But I have, since last evening, a new hope.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

In cutting it the only thought was the requirements of the tomb, and no other care was taken than to make the stone long enough and narrow enough to cover a man.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

We shall leave this house, I suppose,” she added, looking round at the ample room and its stately furniture, jumping at once to conclusions, as young ladies will do, “and we shall live entirely at Newton-Hollows, and I shall be there all the time my garden looks most beautiful; but we shan’t have to send away Mrs. Delaval, shall we?” (The General winced.)
— from General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

Melannie now returned to her dwelling, which I subsequently found she seldom left, except at night, which accounted for the fairness of her skin.
— from Adventures in Southern Seas: A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by George Forbes

Lest any space on the wall should lie empty a number of paintings were added: Tycho himself in an easy attitude seated at a table and directing from a book the work of his students.
— from An Introduction to the History of Science by Walter Libby

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— from Across Texas by Edward Sylvester Ellis

[56] 2 Who have so leaden eyes, as not to see sweete Beauties showe: Or seeing, have so wooden wits as not that worth to knowe; Or knowing have so muddie mindes, as not to be in love; Or loving, have so frothie hearts, as easie thence to move: O, let them see these heavenly beames, and in faire, letters reed A lesson, fit both sight and skill, Love and firme Love to breed.
— from Sir P.S.: His Astrophel and Stella Wherein the excellence of sweete poesie is concluded by Philip Sidney

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— from Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. by Caroline Hadley

The Ultimatum had expressly demanded that Arabi should leave Egypt, and not only had Arabi not obeyed, but the Khedive had been obliged by the popular voice to reinstate him as Minister of War, with even larger responsibilities than before, and in even more conspicuous honour.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Stopping long enough at night to feed, we mounted our horses and by a quiet movement were placed on roads leading into Holly Springs, dividing the command into [134] two columns, so as to strike the town by two roads.
— from The Lone Star Defenders: A Chronicle of the Third Texas Cavalry, Ross' Brigade by S. B. (Samuel Benton) Barron

