A fine drizzle of rain was falling and the grass was sodden beneath his feet; the coach lamps shone on the two steaming white horses and showed a barebranched tree that grew nearby; the place was solitary, silent, ghostly.
The Libytheidae may be recognized by the elongate snout-like palps, the five-branched radial nervure of the forewing, the cylindrical hairy larva, and the pupa attached only by the cremaster.
There is a membranous lobe or jugum near the base of the wing, and the neuration of the hindwing is closely like that of the forewing, the radial nervure being five-branched in both.
Ever since copperplate engravings and illustrated Bibles became comparatively common, representations of the branched candlestick taken from the written description have been common also.
One of the old Greek gold staters has a man driving a chariot in which the horse has a human head; while the man is urging the horse with the sacred three-branched rod, each branch of which terminates in a trefoil.
Hydroids in which the branched horny investment of the plant-like colony forms a sessile cup around each polyp.
An open, much branched cluster of flowers or fruit, 26.
The Roman road branched off from the Via Aurelia at Lescar, crossed the Gave de Pau, and struck direct for Oloron, where, doubtless, soldiers and merchants and travellers in general rested before undertaking the passage of the mountains.
Peridium membranaceous, dehiscent by a regular apical mouth; threads of the capillitium very long, much branched and interwoven.
Very much branchedor of an irregular form without a distinct margin.
Inner peridium membranaceous; dehiscent at the apex by a single mouth; columella none; threads of the capillitium very long, much branched and interwoven.
The Clavariaceæ—branched or club-shaped—often found in as beautiful forms as delight us in coral, includes a few.
The sporidia are often accompanied by simple or branched threads, which are abortive asci, called paraphyses.
Divided into numerous pileoli, borne on a simple or much-branched stem, or a short, thick tubercle.
Yet I fully expect to see it hereafter confirmed, at least in regard to subordinate groups, which have branched off from each other within comparatively recent times.
We also have pictures of the Holy Ark and of the Tabernacle; the seven-branched candlestick is most elaborately drawn, and the twelve tribes of Israel are grouped in medallions around it.
The different parts of the plant spring from a rhizoma, and the leaves, which are called fronds, have their veins neitherbranched nor in parallel lines, but forked.
The peduncles grow from the axils of the leaves, and they are branched and many-flowered.
Various animal designs are also shown and one of the famous seven-branched candlesticks which accompanied the Ark of the Covenant.
Continuing along this agreeable route, we suddenly arrived at a spot where numerous well-beaten paths branched into all directions.
The same autumn that Eleanor entered college Constance, in spite of Mammy's protests and opposition, had branched out on a scale to outrage all the old colored woman's instincts and traditions.
She still has the wonderfully sweet, frank expression, in spite of her two years out in the business world, for after her graduation she took firmer hold than ever of her business venture and branched out in many directions.
It was in reality more street than road, but was nearly always mentioned as the "hill road," owing to its contrast to the broader highway from which it branched and zig-zagged up the hill to the more sparsely settled section of Riveredge.
Numerous lanes and channels, not unlike the paths and streets of a mighty city, branched off in several directions; but our course was in those that led us most to the northward.
These stretched irregularly towards the open country, and from them a few narrow intricate lanes branched off in the direction of the Church and the College.
Year by year the lower rounds of boughs are shed, leaving no scar; year by year the star-branched minarets approach the sky.
Presently I came to a place where another path branched off to the south.
I did so till I reached a place where the road branched into two, one bearing somewhat to the left, and the other to the right.
We walked together till we came to a road which branched off on the right to a little bridge.
We went on discoursing for about half a mile farther, when, stopping by a road which branched off to the hills on the left, my companion said.
Insects do not breathe by lungs or gills, but by means of branched tubes called "tracheæ," which convey the air to the interior of the animal.
A pencil line slanted from the left-hand top corner to the middle of the sheet, then branched horizontally to the right.
Jackson suggested that possibly some side path branched from the rift, leading by a steep zigzag ascent to the summit of this strange precipice.
A severe shower, however, obliged us to relinquish this view, and seek shelter beneath the boughs of Chepstow park, as we branched off on the turnpike towards Caerwent.
In ten minutes they reached a space where another tunnel, also supplied with rails, branched off to the right.
