Thus the salamander, an Amphibian of the newt family, brings forth its young in adult condition without gills.
Upon the grounds that the education and the experience of anadult carries more wisdom than the desires of a child.
His vocabulary was far ahead of the eight-year-old and his speech was inadult grammar rather than halting.
It was, she supposed, due to his constant adult company; children denied their contemporaries for playmates often take on attitudes beyond their years.
The search for an adult would have included questioning of banks.
There was nothing malformed nor out-of-proportion; yet he spoke with an adult air of confidence.
His was not the immature desire of uneducated youth to become adultovernight for vague reasons.
However we have here a young man of twelve who has shown his competence to deal with the adult world by actual practice.
James said patiently: "To ask personal questions of anadult is 'prying' and is therefore considered improper and antisocial.
James, tell me after deliberation, at what point in your life did you first believe that you had the competence to enter the adult world in freedom to do as you believed right?
The growth of child toadult is as gradual as the increase of his stature, which varies from one child to the next.
It was just a matter of finding someone who wanted desperately to have what I wanted to give, and of course overcoming the natural adult reluctance to admit that anybody my size and age can operate on grown-up terms.
It is hard enough to be told that you are off-base and that your behavior has been bad when an adult says the damning words.
This makes it difficult for the child who has no adult to do his bidding.
But he had no intention of allowing some experienced adult to partake of this program of enforced education.
Electric light switches were placed at a tiptoe reach because, naturally, everything in the adult world is designed by the adults for the convenience of adults.
In another room in the same court, a man and his wife, the daughter aged 16, and three adult sons.
In 68 instances the rooms were "indecently occupied," that is to say, adult brothers and sisters, or a father and daughter slept in the same room.
The evils were disastrous enough for the adult population, but they fell with more dire effect upon infants and young children.
It is not intended as a monographic revision, but aims to supply a list of the species, together with descriptions and comparisons of adult skulls, chiefly males.
It was especially for the poor adult blind that Miss Gilbert laboured.
Oh, there's nothing like the simple, cheap luxury of pleasing a child to create sunshine enough for the chasing away of the blues of adult devils!
I have never known a child to have piblokto; but some one among the adult Eskimos would have an attack every day or two, and one day there were five cases.
Tyope had foreseen such a contingency, and had therefore suggested to Nacaytzusle the propriety of converting the isolated murder into a butchery of the adult men as far as possible.
The adult bird in the wild state is exceedingly shy and difficult of approach, and, owing to its great fleetness and strength, is rarely if ever caught.
Nose of adult male produced into a short tubular proboscis, ordinarily flaccid, but capable of dilatation and elongation under excitement.
There are so many enemies that few tadpoles become adult frogs; besides, the frog is a cannibal and will eat not only the larvae or eggs, but the tadpoles and young frogs as well.
The same impulse, in a metamorphosed form, impelled the adult to go out in quest of an understanding of nature which, as Traherne put it, was to bring back through highest reason what once had been his by way of primeval intuition.
When the adult of to-day uses language in its artificial state, words are only signs for things signified by them.
Every adult in our age is, by virtue of his psycho-physical structure, more or less a world-spectator.
Nor from this point of view is there any justification to call on a Common Sense, innate in man, to sit in judgment on the philosophical efforts of the adult reason.
By their side we see Goethe as one in whom the faculty of seeing Ideas appears for the first time in adult man as a result of a systematic training of observation and thought.
It is therefore an instrumentality to be used in childhood and youth, as well as in adult years.
How far the neglects and miscarriages of youth may excuse the delinquences of adult years, I dare not presume to decide or conjecture.
In the latter end of this nineteenth century, in the metropolis of industrial England, within a stone's-throw of Charing Cross terminus, I had met an adult Englishman who apparently did not know of the existence of railways.
This affords a very satisfactory method of mounting, particularly as the different sexes may be brought together on the same bit of pith, or the adult and puparium in Diptera, as shown at Figure 101.
I have described the adult together with the larva and pupa as Trombidium muscarum.
Many forms, however, occur in the adult state in late spring and early summer.
Some species, also, are wingless in the adult stage.
The latter, which is that of a middle-aged woman, is the smallest adult head that has hitherto come under my notice.
Taking the average brain-weight of the human adult as already stated, all male brains falling much below 40 oz.
The population of Athens with its suburbs may perhaps have exceeded half a million; but the number of adult freemen bearing arms did not exceed twenty-five thousand.
Adult cottontails seem to be secure from opossum predation under ordinary circumstances.
This was observed even in some of the opossums that were marked as pouch young and recaptured when grown to nearly adult size.
Although many adult females and young of both sexes were similarly hostile in behavior, others were not.
Adult males were uniformly hostile to the trapper and reacted with harsh, low growls, with back arched and hair bristling.
One large adult opossum that was trapped seemed to be dying from disease and was scarcely able to stand; but others caught near-by before and after were unaffected.
The whole population, including young of the preceding year, some still far below average adult size, breeds from about the middle of February into early March, and first litters are born mainly in early March.
Half-mile-square area on Reservation, showing dates and successive sites of capture of an old adult male in upper half of map and an adult female in lower half.
In March and April, 1950, seven adult opossums were found dead in the traps.
Still, it was trying to see the once-loved Adult cavorting on the verge of Dementia and know that she was helpless.
Every time the Work came back to him with a brief printed Suggestion that any Male Adult not physically disabled could make $1.
Many of the survivors remember that after having again eaten food seasoned with salt, the boiled, saltless hides produced nausea and could not be retained by adult or child.
The schools are the chief of all the forces for the Canadianizing, if not of this generation of adult foreign immigrants, at least of their children.
When I descended the river in 1859, we had with us a tame adult Uakari, which was allowed to ramble about the vessel, a large schooner.
The perfect sexes are winged on their first attaining the adult state; they alone propagate their kind, flying away, previous to the act of reproduction, from the nest in which they have been reared.
A full- sized Zarabatana is heavy, and can only be used by an adult Indian who has had great practice.
Adult Uakaris, caught in the way just described, very rarely become tame.
The blow-gun, however, in the hands of an expert adult Indian, can be made to propel arrows so as to kill at a distance of fifty and sixty yards.
In these schools, boys could mix with sons of rich and powerful people, thus establishing important connections for theiradult life.
If an adult offender can't pay, he shall be put in the stocks for one hour.
The hair has a far greater resemblance to horse-hair than to that of a human being, and is usually absent on the body of an adult cretin.
In the adult the genital organs remain undeveloped.
The mental capacity varies within narrow limits; an intelligent adult cretin may reach the intellectual development of a child 3-4 years of age, though more often the standard attained is even below this.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "adult" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adult; big; grown; man; mature; matured; old; racy; ripe; ripened; sophisticated; woman
