Coiled around the stem of this life, it gives to the incarnated soul that wisdom which later blossoms in the Seraph of the Sun spheres.
They are principles in Nature as clearly related to each other as the leaf and the stem of plant life.
But it was now too late; and an instant later the "Philadelphia" had shot up on a sunken reef, where she hung hard and fast, her great stem and bowsprit pointing upward in the air.
It represents a stem of Pereskia Bleo upon which the Rat's-tail Cactus and an Epiphyllum have been grafted.
We have seen perfect "drum-sticks" formed by grafting a full-grown plant of this on the stem of a Cereus.
Stem globular in shape, and divided into about fourteen acute-edged ridges, upon which are tufts of brown spines, varying from ½ in.
Stem globose when young and cylindrical when old, flattened at the top; height from 4 in.
The stem of this species, when seen covered with numerous tufts of bristly spines, has been compared to a brush, a comparison not, however, applicable to the form represented in the Figure.
Amongst Stapelias, too, we meet with plants which mimic the stem characters of some of the smaller kinds of Cactus.
It is a slow grower, and requires careful attention in winter, when sometimes the roots all perish and the base of the stem rots.
There is also a Syphon B H K, with an hollow Stem G H, communicating with both its Legs.
Each wave, as it approached, appeared as if it must overwhelm us, instead of which it rushed grandly by, rolling and shaking us from stem to stern, and sending fountains of spray on board.
The answer was a laugh that rang from stem to stern from the gloomy shapes that flitted round.
Its stem is used for handles to knives and other implements, so tough and strong is it.
In seven minutes after the first flames were discovered the ship from stem to stern was one sheet of flame.
The ship was usually placed with its stem towards the sea, so that when Odin, the Jove of the northern mythology, should call the gallant chief, he could set sail straight off land for Valhalla, the heaven of his hopes.
One good stem will furnish a dozen handles, and when dry it is as hard as horn.
The woody stem acts in these regions as the doornboom of South Africa, the wild sage of the western prairies, and the shih (absinthium) of the Arabian desert.
This pretty rounded growth, with its short brown stem throwing out lateral branches which trail on the ground, flavours meat, and might be naturalised in Europe.
Like a laurel-tree, we are dressed in this district in the foliage of perennial and vehement vitality; while there is plenty of solid stem to mark honourable antiquity, the leaves that have gone have but made way for new and larger ones.
The vertebral column itself is an instance, and the recurring spring of the ribs from it, like the branches from the stem of a tree, further expressed in the ramification of the jointed bones of the limbs and extremities.
Government, especially Newcastle, but it is so long that few people will read it; and though it may convince and satisfy some one here and there, it will not suffice to stem the torrent which is so swollen by ignorance and malice.
As yet, behind high ramparts stem and proud Where bolted thunders sleep, Dark Sumter like a battlemented cloud Towers o'er the solemn deep.
Her slim, childish body lay partly across the table, her cheek was pillowed on one outstretched arm, the fingers of which lay loosely around the slender crystal stem of a wine-glass.
And when he stood in his evening clothes pulling a rose-bud stem through the button-hole of his lapel, he seemed very fresh and young and graceful in the gas-light.
They gave him some fresh light bread and a basin of coffee; he finished and waited, teeth biting the stem of his empty pipe for which he had no tobacco.
Severed from the parent stem the same branch would not feel so confident.
The moment we pluck a flower from its stem it begins to wilt and fade because it is separated from the source of its life.
Its name is taken from the resemblance the seeds bear to a viper's head, and its spotted stem to the snake's skin; and in olden times the plant was supposed to heal the bite of a viper.
It is familiar to almost every eye, forming little green patches even between stones of our streets, its tiny pale-pink blossoms growing so closely to the stem as to be half hidden among the leaves.
It seemeth all astir with life, As if it loved to thrive, As if it had a merry heart Within its stem alive.
Its stem is tough and fibrous, like all its species.
What if the stem should sink further and flatten us?
As for the stem sinking lower, it can't do that until this solid branch that supports it becomes rotten.
Paul and Hendrick had also sprung up, but the latter, remaining close to the stem of the tree, kept his eye watchfully on the branches.
The captain looked up at the thick stem with a doubtful expression, and then turned to Hendrick with a nautical shake of the head.
Municipal bodies must take heed how they undertake to stem the torrent; the slightest opposition will soon be at the expense of their lives.
Such is the foul scum which, both in front and in the rear, rolls along with the popular tide; whatever is done to stem the torrent, it widens out and will leave its mark at every stage of its overflow.
I hope, however, that just at present you will not be discovered, for if so I fear that in order to stem the Socialistic wave even your friends must appear to be against you.
She now for the first time realised her peril, yet she was powerless to stem the tide of misfortune that, sooner or later, must overwhelm her and crush her.
There is no compromise: to hate it is to try to stem the flood.
I will not rend From its fair stem the flower as I descend.
The palm-tree that grows on the rock to this day, Feels its leaf growing yellow, its slight stem decay, In the blasting and ponderous air; These towns are no more!
What can we do to stem this tide of extravagance and at the same time plant the seed of permanent thrift," asked these men who ranged from Premier to Prelate.
He believed himself to be the Anointed Foe of the War and he dedicated himself and all his powers to stem what seemed to be a hopeless tide.
She certainly did look like a fresh white-heart cherry going to be bitten off the stem by that lipless mouth.
The tree had been planted at the foot of one of the perpendicular pieces of wood; from the stem which mounted up this piece of wood were taken side limbs, to run along the horizontal pieces.
The hollow drum D rotates back and forth upon a vertical stem at its center, its motion being produced by the string H, which is attached by means of a suitable reducing motion to the cross-head of the engine.
A is a bell-crank which turns loosely upon the valve stem V.
Extending through the cap or head of cylinder C is a stem attached to the piston below, and connected by suitable levers with a pencil point P.
The cam C also turns upon the valve stem V and is connected with the governor by means of a reach rod as indicated in Fig.
The drop lever B is keyed to the valve stem V, and is connected with the dash pot by a rod as indicated by the dotted line.
But to bar the tide of commerce at every port from Trieste to Riga was like trying to stem the sea.
As the Saracen ships came up to occupy the straits above the city they fell into confusion in trying to stem the rapid current.
Edward came in with a fair wind and tide and fell upon the enemy as they lay aground at the stem and unmanageable.
