A priest who believes that the British laws are just and equitable, and that things would be better remaining as they are, is looked upon as a lusus naturæ.
The most extraordinary curiosity of Derry, the lusus naturæ of which the citizens justly boast, is the Protestant Home Ruler of brains and integrity who, under the familiar appellation of John Cook, lives in Waterloo Place.
Of "Lusus naturae" none is more curious than that of duplication of the lower extremities.
The Engraving is an accurate sketch of this extraordinary lusus naturae, which promises to occupy the attention of the whole Town, and has already excited no ordinary curiosity among all ranks of the scientific and sight-loving.
A giant in conception, he was a dwarf in execution; and something of the interest which attaches to a lusus naturæ is the chief claim to future reputation which belongs to S.
He was also a man of singular individuality, and may, in some respects, be considered a lusus naturæ among the literary men of his day.
Poor Milly became scarlet, and suddenly devoted herself to the lusus naturae!
My cousins," she remarked, putting a touch on the cow that stamped that animal a lusus naturae for all time coming.
But Baerstel left his co-notary and the entire lusus naturae behind him, thinking on his homeward way of matters of a wholly different kind.
But dwarfs,' he read, 'he held in abhorrence as being lusus naturae and of evil omen.
Therefore, a general theory of petrification or consolidation of mineral bodies must explain this distinct fact, and not suffer it any longer to remain a lusus naturae.
The reverend Statist rather inclines to regard it as a lusus naturæ.
Thus no trace remains of the Lusus Pastorales licensed to Richard Jones in 1565, the nature of which can be only vaguely conjectured.
It is this boy whom, in the fifth book of the poem, Virgil pictures as taking part with his companions in a sport called the Ludus Trojae or Lusus Trojae (Game of Troy), sometimes simply Troja.
An argument which has often been brought forward in this connection is that from very early times the game of Troy, the lusus Trojae, was played by Roman youths.
But notwithstanding the delight which he experienced in a lusus verborum in a learned language, of such contradictory materials was he compossed, that his antipathy to an English pun was extravagant and ridiculous.
Alluding, I suppose, to the Latin Advertisement of a lusus Naturae in the Newspapers lately.
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