"Capsule" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hypogenous! anthers introrse! capsule cartilaginous, loculicidally three-valved, scurfy-leaved epiphytic!" What did it all mean? A slow flush crept over the woman's broad, placid face; her eyelids quivered, her eye roamed restlessly about the room. She shifted her weight from one foot to the other, and ...
— "Some Say" - Neighbours in Cyrus • Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
... numbers of very small tubes which, by branching, penetrate to all parts of the kidneys. These are the uriniferous tubules, and they have their beginnings at the outer margin of the kidney in many small, rounded bodies called the Malpighian capsules (A, Fig. 88). Each capsule incloses a cluster of looped capillaries and connects with a single tubule (Fig. 89). From the capsule the tubule extends toward the concave side of the kidney and, after uniting with similar tubules from other parts, finally terminates at the pyramid. Between ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M.
... the animal, lying under the superficial muscles, and close beneath the upper line of their attachment, I found in all the specimens, an eye, of a pointed oval form, rather less than 11/12,000ths of an inch in diameter, formed of an outer capsule, lined with purple pigment-cells, and surrounding, as it appeared, a lens. The eye is not introduced in fig. 9, for I could not see it, except by dissection, and therefore do not ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin
... mentioned by Father Le Compte, in his description of tea; and what be describes as a third sort, under the name of slymie pease, consists merely of the young flower-buds, not yet open. The seed vessels of the tea tree are three-capsular, each capsule containing one nut or seed; and though often two or one of these only come to perfection, yet the vestiges of the rest may easily be discerned. It grows naturally in a dry gravelly soil on the sides of hills, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr
... his feet, cursing. From the pocket of his coat he drew a small tin box, and from this box he took a round ball of fat. In the heart of the fat was a strychnine capsule. It was a poison-bait, to be ...
— Nomads of the North - A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars • James Oliver Curwood
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