"Pear-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and at the face, twenty-one Swan lamps were burning, giving forth a brilliant, steady flame, the luminosity of which, while sufficient to supply the desired light, had none of the disagreeable intensity associated with most systems of electric lighting. Besides the pear-shaped Swan lamp, in which the glowing or incandescence is carried on in vacuo, there is an outer lantern, the invention of Mr. David Graham, consisting of a strong glass globe, air-tight, protected with steel guards. ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various
... grayish looking, minute, pear-shaped bodies, visible to the naked eye, and fastened upon the shaft of the hairs with the ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... and in still greater numbers off the coast of Labrador. Their eggs are not placed in as exposed positions as the Murres, being generally behind boulders or in crevices. This is necessary because, not being of the pear-shaped form of the Murres, they would be very apt to be dislodged if commonly placed on the narrow ledges. The eggs vary endlessly in marking but do not show the differences in ground color that the Murres do. The color is white, grayish or buffy. ...
— The Bird Book • Chester A. Reed
... Sweet Pie, Golden Oblong, Japan Crookneck Tomatoes.—Acme, Canada, Cardinal, Dwarf Champion, Early Conquerer, Essex Hybrid, General Grant, Jumbo, Livingston's Beauty, Livingston's Favorite, Livingston's Perfection, Mikado, New Queen, Optmus, Paragon, Pear-Shaped Red, Pear-Shaped Yellow, Crimson Cushion, Yellow Cherry, Red Cherry, Stone Cherry, Combination, Henderson's Ponderosa, Mammoth Prize, Honor Bright, Burpee's Noble, Long Keeper, Sutton's Best of All, Ford Hook First, Imperial, Climax, Queen Table, ...
— New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 - Report of the New York State Commission • DeLancey M. Ellis
... horizontal distances. Bed 3, white, much indurated tuff, containing minute pebbles, broken crystals, and scales of mica, varies much in thickness. This bed is remarkable from containing many globular and pear-shaped, externally rusty balls, from the size of an apple to a man's head, of very tough, slate-coloured porphyry, with imperfect crystals of feldspar: in shape these balls do not resemble pebbles, AND I BELIEVE THAT ...
— South American Geology - also: - Title: Geological Observations On South America • Charles Darwin
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