodchat's prey is mainly insects, beetles, damsel flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, wasps and bees.
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Even a very rich and hearty luncheon, which her maid had provided, was gormandized rather than enjoyed, so tempting did her couch look to the worn-out damsel.
Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter
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Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
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Replied the old woman, O my lady, this damsel is a liar.
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The two other lestinoid damselflies are recent ‘derived’ Lestidae.
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All about us billowed a profusion of wild beauty; and though for a long time there was nothing alive in sight except a flock of bright pink sheep, my stage-managing fancy called up knights of the round table, "pricking" o'er the downs on their panoplied steeds to the rescue of fair, distressed damsels.
Set in Silver
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Then the Lady Guinevere, greatly marvelling, aroused herself right quickly, and, dighting herself with all speed, went with the damsel unto that casement window which looked out into that part of the garden.
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A woodchat's prey is mainly insects, beetles, damsel flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, wasps and bees.
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‘New pools are attractive to dragonflies, butterflies and damselflies and should in time attract moorhens, ducks and other water birds, as well as being a peaceful area for staff to enjoy during their breaks,’ he added.
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Every forty days the Lady Jamilah cometh hither in a bark and landeth in the midst of her women, under a canopy of satin, whose skirts ten damsels hold up with hooks of gold, whilst she entereth, and I see nothing of her.
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Hundreds of tiny damselfishes dart around in shoals, finning their swift way through sunlit waters.
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The young damsel has been captured by baddie pirate Barbossa because she possesses a rare coin.
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Fair dames and damsels, may your loves be as happy as those of the heroine of this romaunt.
Burlesques
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Damselflies, mayflies and dragonflies dart from lily pad to iris leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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For example he informs us that the Blue-cheeked bee-eater actually eats more dragonflies and damselflies than anything else.
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The most rejoiced for the sake of the damsel with the white raiment, the daughter of the poor vavasor she of the gentle and open heart; but his damsel and those who were devoted to him were sorry for Yder.
Four Arthurian Romances
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But he misliked this, he and the damsel, and she said to him, “I have bethought me of a means of relief for thee.”
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All the villains are villainous, the damsels worthy of long low wolf whistles, the heroes swashbuckling.
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He had heard it said that her innocent demeanour combined with her intelligent mind made her a refreshing change from mindlessly demure damsels.
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It was common for coy damsels and staid matrons to wend their way to Lizzie's cot about twilight, to have their fortunes spaed.
The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
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Best recent catches on Watendlath have been from Mike Tinnion with over 20 rainbow trout on buzzers, fishing the evening rise. Brian Scot recorded another good bag with 15 on hoppers and damsel nymphs.
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So Abdullah entered and the Merman cried out, saying, “Ho, daughter mine!” when behold, there came to him a damsel with a face like the rondure of the moon and hair long, hips heavy, eyes black-edged and waist slender; but she was naked and had a tail.
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Ambassadors and retinue from the Constantinopolitan King had kissed the ground before Omar and had delivered their embassage, they brought out the presents, which were fifty damsels of the choicest from Graecia-land, and fifty Mamelukes in tunics of brocade, belted with girdles of gold and silver, each wearing in his ears hoops of gold with pendants of fine pearls costing a thousand ducats every one.
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Other anemone associates A number of other damsel fish species, especially during their juvenile stages also associate with anemones.
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In the meantime Dame Elspeth assisted to disembarrass the damsel whom she destined for her future daughter-inlaw, of her hood, mantle, and the rest of her riding gear, giving her to appear as beseemed the buxom daughter of the wealthy Miller, gay and goodly, in a white kirtle, the seams of which were embroidered with green silken lace or fringe, entwined with some silver thread.
The Monastery
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Then, the dragonflies and damselflies will move in.
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The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to speak to her apart, concerning Miss Haredale and Dolly.
Barnaby Rudge
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When drunk they would rove the streets of London, molesting fair damsels and burning down buildings as a lark.
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The effects of eating ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes, such as certain mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels and rabbitfish, are believed to be similar to LSD, and may include vivid and terrifying auditory and visual hallucinations.
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An increase in territory quality has been shown to increase the aggressive intensity of S. planifrons, a damselfish closely related to the beaugregory damselfish.
