After careful search through the "Exercitationes de Generatione," the most that appears clear to me is, that Harvey believed all animals and plants to spring from what he terms a "primordium vegetale," a phrase which may nowadays be rendered "a vegetative germ"; and this, he says, is "oviforme," or "egg-like"; not, he is careful to add, that it necessarily has the shape of an egg, but because it has the constitution and nature of one.

It is generally believed that this grand Sequoia was once far more widely distributed over the Sierra; but after long and careful study I have come to the conclusion that it never was, at least since the close of the glacial period, because a diligent search along the margins of the groves, and in the gaps between, fails to reveal a single trace of its previous existence beyond its present bounds.

They were not satisfied with her statement, however, and they at once made a thorough search of the house.

" He raised his hand and began gently stroking his coat lapel, his fingers quickly crossing it in a vain search for some imaginary wrinkle, moving back and forth with a steady persistence, while he watched me, still amused, still indifferent.

After fifteen minutes' fruitless search, a lighterman suggested that the boy must be under the pier.

When we entered the place we could not see the least appearance of either houses or inhabitants, but upon stricter search found, that instead of houses above ground they had dens in the sides of hillocks, contiguous to ponds and streams of water.

"And so it was Alcando, all along," observed Blake, a few days later, following an unsuccessful search for the Spaniard.

Vincent thus cared for, Rosa began to think of the other poor fellows in her brother's squadron, and set about a systematic search for them.

I had not, if I remember rightly, been into them since my hasty search on the evening of the attack.

Then followed, with the eager search after gold and silver, a rapid demoralization in all maritime countries.

Thus came into existence the first ten amendments to the Constitution, with their perpetual guaranty of the fundamental rights of religion, freedom of speech and of the Press, the right of assemblage, the immunity from unreasonable searches and seizures, the right of trial by jury, and similar guarantees of fundamental individual rights.

His place of concealment must remain aft in the cabin, and if so, he must be discovered by immediate search.

Of this parsimonious allotment it is again a hopeless search to inquire the reason.

For I found the girl at Hampton, after a weary search,perhaps some day I shall tell the story.

With a little search, whooping to each other lest they stray away, they found a big dry stub that some gale had snapped off a few feet above the snow.

After anxious search the little fellow had been found reclining under an apple tree, having gained sufficient strength from the ministrations of its fair attendants to go through the open stable door and to find out what sort of a world it had been born into.

When a wide reach of water lay between him and the town, however, he permitted his oar to rest, and he lent all his faculties to a keen and anxious search.

When still there was no reply she began a hurried search for a match; there were still some upon the rock shelf.

She trampled them in her blind and furious search.

Every whistle in Cottonville gave tongue, clamouring hoarsely above the valley, and out across the ranges, to the hundreds at their futile search, "Gray Stoddard is found.

" Thus requested, Craft gave to the lawyer a detailed account of the disaster at the bridge, of the finding and keeping of Ralph, of his mysterious disappearance, and of the prolonged search for him.

" Need I say that I had scarcely read this before I entered upon an exhaustive search among the other trees?

After six hours' ineffectual search for water, we were compelled to return to the water passed early on the previous day.

Now Mine Own went inward of the little cave, which did be very light from the fire-pit that was to the front; but before that she did go, I made a swift search of the place, that there should be no creeping thing; and truly it was sweet and free.

The title, my lords, is, indeed, specious, and well fitted to the design of gaining attention and promoting popularity; but with this title there is nothing that corresponds, nor is any thing to be found but confusion and contradictions, which grow more numerous upon farther search.