[page 583] LOTUS—MELILOTUS Lotus Jacobaeus, movements at night, 116, 121, 124 —, development of pulvini, 122 —, sleep of cotyledons, 308, 313 —, nyctitropic movement of leaves, 353 — major, sleep of leaves, 353 — perigrinus, movement of leaflets, 353 Lunularia vulgaris, circumnutation of fronds, 258 Lupinus, 340 — albifrons, sleep of leaves, 344 — Hartwegii, sleep of leaves, 341 — luteus, circumnutation of cotyledons, 38, 110 —, effect of darkness, 124 Lupinus, position of leaves when asleep, 341 —, different positions of leaves at night, 343 —, varied movements of leaves and leaflets, 395 — Menziesii, sleep of leaves, 343 — mutabilis, sleep of leaves, 343 — nanus, sleep of leaves, 343 — pilosus, sleep of leaves, 340, 341 — polyphyllus, sleep of leaves, 343 — pubescens, sleep of leaves by day and night, 342 —, position of petioles at night, 343 —, movements of petioles, 401 — speciosus, circumnutation of leaves, 236 Lynch, Mr. R., on Pachira aquatica, 95, n.; sleep movements of Averrhoa, 330 M. Maranta arundinacea, nyctitropic movement of leaves, 389-391 —, after much agitation do not sleep, 319 Marsilia quadrifoliata, effect of radiation at night, 292 —, circumnutation and nyctitropic movement of leaflets, 392-394 —, rate of movement, 404 Martins, on radiation at night, 284, n. Masters, Dr. Maxwell, on the leading shoots of the Coniferae, 211 Maurandia semperflorens, circumnutation of peduncle, 225 Medicago maculata, nocturnal position of leaves, 345 — marina, leaves awake and asleep, 344 Meehan, Mr., on the effect of an Aecidium on Portulaca oleracea, 189 Megarrhiza Californica, mode of breaking through the ground, 81 —, germination described by Asa Gray, 82 —, singular manner of germination, 83, 556 Melaleuca ericaefolia, sleep of leaves, 383 Melilotus, sleep of leaves, 345 — alba, sleep of leaves, 347 — coerulea, sleep of leaves, 347 — dentata, effect of radiation at night, 295 — elegans, sleep of leaves, 347 — gracilis, sleep of leaves, 347 — infesta, sleep of leaves, 347 — Italica, leaves exposed at night, 291 —, sleep of leaves, 347 — macrorrhiza, leaves exposed at night, 292 —, sleep of leaves, 347 — messanensis, sleep of leaves on full-grown and young plants, 348, 416 — officinalis, effect of exposure of leaves at night, 290, 296 —, nocturnal movement of leaves, 346, 347 —, circumnutation of leaves, 348 —, movement of petioles, 401 [page 584] MELILOTUS—NEPTUNIA Melilotus parviflora, sleep of leaves, 347 — Petitpierreana, leaves exposed at night, 291, 296 —, sleep of leaves, 347 — secundiflora, sleep of leaves, 347 — suaveolens, leaves exposed at night, 291 —, sleep of leaves, 347 — sulcata, sleep of leaves, 347 — Taurica, leaves exposed at night, 291 —, sleep of leaves, 347, 415 Methods of observation, 6 Mimosa albida, cotyledons vertical at night, 116 —, not sensitive to contact, 127 —, sleep of cotyledons, 308 —, rudimentary leaflets, 364 —, nyctitropic movements of leaves, 379, 380 —, circumnutation of the main petiole of young leaf, 381 —, torsion, or rotation of leaves and leaflets, 400 —, first true leaf, 416 —, effect of bright sunshine on basal leaflets, 445 — marginata, nyctitropic movements of leaflets, 381 — pudica, movement of cotyledons, 105 —, rupture of the seed-coats, 105 —, circumnutation of cotyledons, 109 —, pulvini of, 113, 115 —, cotyledons vertical at night, 116 —, hardly sensitive to contact, 127 —, effect of exposure at night, 293 —, nocturnal movement of leaves, 297 —, sleep of cotyledons, 308 —, circumnutation and nyctitropic movement of main petiole, 374-378 —, of leaflets, 378 Mimosa albida, circumnutation and nyctitropic movement of pinnae, 402 —, number of ellipses described in given time, 406 —, effect of bright sunshine on leaflets, 446 Mirabilis jalapa and longiflora, nocturnal movements of cotyledons, 307 —, nyctitropic movement of leaves, 387 Mohl, on heliotropism in tendrils, stems, and twining plants, 451 Momentum-like movement, the accumulated effects of apogeotropism, 508 Monocotyledons, sleep of leaves, 389 Monotropa hypopitys, mode of breaking through the ground, 86 Morren, on the movements of stamens of Sparmannia and Cereus, 226 Müller, Fritz, on Cassia tora, 34; on the circumnutation of Linum usitatissimum, 203; movements of the flower-stems of an Alisma, 226 Mutisia clematis, movement of leaves, 246 —, leaves not heliotropic, 451 N. Natural