People climbed the trees to shake down the nuts, many still sheathed in the bright-green fleshy tegument, while other family members and relations combed the forest floor and picked them up. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for ‘divine and human lore,’ when advanced into his sixty-fifth year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He very much wanted to, having seen the first part of the tegument report. ❋ Diane Duane (2000)
Hide was a misnomer, of course, since the scrapes reported that the creature's tegument wasn't any more multicellular than the rest of it. ❋ Diane Duane (2000)
"Hmm," he said again, scrolling past the obscure serology results and looking at the tegument test and scrape instead. ❋ Diane Duane (2000)
I'm going to be down there in ten minutes, and if you haven't got waiting there for me a group serology analysis, a tegument series with scrapes, a neural series with pertinent EEG, and a percussion-and-auscultation set— ❋ Diane Duane (2000)
It was incredibly thick, dry, pliable; filled minutely with cells of a liquid-gaseous something which she knew to be a more perfect insulator even than the fibres of the tegument itself. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1954)
The outer tegument of the ovule, according to Griffith, is a leaf united along its margins, but always more or less open at its apex. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
After all what is this mortal tegument but a shell which a man sloughs off in eternal evolution. ❋ Leona Dalrymple (N/A)
Every variation was observed, generally the more leafy the outer tegument the greater was the degree of straightness of the funicle, and the abortion of the nucleus. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
Certainly Nature, foreseeing the cruel usage which this useful servant to man should receive at man's hand, did prudently in furnishing him with a tegument impervious to ordinary stripes. ❋ Various (N/A)
Sometimes the ovules were perfect, at other times the nucleus protruded through the foramen, while in a third set the nucleus was included within the tegument, the ovules having in all respects their natural external conformation, containing, however, not only pollen-grains, but also a layer of those peculiar spheroidal cells, including a fibrous deposit, which are among the normal constituents of the anther. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
No. 4 represents the endocarp, or last tegument of the berry; the sarcocarp, which should be found between the numbers 2 and 3, no longer exists, having been absorbed. ❋ Various (N/A)
This external tegument of the berry is closer than the preceding ones; it contains in the very small cells two coloring matters, the one of a palish yellow, the other of an orange yellow, and according as the one or the other matter predominates, the wheat is of a more or less intense yellow color; hence come all the varieties of wheat known in commerce as white, reddish, or red wheats. ❋ Various (N/A)
Under this tegument is found a very thin, colorless membrane, which, with the testa or episperm, forms two per cent. of the weight of the wheat. ❋ Various (N/A)
Replacing of a displaced part, or the reducing of a hernia, by manipulation without cutting. tegument (tegumentary, integument) ❋ Joseph Maclise (N/A)
His whole face seemed to have been pinched and hammered together, so that it looked like a mask of pale bronze -- a death mask, for it was hard to believe that blood ran below that dry tegument. ❋ John Buchan (1907)
But for the tegument of sod, which, clinging for a second, afforded me a momentary foundation, I should have been precipitated ingloriously with the rushing sand to the depths below; and it was only by an almost superhuman effort that I gathered myself sufficiently to make a second spring, gaining an absolutely firm footing beyond the treacherous brink. ❋ No Author (1894)
Such evidences of his unceasing ardour, both for 'divine and human lore,' when advanced into his sixty-fifth year, and notwithstanding his many disturbances from disease, must make us at once honour his spirit, and lament that it should be so grievously clogged by its material tegument. ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)
