Though I can't say I ever much objected to Vancian prose overgrowths, which are usually both evocative and just plain fun, he has just as often startled me with something simple and direct. ❋ Tim Stretton (2009)
To over-writers like, I must admit, myself, it may seem a trifle odd to suggest adding detail to a piece of writing as short as 5 pages, but actually, most synopses suffer from overgrowths of generalization and an insufficiency of specifics. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Since I don't suffer from bowel or bladder problems, immune deficiencies, or periodic overgrowths of candida, I must conclude that my bacteria are flourishing just fine. ❋ Holly (2006)
Other inconsequent questions jutted from the obscurity like the untrimmed overgrowths from the hedges of a neglected maze. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1985)
This is one of the necessary and inevitable overgrowths of a luxury which we have not yet learned to manage. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)
Their aim was restoration, and in the process of attaining to it, they exercised the most careful discrimination between the old and the new, and, while cutting away without hesitation the later overgrowths, preserved with scrupulous care the ancient landmarks. ❋ Unknown (1900)
It was still possible to regard the various symptoms of change, numerous as they were, and far-reaching as we now see them to have been, as sporadic phenomena, as rank but unessential overgrowths on the old society, which it was possible by pruning and the application of other suitable remedies to get rid of, and thereby to restore a state of pristine health in the body political and social. ❋ Ernest Belfort Bax (1890)
We have made our protest -- we are daily making it -- in the face of society, against the fictions and overgrowths which at the present time are excluding ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
We have made our protest -- we are daily making it -- in the face of society, against the fictions and overgrowths which at the present time are excluding him more and more from human love. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
So, if ever I hear that you have betrayed the first symptom of age, that your back is bent a twentieth of an inch from the perpendicular, I shall hasten to believe you are shearing your prodigal overgrowths, and are calling in your troops to the citadel, and I may come in the first steamer to drop in of evenings and hear the central monosyllables. ❋ Carlyle, Thomas (1883)
These lines were the regiments of Buell's leading division, which having moved up from Savannah through a country presenting nothing but interminable swamps and pathless "bottom lands," with rank overgrowths of jungle, was arriving at the scene of action breathless, footsore and faint with hunger. ❋ Ambrose Bierce (1878)
In our climate, anything approaching to heavy pruning is regarded as an abomination, and the general opinion is now in favour of shortening back long drooping primaries, removing cross shoots and wood that is not likely to bear anything more, and thinning out overgrowths of new wood. ❋ Unknown (1875)
The felt exhaustion of the former method, the want of corroboration for the old evidence, the protest of reason against the monstrous overgrowths which conceal the real lines of truth, these summon us to the search for a surer and more scientific system. ❋ Henry Drummond (1874)
At a meeting this month of President Barack Obama's new bioethics commission, Allison A. Snow, an ecologist at Ohio State University, testified that a "worst-case hypothetical scenario" would be that algae engineered to be extremely hardy might escape into the environment, displace other species and cause algal overgrowths that deprive waters of oxygen, killing fish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Ohio State University, testified that a "worst-case hypothetical scenario" would be that algae engineered to be extremely hardy might escape into the environment, displace other species and cause algal overgrowths that deprive waters of oxygen, killing fish. ❋ Unknown (2010)
