Lays Sentence Examples

The quail lays fifteen or twenty eggs and they are white.

The foundress of the nest lays eggs and at first feeds and rears the larvae, the earliest of which develop into workers.

The conductors are then twisted in pairs with definite lays.

The mother bird lays her eggs in a nest and keeps them warm until the birdlings are hatched.

If any one of you lays a hand on her, you'll be answering to me.

The female lays her eggs in a slit made by means of her "saw-like" ovipositor in the leaf or fruit of a tree.

Sailors capture the bird for its long wing-bones, which they manufacture into tobacco-pipe stems. The albatross lays one egg; it is white, with a few spots, and is about 4 in.

Although the former of these lays stress upon the fact that the sheriff's supervisory powers are universal many men did not attend his tourn.

The hen-bird commonly lays three clay-coloured eggs, blotched with black, in a very slight hollow on the ground not far from the sea.

Usually the mother-beetle makes a fairly straight tunnel along which, at short intervals, she lays her eggs.

If by a two-thirds majority the action of a minister be arraigned, the president of the Imperial Council lays the case before the emperor, who decides.

The model " form of regulation " lays down the scales of the drawings and the information to be shown thereon.

In this he lays it down as a rule that it is bad husbandry to take two crops of grain successively, which marks a considerable progress in the knowledge of modern husbandry; though he adds that in Scotland the best husbandmen after a fallow take a crop of wheat; after the wheat, peas; then barley, and then oats; and after that they fallow again.

It lays down principles for the investigation of the Rabbinic exegesis (Midrash, q.v.) and of the prayer-book of the synagogue.

But though Plato holds this inseparable connexion of best and pleasantest to be true and important, it is only for the sake of the vulgar that he lays this stress on pleasure.

But he has not failed to observe that practical reasonings are not commonly of this kind, but are rather concerned with actions as means to ulterior ends; indeed, he lays stress on this as a characteristic of the " political " life, when he wishes to prove its inferiority to the life of pure speculation.

Shaftesbury had conclusively shown that these were not in the vulgar sense selfish; but the very stress which he lays on the pleasure inseparable from their exercise suggests a subtle egoistic theory which he does not expressly exclude, since it may be said that this " intrinsic reward " constitutes the real motive of the benevolent man.

Stewart lays stress on the obligation of justice as distinct from benevolence; but his definition of justice represents it as essentially impartiality, - a virtue which (as was just now said of Reid's fourth principle) must equally find a place in the utilitarian or any other system that lays down universally applicable rules of morality.

In this department he lays down the moral axiom " that the labourer is entitled to the fruit of his own labour " as the principle on which complete rights of property are founded; maintaining that occupancy alone would only confer a transient right of possession during use.

To meet the obvious objections to this method, based on the immediate happiness caused by admitted crimes (such as " knocking a rich villain on the head "), he lays stress on the necessity of general rules in any kind of legislation;' while, by urging the importance of forming and maintaining good habits, he partly evades the difficulty of calculating the consequences of particular actions.

There are also fragments of poems in Half's Saga, Asmund KappaBana's Saga, in the Latin verses of Saxo, and the Shield Lays (Ragnarsdrapa) by Bragi, &c., of this school, which closes with the Sun-Song, a powerful Christian Dantesque poem, recalling some of the early compositions of the Irish Church, and with the 12th-century Lay of Ragnar, Lay of Starkad, The Proverb Song (Havamal) and Krakumal, to which we may add those singular Gloss-poems, the Pulur, which also belong to the Western Isles.

To Greenland, Iceland's farthest colony, founded in the 10th century, we owe the two Lays of Atli, and probably HymiskviOa, which, though of a weirder, harsher cast, yet belong to the Western Isles school and not to Iceland.

These ideas are further developed in various papers in the Bulletin and in his L'Anthropometrie, ou mesure des differentes facultes de l'homme (18'ji), in which he lays great stress on the universal applicability of the binomial law, - according to which the number of cases in which, for instance, a certain height occurs among a large number of individuals is represented by an ordinate of a curve (the binomial) symmetrically situated with regard to the ordinate representing the mean result (average height).

