For Alfred actually did found amidst the ruins of Ely, after its sack by the Danes, a small College of priests, which lived on to be the nucleus of the restored Abbey in the days of his grandson Edgar the Peaceful.
This, as so often happened, became the nucleus of a little town, which got to be called Roesia's Town, or Royston.
The Museum (which is open to the public three days in the week and to members of the University on all days) contains a fine collection of pictures and antiques, the nucleus of which is a bequest made in 1816 by Viscount Fitzwilliam.
It had a very small beginning--five young men met in a merchant's office in the Lower Town for prayer and conference and they formed the nucleus of the present Association.
But the good bishop's books, which were to form the nucleus of this library, met with the same fate as Richard de Bury's.
The nucleus of them was formed by the books and writings of Grossetete, which he bequeathed to the brethren.
A part of the water covering the nucleus must have been taken up, as water of crystallization, in the primitive formations.
The superior stratum which constitutes the nucleus of the Fort Holmes' summit, contains more silex, diffused throughout its structure.
Sometimes it is seen in very regular spheroidal masses, which contain a nucleus of radiated quartz.
Then, as the distant planet became stronger in the magnifying Martian air, or my eyes better accustomed to that sudden nucleus of brilliancy, a delicate and infinitely lovely network of colours came upon it.
The Earth's molten nucleus tends ever, with enormous force, to assume the form of a regular oblate spheroid.
A shell of molten metallic matter enclosing a gaseous nucleus still higher in temperature than itself, will be continually kept at the highest temperature consistent with its state of liquid aggregation.
Thus there will result a molten shell containing a gaseous nucleus equally dense with itself at their surface of contact and more dense at the centre--a molten shell which will slowly thicken by additions to both exterior and interior.
The nucleus of the estate was a small farm of 100 acres, called Cartleyhole, nicknamed Clarty (i.
Vaucheria contains a single nucleus had been inferred before.
The old town forms a nucleus of narrow, winding streets surrounded by boulevards, beyond which lie modern quarters with regular thoroughfares and public gardens.
The nucleusof the town lies within the innermost crescent canal, and, with the large square, the Dam, in the centre, represents the area of Amsterdam about the middle of the 14th century.
He founded his generalization to a large extent upon the observation that in Gloeosiphonia capillaris two cells completely fuse, and that only one nucleus can be detecteo in the fused mass.
Embedded in the chromatophore, much in the same way as the nucleus is embedded in the cytoplasm, are the pyrenoids.
Akkad, Babel, Erech and Calneh, which constituted the nucleus of the kingdom of Nimrod in the land of Shinar or Babylonia.
The original members formed a nucleus of eight, and it was not till 1639 that the full number was completed.
The nucleus of the ooblastema filament dominates the FIG.
Here, too, was the nucleus of the famous library of Alexandria.
Oltmanns has recently re-investigated the phenomena in this plant, among others, and has shown that the nucleus of the cell which is being preyed upon recedes to the wall and gradually atrophies.
The first is the extension of the homeland frontiers, broadening the geographical area of the nucleus around which the civilization is being built.
Heretofore, the nearest approach to a universal state has been an empire like that of Egypt or Rome built by conquest and maintained by military authority exercised by the imperial nucleus over its associated and subordinated territories.
The fourth requirement is the presence of sufficient man-power to operate the nucleus and provide a surplus for defense and for its extension and expansion.
Each nucleus was a center of planned production; accumulating wealth, growing population and expanding authority.
This statement is less a requirement for success in organizing the nucleus of a civilization, than a generalization about the natural and social milieu out of which competing nuclei arise.
Politically speaking, the relation of nucleus to periphery was that of superior to inferior.
The first requirement for a nucleus is a tolerable climate, primarily a satisfactory balance between heat and cold.
They perish because of the division of the nucleus and its associates and dependencies between those who work for a living, those who have an unearned income and those parasites who scrounge for a living.
Neighboring territories were amalgamated into the nucleus of the Roman Empire.
Palestine gave the Gospel, but the Jews of the dispersion carried it to the Gentiles, and each synagogue in the foreign world became the nucleus of a Christian Church, where for the first time Jew and Gentile met as equals.
Some remained in Palestine, others returned thither and formed the =nucleus of the Samaritan people=, a race of mingled origin (2 Kings 17.
It unites in one object men of parties the most opposed; it affords the most attractive nucleus for public meetings; it has cleansed the statute-book from blood; it is ridding the world of the hangman.
Henceforth there was an era from which they dated a new existence; a nucleus around which their thoughts, their remembrances, and their passions clung.
These two remarkable men formed a nucleusfor those of their respective States who came at subsequent periods to make a home in Georgia.
Mobile, soon after, was made the nucleus of another colony, and from these two points had proceeded the pioneers of the different settlements along these rivers--the Tombigbee and the Mississippi.
These communities were usually from twenty to fifty miles apart, and about them a nucleus was formed, inviting those who sought the new country for a home to locate in the immediate vicinity.
This spot here, sir, was the nucleus of the first settlement which in a few years spread over the country.
These settlements formed the nucleus of an American population in the States of Mississippi and Alabama.
The production of a lively imagination, before the dawn of the critical faculty or the growth of reflection, these tales may yet include a nucleus of historical incident or vague reminiscences of historical relations and changes.
On the east were the Slavonic tribes which were the nucleusof modern Russia.
The nucleus of the Iliad is thought by some scholars to be embedded in the group of poems which, it is supposed, constitute the work at present; but there is no evidence making it possible to identify any portion as the work of Homer.
The central fact, the nucleus of the tradition, may be historical when all the details belonging with it have been effaced, or have been superseded by other details, the product of imagination.
The nucleus of the Chinese nation is thought to have been a band of immigrants, who are supposed by some to have started from the region south-east of the Caspian Sea, and to have crossed the head waters of the Oxus.
These formed the King's guards, deemed essential for the security of the King's person; and they were the nucleus of the future standing army.
One believes that he can secure this, another that, as the historical nucleus of the Gospel; but neither has objective proofs for his assertions.
Where and when should we look for the "grain of mustard seed," the germ, the nucleus of such organization?
It follows that when Catalonia begins to reëmerge as a nucleus of national consciousness after nearly four centuries of subjection to Castile, poets speaking Catalan, writing Catalan, shall be poets of the mountains and of the sea.
Notwithstanding Madrid's wartime growth and prosperity, the city is fast losing ground as the nucleus of the life and thought of Spanish-speaking people.
This formed the nucleus of the Persian Old Testament prepared by Dr.
Cavendish Square is the nucleus from which all the surrounding streets have radiated.
We are now at the nucleus of the old village of Marylebone.
The words that I have read, however, are not the description of the demeanour of the whole community, but of that portion of it which had been added so swiftly to the original nucleus on the Day of Pentecost.
For example, if you elect twenty-five ladies and gentlemen this year, and next year ten of them are absent, the fifteen who are present make the nucleus of that executive committee.
And each year all the members who are elected in 1882 shall constitute the nucleus or foundation of that committee.
Parliament actively pursued its preparations for resistance, planning the formation of the nucleus of a fresh army at Worcester, and granting permission to the City to raise cavalry as well as infantry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nucleus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