selection in connection with geotropism, heliotropism, etc., 570 Nephrodium molle, circumnutation of very young frond, 66 —, of older frond, 257 —, slight movement of fronds, 509 Neptunia oleracea, sensitiveness to contact, 128 —, nyctitropic movement of leaflets, 374 —, of pinnae, 402 [page 585] NICOTIANA—OXALIS Nicotiana glauca, sleep of leaves, 385, 386 —, circumnutation of leaves, 386 Nobbe, on the rupture of the seed-coats in a seedling of Martynia, 105 Nolana prostrata, movement of seedlings in the dark, 50 —, circumnutation of seedling, 108 Nyctitropic movement of leaves, 560 Nyctitropism, or sleep of leaves, 281; in connection with radiation, 286; object gained by it, 413 O. Observation, methods of, 6 Oenothera mollissima, sleep of leaves, 383 Opuntia basilaris, conjoint circumnutation of hypocotyl and cotyledon, 44 —, thickening of the hypocotyl, 96 —, circumnutation of hypocotyl when erect, 107 —, burying of, 109 Orange, seedling, circumnutation of, 510 Orchis pyramidalis, complex movement of pollinia, 489 Oxalis acetosella, circumnutation of flower-stem, 224 —, effects of exposure to radiation at night, 287, 288, 296 —, circumnutation and nyctitropic movement in full-grown leaf, 326 —, circumnutation of leaflet when asleep, 327 —, rate of circumnutation of leaflets, 404 —, effect of sunshine on leaflets, 447 —, circumnutation of peduncle, 506 Oxalis acetosella, seed-capsules, only occasionally buried, 518 — articulata, nocturnal movements of cotyledons, 307 — (Biophytum) sensitiva, rapidity of movement of cotyledons during the day, 26 —, pulvinus of, 113 —, cotyledons vertical at night, 116, 118 — bupleurifolia, circumnutation of foliaceous petiole, 328 —, nyctitropic movement of terminal leaflet, 329 — carnosa, circumnutation of flower-stem, 223 —, epinastic movements of flower-stem, 504 —, effect of exposure at night, 288, 296 —, movements of the flower-peduncles due to apogeotropism and other forces, 503-506 — corniculata (var. cuprea), movements of cotyledons, 26 —, rising of cotyledons, 116 —, rudimentary pulvini of cotyledons, 119 —, development of pulvinus, 122 —, effect of dull light, 124 —, experiments on leaves at night, 288 — floribunda, pulvinus of cotyledons, 114 —, nocturnal movement, 118, 307, 313 — fragrans, sleep of leaves, 324 — Ortegesii, circumnutation of flower-stems, 224 —, sleep of large leaves, 327 —, diameter of plant at night, 402 —, large leaflets affected by bright sunshine, 447 — Plumierii, sleep of leaves, 327 — purpurea, exposure of leaflets at night, 293 — rosea, circumnutation of cotyledons, 23, 24 [page 586] OXALIS—PHASEOLUS Oxalis rosea, pulvinus of, 113 —, movement of cotyledons at night, 117, 118, 307 —, effect of dull light, 124 —, non-sensitive cotyledons, 127 — sensitiva, movement of cotyledons, 109, 127, 128 —, circumnutation of flower-stem, 224 —, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 307, 312 —, sleep of leaves, 327 — tropoeoloides, movement of cotyledons at night, 118, 120 — Valdiviana, conjoint circumnutation of cotyledons and hypocotyl, 25 —, cotyledons rising vertically at night, 114, 115, 117, 118 —, non-sensitive cotyledons, 127 —, nocturnal movement of cotyledon, 307, 312 —, sleep of leaves and not of cotyledons, 315 —, movements of leaves, 327 P. Pachira aquatica, unequal cotyledons, 95, n. Pancratium littorale, movement of leaves, 255 Paraheliotropism, or diurnal sleep of leaves, 445 Passiflora gracilis, circumnutation and nyctitropic movement of leaves, 383, 384 —, apogeotropic movement of tendrils, 510 —, sensitiveness of tendrils, 550 Pelargonium zonale, circumnutation of stem, 203 —, and downward movement of young leaf, 232, 233, 269 Petioles, the rising of beneficial to plant at night, 402 Petunia violacea, downward movement and circumnutation of very young leaf, 248, 249, 269. Pfeffer, Prof., on the turgescence of the cells, 2; on pulvini of leaves, 113, 117; sleep movements of leaves, 280, 283, 284; nocturnal rising of leaves of Malva, 324; movements of leaflets in Desmodium gyrans, 358; on Phyllanthus Niruri, 388; influence of a pulvinus on leaves, 396; periodic movements of sleeping leaves, 407, 408; movements of petals, 414; effect of bright sunshine on leaflets of Robinia, 445; effect of light on parts provided with pulvini, 363 Phalaris Canariensis, movements of old seedlings, 62 —, circumnutation of