Notwithstanding its defects, Froude's History is a great achievement; it presents an important and powerful account of the Reformation period in England, and lays before us a picture of the past magnificently conceived, and painted in colours which will never lose their freshness and beauty.

The female lays two kinds of eggs - " summer-eggs," which develop without fertilization, and " winter-eggs" or resting eggs, which require to be fertilized.

Ignatius himself lays down the rule that an inferior is bound to make all necessary representations to his superior so as to guide him in imposing a precept of obedience.

His popularity was probably due to the fact that in his sermons he lays little stress on dogmatic questions, but treats generally of moral subjects, in which the secrets of the human heart and the processes of man's reason are described with poetical feeling.

The great river receives an abundant load of silt from its tributaries, and takes up ano lays down silt from its own bed and banks with every change of velocity.

He lays stress on the relation of the supposed confession of faith of Constantine, embodied in the forgery, to that issued by the emperor Constantine V., pointing out the efforts made by the Byzantines between 756 and the synod of Gentilly in 767 to detach Pippin from the cause of Rome and the holy images.

The sexes almost immediately couple; the female in from four to six days lays her eggs, numbering 500 and upwards; and, with that the life cycle of the moth being complete, both sexes soon die.

Hence Rothe, unlike Schleiermacher, lays great stress, for instance, on the personality of God, on the reality of the worlds of good and evil spirits, and on the visible second coming of Christ.

The act of 1849 also forbids bulland bearbaiting, or fighting between any kinds of animals; requires the provision of food and water to animals impounded; lays down regulations as to the treatment of animals sent for slaughter, and imposes a penalty for improperly conveying animals.

The dull treatise of John of Ireland (q.v.) lays claim to originality of a kind.

He lays special stress on the point that abstract ideas when held in their abstraction are almost interchangeable with their opposites - that extremes meet, and that in every true and concrete idea there is a coincidence of opposites.

Many genera of bees are represented, like most other insects, by ordinary males and females, each female constructing a nest formed of several chambers ("cells") and storing in each chamber a supply of food for the grub to be hatched from the egg that she lays therein.

The female Stelis lays her eggs earlier than the Osmia, and towards the bottom of the food-mass; the egg of the Osmia is laid later, and on the surface of the food.

He lays too much stress upon the "concept," and explains too much by the Hegelian antithesis of subjective and objective.

As to syllogism specifically, Locke in a passage, 8 which has an obviously Cartesian ring, lays down four stages or degrees of reasoning, and points o ut that syllogism serves us in but one of these, and that not the all-important one of finding the intermediate ideas.

The London protocol of 1871, with a view to prevent such abuses, lays down, perhaps a little too broadly, " that it is an essential principle of the law of nations that no power can liberate itself from the engagements of a treaty, nor modify the stipulations thereof, unless with the consent of the contracting powers, by means of an amicable arrangement."

The female lays an egg in the unripe nut, on the kernel of which the larva subsists till September, when it bores its way through the shell, and enters the earth, to undergo transformation into a chrysalis in the ensuing spring.

Probably the poets of the Homeric school - that which dealt with war and adventure - were the genuine descendants of minstrels whose " lays " or " ballads " were the amusement of the feasts in an earlier heroic age; whereas the Hesiodic compositions were non-lyrical from the first, and were only in verse because that was the universal form of literature.

In this way there arose a conservative school who admitted more or less freely the absorption of pre-existing lays in the formation of the Iliad and Odyssey, and also the existence of considerable interpolations, but assigned the main work of formation to prehistoric times, and to the genius of a great poet.

As the word " interpolation " implies, Hermann did not maintain the hypothesis of a congeries of independent " lays."

The conjectures of Hermann, in which the Wolfian theory found a modified and tentative application, were presently thrown into the shade by the more trenchant method of Lachmann, who (in two papers read to the Berlin Academy in 1837 and 1841) sought to show that the Iliad was made up of sixteen independent " lays," with various enlargements and interpolations, all finally reduced to order by Peisistratus.

A number of separate " lays " might conceivably be arranged and connected by a man of poetical taste in a manner that would satisfy all requirements.

