While Peyssonnel still lived forgotten at the Antilles, his scientific labours were crowned with triumph at Paris; but it was a sterile triumph for him.
The general aspect of this gloomy and sterile country, affords a scene truly picturesque and sombre.
This sterile substance, (the only thing among the rocks resembling soil,) is somewhat fertilized by the putrified lichens, and dung of wild birds.
The building itself, a large, prominent structure, stands out on the slope of a sterile mountain side, the road sweeping up to its level in a long, elliptic curve.
We are looking off also from this point upon the beginnings of Aragon and of Catalonia; there is nothing smiling about Spain as seen from the Entécade; sterile hills solely heap themselves to the horizon.
From hence you descry the sterile summits of the mountains both towards the east and west; the course of the stream from Jerusalem; and the numerous grottoes formerly occupied by Christian anchorites.
We are struck by the anomaly of finding a taste, which might seem to belong only to the inhabitants of the most sterile regions, prevailing among races of rude and indolent men, who live in the finest and most fertile countries on the globe.
The sun was almost at its zenith; the earth, wherever it appeared sterile and destitute of vegetation, was at the temperature of 48 or 50 degrees.
Immediately around are sterile rocks, some many hundred feet high, some with aloes growing from the fissures.
Sir Pultney Malcom put him in charge of the government farm, and said he had never seen such vegetables produced on the sterile rocks of St. Helena.
The blacksmith sweats at the sultry forge, the sawyer labours pent-up in his pit and the husbandman turns up the sterile glebe.
The fertile and sterile flowers are sometimes produced on separate plants.
A curious fact is that the offspring of such unions are themselves sterile almost without exception.
It is surprising to see in a village lost among the sterile hills houses three stories high.
The eastern districts are flat and pestilential, where they sink down to the shores of the Caspian Sea; rugged and sterile where they adjoin the desert of Iran.
We have moved past the sterile debate between those who say government is the enemy and those who say government is the answer.
In a patch of Golden Seal there are always many sterile stems, simple and erect, bearing a solitary leaf at the apex but no flower.
In a patch of May-apple plants there are always a number of sterile or flowerless stalks, which bear leaves similar to those of the flowering plants.
Cultures were made by scraping the dark spots on diseased stems with a sterile needle and inoculating sterilized bean pods or plugs of potato with the spores scraped from the stem.
The mouth-parts or the sting of the insect are notsterile and the chances of their carrying pyogenic organisms are always present.
For popular instruction this inevitable transfer of germs by the house-fly is strikingly demonstrated by the oft copied illustration of the tracks of a fly on a sterile culture plate.
When they are few in number, they can be picked out with a sterile needle.
By exposingsterile plates before patients who coughed a single time, very numerous colonies of the bacillus were obtained.
Stiles and Gardner have shown that house-flies buried in a screened stand-pipe forty-eight inches understerile sand came to the surface.
These workers caught flies from various sources in a sterilized net, placed them in a sterile bottle and poured over them a known quantity of sterilized water, in which they were shaken so as to wash the bacteria from their bodies.
A comparable experiment which we use in our elementary laboratory work is to take three samples of clean (preferably, sterile) fresh milk in sterile bottles.
Into the heart of the being who opens her arms to you, you will plunge that blood-stained but repentant arm; you will follow to the cemetery the victim of your passion, and you will plant on her grave the sterile flower of your pity.
Poisoned, from youth, by all the writings of the last century, I had sucked, at an early hour, the sterile milk of impiety.
The round sides of the mountains are but sparingly covered with vegetation, and in this dry season had a sterile appearance.
The shore here, consisting of high, steep masses of lava, presents a picturesque but desolate andsterile landscape, amidst which the eye seeks in vain for some spot capable of producing the rich wine of Teneriffe.
The train was crawling in a cup of the hills, grey, sterileand abandoned, without roads or houses, without a single tree.
Here they were out of the sands, and upon hard, sterilesoil covered with small stones embedded in the earth.
Instead of the bouillon culture, McFarland recommends the use of a suspension made by removing some of the growth from the surface of a fresh agar culture and mixing it well with a little sterile water.
When a larger amount of blood is required, it may be obtained with a sterile hypodermic syringe from one of the veins at the elbow.
Human milk is sterile when secreted, but derives a few bacteria from the lacteal ducts.
In the present state of over-population, it is not to be apprehended that a small minority of men exercising sterile and abnormal sexual inclinations should seriously injure society by limiting the increase of the human race.
This opinion, which has been incorporated in the codes of all the Occidental races, sprang originally from the conviction that sterile passions are injurious to the tribe by checking propagation.
Logic, in these circumstances, renders it equitable and ridiculous to deny a sterile exercise of sex to abnormal men and women, who are by instinct and congenital diathesis non-procreative.
The husband of a sterilewife may leave the house for a long period, living in the jungle and visiting other houses, in the hope that his wife may divorce him on the ground of desertion, or give him ground for divorcing her.
The desire for children, especially male children, is general and strong; but sterile marriages seem to be known among all the peoples and are common among the Kenyahs.
The Holy Lands, as you call them, are dead--sterile as eunuchs.
