The prefabricated refinery processed the crumbly stuff, turning it into thick dark bricks of protoplastic, the fodder of their building and pharmaceuticals industry. ❋ Niven, Larry (1995)
His brain had been removed from his old head casing, all nerve connections at the top of the spine cut away with a laser, and submerged in a synthesized protoplastic colloid. ❋ Kyle, David, 1919- (1981)
Her miracles may not have been of the irreducible protoplastic order, but they had been miracles to the practical ❋ Various (N/A)
Not only did my own blood course through the protoplastic but I could feel it doing so. ❋ Albert Teichner (N/A)
My ribs weren't, though, and a protoplastic casing, exactly like the thoracic cavity, was substituted. ❋ Albert Teichner (N/A)
He was conscious of a constitutional change sweeping like a tempest over his protoplastic tissue. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)
"I would I were a protoplastic monad!" may sound very rhythmical, poetical, and all that; but even for a Baboo the aspiration is not an easy one to gratify. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)
It is a complete organism, protoplastic it may be, with the chlorophyll of age colouring its institutions, but none the less a perfect, living entity. ❋ George Robert Aberigh-Mackay (1864)
I left my garden a paradise, as paradises go in this protoplastic world; and when I returned, the trail of the serpent was over it all, so to speak. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
He will not concede to Dr. Haeckel 'that it is a question for the schoolmasters to decide, whether the Darwinian theory of man's descent should be at once laid down as the basis of instruction, and the protoplastic soul be assumed as the foundation of all ideas concerning spiritual being.' ❋ John Tyndall (1856)
"For _your_ sake," said Mrs. Gallilee, gently correcting the language of her excitable son, from her own protoplastic point of view. ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
{0i} who started his investigations of living Protista, the simplest of living beings, with the idea that only accurate and ample observation was needed to enable us to explain all their activities on a mechanical basis, and devised ingenious models of protoplastic movements. ❋ Samuel Butler (1868)
Of all men he is bound to hold his face like a flint in witness of this truth who owes everything that makes for eternal good, to the belief that at the heart of things and causing them to be, at the centre of monad, of world, of protoplastic mass, of loving dog, and of man most cruel, is an absolute, perfect love; and that in the man Christ Jesus this love is with us men to take us home. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
Away from the herding centers we prize as cities, an -earthquake" would manifest itself only as a surface quickening of the globe's protoplastic movements, which, at various depths and various intensities, are occurring all of the time, and so not in time but all over time. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1976)
