In some instances, like those of the Rook, they are found quite blue, minus spots.
Lays one grey-coloured egg marked with indistinct spots of pale brown; the nest is generally minus materials, so the egg is placed on the bare earth at the extremity of a burrow or fissure in a sea cliff.
What would St. Dunstan have been minus the black gentleman's nose, or St. Kevin but for Kathleen?
I say,' she added at the door, 'housemaids always come to be hired minus crinoline and flowers, is it the same with governesses?
Depend on it, other people have driven up in inside cars, minus luggage, in the memory of man, in this City of Dublin.
Assurance is displayed to perfection in modern Assurance Companies; and it only requires assurance to raise a company as baseless as the emasculated minusof No.
He held up his right hand--minus the index and middle fingers.
Serving it was a young woman he had not seen for long, a young woman minus the slightest trace of listlessness, with a dash of red ribbon at belt and throat, and a reflection of the same colour burning on either cheek.
Trackless as a desert was the prairie, minus even the buffalo trails of a quarter century before; yet with the sun only as guide, they forged ahead, straight as a line drawn taut from point to point.
Because he happened to be minus a collar and had a red skin--I was an ass; an egregious, blundering ass.
Esau, who was not an Israelite but an Idumaean, was simply passed over in this choice (odio habere minus diligere; cfr.
It is acting against that axiom already quoted: Minus bonum habet rationem mali.
He was known in London at many of the fashionable gaming houses, alternately won and lost, without emotion, till at length he was minus several thousand pounds.
Two ragged and semi-clad Volunteers, the one minus his culottes, the other without shoes, with the initials W.
Ireland is still more heavily taxed relatively to Great Britain, yet Ireland's contribution to Imperial services has been converted into a minus quantity.
In short, the English policy towards Ireland was similar to Spain's policy towards her South American Colonies, minus the grosser forms of physical cruelty and oppression.
If one, then both, surely, minus their identities and the status quo?
She recovered from a long illness which swallowed up the remains of the money her husband had given her, to find herself destitute and minus most of the good looks which had obtained for her her previous situation.
Colonel Colville returned via Botha's Pass to De Lange Drift minus many of his gallant men who were wounded in the course of the ordeal, and proceeded to Standerton on the 6th of September.
On the sixth day out from Dara, the sun of Weald had a magnitude of minus five-tenths.
A] Earth's sun, from Earth, is of magnitude roughly minus thirty-six.
Place the center of the tracing paper diagram over the station, with the dotted line along the barometric gradient, the minus end of the line being towards the area of low pressure.
When the temperature has fallen, put a minus sign (-) before the number of degrees of fall.
Temperatures below zero are preceded by a minus sign (-).
To-day the sole tributes consist in bills-of-fare that are just like the Sahara minus the oases.
A nineteenth-century cynicminus vitriol would be like a goose minus sage and onions.
One man was unlucky: his mate was chosen for kit inspection, but this hapless individual came out minus a toothbrush and comb, and the friend in need took his place in the freshly-formed ranks.
One and a half pound of bread is more than the third of a big loaf, but minus butter it makes a featureless repast.
St. Ambrose's College, was represented in the boot cleaning and errand line by a substitute for some days; and when he returned to duty was minus a front tooth.
Tom, minus his handkerchief, hurried after his comrades, and caught them up before they got to college.
When they came to me I found my transportation in my side pocket minus my forty-eight hours leave of absence.
So I left my partner at Savannah on the lookout while I went my way back to Sandersville, minustwo mules.
We might say in the same way of German theology, that it was philosophy and metaphysics and philology minus Christianity.
It was aptly said by Huxley of the philosophy of Comte, that Comtism was Catholicism minus Christianity.
His Catholicism must be understood as the Catholicism of Auguste Comte, defined by Huxley--namely, Catholicism minus Christianity.