It must be admitted that when tried by this test his " lays " generally fail.

Consequently the type of epic poem which would be produced by an aggregation of shorter lays is not the type which we have in the Iliad.

It may even be admitted that the swift-flowing movement, and the simplicity of thought and style, which we admire in the Iliad are an inheritance from the earlier " lays " - the 104a &v&p&v such as Achilles and Patroclus sang to the lyre in their tent.

But between these lays and Homer we must place the cultivation of epic poetry as an art.2 The pre-Homeric lays doubtless furnished the elements of such a poetry - the alphabet, so to speak, of the art; but they must have been refined and transmuted before they formed poems like the Iliad and Odyssey.

But as early as the 7th century we come upon traces of short lays (the so-called cantilenes) which were in the mouths of all and were sung in chorus.

It is the business of a philosopher, while he lays bare the fundamental difference of elements, to display the identity that subsists between what seem unconnected parts of the universe.

Cumberland, therefore, lays it down that " The greatest possible benevolence of every rational agent towards all the rest constitutes the happiest state of each and all.

In the fragment De Interpretation Naturae Prooemium (written probably about 1603) Bacon analyses his own mental character and lays before us the objects he had in view when he entered on public life.

The other lays on the sheet to certain marks, runs the carriage in under the platen, and pulls the barhandle across to give the necessary impression.

When the sheet is printed and the platen falls back to the horizontal the operator removes it with one hand and with the other lays on a fresh sheet.

In the United Kingdom the chancellor of the exchequer, usually in April, lays before the House of Commons a statement of the actual results of revenue and expenditure in the past finance year (now ending March 31), showing how far his estimates have been realized, and what surplus or deficit there has been in the income as compared with the expenditure.

In natural philosophy Campanella, closely following Telesio, advocates the experimental method and lays down heat and cold as the fundamental principles by the strife of which all life is explained.

The edict of Gratian lays down that it should be exorcized and blessed by the priest and sprinkled with exorcized salt.

The guacharo is said to build a bowl-like nest of clay, in which it lays from two to four white eggs, with a smooth but lustreless surface, resembling those of some owls.

Everywhere the author lays stress on the excellence of "Pantagruelism," and the reader who is himself a Pantagruelist (it is perfectly idle for any other to attempt the book) soon discovers what this means.

Bruchus pisi causes considerable damage to pease; during the spring the beetle lays its eggs in the young pea, which is devoured by the larva which hatches out in it.

In his Misere de la philosophie (1847) he lays down the principle that social relationships largely depend upon modes of production, and therefore the principles, ideas and categories which are thus evolved are no more eternal than the relations they express, but are historical and transitory products.

Theocritus speaks of himself as having already gained fame, and says that his lays have been brought by report even unto the throne of Zeus.

This constitutes the theory of knowledge in the only tenable sense of the term, and it lays down, in Kantian language, the conditions of the possibility of experience.

The first of these deals with the notion of duty, and endeavours to define the good or the ultimate end of action; the second lays out the scheme of concrete duties which are deducible from, or which, at least, are covered by, this abstractly stated principle.

The appearances recorded in the Old Testament are manifestations of the Logos, and the knowledge of God possessed by the great leaders and teachers of Israel is due to the same source; (2) as the agency whereby man, enmeshed by illusion, lays hold of the higher spiritual life and rising above his partial point of view participates in the universal reason.

Among his other lyrical volumes, of dates earlier than the Civil War, were Lays of my Home (1843), Voices of Freedom (1846), Songs of Labor (1850), The Chapel of the Hermits (1853), The Panorama (1856), Home Ballads (1860).

Then Paul himself lays hands on them and the Holy Ghost comes upon them, so that they speak with tongues and prophecy.

The antithesis is largely false; science lays stress on analysis, art on synthesis.

It is certainly not altogether mere impertinence to ask of a public man how he gets what he lives upon, for independence of spirit, which is so hard to the man who lays his head on the debtor's pillow, is the prime virtue in such men.

