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Another horn, probably that of an ibex, is in the same institution, and has a silver mount inscribed “Gryphi unguis divo Cuthberto dunelmensi sacer.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
Secondly and thirdly, Bignonia unguis with its close allies, and Cardiospermum; but their tendrils are so short that their contraction could hardly occur, and would be quite superfluous.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
Recall to your memory the beautiful hands of Diana and Minerva, and these two lines of Ovid, which naturally come in here:Pg 156 "Exiguo signet gestu quodcunque loquetur, Cui digiti pingues, cui scaber unguis erit."
From The Wonders of Pompeii by Marc Monnier
Nail: a tarsal claw: specifically the stout pointed claws in predatory Heteroptera = unguis.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
I have no doubt, from the analogy of the two following allied species, that the petioles also move spontaneously; but they are not irritable like those of B. unguis and B. Tweedyana.
From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin
Bestiæ habent acutos ungues, & dentes, suntque carnivoræ, As the Lyon, 1. the King of four-footed Beasts, having a mane; with the Lioness.
From The Orbis Pictus by Charles Hoole
As there are few difficulties to overcome, it suffers from a fatal facility—nec pluteum coedit nec demorsos sapit ungues.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
From them we learn that it requires a coxa, trochanter, femur, tibia, tarsus, ungues, pulvillus, and anterior, medial and posterior spurs to provide a leg for a moth.
From Moths of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Myodocopa.—These have the furcal branches broad, lamellar, with at least three pairs of strong spines or ungues.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
