Brood Sentence Examples

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  • Fear seemed to brood over the peoples of Western Europe.

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  • Andersson in his Lake N'gami (pp. 2 5326 9) has given a lively account of the pursuit by himself and Francis Galton of a brood of ostriches, in the course of which the male bird feigned being wounded to distract their attention from his offspring.

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  • A brood mare requires plenty of exercise at a slow pace and may work, except between shafts or on a road, till the day of foaling.

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  • To these things used to y listen at the time, through the mercy of God vouchsafed to me, noting them down, not on paper but in my heart, and constantly by the grace of God brood over my accurate recollections."These are priceless words, for they establish a chain of tradition (John-Polycarp-Irenaeus) which is without a parallel in early church history.

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  • A special department of state looked after his brood mares and stallions.

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  • Since the bacterial origin of foul brood has been established, the efforts of some bacteriologists have been employed in finding a simple remedy by means of which the disease may be checked in its earliest stages, and in this an appreciable amount of success has been attained.

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  • The vertical section (A) shows the lower portion of the combs devoted to brood-rearing, the higher and thicker combs being reserved for honey, and midway between the brood and food is stored the pollen required for mixing with honey in feeding the larvae.

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  • Nor has foul brood in its more advanced forms been neglected, all directions for treatment being found in text-books written by distinguished writers on apiculture in the United Kingdom, America and throughout the European continent.

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  • It is partly due to this early meaning that the derivation from the root of " brood " has been usually accepted; this the New English Dictionary regards as " inadmissible."

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  • The most serious disease with which the bee-keeper has to contend is that commonly known as " bee-pest " or " foul brood," so called because of the young brood dying and rotting in the cells.

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  • It is said to occasionally devour its young immediately after birth, and in this case produces another brood soon after.

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  • Again, galls may afford harbour to insects which are not essentially gall-feeders, as in the case of the Curculio beetle Conotrachelius nenuphar, Hbst., of which one brood eats the fleshy part of the plum and peach, and another lives in the " black knot " of the plum-tree, regarded by Walsh as probably a true cecidomyidous gall.

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  • After ten years' training under the tutelage of the woman whose main instrument of policy was the corruption of her own children, the queen of Scots, aged fifteen years and five months, was married to the eldest and feeblest of the brood on the 24th of April 1558.

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  • Among Chlorophyceae it is often the case that the oospore on germination divides up directly to form a brood of zoospores.

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  • She also gave birth to Ayacanora by Birdcatcher, and to Araucaria by Ambrose, both very valuable brood mares, Araucaria being the dam of Chamant by Mortemer, and of Rayon d'Or by Flageolet, son of Plutus by Touchstone.

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  • The nephilim were a monstrous brood begotten of the intercourse of the supernatural beings called " sons of God " with the women of earth.

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  • Lichtenstein has established the fact that from the egg of the Aphis of Pistachio galls, Anopleura lentisci, is hatched an apterous insect (the gall-founder), which gives birth to young Aphides (emigrants), and that these, having acquired wings, fly to the roots of certain grasses (Bromus sterilis and Hordeum vulgare), and by budding underground give rise to several generations of apterous insects, whence finally comes a winged brood (the pupifera).

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  • On the Hessian fly, Cecidomyia destructor, Say, the May brood of which produces swellings immediately above the joints of barley attacked by it, see Asa Fitch, The Hessian Fly (Albany, 1847), reprinted from Trans.

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  • Many brood sows are fattened to greatest profit after the second or third litter.

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  • The brood of bees, when healthy, lies in the combs in compact masses, the larvae being plump and of a pearly whiteness, and when quite young curled up on their sides at the base of the cells.

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  • As soon as ten or a dozen eggs are laid, the cock begins to brood, always taking his place on them at nightfall surrounded by the hens, while by day they relieve one another, more it would seem to guard their common treasure from jackals and small beasts of prey than directly to forward the process of hatching, for that is often left wholly to the sun.'