So again, in the stress that he lays on the misery which the most secret wrong-doing must necessarily cause from the perpetual fear of discovery, and in his exuberant exaltation of the value of disinterested friendship, he shows a sincere, though not completely successful, effort to avoid the offence that consistent egoistic hedonism is apt to give to ordinary human feeling.

Accordingly his treatment of external rights and duties, though decidedly inferior in methodical clearness and precision, does not differ in principle from that of Paley or Bentham, except that he lays greater stress on the immediate conduciveness of actions to the happiness of individuals, and more often refers in a merely supplementary or restrictive way to their tendencies in respect of general happiness.

The second part, Skaldskapar-mal, a gradus of synonyms and epithets, which contains over 240 quotations from 65 poets, and ro anonymous lays - a treasury of verse - was composed c. 1230.

Norse versions of Mary of Brittany's Lays, the stories of Brutus and of Troy, and part of the Pharsalia translated are also found.

V olsunga Saga and Hervarar Saga contain quotations and paraphrases of lays by the Helgi poet, and Half's, Ragnar's and Asmund Kappabana's Sagas all have bits of Western poetry in them.

Through faith also the believer receives justification, his sins are forgiven, he is accepted of God, and is held by Him as righteous, the righteousness of Christ being imputed to him, and faith being the instrument by which the man lays hold on Christ, so that with His righteousness the man appears in God's sight as righteous.

Hence he lays the greatest stress on the conception of God's disposition of salvation towards mankind (oeconomia), the object of which is that mankind, who in Adam were sunk in sin and death, should in Christ, comprised as it were in his person, be brought back to life.

By means of a saw-like ovipositor the female lays her eggs in the branches of trees.

This is particularly manifest in the weightier emphasis which he lays upon human sin and divine grace, and in the place which he assigns to faith in the individual Christian life.

He lays great stress on the Logos doctrine; all good is to be found in union with the Logos; all evil is in matter or in " spirits of a material nature "; the origin of evil in the world seems to be the choice of the latter rather than of the former; and redemption consists in the reverse process.

From this egg in the spring emerges an apterous female who makes a gall in the new leaf and lays therein a large number of eggs.

Her lays were translated into Norwegian 2 by order of Haakon IV.; and Thomas Chestre, who is generally supposed to have lived in the reign of Henry VI., gave a version of Lanval.

In any case the Breton lays offer abundant evidence of traditions from Scandinavian and Oriental sources.

Joseph Bedier thinks that the lays of the Breton minstrels were prose recitals interspersed with short lyrics something after the manner of the cante-fable of Aucassin et Nicolette.

The resignation of the wife of Eliduc and her reception of the new bride find a parallel in another of the lays, 4 The soi-disant Breton folk-song "Ann Eostik" on the same subject translated by La Villemarque in his Barzaz-Breiz (1840) is rejected by competent authorities.

Some of the Lays were paraphrased by Arthur O'Shaughnessy in his Lays of France (1872).

He lays repeated stress on two qualities as distinguishing his history from the ordinary run of historical compositions.

Together we might peruse some of the more notable entries submitted to that inane contest in case a gem lays molding in the rubble heap of stupid begging missives from fantasying idiots.

It'll be a long damn time before that bastard lays a finger on this gal without getting even more of his body parts severed!

The first section lays out the basics of the "wider organizational context" mentioned above.

The Covenant also lays down penalty clauses if its terms are not rigidly adhered to.

I guess there lays the mysterious allure that makes you wonder just what could be on the grooves inside.

The female louse lays around 6 eggs a day, firmly attached to the hair shaft close to the scalp.

The female is wingless and never leaves the cocoon where it lays all its eggs and dies.

She lays her eggs in November and dies with the first cold snap.

As with 20th-century Russian communism, it also lays claims to a monopoly on world views and remains intolerant of competition.

The first chapter lays a solid cornerstone to the framework of the book.

Creels stacked on deck of fishing boat Open The fisherman lays his creels stacked on deck of fishing boat Open The fisherman lays his creels in ' sets ' on the seabed.

Richard is an accomplished drummer who lays the foundations for Caravan's style of playing.