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Apart from their intrinsic and aesthetic value, dragonflies and damselflies are now recognised as indicators of riverine integrity.
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Many male damselfish, wrasses, and angelfish, among others, maintain harems.
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He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained
Waverley
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Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent.
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She continued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when the damsel said to the doctor, “‘The stomach is the house of disease and diet is the head of healing; for the origin of all sickness is indigestion, that is to say, corruption of the meat in the stomach;’” he rejoined, “Thou hast replied aright! what sayest thou of the Hammam?”
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It was something more appealing than long-legged, lissome damsels setting the catwalk on fire.
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His infantile trochaics addressed to children (‘Dimply damsel, sweetly smiling’, etc.) earned him the nickname of ‘Namby Pamby’, though Johnson described them as his pleasantest pieces.
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Victorian damsels madly anticipate his imminent arrival.
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A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
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But apparently the spinecheek anemonefish doesn't belong to the subfamily of anemonefishes (Amphiprioninae) but to another genus of damselfishes: Premnas
Planet Atheism
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Dorsey chose to work with the bicolor damselfish because they are not considered a threatened or endangered species.
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Longhorn leaf beetles do not have gills and therefore cannot extract oxygen directly from the water, as damselfly and dragonfly larvae do.
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She is thereafter the traditional damsel in distress and it would appear that her ‘femaleness’ is what prevents her from saving herself.
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Lady, it means not disobedience to you, nor any displeasance done to this young damsel" -- and De Gernet turned and bowed to Roisia.
A Forgotten Hero Not for Him
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Fair son," saith the Lady, "The damsel is here within that the felonous knight wounded through the arm, that carried of your sister, but she is healed.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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F arther upriver there were tiny azure damselflies, flying needles of improbable colour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Female species of dragonflies and damselflies will allow males to mate with them only when they see that he has a suitable egg-laying territory.
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There remain the demand for an unbaptized child to kiss, the torture to which the heroes of the two Bohemian sagas submit, the requirement in the Pomeranian tale to place seven brothers on the stone haunted by the seven mice, and lastly the personal violence to the damsel involved in striking her with a birch-rod or a bunch of juniper and in beheadal.
The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
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Each slave laid hold of a damsel [and swived her] and another slave [came forth and] did the like with the queen; and when they had done their occasions, they all returned whence they came.
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And isn't the idea of damsels in distress kind of outmoded anyway?
Nothing Revolts
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Figure 1 shows the prevalence of these gregarines in adult damselflies during the summer and early fall of this year.
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The most common day predators are wrasses (family Labridae) and other damselfishes (family Pomacentridae).
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They have a new dulcinea wherever they newly quarter, and carry about the few ideas they possess from damsel to damsel, as regularly as from town to town. '
Camilla
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The little damselflies are also still out and about, often in swarms.
Times, Sunday Times
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We conducted focal animal observations on juvenile three-spot damselfish in both continuous and patch reef habitat in 1991 and 1997.
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So she sat down and unveiled her face; 217 and, when the King saw her beauty, his reason fled his head and he made her draw near and showed her favour, appointing her an especial palace for herself and her damsels, and assigning them solde and allowances.
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The Odonata, the order to which damselflies and dragonflies belong, play a very important ecological and economic role for human beings.
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When it arrived, the people of Baghdad went forth to meet it and I went forth with them: and I saw the damsel among the women and she the loudest of them in lamentation, crying out and wailing with a voice that rent the vitals and made the heart ache.
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Cascade damselflies are found only at a few isolated waterfalls in Costa Rica and Panama and display an extraordinary ability to fly through powerful cascades, seen on film for the first time.
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In this manner were two disconsolate damsels set at liberty from the womb of the leathern conveniency.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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I just met you and I already think you’re awesome. on January 4, 2008 at 12: 00 pm | Reply damsel in digress awesome post, ds. i hate that i went missing … i feel like i have so much catching up to do! but posts like this?
A reawakening. «
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So he said to them, “I desire of you that ye dispute with this damsel on the things of her faith, and stultify her argument in all she advanceth;” and they answered, saying, “We hear and we obey Allah and thee, O Commander of the Faithful.”
