Bowl is of oval form withrudimentary rat-tail; the handle is rectangular in section.
The back of the bowl possesses an extremely rudimentary rat-tail that is little more than a solid V slightly off-center at the junction of stem and bowl.
Rudimentary key-hold type, much decayed but with slight traces of fullering, probably eight nail holes, four on each side.
He implies that the eloquence, art, and skill that crown the children of genius exist in rudimentary form in all men.
His was the rudimentary impulse, and Gavan's sensitive cheek echoed her flush when he thought of it.
I do myself no good by staying on,--harm, rather; you may begin to resent my sulkiness and my boorish relapses from even rudimentary good manners.
Do stop soaring in the sky and come down to real things, to the earth, to me, to dear littlerudimentary Overdogs.
He had thought himself too dead to all earthly pangs for the rudimentaryone of love to reach him.
She was to be ignored, save for her few and rudimentary uses.
The man, immersed in hisrudimentary universe of sense, showed a host of atavistic fears; fears of the dark, of strange faces, fears of sudden noises or of long stillness.
Brains, at their age, being rudimentary in the young male, Eppie had some ground for her consciousness of kindly disdain.
Do you think that dear little rudimentary dogs are nearer reality than the sky?
And where rudimentary vision exists, sudden obscuration of light, implying the passage of something large, causes convulsive muscular movements which mostly carry the body away from the source of danger.
The rudimentary psychical act, not yet differentiated from a physical act, implies an excitation and a motion.
The anthers become rudimentary and in their place broad leafy flaps are developed, which protrude laterally from the tip and constitute the stigmas.
Not a single one gave a normal fruit, but some small and nearly rudimentarycapsules were produced, bearing a few seeds.
Petalomany is the tendency of the axis of some flowers never to make any stamens or pistils, not even in altered or rudimentary form.
But in the two-rowed species only the middle-most flower is normal and has an awn, the two remaining being sterile and more or less rudimentary and with only very short awns.
The passage is as follows: "The general significance of the degenerated or rudimentaryorgans in the most important questions of natural philosophy cannot be over-estimated.
It seems necessary to suppose that races owed their survival to military prowess when reflection was still in the most rudimentary stage.
Rudimentary eyes exist in some animals in the form of mere pigment spots, but we do not suppose these pigment spots to endow the animal with sight as we understand it.
Rudimentary moral sentiments are also clearly discernible in the highest members of various mammalian orders and in all but the lowest members of our own order.
The rudimentary form of the ethical feelings was that of the transient affection of a female bird or mammal for its young.
It has long been felt that embryology and rudimentary structures indicated community of descent.
Their crux was, as it still is to so many evolutionists, the presence of rudimentary organs, and the processes of embryological development.
I did not do justice to the arguments originally adduced by Lamarck and Geoffroy St. Hilaire, especially those founded on the occurrence of rudimentary organs.
Then are adduced further examples of rudimentary organs, which will be given in another place, and need not be repeated here.
Without going more deeply into the matter, we can see at once that the rudimentary organs are a formidable obstacle to this theory.
This was the doctrine of final causes as then commonly held; in the face of rudimentary organs it was absurd.
Inter-tribal trade and intercourse reach only rudimentary development, under the prevailing conditions of mutual antagonism and isolation, and hence contribute little to the expansion of the horizon.
This capital is to be seen, in a rudimentary condition, in a pavilion dating from the fifth dynasty (Figs.
The lotiform type may still be recognised, but the shaft is no longer faggot-shaped, except in a rudimentary fashion and over a very small part of its surface.
Trusting to their being half hidden by the folded legs, the sculptor has left them in a very rudimentary condition.
These animals were pig-like in form, but possessed long tails, and had a cleft hoof, with two rudimentary toes.
It was a rudimentary attempt at a rag doll; so rudimentary indeed that as the passing flash of the lamps disclosed its proportions, or rather the lack of them, a titter rose from the darkness behind, where some older folk were lounging.
On more level ground we were steaming quickly past a very ordinary dent of a dell, where, as usual, one of these stunted rudimentary trees stood on an open patch of dry bents, seamed and seared by fire trails.
The bards, who could recite and compose poems and stories, accompanying themselves on a rudimentary harp, were considered of much higher rank than those who merely recited incantations.
Because there were tribes in different degrees of evolution between savagery and the rudimentary stages of civilization, there are more or less rude myths and folk-tales in the samples with which we have thus become familiar.
This is likewise the case with those sheep which have two great masses of fat on the rump, with the tail in a rudimentary condition.
This breed has been for a long time extinct in Europe; but a living specimen has lately been imported from the east coast of Africa, which still retains the top-knot and the same general colouring and rudimentary spurs.
We are obliged to admit that, as a matter of fact, we began, owing to circumstances, in a kind of rudimentary way with the idea of getting people to take up goodness by talking about it.
My feelings about them are not so simple and rudimentary as my feelings about those who have teased me to be good.
But he would not say these same merely rudimentary things.
Inventors could not enjoy inventing--inventing their greater, more noble inventions, until they had attended to a little rudimentary thing in the world like having people half alive on it to live with and to invent for.
The difficulty was gradually lessened during the Nara epoch by the simplification of Chinese characters to such an extent that only a rudimentary skeleton of each ideogram was symbolically used to represent its sound.
Now, I suppose that that gives us a little glimpse into the rudimentary condition of public worship in the primitive church.
It first appears, in a very rudimentary form, in the earliest of the Epistles, that to the Thessalonians.
They have a real faith, but it is of the feeblest and most rudimentary kind.
Their rudimentary structures foreshadowed what their descendants were to be, and give some clue to the earliest vertebrates from which they sprang.
On another line of descent it was left open, air was swallowed into it, and it developed into the rudimentary lung of the dipnoans and into the more perfect lungs of the amphibians and other air- breathing vertebrates.
The rudimentary state of Republican principles may nowhere else be so clearly seen as in Pennsylvania.
And for a very simple reason--a reason which reveals in rudimentary form that principle of the economic futility of military power with which we are dealing.
The management of society, simple and primitive even as that of the Balkan mountains, needs some effort and work and capacity for administration; otherwise even rudimentary economic life cannot be carried on.
Bodily exercise was not, however, entirely superseded by spiritual exercises, and a rudimentaryform of base-ball and the heroic sport of football were followed with some spirit.
One must be in the HABIT of talking with such persons to get at these rudimentarygerms of thought; for their development is necessarily imperfect, and they are moulded on new patterns, which must be long and closely studied.
How can one explain its significance to those whose musical faculties are in a rudimentary state of development, or who have never had them trained?
But asrudimentary ideas or inchoate tendencies, there they are; and these are what must form the future.
Murray Bradshaw was very curious to find out how it was that he had become the victim of such a rudimentary miss as Susan Posey.
They may be traced in steady gradation from the earliest and most rudimentary forms of animal life until they culminate in the ordered complexity of the human frame.
The same life runs through the whole course of artistic evolution, but, if there be life at all, it will trace its origin from its most rudimentary embodiment.