But second track ' Easy Path ' lays down Seafood's real plan of action; vaguely folky melodies which suddenly go bang!

With remarkable skill he lays bare the intricate workings of a highly forensic and complex mind.

The first step lays a firm foundation for the future.

His own claim lays the groundwork for the rest of the evidence.

Grytviken lays claim to the largest blue whale harpooned on record.

Series IV introduces someone beyond the angry, scheming man we already knew and lays bare the inner nerd.

Gamelands stone circle lays just off the road near Orton, in a field right next to a dry stone wall.

A detailed survey of other experimental work on African tone orthography lays the groundwork for the experiment.

Among the royal palaces of Europe, Windsor Castle justly lays claim to the first place.

Today, it lays claim to a one-of-a-kind energy that infuses its world-renowned artwork, bustling public plazas, colorful cuisine and endless nightlife.

Dr. Lewanika lays down two basic preconditions for allowing GMOs into the country.

Leo's bodyguard lays prone across his newspaper, his cigarette burning a hole in the page.

Su, looking quite regal now despite her ragged fur, lays a companionable hand on one shoulder of each cub.

Well Umu is the Emperor's New Restaurant, behind a super posh façade lays the biggest rip-off I've ever seen.

The report lays stress on the preservation of self-respect among residents of homes and the need for privacy in maintaining this self-respect and dignity.

Placencia is an off-beat little place that lays claim to the narrowest sidewalk in Belize.

Robert Saulters lays a wreath in memory of all those who paid the supreme sacrifice.

The Queen lays a wreath there each year to honor the members of the armed forces who have died fighting for their country.

It is in dry and sandy soil that the ant-lion lays its trap. Having marked out the chosen site by a circular groove, it starts to crawl backwards, using its abdomen as a plough to shovel up the soil.

The Meteoritic Hypothesis (1890) propounds a comprehensive scheme of cosmical evolution, which has evoked more dissent than approval, while the Sun's Place in Nature (1897) lays down the lines of a classification of the stars, depending upon their supposed temperature-relations.

P. Marchal has (1904) described this power in two small parasitic Hymenoptera - a Chalcid (Encyrtus) which lays eggs in the developing eggs of the small moth Hyponomeuta, and a Proctotrypid (Polygnotus) which infests a gall-midge (Cecidomyid) larva.

The parent moth lays eggs, from which the young " worms " hatch out.

In it he lays the chief stress on the indeterminate nature of the Anglican form " Receive the Holy Ghost " at least from 1552 till the addition of the specific words, " for the office and work of a bishop (or priest) in the church of God," as also on the changes made in the Edwardine order " with the manifest intention...

Such a doctrine, in the stress it lays upon the singular, the object of immediate perception, is evidently inspired by a spirit differing widely even from the moderate Realism of Thomas.

In the two earliest books, accordingly, he lays down and largely illustrates the first principles of being with the view of showing that the world is not governed by capricious agency, but has come into existence, continues in existence, and will ultimately pass away in accordance with the primary conditions of the elemental atoms which, along with empty space, are the only eternal and immutable substances.

The one-way plough lays the furrows alternately to its left and right, so that they all slope in the same direction.

Thucydides lays emphasis on the fact that in these meetings Athens as head of the league had no more than presidential authority, and the other members were called 614cµaxot (allies), a word, however, of ambiguous meaning and capable of including both free and subject allies.

They find that the documents are of composite origin, partly notes from Mary to Darnley, partly a diary of Mary's, and so on; all combined and edited by some one who played the part of the legendary editorial committee of Peisistratus (see Homer), which compiled the Iliad and Odyssey out of fragmentary lays !

The details defy at present any clear interpretation, but the incorporation of the fragment may be due in general to the emphasis it lays on the faithful witness, martyrdom and resurrection of the saints.

Baron Stockmar, describing the confusion fostered by this state of things, said The lord steward finds the fuel and lays the fire; the lord chamberlain lights it.

More than all, perhaps, since his conception of ancient Roman story made laws and manners of more account than shadowy lawgivers, he undesignedly influenced history by popularizing that conception of it which lays stress on institutions, tendencies and social traits to the neglect of individuals.