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Because I'm a damsel in distress," she said, "And you are a knight in whatever.
AMERICAN GODS
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The deadly shelter of the stinging tentacles of sea anemones, which are lethal to smaller creatures, provides safe lodging for spotted damselfish and boldly striped clown fish.
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To complicate matters, the damsel in distress is also on the boat and needs protection.
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These include the clownfish (Amphiprion), damselfish (Dascyllus), and wrasse (Coris gaimardi).
Indonesian Sea large marine ecosystem
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At the upper end rose a throne of gold whereon sat a damsel, whose face was like the moon, arrayed in royal raiment and beautified as she were a bride on the night of her displaying; and at the foot of the throne was a table of forty trays spread with golden and silvern dishes full of dainty viands.
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The glare of a UV light reveals that the even yellow colours of the damselfishes 'faces are actually streaked with complex patterns.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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The census also revealed that four fish species - butterfly fish, damselfish, and two wrasses - may now be locally extinct.
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Chamberlain accosted the old woman, saying, “What damsel is this?”
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I had never dived on a real pirate ship, and I imagined fully rigged masts, broad wooden beams, and a blonde-haired damsel gracing the bow of an eerie ghost ship.
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Apart from creating the right ambience, damsels dressed in traditional attire of each country stood beside the display and dished out facts about the fare.
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Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
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Yon damsel, is patiently trying to save my protag from his own worst natures, as an equal if not superior.
Home is where the hero isn’t at SF Novelists
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Azure damsel fishes, only an inch or so in length, capture all possible shades of blue in one sleek swift body.
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Remember that I once posted here that the romance writer, Barbara Cartland, who had a Victorian mother, was so disgusted at the lack of romance from the 60's through the current era, that she decided to set her novels in the Regency period, with damsels and knights.
Victoria Magazine Winter, 1988
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The bridegroom on horseback, lance in hand, proceeded to break the _toran_, which was defended by the damsels of the bride.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
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Dulcinea, the ballerina role, appears in many guises (devoted servant girl, proud shepherdess, guardian spirit, damsel in distress, Madonna).
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The tropical fish tank came fully equipped: pumps, filters, hoses, light fixtures, coral arrangements, and a small cadre of lively black-and-white-striped damselfish, also called demoiselles.
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Small damselfishes make a new reef-style habitat in the tangle of branches.
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This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels.
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The Banded Demoiselle belongs to a group of insects called Odonata (meaning toothed jaws) that includes Dragonflies and Damselflies.
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Provider of the peacock and the owl,438 Nur al-Din rose from the séance and stood upon his feet, because the darkness was now fallen and the stars shone out; whereupon quoth the damsel to him,
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Closer to the reef, divers will be attracted by the hive of activity - wrasses, damselfish, butterflyfish and cleaner fish dart about foraging for food among the hard corals.
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The best bed-chamber, with its hangings of crimson moreen, was opened and aired -- a performance which always caused my eight little brothers and sisters to place themselves in convenient positions for being stumbled over, to the great annoyance of industrious damsels, who, armed with broom and duster, endeavored to render their reign as arbitrary as it was short.
A Grandmother's Recollections
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Moreover, he hath seven daughters, who in valour and prowess equal and even excel their sisters,66 and he hath made the eldest of them, the damsel whom thou sawest,67 queen over the country aforesaid and who is the wisest of her sisters and in valour and horsemanship and craft and skill and magic excels all the folk of her dominions.
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Instead, Greif sleepwalks a cast of second-tier talent through a lackluster, interminable script, all the while lending a dreary visual style to the film that makes it look like this week's damsel-in-distress sudser on the USA Network.
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He keeps coming to the aid of this damsel in distress.
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When the King eaten in hall, the Queen with the King and the knights go to lean at the windows to look at the three damsels and the three white harts that draw the car, and the more part said that the damsel afoot that went after the two that were mounted should have the most misease.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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So she walked on, a small, miserable testimony that the way of the transgressor is never easy, even when said transgressor is only a damsel of eleven.
The Story Girl
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The eight warriors must battle witches, monsters, evil spirits, and vats of bubbling poison if they are to rescue the damsel in distress.
