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  • proper noun A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Émile Bailly (1829-1894).

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  • Yet Bailly makes few proselytes; and a species of instinct determines men of science to despise the fruits of so persevering a labour; and D'Alembert goes so far as to tax them with poverty, even with hollow ideas, with vain and ridiculous efforts; he goes so far as to call Bailly, relatively to his letters, the illuminated brother.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, far from participating in these puerile rancours, in the blind prejudices of some lost children of erudition, called Bailly to its bosom in 1785.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • After his appearance as a witness in the trial of Marie Antoinette, the ex-Mayor only wrote and had printed for circulation, a paper entitled Bailly to his fellow-citizens.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • The Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, far from participating in these puerile rancours, in the blind prejudices of some lost children of erudition, called Bailly to its bosom in 1785.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Baden Powell 1819

  • Bailly makes few proselytes; and a species of instinct determines men of science to despise the fruits of so persevering a labour; and D'Alembert goes so far as to tax them with poverty, even with hollow ideas, with vain and ridiculous efforts; he goes so far as to call Bailly, relatively to his letters, the _illuminated brother_.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Baden Powell 1819

  • Jean-Sylvain Bailly, Mémoires, in Avant-Moniteur ou Tableau sommaire des huit premiers mois de Révolution française Paris: Levrault, Schoell, 1805, xxviii.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Bailly himself succumbed to the machine named after the doctor.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • The soon-to-be mayor of Paris, Jean Bailly, stands center stage; others are gathered around with their arms stretched out toward him.149 Some delegates are hugging each other.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • We think he will have to change the law if he wants his money, said Olivier Bailly, an EU spokesman.

    Hungary Standoff Spurs Currency's Fall Gordon Fairclough 2012

  • Under the schedule of its first €110 billion bailout package, Athens would receive the next aid tranche in March, after it was pushed back three months, European Commission spokesman Olivier Bailly said Thursday.

    Greece Debt Negotiations Move Toward Deal Costas Paris 2012

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