Moreover, even in the Categories as names signifying distinct things they imply distinct things; and hence the Categories, as well as the Metaphysics, draws the metaphysical conclusion that individual substances are the things without which there is nothing else, and thereby lays the positive foundation of the philosophy running through all the extant Aristotelian writings.

She often reads for two or three hours in succession, and then lays aside her book reluctantly.

The latter raises the moss and bark gently with his knife in search of insects; the former lays open logs to their core with his axe, and moss and bark fly far and wide.

It may be that he lays up no treasures in this world which will cool his summer drink in the next.

He 's forced to reconsider when Pauline lays down some strict rules.

Well Umu is the Emperor 's New Restaurant, behind a super posh façade lays the biggest rip-off I 've ever seen.

So this knowledge lays the groundwork for clearing confusion and self-deception from consciousness.

Biology The female beetle lays the whitish eggs in or on a suitable larval food.

The Prince lays a wreath of poppies in memory of all the troops who died at the battle of the Somme.

The u-shape design makes the support pillow useful for supporting a baby's head and neck while he lays on the floor in a slightly reclined position.

Turntable Lab lays out the specs and the qualities of various turntables.

Additionally, you will be asked to sign a retainer agreement, which lays out billing and fee agreements.

You can prop up the back and use a daybed as a sitting area in your bedroom or even in your living room, and then you drop the back down so it lays flat, so the daybed can be used like a regular bed.

Perhaps the best section, however, is the Beauty 911; a page that lays out, from chipped nails to spilled drinks, all the possible beauty disasters that may occur on prom night, including the best way to solve these pesky mishaps.

Though it seems like the couple lays relatively low, their fights apparently are not as quiet.

The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) requires breeding operations to be licensed and lays out standards for their practices and conditions.

The removable heating unit warms up to 102 degrees when your dog lays on the bed.

When she lays down she also begins to shake.

The shaking when she lays down doesn't concern me as much, but you never know.

This can lead to soiling right where he lays, and he may have little awareness that he has had an accident.

As a dog lays dying, many owners feel quite helpless, but there are a few things you can do to help your dog, and yourself, through these final moments.

The Monarch lays eggs as well as feeds off the nectar of milkweed.

The welt is extra-wide so it lays well over a full-figured foot, calf and thigh.

If there are pockets, look for a pocket style that lays flat against your hip.

This thong lays flat on your body and will eliminate all panty lines.

Before you lays a field of colored gems.

It lays out information about all the character races, classes, magic spells and weapons.

Both are widely regarded as entertaining video games, the difference lays only in technology.

In southeastern New York lays a conglomerate of state and private land, which equal 286 thousand acres of forest preserve.

The bazaar fly Musca sorbens lays its eggs in human feces that can be contaminated with trachoma bacteria.

Good nutrition in childhood lays the foundation for good health throughout a person's lifetime.

The rescuer sits down and lays the infant along his or her fore-arm with the infant's face pointed toward the floor and tilted downward lower than the body.

If, when the observer assesses that child, the child lays a doll face down on the table, the observer interprets this act as parenting behavior.

Once the female lays eggs (up to 150 a month), it takes approximately 10 days for them to hatch.

During an amnio, the pregnant mother lays on an exam table while an ultrasound is performed to determine the baby's location.

This model lays flat for use in very small spaces, making it a versatile air purifier.

In its simplest form, the deck is split equally between the number of players, and each player lays down a card (without looking at it first) at the same time.

The key to using writing prompts and ideas effectively lays in how far you let your mind wander, what tidbits you gather on the journey and how you incorporate them into your work.

The third card represents the past and the basis for the relationship, it lays below the fourth card, which is placed between the first and second cards.

This way you can see the tarot cards as the reader lays them.

This type of RPG can be a book that lays out characters and scenarios, a board game or a deck of special playing cards.

The book lays out the basic story, gives backgrounds about the character and the world the characters inhabit, and suggests sample campaigns and missions to get players started playing the game.

Here Comes the Flood - The Chief lays down the law, Derek wants Meredith to live with him full time.