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In addition, the park is buzzing with insect life and is regionally important for the high numbers of dragonflies and damselflies.
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Fish are fed in this area, so shoals of angelfish, surgeonfish, damsels and sergeant majors approach divers without fear.
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Longfin damselfish aggressively defend their territory from all intruders and are therefore rarely cleaned by facultative cleaners such as juvenile bluehead wrasse and Spanish hogfish.
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The sites are home to a vast variety of reef dwellers such as the damselfish, angelfish, butterflyfish and sweetlips.
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I recorded the date of my marriage and the conception of my wife and the birth of my daughter; and from her horoscope I find that her name is conjoined with that of her cousin; 401 and there are damsels in foison for our lord the Sultan.’
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Down the bottom, skulking around coral in the sandy lagoon floor, are tiny damselfishes.
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The greater part of his attention was, of course, still engrossed by his divine inimitable Discretion, as he chose to term Mary Avenel; but, nevertheless there were interjectional flourishes to the Maid of the Mill, under the title of Comely Damsel, and to the Dame, under that of Worthy
The Monastery
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Five species of the damselfly genus Lestes live in British Columbia, Canada, and of these, Lestes forcipatus Rambur and L. disjunctus Selys are the most similar and most difficult to separate morphologically.
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There said the Kazis, O King, of a truth this damsel is the wonder of the world, and of our age the unique pearl!
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He wanted to be alone with this enchantress, this damsel in distress.
YELLOW BIRD
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The effects of eating ichthyoallyeinotoxic fishes, such as certain mullet, goatfish, tangs, damsels and rabbitfish, are believed to be similar to LSD, and may include vivid and terrifying auditory and visual hallucinations.
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At last, however, when the damsel was departing, he plucked up courage to ask if he might try; and when she hesitated he said: "Fair damsel, worthiness and good deeds are not only in arrayment, but manhood and worship are hid within man's person.
Sandy
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The BBC series Pacific Abyss shows the discovery of several new species of damselfish.
Archive 2008-08-01
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It was the perfect damsel-in-distress expression, she'd seen executed on the countenances of several ladies.
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Then he said to him, O my son, thou art but young in years and the damsel is fair, so belike thy heart will be taken with her and it will be grievous to thee to vend her.
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I can see small schools of brightly coloured damselfish dart in and out of their coral shelters.
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He shut himself up in his palace for a while, mourning and afflicted; but at last his Wazirs came in to him and applied themselves to comfort him, saying, “Verily, he who took the damsel is an enchanter, and praised be Allah who hath delivered thee from his craft and sorcery!”
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Blue damselflies shimmering over the garden pond; blue skies glistening above; hot even in the shade.
Times, Sunday Times
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I shall beard him in his gullet, and, while he lingeringly chokes to death over my unpalatableness and general spinefulness, do you, fair damsels, flee to the mountains lest the valleys fall upon you.
CHAPTER III
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Damselfly mating generally involves a fair amount of female harassment that females understandably try to avoid.
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Fish were held in large plastic tanks or large aquaria when not being used, and they were fed frozen chironomids and live damselfly larvae.
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There are plenty of soft-hearted guys around who'll try to help out a damsel who's clearly in distress.
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Learn about dragonflies and damselflies as part of Bromley's Wetland Campaign.
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It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry.
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Female species of dragonflies and damselflies will allow males to mate with them only when they see that he has a suitable egg-laying territory.
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A blue damselfly lurked, wings swept back, then flashed out to hawk the beck.
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This shark feeds primarily on bony fishes such as parrot, trigger, squirrel, surgeon, damsel and goat fishes as well as eels.
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The ditches, dikes and reed-edged fleets that crisscross the grazing marshes here are rich in invertebrates, including the scarce emerald damselfly.
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A pond fringed with reeds is rich with dragonflies, damselflies and bats.
Times, Sunday Times
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Swarms of anthias, wrasse, emerald green triggerfish, damselfish, clownfish and butterflyfish shrouded it but never strayed far into the intermediate zone patrolled by trevally, tuna, jacks and fusiliers.
