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Migrations and food preferences of the lubberly locust.

After much debate the midwife, Mother Midnight, to whom all the women appeal as the arbiter of sexual expertise, confirms that a moderately sized member will ensure both pleasure and vigor, as a larger member is too unwieldy to be used effectively; she asks rhetorically, "what signifies a great lubberly Machine, which moves but slowly, and must be propt like an old House, or splinter'd like a broken Leg to keep it from falling" (I.28).

of reading, since we might in vain turn over all the lubberly volumes of

Maybe it's lubberly to talk about those waves in the language of aesthetics, as if they were natural attractions like alpine peaks, but objective nautical numbers didn't suffice.

He wrote, "[w]e owe to them [the town meetings] the vigor given to our revolution in its commencement in the Eastern States, and by them the Eastern States were enabled to repeal the embargo in opposition to the Middle, Southern and Western States, and their large and lubberly division into counties which can never be assembled." Perhaps Jefferson speculated that a modernized public education system combined with a town meeting arrangement might ultimately render Virginia's Republican political structure as effective as its stubbornly Federalist New England opponents.

Cultivars he produced in the 1960-93 period include Aechmea 'Terrace Red Sunset', Billbergia 'Bill's Baby, 'Bill's Bonanza', Neoregelia 'Black Beauty', 'Stormy Forest', X Aechopsis 'Newk' and Vriesea 'Plain Lubberly'.

Two angels (Rembrandt's lanky, lubberly angels) appeared inside and asked her why she wept, a question immediately repeated by Jesus Himself: He was beside her.

Only a grass-combing, lubberly swab could fail to like this splendid film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Russell Crowe, based on the Aubrey/Maturin novels of Patrick O'Brian and set in the age of Nelson's navy.

As he puts it, he didn't want the book to become, too lubberly, and he succeeds, even down to the moody cover illustration, taken from On A Lee Shore, a painting by the great 19th century artist Winslow Homer.

He should at all times correct lubberly and untidy habits of other members of the crew.

(47.) Probably the name Garnet(t) would have meant to Conrad only his dear friend Edward Garnett, his not having heard of "all Sir Garnet" the British soldier's lubberly argot equivalent of the naval "ship-shape and Bristol fashion," after General Sir Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913), a soldier's soldier who gave distinguished service in many campaigns and had a reputation as a stickler for detail and discipline.

ROBIN Williams is having a lubberly, flubberly time and so will you .

It's hard to endure this magic kingdom of broken imps and lurching oafs, felons of a nightmare blood, fallen pediatric angels, lemures, gorgons, cyclopes, Calibans, God's ugly, punished customers, his obscene and frail and lubberly, his gargoyle, flyblown hideosities and blemished, poky mutants .