Over time, after trudging through the world, the little being lays itself to rest and encapsulates itself into a cocoon.

The only risk remains if the consumer somehow lays down his/her card and walks out of the store.

A disaster recovery plan lays the foundation of how a business will resume operations after a disruptive event occurs.

If you are looking for support, you may want to consider a bra that lays a little further down your back.

You hook it up from the bottom and then adjust your breasts until the bra lays flat under them - the goal is to have your nipples resting just below the arch seam.

It may or may not be true, but this restaurant lays claim to serving the first fajitas in the nation.

Like Wordsworth she lays us on the lap of earth and sheds the freshness of the early world.

The decree of the Congregation of Rites (May 18,1819) says nothing about apparels, but only lays down that the alb must be of white linen or hemp cloth.

He carefully establishes the necessity of revelation as a source of knowledge, not merely because it aids us in comprehending in a somewhat better way the truths already furnished by reason, as some of the Arabian philosophers and Maimonides had acknowledged, but because it is the absolute source of our knowledge of the mysteries of the Christian faith; and then he lays down the relations to be observed between reason and revelation, between philosophy and theology.

The theory of droit administratif lays down the principle that an agent of the government cannot be prosecuted or sued for acts relating to his administrative functions before the ordinary tribunals.

Accordingly Paul lays down rules which he regarded as embodying the Lord's commandment.

They are brief, yet not wanting in that element of practical edification on which Chrysostom lays special weight as characteristic of the Antiochenes.

The Lymexylonidae, a small family of this group, characterized by its slender, undifferentiated feelers and feet, is believed by Lameere to comprise the most primitive of all living beetles, and Sharp lays stress on the undeveloped structure of the tribe generally.

All that do not happen to attach themselves to a bee of the genus Anthophora perish, but those that succeed in reaching the right host are carried to the nest, and as the bee lays an egg in the cell the triungulin slips off her body on to the egg, which floats on the surface of the honey.

In some species of Copris it is stated that the female lays only two or three eggs at a time, watching the offspring grow to maturity, and then rearing another brood.

The female lays her eggs beneath the scaly covering, from which hatch out little active six-legged larvae, which wander about and soon begin to form a new scale.

He lays it down that man, so far as he is rational, is to himself his own object of thought.

The Sidra Rabba lays great stress upon the duty of procreation, and marriage is a duty.

Klapalek (1904) lays stress on a supposed distinction between appendicular and non-appendicular genital processes.

The parent moth lays eggs, from which the young "worms" hatch out.

Each female lays a vast number of eggs, about 500,000 being the estimated amount.

The cadastral surveys in Canada are carried on by a commission of Crown-lands in the old provinces and by a Dominion land office, which lays out townships as in the United States, but with greater accuracy.

In it he discusses the "notes" which distinguish Catholic truth from heresy, and (cap. 2) lays down and applies the famous threefold test of orthodoxy - quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus credi-tum est.

He does not attain to a systematic exhibition of Christian doctrine, but he paves the way for it, and lays the first stones of the foundation.

After brushing away the loose stones and dirt from the root of the tree by means of a handful of twigs, the collector lays down large leaves for the latex to drop upon.

Chartier lays bare the abuses of the feudal army and the sufferings of the peasants.

The church lays down a rule of domestic policy, and neither gives nor pretends to give any absolute criterion for the validity of ordination.

By these distinctions Abelard hoped to escape the consequences of extreme Nominalism, from which, as a matter of history, his doctrine has been distinguished under the name of Conceptualism, seeing that it lays stress not on the word as such but on the thought which the word is intended to convey.

His treatise De anima, on which Haureau lays particular stress, is interesting as showing the greater scope now given to psychological discussions.

The interpretation of the titles here suggested removes an objection brought against the assumption of a Maccabaean date for certain psalms, which lays stress on the fact that some of them, e.g.

Reinhold lays greater emphasis than Kant upon the unity and activity of consciousness.

Except Gregory Magistros none of the Armenian sources lays stress on the dualism of the Paulicians.

But the Key lays more stress on the baptism.

He lays no claim to the position of an original artist painting from life or commenting on the results of his own observation.