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They replied, “Say thou, ‘This damsel is not my wife and the monies are her monies, and I have transgressed against her and brought her far from her country.’”
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These damsels, in gaudy garments of emerald green, bright rose, and flaming yellow, were squatting outside their cabins or lounging unveiled about the thresholds of two or three dismal dens of cafés in the market-place.
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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But the more the damsel presseth him to disarm, the more it misliketh him, for the place seemeth him right dark and foul-seeming, wherefore will he not disarm nor disgarnish himself.
The High History of the Holy Graal
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A blue damselfly hovers up from the chamomile, white and yellow, green.
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Presently the King said, "O damsels, ye cannot but know that the Sultan proclaimed forbiddal of wick-burning; but ye have lighted your lamps and have not obeyed him when all the citizens have accepted his commandment.
Arabian nights. English
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Up to 25 percent of all fish on reefs are cardinalfish, and damselfish compose up to 50 percent of the total fish biomass (weight of all the fish) on reefs, the study says.
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I remember the dragonflies, damselflies and other insects, their colours iridescent in the bright sun.
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Both dragonflies and damselflies have two pairs of elongated membranous wings with a strong crossvein and many small veins that criss-cross in the wings, adding strength and flexibility to the wings.
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Tall and lissome damsels strutted onto the catwalk.
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Other anemone associates A number of other damsel fish species, especially during their juvenile stages also associate with anemones.
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When the sun comes out, the blue figures of damselflies can be seen glinting above ponds and rivers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Truth of her days Black endless rays Shows the skryer Damsel in chains For love the bard reigns ... destroyer Skills surpass strength Towers that quake Song of doom Unsinkable stars bring powers at large the day they mote The shaking of Teir Sonic psalm terrors ... chains are freed Come to me, Champion Your life has been sieged in me Calling from distances Yearning to be set free
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When Mexican damsels reach that "hood" which permits of long dresses and big bustles, they are in feverish expectation until, during a walk or drive, a flash from a pair of soft, black eyes tells its tale and a pair of starry ones sends back a swift reply, and with a tender sigh she realizes she has learned that which comes into the lives of them all.
Six Months in Mexico
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Why do we need checkerspot butterflies, delta smelt, damselflies, or Florida's endangered perforate reindeer lichen?
Todd Palmer and Rob Pringle: The Crisis Nobody's Talking About
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If George Barris, king of custom hot rods, designed insects, he would've come up with dragonflies and damselflies.
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‘If I didn't know better, I would of thought all of you damsels were rain forest naiads,’ he laughed.
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The story goes that a young damsel was at the top of the tower when she saw her husband gored to death by a stag he was hunting.
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Besides, wise elder, there is thine errand to see to; and if I be the God of Love, as thou sayest, I must not keep thee and thy valiant fellows languishing mateless; so with thy leave I will now depart, that I may send you a score of fair damsels for your company.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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But what to call the pudgy hero, who rescues the damsel in distress by jumping over rolling barrels?
Mario's Many Fathers
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The damsel, now-a-days, who marries a lad younger than herself, is laying up a large stock of pother, which is to bother her when she becomes thirty -- for even young ladies, you know, after forty, may become thirty.
Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story
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The brown kurrajong (COMMERSONIA ECHINATA) exhibits it even more conspicuously, and, when the dusty white flowers — displayed in almost horizontal planes — are buffeted by the winds and the white undersides of the leaves are revealed, the whole style of the tree is transformed as a demure damsel is by tempestuous petticoats.
Tropic Days
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The legend goes that these tasty beauties were bought by love-struck male students and given to their damsel's chaperone for safe keeping as a love token instead of a kiss.
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Then she bade bring food and there came four damsels, high-bosomed girls and virginal, who set before us food and fruits and confections and flowers and wine, such as befit none save kings.
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Presently he set apart five damsels, amongst whom was the King s daughter, and sent them to thy father, King Omar bin al-Nu'uman, together with other gifts, such as broadcloth [FN#208] and woollen stuffs and Grecian silks.
Arabian nights. English
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In the open water just off the reef, great swarms of damselfish cavorted, collecting plankton while barracuda cruised by trying to select an easy meal.
