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  • The horizon of the tertiaries will be in long sweeps, and tenderly modulated, far-stretching lines.

  • That sweeping, melting, waving line of the tertiaries tells of stately forest and gardened plain, of lordly mansions and bustling villages.

  • Franciscan Tertiaries (ยง 98, 11) alone capable of saving human society from all the political and social dangers of the present and future, which had some success at least in Italy.

  • There seems to be no good reason for perpetuating the indefinite terms secondaries and tertiaries as applied to color.

  • A very distinctive feature of the Franciscans is the organisation officially known as the Brothers and Sisters of Penitence, but more popularly described as the Tertiaries of the Order.

  • Many, from royal personages downwards, enrolled themselves among the Tertiaries or hoped to assure an entrance to heaven by assuming the garb of a friar upon the death-bed.

  • The Franciscan Tertiaries were as democratic as the Order itself.

  • Hence the mixed tertiaries are still less perfect and pure than the secondaries; and as their hues are of extensive use in painting, original pigments of these colours are proportionably estimable to the artist.

  • The tertiaries are in their third century.

  • Everybody here keeps talking to me about primaries and secondaries and tertiaries as if people were geological strata.

  • Promise me that you will not hand me over to one of these dreadful tertiaries or secondaries or whatever you call them.

  • At all events, madam, I may remind you, if you come to capping ages, that whatever your secondaries and tertiaries may be, you are younger than I am.

  • Our tertiaries are not at all squeamish about killing.

  • Of the two classes the wanderers were the most dangerous, but in both there was the germ of future trouble, although the settled Beguines approached very nearly the Tertiaries of the Mendicants.

  • Indeed, they frequently placed themselves under the direction of Dominicans or Franciscans, and eventually those who survived the vicissitudes of persecution mostly merged into the Tertiaries of either one Order or the other.

  • Tertiaries of Italy, under the General Master residing in Lombardy.

  • Franciscans, moreover, was commencing, and the Tertiaries of the latter, who were popularly known as Beguines in France, were fair game.

  • Some confirmation of this theory is afforded by the fact that whereas we can recognize ancestral deer in the Tertiaries of Europe we cannot point with certainty to the forerunners of the Bovidae.

  • Wings and tail clove-brown edged with olive-buff, the tertiaries and coverts with white forming two wing bands at tips of greater and median coverts; the outer three rectrices largely white.

  • The tertiaries and wing coverts are broadly edged with bright lemon yellow.

  • Wings and tail dull black, chiefly edged with ashy or plumbeous gray, the secondaries, tertiaries and wing coverts with drab, two wing bands pale buff; the rectrices white on inner web of basal half.

  • Wings and tail clove-brown, the primaries whitish edged, the secondaries, tertiaries and wing coverts greenish edged with two yellowish white wing bands.

  • He says that the first nuptial plumage is "acquired by a partial prenuptial moult which involves most of the body plumage (except posteriorly), the wing coverts and sometimes the tertiaries but not the rest of the wings nor the tail.

  • Wings and tail dull black, edged chiefly with ashy gray, the tertiaries (except the proximal which is entirely black) broadly edged with white, buff tinged on the middle one.

  • Wings and tail slate-gray largely edged with plumbeous gray, the tertiaries and coverts with olive-yellow; the greater and median coverts tipped with white, yellow tinged.

  • Wings and tail slate-black edged chiefly with bluish plumbeous gray, the coverts and tertiaries with olive-green.

  • The contributions referred to are probably those "On the Correlation of the Lower Tertiaries of England with those of France and Belgium," "Quart.

  • On the Correlation of the Middle Eocene Tertiaries of England, France, and Belgium," ibid.

  • Is it possible that all the plants and animals of the Tertiaries and the Pleistocene may have really lived together in the same world after all?

  • Tertiaries thought it time to do the same?

  • There is not a particle of scientific evidence to prove that they are not just as recent as any specimen from the Tertiaries or the Pleistocene.

  • This is curious, for it is a well-known fact that the typical life-form of Tertiaries is anthropoid apes, and it is a remarkable coincidence that we should find ape-like men populating the same strata.

  • In the western part the tertiaries are more tufaceous than on the south-east coast, and they are distinguished mainly by the presence of shales and andesite breccia.

  • Tertiaries to perform this task; the spirit of St. Francis breathes in every page.

  • For Tertiaries a book of this kind is a necessity; it is as necessary for them as a text-book is for a scholar.

  • Not once, but several times may Tertiaries read this book to great advantage.

  • In Valencia, Fray Jayme Justi and the Tertiaries Guillermo Gelabert and Marti Petri, when arrested by R.

  • Justi must have recanted, for he was merely imprisoned for life, while the bones of the two Tertiaries were dug up and burned.

  • Then the converted Jews would possess the world, all would be Tertiaries of St. Francis, and the Franciscans would be models of holiness and poverty.

  • Tertiaries in the suspected districts should be summoned to appear and be closely examined.

  • All through the range of color, the secondaries and tertiaries as well as the primaries, this principle of complement plays a part.

  • Tertiaries are all grays, and grays are practically always tertiaries.

  • Complementary colors mixed, or so placed that small portions of them are side by side, as in hatching or stippling, give the tertiaries or grays by the mixing of the rays.

  • The Univalve Shells or Gasteropods of the Tertiaries embraced all the families now living, including land and fresh-water Shells as well as the marine representatives of the type.

  • Tertiaries are as well known to us as are those of our own time.

  • The subjoined wood-cut represents one of these Shells, so numerous in the Tertiaries that large masses of rock consist of their remains.

  • Illustration] In the Tertiaries we see the dawn of the present condition of things, not only in the character of the animals and plants, but in the height of the mountains and in the distribution of land and sea.

  • The fossil vegetation of the Tertiaries is, indeed, most interesting from this point of view, showing the gradual maturing and completion of those conditions most intimately associated with human life.

  • On the Italian side there is usually no zone of folded Tertiaries and the Mesozoic band forms the southern border of the chain.

  • Against the last great fold which terminates this mountain area northwards are ranged the Tertiaries and recent deposits.

  • Correlation of the Eocene Tertiaries of England, France, and Belgium'--Ibid.

  • Newer Tertiaries of Suffolk and their Fauna'--Ibid.

  • Penitential Brotherhoods and Tertiaries of the Mendicant Orders.

  • Others maintained their existence only by passing over to the Tertiaries of the Franciscans.

  • This test disposes of all the alleged discoveries of human remains in the Tertiaries of the Old World, except one, and although it is quite possible that some may be genuine among those rejected, it is safer not to rely on them.


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