How To Use Obolus In A Sentence
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A diadem is purchased with gold; silver opens the way to heaven; philosophy may be hired for a penny; money controls justice; one obolus satisfies a man of letters; precious metal procures health; wealth attaches friends.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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The panicle in _Sporobolus coromandelianus_ is pyramidal and the branches are all verticillate, the lower being longer than the upper.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Atriplex vestita, Sporobolus tenellus, and S. virginicus are also present as are the occasional patches of annuals such as Chloris virgata, Diplachne fusca, Dactyloctenium aegyptium, and Eragrostis porosa.
Etosha Pan halophytics
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Along the Drakensberg slopes and plateau, grass species include Monocymbium ceresiiforme, Diheteropogon filifolius, Sporobolus centrifugus, Harpochloa falx, Rendia altera, Cymbopogon dieterlenii, and Eulalia villosa.
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
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Here we present a montage of high-speed video clips showing sporangiophore discharge in the fungus Pilobolus kleinii.
BC Bloggers
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The design contains an ancient statue depicting a discobolus in his attempt to throw the discus and the five Olympic circles.
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The fungus Pilobolus fires off its sporangiophore using a water cannon or "squirt gun," reaching accelerations that are among the fastest in nature.
BC Bloggers
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I remember at the feasts of Zeus you had a consuming wish for a little chariot and I bought it for you with the first obolus which
The Clouds
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A dense sod of the drop-seed grass, Sporobolus flexuosus, characterizes this area.
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Montage of high-speed video clips showing sporangiophore discharge in the fungus Pilobolus kleinii.
MicrobiologyBytes
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The eyes, the facial lines which they gather into one, seem ready to follow the coming motion of the discus as those of an onlooker might be; [289] but that head does not really belong to the discobolus.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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This cursed man, when striking out right and left with his torch, knocked over ten loaves worth an obolus apiece, and then, to cap the deal, four others.
The Wasps
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A new species of the poorly known lingulate brachiopod Schizobolus is described from the Famennian of Poland.
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Open halophyte grassland typically occurs in swales and is characterized by H. mutica and Sporobolus airoides; other grasses, such as B. gracilis and Pnnicum obtusum, are also present.
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To celebrate this year's Olympic Games in Athens, the national obverse will be replaced by a discobolus and the five Olympic rings.
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If we may trust the old marbles, -- my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis, -- those Greek young men were of supreme beauty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
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Along the Drakensberg slopes and plateau, grass species include Monocymbium ceresiiforme, Diheteropogon filifolius, Sporobolus centrifugus, Harpochloa falx, Rendia altera, Cymbopogon dieterlenii, and Eulalia villosa.
Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
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Born in Boeotia, he was active in Athens, and so is accounted an Athenian sculptor. Of his works, the most famous was a Discobolus.
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The same St. Augustine observes in his one hundred and fifty-third letter, “It is written that the whole world belongs to the faithful, and infidels have not an obolus that they possess legitimately.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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He also produced two ideal statues, "Hope," and a discobolus.
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If we may trust the old marbles, my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis, -- those Greek young men were of supreme beauty.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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I recommend seven or eight small pieces of iron to be prepared, a fathom in size, in thickness like a thick specillum, and bent at the extremity, and a broad piece should be on the extremity, like a small obolus.
On Hemorrhoids
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Sporobolus is mostly self-pollinated due to a high degree of sheath cleistogamy, while Panicum is a self-incompatible outbreeder.
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It soon became apparent that Pilobolus was physicalizing the face of our culture that permits our more regressed instincts to rule.
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_Ascobolus_, 71-73; Fig. 43. culture of, 71. spore fruit, 71. archicarp, 71. spore sacs, 72.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
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Because, though old and broken-down as he is, he would put to sea on a hurdle to gain an obolus.
Peace
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If then you learn this science, which is false, I shall not have to pay an obolus of all the debts I have contracted on your account.
The Clouds
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No statue of a warrior was sculptured in the varied attitudes of attack and defence; no wrestler, no _discobolus_, no pugilist exhibited the grace, the vigor, or the muscular action of a man; nor were the beauties, the feeling, and the elegance of female forms displayed in stone: all was made to conform to the same invariable model, which confined the human figure to a few conventional postures.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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If, after such conduct, he proves he has done well, I would not give an obolus for the hide of old men.
The Clouds
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Poor in plant species; the most characteristics examples are: Scaevola plumieri, Portulaca pilosa, Cakile lanceolata, Cyperus planifolius, Sporobolus virginicus, Ipomoea pes-capreae and Euphorbia buxifolia.
Araya and Paria xeric scrub
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You are strong enough, certainly, but the art of the discobolus must be learned like any other.
Homo Sum — Volume 01
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For example in the panicle of _Eragrostis Willdenoviana_, the branches are irregularly disposed, whereas in _Sporobolus coromandelianus_ the branches are verticillate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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The twelve stars of the European Union are positioned around the design of an ancient statue depicting a discobolus in his attempt to throw the discus.
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In any passable representation of the Greek discobolus, as in any passable representation of an English cricketer, there can be no successful evasion of the natural difficulties of the thing to be done -- the difficulties of competing with nature itself, or its maker, in that marvellous combination of motion and rest, of inward mechanism with the so smoothly finished surface and outline -- finished ad unguem -- which enfold it.
Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
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I will not return an obolus to anyone who says him instead of her for a kneading-trough.
The Clouds
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Secondary pests and diseases are: snout beetle (Echinocnemus squameus), rice leafroller (Cnapholocrosis medinalis), yellow-legged lema (Lama flavipes), locust (Oxya chinensis), and brown spot (Cochliobolus miyabeanus).
Chapter 4
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You go to buy lettuces: they cost an obolus, but not a talent.
The Discourses of Epictetus