None of these can be accurately identified with ancient descriptions, though it is not unlikely that some of the narrow-leaved cultivars most esteemed may be descendants of the Licinian olive.

Most species are known as willow, but some narrow-leaved shrub species are called osier, and some broader-leaved species are referred to as sallow ( from Old English sealh, related to the Latin word salix, willow ).

For here if anywhere in contemporary literature is a major effort to counterbalance Existentialism and restore some of its former lustre to the tarnished image of the species Man, or, as Malraux himself puts it, `` to make men conscious of the grandeur they ignore in themselves ''.

It is an amazing fact that in some species this will happen while the summer is still in full swing, for instance, in August.

he was working with species of Java, so perhaps some tropical snakes are unusual in this respect.

Lacking these membranes, amphibians require water bodies for reproduction, although some species have developed various strategies for protecting or bypassing the vulnerable aquatic larval stage.

It contains many mucous glands and in some species, poison glands.

Although most species are associated with water and damp habitats, some are specialised to live in trees and in deserts.

A caecilian's skin has a large number of transverse folds and in some species contains tiny embedded dermal scales.

Amphibians swallow their prey whole, with some chewing done in the oral cavities of some species, so they possess voluminous stomachs.

In some species, urea is further converted into uric acid.

In air, where oxygen is more concentrated, some small species can rely solely on cutaneous gas exchange, most famously the plethodontid salamanders, which have neither lungs nor gills.

The free living larvae are normally fully aquatic but the tadpoles of some species such as ( Nannophrys ceylonensis ) are semi-terrestrial and live among wet rocks.

Nevertheless, it is estimated that in up to twenty percent of amphibian species, one or both adults play some role in the care of the young.

Males normally exhibit such behaviour though in some species, females and even juveniles are also involved.

In some species, such as the fire-bellied toad ( Bombina spp.

In 2006 there were believed to be 4, 035 species of amphibians that depended on water at some stage during their life cycle.

One seed-to-seed life cycle for an annual can occur in as little as a month in some species, though most last several months.

Thus although most species in the order are herbaceous, some no more than 15 cm high, there are a number of climbers ( e. g. some species of Asparagus ), as well as several genera forming trees ( e. g. Agave, Cordyline, Yucca, Dracaena ), some of which can exceed 10 m in height.

Most species of Asparagales are herbaceous perennials, although some are climbers ( e. g. species of Asparagus, family Asparagaceae ) and some are tree-like.

Well, the grass was there, though in some places the ground was too steep for a cow to get to it.

I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.

Later, riding in for some lusty enjoyment of the liquor and professional ladies of Cheyenne, he laid claim to the killing with the vague insinuations he made.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

Sometimes I wondered vaguely what he did about women for my Aunt, by blood, had died some years ago, but neither of us said anything.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.

By subduing disparate lesser groups the nation has, to some degree at least, broadened the capacity for individual liberty.

I persuaded an Australian friend who had lived `` outback '' for years to take me to see some aborigines living in the bush.

There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.

He must construct transitions so that a dancer who is told to lie prone one second and to leap wildly the next will have some physical preparation for the leap.

When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, without the base alloy of hypocrisy '' ( His emphasis )

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

In agriculture, for example, despite the advances in biology, elaborate rituals tend to persist along with a continued sense of the imminence of some natural disaster.

And the life they lead is undisciplined and for the most part unproductive, even though they make a fetish of devoting themselves to some creative pursuit -- writing, painting, music.

It is worth dwelling in some detail on the crisis of this story, because it brings together a number of characteristic elements and makes of them a curious, riddling compound obscurely but centrally significant for Mann's work.

not less strikingly so for being mysterious, as though some deeply hidden constatation of thoughts were enciphered in a single image, a single moment.

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

These desires presuppose a sense of causally efficacious powers in which one is involved, some working for one's good, others threatening ill.

When some question arises in the medical field concerning cancer, for instance, we do not turn to free and open discussion as in a political campaign.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.

As Helion's work showed more and more nostalgia for the world of man and nature, the pure abstractionists expressed some disapproval ; ;

Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.