The Elasmobranchs swallow infected molluscs or fish; pike and trout devour smaller fry; birds pick up sticklebacks, insects and worms which contain Cestode larvae; and man lays himself open to infection by eating the uncooked or partially prepared flesh of many animals.

The nest is a neat structure of coarse grass and moss, mixed with earth, and plastered internally with mud, and here the female lays from four to six eggs of a blue colour speckled with brown.

Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome gives a dramatic version of the story.

The cutting artist lays the piece of unfinished velvet on his bench, and proceeds to carve into the pattern with his chisel, just as though he were shading the lines of the design with a steel pencil.

He lays stress on the dimensional relations of the problem, pointing out that the phenomena which occur with large vanes in highly rarefied gas could also occur with proportionally smaller vanes in gas at higher pressure.

The ichneumon pierces the body of a caterpillar and lays her eggs where the grubs will find abundant animal food.

The female lays her egg in the egg of a small ermine moth (Hyponomeuta) and the egg gives rise not to a single embryo but to a hundred, which develop as the host-caterpillar develops, being found at a later stage within the latter enveloped in a flexible tube.

In two of the families - the Mutillidae and Thynnidae - the females are wingless and the larvae live as parasites in the larvae of other insects; the female Mutilla enters humble-bees' nests and lays her eggs in the bee-grubs.

The female, by means of her serrated ovipositor, lays her eggs in slits cut in the twigs of plants.

The insect is fixed by its proboscis, but moves its abdomen about and lays thirty to forty yellow eggs in small clusters.

The female is fertilized by the male and three or four days later lays a single egg - the winter egg - and then dies.

Winged Female which lives on leaves and buds of vine, and lays parthogenetically eggs of two kinds, one developing into a wingless female, the other into a male.

Moreover, Gunkel no longer lays emphasis on the Babylonian, but merely on the mythical origin of the details.

He lays no further burden on his readers than those required by the Apostolic Decree of Acts xv.

One school lays special stress on the general shape and outline of the hand.

The present practice - according to which the bishop lays the stole over the left shoulder of the deacon, and crosses it over the breast of the priest - is already found in the pontificals of the 10th century.

Iseult of Ireland lands to find the city in mourning for its lord; hastening to the bier, she lays herself down beside Tristan, and with one last embrace expires.

It lays four or five eggs of a pale purplish buff, streaked and spotted with purplish red.

It builds a rude nest among the reeds and flags, out of the materials which surround it, and the female lays four or five eggs of a brownish olive.

In our days when a knight is personally made he kneels before the sovereign, who lays a sword drawn, ordinarily the sword of state, on either of his shoulders and says, " Rise," calling him by his Christian name with the addition of " Sir " before it.

This species lays eggs of a deep sea-green colour, having wholly the character of heron's eggs, and it often breeds in company with herons, while the eggs of all other ibises whose eggs are known resemble those of the sacred ibis.

This ceased at Rome at the same time as the apparel disappeared; but two relics of it survive - (I) in the directions of the Missal for putting on the amice, (2) in the ordination of subdeacons, when the bishop lays the vestment on the ordinand's head with the words, "Take the amice, which symbolizes discipline over the tongue, &c."

For Philo lays stress upon the weakness of the analogical argument, points out that the demand for an ultimate cause is no more satisfied by thought than by nature itself, shows that the argument from design cannot warrant the inference of a perfect or infinite or even of a single deity, and finally, carrying out his principles to the full extent, maintains that, as we have no experience of the origin of the world, no argument from experience can carry us to its origin, and that the apparent marks of design in the structure of animals are only results from the conditions of their actual existence.

She lays several dozen eggs in a carefully prepared nest.

From the educational point of view, the value of arithmetic has usually been regarded as consisting in the stress it lays on accuracy.

It is to be observed that though More lays down the abstract principle of regarding one's neighbour's good as much as one's own with the full breadth with which Christianity inculcates it, yet when he afterwards comes to classify virtues he is too much under the influence of Platonic-Aristotelian thought to give a distinct place to benevolence, except under the old form of liberality.