"excrescencies," "exaggerations," and the like -- and sets up a novel system of aesthetics, which professes to rest upon Goethe -- since he, too, was averse to prodigious monstrosities, and was good enough to invent "artistic calm and beauty" in lieu thereof. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)
We do have a lot of antagonisms because the Irish people and the English people are very different, tempermentally, but by an art, you go down to the fundamental, down into something which is deeply in tune with those human beings and it is in the excrescencies where you are far apart. ❋ Unknown (1935)
Will the falling off of excrescencies enervate the principles that commenced and must finish the work? ❋ Charles Lee (1915)
The strength of the opposition tones down and polishes off all such ugly excrescencies as that. ❋ Anna Julia (1892)
They seemed rather ephemeral excrescencies which shoot far out with all the vigor and promise, apparently, of strong branches; but soon alas fall into decay and ugliness because there is no soundness in the root, no life-giving sap, permeating, strengthening and perpetuating the whole. ❋ Anna Julia (1892)
Stoics will not allow in him who is perfectly wise, and a philosopher; but assert them to be weaknesses dwelling in vulgar breasts, that have not yet lopped off the excrescencies of the sensitive appetite, nor subdued their passions to the lure and dictates of right reason. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)
But this raised a great scruple in me, whether a fame increased by imposition of others is to be added to his account, or that these excrescencies, which grow out of his real reputation, and give encouragement to others to pass things under the covert of his name, should be considered in giving him his seat in the Chamber? ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)
_Microscope_, certain excrescencies or Ebullitions in the snuff of a ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)
There are often to be found upon Rose-trees and Brier bushes, little red tufts, which are certain knobs or excrescencies, growing out from the Rind, or barks of those kinds of Plants, they are cover'd with strange kinds of threads or red hairs, which feel very soft, and look not unpleasantly. ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)
Take that seedy end (then very tender) and pick from it the little excrescencies about it, and cut it into short pieces, and boil them and dress them as you would do Pease; and they will taste like Pease, and be very savoury. ❋ Kenelm Digby (1634)
If you get that first, the something in common which is understanding, the outside thing, the excrescencies-the differences may amuse and entertain it is by our likenesses to people that we understand and care for them, and by our differences we are amused and that is true with other nations; there are things in us which deeply are the same as Japan and China and India, and Africa, all human beings have something which is deeply in common. ❋ Unknown (1935)
At first sight of these, I confess, I imagin'd that they might have been some kind of _matrices_, or nourishing receptacles for some small Insect, just as I have found Oak-apples, and multitudes of such other large excrescencies on the leaves and other parts of Trees and shrubs to be for Flyes, and divers other Insects, but observing them to be there all the year, and scarce at all to change their magnitude, that conjecture seem'd not so probable. ❋ Robert Hooke (1669)
But upon narrower search, they found in her privy parts three more excrescencies or teats, but smaller than the former: this deponent farther saith, that in the long teat at the end thereof there was a little hole, and it appeared unto them as if it had been lately sucked, and upon the straining of it there issued out white milky matter. '[ ❋ Margaret Alice Murray (1913)
The _glandiferæ_, oaks and ilex’s yield acorns, and other useful excrescencies: The mast-bearers are the beech, and such as include their seeds and fruit in rougher husks; as the chessnut-tree, &c. the wallnut, hazle, avelans, &c. are the _nuciferæ_, &c. to the _coniferæ_, ❋ John Evelyn (1663)