cotyledons, 63, 64, 108 —, heliotropic movement and circumnutation of cotyledon towards a dim lateral light, 427 —, sensitiveness of cotyledon to light, 455 —, effect of exclusion of light from tips of cotyledons, 456 —, manner of bending towards light, 457 —, effects of painting with Indian ink, 467 —, transmitted effects of light, 469 —, lateral illumination of tip, 470 —, apogeotropic movement of the sheath-like cotyledons, 497 —, change from a straight upward apogeotropic course to circumnutation, 499 —, apogeotropic movement of cotyledons, 500 Phaseolus Hernandesii, nocturnal movement of leaves and leaflets, 368 —, caracalla, 93 —, nocturnal movement of leaves, 368 —, effect of bright sunshine on leaflets, 446 [page 587] PHASEOLUS—QUERCUS Phaseolus multiflorus, movement of radicles, 29 —, of young radicle, 72 —, of hypocotyl, 91, 93 —, sensitiveness of apex of radicle, 163-167 —, to moist air, 181 —, cauterisation and grease on the tips, 535 —, nocturnal movement of leaves, 368 —, nyctitropic movement of the first unifoliate leaves, 397 — Roxburghii, effect of bright sunshine on first leaves, 445 —, vulgaris, 93 —, sleep of leaves, 318 —, vertical sinking of leaflets at night, 368 Phyllanthus Niruri, sleep of leaflets, 388 — linoides, sleep of leaves, 387 Pilocereus Houlletii, rudimentary cotyledons, 97 Pimelia spectabilis, sleep of leaves, 387 Pincers, wooden, through which the radicle of a bean was allowed to grow, 75 Pinus austriaca, circumnutation of leaves, 251, 252 — Nordmanniana, nyctitropic movement of leaves, 389 — pinaster, circumnutation of hypocotyl, 56 —, movement of two opposite cotyledons, 57 —, circumnutation of young leaf, 250, 251 —, epinastic downward movement of young leaf, 270 Pistia stratiotes, movement of leaves, 255 Pisum sativum, sensitiveness of apex of radicle, 158 —, tips of radicles cauterised transversely, 534 Plants, sensitiveness to light, 449; hygroscopic movements of, 489 Plants, climbing, circumnutation of, 264; movements of, 559 —, mature, circumnutation of, 201-214 Pliny on the sleep-movements of plants, 280 Plumbago Capensis, circumnutation of stem, 208, 209 Poinciana Gilliesii, sleep of leaves, 368 Polygonum aviculare, leaves vertical at night, 387 — convolvulus, sinking of the leaves at night, 318 Pontederia (sp.?), circumnutation of leaves, 256 Porlieria hygrometrica, circumnutation and nyctitropic movements of petiole of leaf, 335, 336 —, effect of watering, 336-338 —, leaflets closed during the day, 413 Portulaca oleracea, effect of Aecidium on, 189 Primula Sinensis, conjoint circumnutation of hypocotyl and cotyledon, 45, 46 Pringsheim on the injury to chlorophyll, 446 Prosopis, nyctitropic movements of leaflets, 374 Psoralea acaulis, nocturnal movements of leaflets, 354 Pteris aquilina, rachis of, 86 Pulvini, or joints; of cotyledons, 112-122; influence of, on the movements of cotyledons, 313; effect on nyctitropic movements, 396 Q. Quercus (American sp.), circumnutation of young stem, 53, 54 — robur, movement of radicles, 54, 55 —, sensitiveness of apex of radicle, 174-176 [page 588] QUERCUS—SACHS Quercus virens, manner of germination, 85, 557 R. Radiation at night, effect of, on leaves, 284-286 Radicles, manner in which they penetrate the ground, 69-77; circumnutation of 69; experiments with split sticks, 74; with wooden pincers, 75; sensitiveness of apex to contact and other irritants, 129; of Vicia faba, 132-158; various experiments, 135-140; summary of results, 143-151; power of an irritant on, compared with geotropism, 151-154; sensitiveness of tip to moist air, 180; with greased tips, 185; effect of killing or injuring the primary radicle, 187-191; curvature of, 193; affected by moisture, 198; tip alone sensitive to geotropism, 540; protrusion and circumnutation in a germinating seed, 548; tip highly sensitive, 550; the tip acts like the brain of one of the lower animals, 573 —, secondary, sensitiveness of the tips in the bean, 154; become vertically geotropic, 186-191 Ramey on the movements of the cotyledons of Mimosa pudica, and Clianthus Dampieri at night, 297 Ranunculus Ficaria, mode of breaking through the ground, 86, 90 —, single cotyledon, 96 —, effect of lateral light, 484 Raphanus sativa, sensitiveness of apex of radicle, 171 —, sleep of cotyledons, 301 Rattan, Mr., on the germination of the seeds of Megarrhiza Californica, 82 