"Heller" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quality of the audience atoned, it is true, for its small numbers. Berlioz used to come to these concerts with his friends, Damcke and Stephen Heller; and it was after one of these performances, when he had been very stirred by an adagio in the E flat quartette, that he burst out with, "What a man! He could do everything, and the ...
— Musicians of To-Day • Romain Rolland
... markings on the face, red-brown ears, and horns sweeping up and back scimitar fashion. He stood four feet and six inches at the shoulder, and his horns were the second best ever shot in British East Africa. This beast has been described by Heller as a new subspecies, and named Rooseveltii. His description was based upon an immature buck and a doe shot by Kermit Roosevelt. The determination of subspecies on so slight evidence seems to me unscientific in the extreme. While the immature males do exhibit the general brown tone relied on by ...
— African Camp Fires • Stewart Edward White
... adopt the encasement theory of Swammerdam and of Heller. We find nothing in Lamarck's writings opposed to epigenesis. The following passage, which bears on this subject, is translated from his Memoires de Physique (p. 250), where he contrasts the growth of organic ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... Englnder leise zu den andern. Bitte, singen Sie ein Lied, das ist das beste fr die Wunden. Schnell waren die drei Studenten beisammen und sangen mit heller Stimme: ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel
... a heller; my father was hangman of Lucerne, and when he died, his body was seized ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow |
