But throughout its winged life, the stone-fly bears memorials of its aquatic past in the little withered vestiges of gills that can still be distinguished beneath the thorax.
An adult may-fly is one of the most delicate of insects; the head has elaborate compound eyes, but the feelers are very short, and the jaws are reduced to such tiny vestiges that the insect is unable to feed.
The guide pointed to an eminence on which were a few decayed vestiges of an old fortified castle.
Vestiges of art are found, which speak of elder and higher states of civilization, than any known to the nomadic or hunter states.
At Little Rock, in the valley of the Arkansas, vestiges of art have recently been found in similar beds of denudation, at considerable depths below the surface of the wooded plains.
While the gay suppers of the regent were giving a new but by no means desirable tone to the great world of Paris, and chasing away the last vestiges of the stately decorum that marked the closing days of Louis XIV, and Mme.
The modern spirit of change has long since swept away all vestiges of the old Rue Saint-Thomas-du-Lourvre and the time-honored dwellings that ornamented it.
What vestiges of liberty or property have they left?
So ardent and hot has been the chase after vestiges of this man, that the fact was once discovered that with his own hand he had written a certain deed concerning a feu-duty or rent-charge of £25, 7s.
In a few humble architectural remains, these primitive bodies have left vestiges of their peculiar character to the present day.
Minute vestiges of exopodites are sometimes found on the second and third pairs, but they are not used for swimming, and only help to keep a current of water flowing through the gill cavities.
At the sides of the abdomen, wedged in between the telson and the last somite, a pair of small plates may be seen, which are the last vestiges of the uropods.
The eyes are not movable, although they are set on little side-lobes of the head, representing the vestiges of eye-stalks.
The reduced mouth parts and the microscopic vestiges of the swimming feet may be detected on and near the head, but apart from these it would be hard to find any characters to show that the animal is a Crustacean.
But for the last three or four hundred years, no vestiges of such deeds have ever been found.
Some recent vestiges of temples and churches are now smoothed in the garden of the Minims of the Trinita del Monte, (Nardini, l.
From this same window, which looks south, you can also distinguish the remains of a Roman amphitheatre, and the commencement of a Roman aqueduct, whose vestiges can be traced three leagues further.
French guide-books still call it a Gothic castle, though I could see no trace of Gothic architecture remaining, except in the building on the place now the Hotel de Ville, which has still the vestiges of battlements, and one old tower.
There are at present novestiges of it in Skye or the Long Island, the inhabitants of which have substituted the connach Micheil or St. Michael's cake.
In the Highlands of Perthshire there are some vestiges of it.
It finds the soul not a spiritual unit, but a treacherous compound of strange contradictions and warring tendencies, with traces of spent passion and vestiges of ancient sins, with echoes of forgotten deeds and survivals of vanished habits.
After a tedious search throughout all the environs of Aix, Graham himself came, by the merest accident, upon the vestiges of Louise's friend.
This is a bird that is seldom or never attacked by birds of prey, for no vestiges of his remains are ever seen or found by the Indian hunter.
In 1760 Montreal fell and the British completed the conquest of New France, at the very time when the last vestiges of French power were disappearing in India.
He wished to get rid of all provincial assemblies and other vestiges of local independence, and to have all his territories governed uniformly by officials subject to himself.
Let us look now and consider their life and conduct, and what following they have of themselves, who are followers of the vestiges of iniquity; since one devil is not contrary to another, but on the contrary they agree together.
But as soon as all human vestiges disappear, the imperceptible human waif on the sea, alone with nature, trembles in full revelation of his paltriness.
The male has only five abdominal pieces, but the vestiges of the separation of the two others may be clearly remarked upon the outer mediate or third piece, which is the largest of all.
These fishes have no true ventral fin, and have onlyvestiges of side fins.
The evening saw us entering into Thebes--the town which, beyond all others, retains the smallest vestiges of antiquity.
But, as might be expected, of the five villages which made up the famous city, few vestiges remain.
Here we found the vestiges of a bonfire, lighted in memory of the battle of Bannockburn, concerning which every part of Scotland has its peculiar traditions.
On the outer side of the bridge are large remains of outworks, probably for securing cattle, and for domestic offices--and the vestiges of a chapel.
There are vestiges of similar towers occupying the angles of the precipice overhanging the sea.
The building is round, and has been surrounded with an outer-wall, of which hardly the slightest vestiges now remain.
I dismounted and went up to the place, and saw the vestiges of a fire and a broken bottle.
Lisbon is a huge ruinous city, still exhibiting, in almost every direction, the vestiges of that terrific visitation of God, the earthquake, which shattered it some eighty years ago.
And in Egypt, as late as the time of Plutarch, there were still vestiges of a monotheistic worship.
Under thy auspices whatever vestiges of our guilt remain, shall, by being atoned for, redeem the earth from fear forever.
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