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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.

Now the Stone Harbor bird sanctuary, 31 acres of magic attraction for exotic herons, is threatened, but the battlefront extends far beyond our state.

It is an exotic place, so different from the ordinary that the casual tourist is likely to see at first only the contrast and the ugliness of narrow streets lined with haphazard houses.

My advice, if you live long enough to continue your vocation, is that the next time you're attracted by the exotic, pass it up -- it's nothing but a headache.

The poem does not distort the syntax of ordinary speech nor draw on exotic sources of diction, yet it is obviously not ordinary speech -- only Hardy would say `` a grin of bitterness swept thereby ; ;

Among the spectators was the noted exotic dancer, Patti Waggin who is Mrs. Don Rudolph when off the stage.

( Which is understandable -- if you've ever sampled the exotic, peppery fare.

Archaeologists suggested that the road's main purpose was to transport local and exotic goods inside and outside the canyon.

Romanticism was basically a reaction against Neoclassicism, it is a deeply-felt style which is individualistic, beautiful, exotic, and emotionally wrought.

While-amino acids represent all of the amino acids found in proteins during translation in the ribosome ,-amino acids are found in some proteins produced by enzyme posttranslational modifications after translation and translocation to the endoplasmic reticulum, as in exotic sea-dwelling organisms such as cone snails.

It lasted a number of days, and a host of exotic animals were killed, including elephants, giraffes, tigers, rhinoceroses, crocodiles and hippopotami.

This new cuisine has exotic ingredients like mangos and portobello mushrooms.

They also sold the exotic Olivetti M20, a very early 16 bit personal computer that was one of the very few systems to use a Z8000 CPU.

In pre-Qin dynasty times, leather armour was made out of various animals, with more exotic ones such as the rhinoceros.

Of his late works for the stage only two works gained wide popular esteem during his life, Palmira, regina di Persia ( Palmira, Queen of Persia ) 1795 and Cesare in Farmacusa ( Caesar on Pharmacusa ), both drawing on the heroic and exotic success established with Axur.

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

It may not be a coincidence that this trend coincided with a national obsession with exotic flowers which made flower portraits highly sought after.

Such collectors can use relatively exotic technologies, such as vacuum insulation, and reflective concentration of sunlight.

Let ( m, n ) be a pair of amicable numbers with m < n, and write m = gM and n = gN where g is the greatest common divisor of m and n. If M and N are both coprime to g and square free then the pair ( m, n ) is said to be regular, otherwise it is called irregular or exotic.

Other exotic frame materials, such as titanium, are now also available, as well as advanced steel alloys and even bamboo.

Precise modern models of the Big Bang appeal to various exotic physical phenomena that have not been observed in terrestrial laboratory experiments or incorporated into the Standard Model of particle physics.

The study found that there was ' no verifiable evidence ' of exotic felines loose in Britain, and that the mauled farm animals could have been attacked by common indigenous species.

Until recently, it was believed that some experiments showed the existence of pentaquarks — " exotic " baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark.

Other exotic baryons have been proposed, such as pentaquarks — baryons made of four quarks and one antiquark ( B = + + + − = 1 ), but their existence is not generally accepted.

This might include such ordinary matter as neutrinos or free electrons ; however, it may also include exotic species of non-baryonic dark matter, such as supersymmetric particles, axions, or black holes.