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“Holy Abraham!” he exclaimed, “he is a good youth, and my heart bleeds to see the gore trickle down his rich embroidered hacqueton, and his corslet of goodly price — but to carry him to our house! — damsel, hast thou well considered? — he is a
Ivanhoe
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HERNDON NATUREFEST 2008, for all ages, learn about the animals, birds and butterflies that live in the park, take a guided tour of the meadow and see dragonflies and damselflies up close, find out who lives in Sugarland Run and much more.
Fairfax County community calendar, Sept. 16-23, 2010
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There isn't a hint of jousting, sacred quests or piteous damsels.
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The mast rose up behind it, pointing to the sun above and masked only by dense shoals of damselfish, a fantastic sight.
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While both dragonflies and damselflies belong to the Odonata and share many common features, then are a number of noticeable differences as well.
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There are plenty of soft-hearted guys around who'll try to help out a damsel who's clearly in distress.
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Small oval-shaped fishes: damselfishes, hamlets, sea basses 5.
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The females of these big damselflies are metallic green; the males a deep, rich iridescent blue, and in flight they flash shining blue thumbprints on their four wings.
Country diary: Elton, Cambridgeshire
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But you already knew that. on December 19, 2007 at 1: 07 pm | Reply damsel in digress i’m going to just be repeating everyone (damn my tardiness in getting around to your comments) but
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He said: ‘They really enjoyed becoming knights on horseback and medieval damsels.’
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Closer to the reef, divers will be attracted by the hive of activity - wrasses, damselfish, butterflyfish and cleaner fish dart about foraging for food among the hard corals.
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At home in my garden, dragonflies and damselflies often settle on the page, and will stay there for some time.
Wildwood
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Tall and lissome damsels strutted onto the catwalk.
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Superfluous killing has been reported for a diverse group of animals, including zooplankton, stoats and weasels, damselfly naiads, wolves, predaceous mites, and spiders.
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He would never sense the spirit, the gaiety in courting a young damsel.
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Many small fish, including juvenile fairy basslets and damselfish, retreat into crinoid arms when bigger fish appear.
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However, for this little creature there are so many things to be learnt: is it a dragonfly or a damselfly?
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Dorsey's study focuses on bicolor damselfish populations and reproductive success at two different kinds of coral reef habitats in the Caribbean - a near-shore fringing reef on Barbados and a deep offshore reef in Grenada.
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She pointed out damselfly larva, water beetles, tadpoles, backswimmers, dragon fly larva and snails as they circled around in our tiny sample of the marsh.
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Overindulging in fun and frolic, in the company of silver-bodied damsels with musky tresses, he spent much of his time in lubricious activity.
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He had heard it said that her innocent demeanour combined with her intelligent mind made her a refreshing change from mindlessly demure damsels.
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Then said she, “O my brother, let us get under him and lift him up and carry him to Cairo, that we may compare him with the damsel of whom thou speakest and so determine whether of the twain is the fairer.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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A grasshopper materialized, then several hornets, two shiny black wasps, a drab brown damselfly, and a large azure-blue dragonfly.
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In this particular water, we know that we have small water beetle, you probably have some of the nymphs of the damsel fly, towards the mid stages of production at the moment.
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Once home to 26 species of native damselflies, Hawaii's islands have lost many of these bejeweled creatures to the mosquito fish, introduced in 1905 to eat mosquito larvae.
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In the Japanese damselfly, Mnais costalis, there is a high degree of female monopolization and females often oviposit on territories in tight aggregated clumps.
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Thereupon he waxed distracted, with a heart afire for love of the chief damsel and repenting him that he had not stolen her plumery.
Arabian nights. English
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The park was transformed from wasteland in 1997 and is home to a fascinating array of wildlife including frogs, toads, newts, dragonflies, damselflies, butterflies and birds.
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Almost every day, we snorkel off a different island, dazzled by the brilliant, seemingly abundant sea life: angelfish, butterfly fish, damselfish, parrot fish, trumpetfish, schools of golden rays flying through the water.
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And the action doesn†™ t stop there – For Paul, even saving the damsel in distress is COMPLEX!
Image Comics for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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It belonged to her grandmother from the old country, who in her youth kept a collection of jewel damselflies.
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