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  • It may also be claimed for the honey extractor that it does away with the objection entertained by many persons to the use of honey, by enabling the apiarist to remove his produce from the honey-combs in its purest form untainted by crushed brood and untouched by hand.

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  • Two forms of foul brood have been long known, one foul smelling, the other odourless; and investigations made during 1906 and 1907 showed that the etiology of the disease is not by FIG.

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  • The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells.

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  • As many as thirty have been counted in a brood.

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  • In Sphaeroplea it is only at this stage that zoospores are formed at all; but in most cases, such as Oedogonium, Ulothrix, Coleochaete, similar zoospores are produced again and again upon the thallus, and the product of the oospore may be regarded as merely a first brood of a series.

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  • This society acts in consort with two other powerful organizations (the Royal Commission on Horse-breeding, which began its work in 1888, and the Brood Mare Society, established in 1903), with the desirable object of improving the standard of light horse breeding.

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  • Sars (1887) having had the opportunity of raising it from dried Australian mud, found that, unlike other phyllopods, but like the Cladocera, the parent keeps its brood within the shell until their full development.

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  • The brood sow should be lengthy and of a prolific strain, known to milk well.

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  • In A pis the workers differ structurally from the queen, who neither builds cells, gathers food, nor tends brood, and is therefore without the special organs adapted FIG.

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  • Some nomad tribes who owned many brood mares, and yearly sold hundreds of horses, now hardly possess sufficient animals for their own requirements.

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  • Since the formation of the Brood Mare Society mares have come within the sphere of influence of the three bodies, and well-conceived inducements are offered to breeders to retain their young mares at home.

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  • They have now had their second brood of nine who are growing fast.

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  • A second brood of five Tufted duck ducklings was present on the lake, where the Little Grebes continued to incubate.

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  • Great oppertunity to acquire a top brood mare or future ridden prospect.

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  • For a large brood, consider the traditional "Merry Christmas" while a simple "joy" or "Noel" works well with smaller groups.

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  • Today, Angelina Jolie and her brood spend a great deal of personal and family time in Los Angeles, California, however, they also have a home in Provence, France.

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  • 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.

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  • One of its companies carried a number of gamecocks said to have been the brood of a blue hen; hence the soldiers, and later the people of the state, have been popularly known as the " Blue Hen's Chickens."

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  • Some of these cells are used for storage, others for the rearing of brood.

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  • The blackcock then rejoins his male associates, and the female is left to perform the labours of hatching and rearing her young brood.

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  • In several Canadian provinces also, the public funds are used in promoting the bee industry in various ways, mainly in combating the bee-disease known as " foul brood."

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  • When the view commenced to gain ground that whitebait were largely young herring, the question arose whether or not the immense destruction of the young brood caused by this mode of fishing injuriously affected the fishery of the mature herring.

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  • This process continues throughout the summer, generation after generation being produced until the number of descendants from a single individual of the spring-hatched brood may amount to very many thousands.

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  • Three clutches of four eggs were laid and one pair fledged a brood of four.

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  • If one is found to have foul brood, then a standstill order will be placed on ALL of them.

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  • Queen cells start off like inverted acorn cups, against the face of the main brood comb.

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  • Along the stream we caught a glimpse of a couple of hen mallards, shepherding a brood of ducklings between them.

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  • It involves experiments in the laboratory as well as field work on brood parasites in Australia and America.

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  • In this project we hope to develop these ideas to the modeling of interspecific brood parasitism.

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  • The later brood has an even more pronounced veining.

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  • What follows is an acute and emotionally wrought portrait of a man and his brood consumed with guilt and despair.

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  • She was childless, and had time to brood over her wrongs.

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  • Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard.

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  • Releasing heartache by writing sad love poems will free your mind of heartrending thoughts you continuously brood over.

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  • Seal also adopted Klum's child from a previous marriage, bringing their brood to four.

