While the jaws are growing smaller the teeth tend to cause reversion to the original form.
Among the conditions that have been recognised as an expression of degeneracy is gout, which, as Fothergill long ago pointed out, is a reversion to the condition found in the sauropsidian liver and kidneys.
Another reversion is the occurrence of breasts without nipples, resembling those found in the oviparous mammals.
Fear of the unknown in childhood, seemingly a reversion to the fear of the unknown of savages, tends, like it, to produce occult belief.
From his Holiness he obtained a reversionof the title in perpetuity for his descendants.
A Reversion to Type* Schuster was too damned cheeky.
The place of first equerry, inreversion after the Comte de Tesse, given to Comte Jules unknown to the titular holder, displeased the family of Noailles.
Loustonneau was appointed to the reversion of the post of first surgeon to the King, he came to make his acknowledgments.
And in truth, Paul's reversion to the antiquated Guelf policy of his predecessors was an anachronism.
Nothing is more perplexing and more alarming than a new dish, but we can see in a reversion to Apician cookery methods only a dietetic benefit accruing to this so-called white race of beef eaters.
With the increasing shortage of beef, with the increasing facilities for raising chicken and pork, a reversion to Apician methods of cookery and diet is not only probably but actually seems inevitable.
We were interrupted; but he said enough to convince me, that it is clearly better that I should take the reversion of Lord Clanbrassil's office, leaving the Rolls for such present arrangement as you can make of it.
This reaction was probably only a part of the general reversion to conservatism which we have been noticing in the action of the government in religious matters.
Then, with a quick movement that was an instant's reversion to her girlhood, she slipped her hand into his, pressing it, and rubbed her cheek against his shoulder.
A few days afterwards Fabrice resigned his reversion to the Archbishopric, and retired to the Chartreuse of Parma.
The Count's success was Fabrice's; that youth found himself established as co-adjutor to the Archbishop of Parma, with a reversion to the Archbishopric on the demise of its worthy occupant.
He had solicited the hand of Isabella for his son, when she possessed only a contingent reversion of the crown.
This means a reversion to the boundary defined under Russian arbitration at Petrograd in January 1913--except outside the fortress of Silistria, where strategic reasons demand its rectification.
There must be no reversion to the status quo, that accursed device of a worn-out diplomacy, with its inevitable seeds of new quarrels and yet another Armageddon.
Cabet now hastened to France, and on appeal obtained reversion of his sentence in 1851.
The rich revenues of cathedral chapters made the reversion of prebendal stalls the almost exclusive privilege of the higher nobility, notwithstanding the earnest opposition of the popes.
This was worth about L1,600 per annum and executed by deputy, but the reversion did not fall in for twenty years, so it did not affect the immediate difficulty in ways and means.
Grant at the suit of Sir Francis Bacon to Sir William Cooke, Sir John Constable, and three others, of the King's reversion of the estates in Herts above referred to.
The League has succumbed to this reversion to a cynical materialism.
The troops fled like an army of terrified rabbits, with that reversion to the simplicity of their dumb ancestors which induces the suspicion that all the manly virtues are artificial.
Atavism, the reversion to a former state, is the first feeble indication of the reaction opposed by nature to the perturbing causes which seek to alter her delicate mechanism.
Every one present agreed with her--the young gentlemen who were anxious to have the reversion of the part were especially hearty in their acquiescence.
Observing how uncertain great officers are of continuing long in their places, he would not accept it, unless L2,000 a year were given him in reversion when he was put out, in consideration of his loss of practice.
To London, concerning the office of Latin Secretary to his Majesty, a place of more honor and dignity than profit, the reversion of which he had promised me.
