rugosities

If the above suggestion made in opposition to the views here asserted be true, then the general constancy of position of the limbs of vertebrata may be considered as due to the position assumed by the primitive rugosities from which those limbs were generated.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

Clearly only two pairs of rugosities were so preserved and developed, and all limbs (on this view) are descendants of the same two pairs, as all have so similar a fundamental structure.

On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

The idea that mountain folds, and the lesser rugosities of the Earth's surface, arose in a wrinkling of the crust under the influence of cooling and skrinkage of the subcrustal materials, is held by many eminent geologists, but not without dissent from others.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

A man who is entrusted with the task of writing the life of a great man who was also his friend need not adopt the language of continuous panegyric, but to throw a brilliant illumination upon the man's smaller domestic rugosities which even the weakest charity would conceal and the feeblest generosity would forget is a singularly spiteful betrayal.

Great Testimony against scientific cruelty Stephen Coleridge 1895

In this experiment, too, the glass possesses by far the smoother surface although I have rubbed the deeper rugosities out of the ice by smoothing it with a glass surface.

The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

There were to be no shadows in the picture, no stains or rugosities on the smooth bust of rosy wax.

Some Diversions of a Man of Letters Edmund Gosse 1888

He succeeded in rubbing forcibly and rapidly this sleeve against the rugosities of the iron.

The Red Flower of the Madman 1887

These facts, supported by the variation in the color of the pileus in the two species and the variations in the rugosities of the pileus, seem to indicate that the two species are very closely related.

Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

Then it was that I discovered that Arles has no general physiognomy, and, except the delightful little church of Saint Trophimus, no architecture, and that the rugosities of its dirty lanes affect the feet like knife - blades.

Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Various 1885

Then it was that I discovered that Arles has no general physiognomy and, except the delightful little church of Saint Trophimus, no architecture, and that the rugosities of its dirty lanes affect the feet like knife-blades.

A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879