bertha
Example Sentences
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To show that it was the PKF proteins that were doing the killing, University of British Columbia molecular biologist David Theilmann and colleagues infected bertha armyworms with two baculovirus species, MacoNPV-A and MacoNPV-B.
From Science Magazine ● Jul. 29, 2021
Edwardian sleeves and bertha collars, ribbons, roses and trailing black velvet are the tricks of the trade.
From Time Magazine Archive
An elegant lace bertha covered her white, beautiful neck, while one of her fair arms was clasped by a diamond bracelet.
From Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes
The bertha, as we should call it now, was as a cobweb, and the lace from the puff sleeve falling over the arm of the same elegant material.
From A Little Girl in Old Boston by Amanda Minnie Douglas
Dexie exclaimed, as she lifted a handsome lace bertha.
From Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces by Stanford Eveleth