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  • Big brother Alec Baldwin is by far the most successful of the brood, but Stephen Baldwin has also been in his fair share of films.

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  • The show would either follow Jon Gosselin as he contemplates life with 22 children, spending time with Suleman and her brood, or pair the families together and document what happens.

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  • Rather than show Betty pursuing her 15 minutes of fame in Tinseltown, the series focuses on how she and Eric feed, clothe and keep their brood of 10 in line.

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  • Their plans did not initially involve having a sizeable brood.

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  • Despite the controversy, the family is steadfast in their commitment to their large brood, and in fact, Michelle has said that they would welcome more children should she become pregnant again.

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  • You may know the family name, but can you come up with all the first names of this ever expanding brood?

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  • Schirach also mentioned and described the disease in 1769, and was the first to give it the name of " foul brood."

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  • When the disease attacks the larvae before they are sealed over Bacillus alvei is present, usually associated with Streptococcus apis, which latter imparts a sour smell to the dead brood.

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  • Work with Graeme Ruxton from the University of Glasgow has focused on modeling intraspecific brood parasitism in various ways.

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  • The wailing cry' and the frantic gestures of the cock bird in the breeding-season will tell any passer-by that a nest or brood is near; but, unless he knows how to look for it, nothing save mere chance will enable him to find it.

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  • Everyone who can read knows that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie welcomed twins last weekend, but exactly how much are the pictures of the entire Jolie-Pitt brood worth?

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  • Octomom Nadya Suleman, who once swore that she wasn't interested in doing a reality TV show with her brood of 14 children, has signed a contract detailing exactly how much the family is to be paid for a three-year reality program.

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  • Seems like Lil Wayne just made a new addition to his growing brood of children, when news breaks that one more is on the way.

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  • He has gone so far as to call her an absentee mom and has filed for custody of the brood.

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  • They also work with the Brood Wars expansion, so your winning streak can go untarnished.

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  • Radiofreezerg - (possibly Radio free zerg) Only available in Brood War, put it in and see what happens.

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  • The two bedroom condo in the city might become too small for your growing brood.

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  • The male seahorse carries the babies in this species after the female deposits eggs into the male's brood pouch.

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  • A moon that falls in Scorpio has the tendency to brood and ruminate, but it also gives much strength, determination and perseverance to the individual.

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  • In addition to having a huge brood, the Duggars are equally famous for living a debt-free life.

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  • The episode documented the transformation of their tiny Wyomissing, Pennsylvania home to accommodate their large brood.

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  • The conservative Baptist family from Tontitown, Arkansas joined the ranks of reality TV stardom thanks to their ever-expanding brood.

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  • Michelle keeps the household very organized, which is an absolute necessity when trying to raise such a large brood.

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  • The germination of a zygospore or oospore is effected by the rupture of an outer cuticularized exosporium; then the cell may protrude an inner wall, the endosporium, and grow out into the new plant (Vaucheria), or the contents may break up into a first brood of zoospores.

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  • From the description given it was undoubtedly foul brood, and the bee-keepers of the island became convinced, after bitter experience, that it was extremely contagious.

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  • It has been held by some, however, that the first brood corresponds to the sporophyte generation of the higher plants, and that the rest of the cycle is the gametophyte generation.

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  • A diggingwasp hunts for insect prey and buries it with the egg, while a true wasp feeds her brood with captured insects, as a bird her fledglings.

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  • Coryne, a common British longed into a brood pouch conhydroid, produces gonophores; taining embryos.

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  • Its three roots go down into the three great realms - (I) of death, where, in the well Hvergelmer, the dragon Nidhug (Niandggr) and his brood are ever gnawing it; (2) of the giants, where, in the fountain of Mimer, is the source of wisdom; (3) of the gods, Asgard, where, at the sacred fountain of Urd, is the divine tribunal, and the dwelling of the Fates.

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  • Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it.

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