Relation between circumnutation and heliotropism, 435 Reseda odorata, hypocotyl of seedling slightly heliotropic, 454 Reversion, due to mutilation, 190 Rhipsalis cassytha, rudimentary cotyledons, 97 Ricinus Borboniensis, circumnutation of arched hypocotyl, 53 Robinia, effect of bright sunshine on its leaves, 445 — pseudo-acacia, leaflets vertical at night, 355 Rodier, M., on the movements of Ceratophyllum demersum, 211 Royer, Ch., on the sleep-movements of plants, 281, n.; on the sleep of leaves, 318; the leaves of Medicago maculata, 345; on Wistaria Sinensis, 354 Rubus idaeus (hybrid) circumnutation of stem, 205 —, apogeotropic movement of stem, 498 Ruiz and Pavon, on Porlieria hygrometrica, 336 S. SACHS on "revolving nutation," 1; intimate connection between turgescence and growth, 2, n.; cotyledon of the onion, 59; adaptation of root-hairs, 69; the movement of the radicle, 70, 72, 73; movement in the hypocotyls of the bean, etc., 91; sensitiveness of radicles, 131, 145, 198; sensitiveness of the primary radicle in the bean, 155; in the common pea, 156; effect of moist air, 180; of killing or injuring the primary radicle, 186, 187; circumnutation of flower-stems, 225; epinasty, 268; movements of leaflets of Trifolium incarnatum, 350; action of light in modifying the periodic movements of leaves, 418; on geotropism and heliotropism, 436, n.; on Tropaeolum majus, 453; [page 589] SARRACENIA—STAPELIA on the hypocotyls slightly heliotropic, and stems strongly apheliotropic of the ivy, 453; heliotropism of radicles, 482; experiments on tips of radicles of bean, 523, 524; curvature of the hypocotyl, 555; resemblance between plants and animals, 571 Sarracenia purpurea, circumnutation of young pitcher, 227 Saxifraga sarmentosa, circumn utation of an inclined stolon, 218 Schrankia aculeata, nyctitropic movement of the pinnae, 381, 403 — uncinata, nyctitropic movements of leaflets, 381 Securigera coronilla, nocturnal movements of leaflets, 352 Seed-capsules, burying of, 513 Seed-coats, rupture of, 102-106 Seedling plants, circumnutating movements of, 10 Selaginella, circumnutation of 258 — Kraussii (?), circumnutation of young plant, 66 Sida napoea, depression of leaves at night, 322 —, no pulvinus, 322 — retusa, vertical rising of leaves, 322 — rhombifolia, sleep of cotyledons, 308 —, sleep of leaves, 314 —, vertical rising of leaves, 322 —, no pulvinus, 322 —, circumnutation and nyctitropic movements of leaf of young plant, 322 —, nyctitropic movement of leaves, 397 Siegesbeckia orientalis, sleep of leaves, 319, 384 Sinapis alba, hypocotyl bending towards the light, 461 —, transmitted effect of light on radicles, 482, 483, 567 —, growth of radicles in darkness, 486 Sinapis nigra, sleep of cotyledons, 301 Smilax aspera, tendrils apheliotropic, 451 Smithia Pfundii, non-sensitive cotyledons, 127 —, hyponastic movement of the curved summit of the stem, 274-276 —, cotyledons not sleeping at night, 308 —, vertical movement of leaves, 356 — sensitiva, sensitiveness of cotyledons to contact, 126 —, sleep of cotyledons, 308 Sophora chrysophylla, leaflets rise at night, 368 Solanum dulcamara, circumnutating stems, 266 — lycopersicum, movement of hypocotyl, 50 —, of cotyledons, 50 —, effect of darkness, 124 —, rising of cotyledons at night, 306 —, heliotropic movements of hypocotyl, 421 —, effect of an intermittent light, 457 —, rapid heliotropism, 461 — palinacanthum, circumnutation of arched hypocotyl, 51, 100 —, of cotyledon, 51 —, ellipses described by hypocotyl when erect, 107 —, nocturnal movement of cotyledons, 306 Sparganium ramosum, rhizomes of, 189 Sphaerophysa salsola, rising of leaflets, 355 Spirogyra princeps, movements of, 259, n. Stahl, Dr., on the effect of Aecidium on shoot, 189; on the influence of light on swarm-spores, 488, n. Stapelia sarpedon, circumnutation of hypocotyl, 46, 47 [page 590] STAPELIA—TRITICUM Stapelia sarpedon, minute cotyledons, 97 Stellaria media, nocturnal movement of leaves, 297 Stems, circumnutation of, 201-214 Stolons, or Runners, circumnutation of, 214-222, 558 Strasburger, on the effect of light on spores of Haematococcus, 455, n.; the influence of light on the swarm-spores, 488.
— from The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Francis, Sir

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— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame