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Example sentences for "illegitimately"

Lexicographically close words:
illegally; illegant; illegible; illegitimacy; illegitimate; iller; illi; illiberal; illiberality; illic
  1. Again the pure being of Hegel is a mere abstraction,--a hypothesis illegitimately assumed, which he has nowhere sought to vindicate.

  2. The child illegitimately born is to become a future citizen; and it is not good for society to permit its mother to endanger its future.

  3. IV The English law has always looked with great disfavor on the illegitimately born child.

  4. We have to realize just what are the results likely to follow from the close relationship of mother and child in the case of the illegitimately born.

  5. Frankly, our confusion here in fixing what we want is the cause which, in my opinion, more than anything else must bring failure to what is being done, and being proposed to be done, to help the illegitimately born child.

  6. Every illegitimately born child would be placed in a position of safety.

  7. And when, in the later years of my life, I was brought by circumstances to consider the fate of the illegitimately born child, I was prepared already to understand the unprotected helplessness of these unfortunate little ones.

  8. Some years ago the city of Leipsic started an admirable scheme by which illegitimately born children automatically became the wards of officially appointed guardians.

  9. Whenever the circle of nubile women surrounding the virile male becomes larger, there will be a corresponding increase in the number of illegitimately born children.

  10. II In many ways the position of the illegitimately born child, always sufficiently bad, has been rendered worse under war conditions.

  11. Let no illegitimately born child be able to say in after years, "I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded.

  12. Flowers legitimately fertilised set seeds under conditions which cause the almost complete failure of illegitimately fertilised flowers.

  13. Twenty short-styled flowers fertilised illegitimately by their own stamens yielded only two poor (or perhaps three) capsules.

  14. The nineteen long-styled plants of the third lot, of the same parentage as the last lot, were treated differently; for they flowered during 1867 by themselves so that they must have been illegitimately fertilised by one another.

  15. Sinensis which were illegitimately fertilised by Hildebrand produced capsules; but these contained only 42 per cent of the number of seeds yielded by the legitimately fertilised capsules.

  16. When illegitimately fertilised they are likewise more fertile than the two forms of the cowslip, as shown by the larger proportion of their flowers which set capsules, and by the larger average number of seeds which the capsules contain.

  17. The same rule also holds good with the mid-styled and short- styled forms, when illegitimately fertilised with pollen from the stamens more or less unequal in length to their pistils.

  18. I raised during February 1862, from some long-styled plants illegitimately fertilised with pollen from the same form, twenty-seven seedlings.

  19. Muller also tried the effects of illegitimately fertilising the long-styled and short-styled flowers with their own pollen, instead of with that from another plant of the same form; and the results are very striking.

  20. Considering that this plant was illegitimate and illegitimately fertilised by its brother long-styled seedlings, the average and the maximum are so remarkably high that I cannot at all understand the case.

  21. In this sphere the a priori is illegitimately taken as being at once the source of our professed knowledge and also the sole criterion of its own claims.

  22. Kant's conception of a possible intuitive understanding, but illegitimately assumes that by it he must mean a creative understanding.

  23. In all these respects, and in others which might be added, the forms of the same undoubted species, when illegitimately united, behave in exactly the same manner as do two distinct species when crossed.

  24. In all these respects the forms of the same undoubted species, when illegitimately united, behave in exactly the same manner as do two distinct species when crossed.

  25. Without much more critical data I suppose no one would nowadays be inclined to follow Darwin in instituting a comparison between the sterility of hybrids and that of illegitimately raised plants of heterostyle species.

  26. This view receives support also from the fact that descendants of a flower fertilised illegitimately by pollen from another plant with the same form of flower belong, with few exceptions, to the same type as that of their parents.

  27. The short-styled illegitimately pollinated form gave five long-styled and nine short-styled; the cause of this difference requires further explanation.

  28. After arriving at these conclusions, I was led to investigate a subject which throws considerable light on hybridism, namely, the fertility of heterostyled or dimorphic and trimorphic plants, when illegitimately united.

  29. Plants illegitimately fertilised with pollen from a distinct plant belonging to the same form, yield fewer, often much fewer seeds, than they do when legitimately fertilised with pollen from a plant belonging to a distinct form.

  30. But, as the bearer of a bordure wavy once remarked to me, "I had rather descend illegitimately from a good family and bear their arms marked than descend from a lot of nobodies and use a new grant.


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