"Prehension" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... instances, independently of inheritance from any common parent form; for instance, in tendril-bearers and leaf-climbers (i.e. plants with their leaves, petioles and flower-peduncles, &c., modified for prehension) belonging to a large [page 364] number of the most widely distinct orders,—in the leaves of the many plants which go to sleep at night, or move when shaken,—and in the irritable stamens and pistils of not a few species. We may therefore infer that the power of movement can be ...
— Insectivorous Plants • Charles Darwin
... Commissaires se contentent de rayer les lys, au lieu que la malheureuse pendule, qui vaut bien 1200 livres, est, malgre son trefle, emportee par eux-memes, qui ne se fioient pas aux Chrocheteurs d'un poid si precieux—et ce, en vertu du droit que Barrere a appelle si heureusement le droit de prehension, quoique le decret s'opposat, dans l'espece, a l'application de ce droit.—Enfin, notre decemvirat sectionnaire, qui se mettoit ainsi au-dessus des decrets, trouve le brevet de pension de mon beau-pere, qui, ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady |
