Now when the flowers are ripe the short sacs in the flower A open and fling out myriads of cells zc, and these cells burst, and forth come tiny wriggling bodies z, called by botanists antherozoids, one out of each cell.
At last one night Lord Rosse, looking through his giant telescope at the densest part of the nebula, saw myriads of minute stars which had never been seen before.
For three days this wind continued to blow, and the Persians lost four hundred warships, many transports and provision craft, myriads of men, and an enormous amount of matériel.
This point, formerly a puzzle to naturalists, has become quite clear since it has been found that myriads of these little germs are poured into the water surrounding a reef.
The filaments, projected by myriads at the pleasure of the animal, penetrate deeply into the flesh of other soft-bodied creatures, and cause immediate paralysis and speedy death.
On this occasion, thousands of speeches, multiplied by myriads of newspapers, carry the enthusiasm to the highest pitch.
The natives cling to ancient customs, and reject explosives of every sort, using instead the work of myriads of human hands; but they have been rewarded by obtaining thousands of ounces of gold.
A small wild animal, somewhat like a weasel, somewhat like a fox, began eating and scattering the growing berries, until in this way myriads of the little creatures had unwittingly sown coffee seeds over all the island.
Myriads were thus murdered, and incalculable damage done, all because of the continued attempt of the Spaniards to win their southern neighbors to their own faith.
But a bright sun and a clear sky had melted the snow in the great crucible of nature; and it had been poured out again that morning over sea and land, transformed into myriads of gold and silver sparkles.
The bravest of them also went away to other states; but myriads who could not go were condemned by circumstances to stay and earn their living by hard work without any prospect of happy marriage.
In addition to this constant work, these women have to take care of myriads of children,--children so delicate that the slightest change in the weather may kill them.
We are indebted to it for every drop of water distributed over our hills, plains, and valleys, for from the ocean it has arisen by evaporation to return again through myriads of channels.
The whole city, with myriads of drawbacks, was yet very sunny, very interesting, very attractive.
Is there any god in a celestial field who could care for the movements which occur in the molecules constituting a hundredth part of a drop of water, not to speak of those which occur in the bodies of its myriads of inhabitants?
He granted to Julius Paulinus twenty-five myriads because the man, who was a jester, had been led, though involuntarily, to make a joke upon him.
But the man's fondness for war and fondness for leadership prevailed against the advice of Cineas and caused him to depart in disgrace from both Sicily and Italy, after losing in all of the battles many myriads of his own forces.
As a fitting recognition, however, Macrinus proposed that twenty-five myriads be given him to stay at home.
Then contrast the thought of Mont Blanc with that of the whole globe; proceed from the globe to the solar system, and from that to the myriads of systems lost in space.
But if it admits to citizenshipmyriads of strangers who have not yet passed the civic kindergarten, questions that were supposed to be settled are reopened.
It is the apparent destiny of the descendants of the myriads of Germans who have settled here to lose themselves in the American people, and to take the stamp of a culture which is, in origin at least, eighty per cent.
At the top of the glass the storm could be seen whirling down its myriads outside.
Night fell again, and the stars crowded down upon them like myriads of flickering lamps, while the moon swung in and out behind the giant peaks.
How, unheard Mid Noon's melodious myriads of delight, Thrills the low note that steals the gloom from night!
From myriads take thy choice, In all that lives a guide to God is given; Ever thou hear'st some angel guardian's voice When Nature speaks of Heaven!
In the plenitude of Divine mercy provision is made whereby the myriads who have died without a knowledge of the required conditions, or without opportunity of compliance therewith, may be ministered for by their living posterity.
Who are the dead but the uncounted myriads who once lived in the flesh and have already passed to the world of the disembodied?
CXLVI The arrows of his myriads have stricken me, He whets his sword, fixing his eyes upon me.
As you bow to the people here--all over the world myriads of myriads of people, packed and still in darkened halls, will see you also.
His trustees found themselves with a dozen myriads of lions'-worth or more of property at the very beginning.
Dozands of people are taking out policies, myriads of lions are being put on you.
It seemed as though every individual of those myriads was watching him.
In ten seconds the extinction was accomplished, and there was only this roaring darkness, a black monstrosity that had suddenly swallowed up those glittering myriads of men.
Myriads are taking holiday or staying from work because of that, quite apart from the labourers who refuse to go back," said Asano.
They had but to breathe a word and presently away there, in the world of reality, the punctual myriads moved.
For scores and hundreds of centuries, for myriads of generations that life of our fathers went on.
The moon was majestically gliding on her path, vassalled bymyriads of stars.
The night came on with its crescent moon and its myriads of stars: just such a night as might have been wished for such a fête.
In the spring myriads of blackbirds and wild pigeons passed the colony in their migration to the north and returned again on their way to the south, during the time of harvest.
