crassitude

• This living ring may now embrace or absorb a nutritive particle of the fluid in which it swims; and by drawing it into its pores, or joining it by compression to its extremities, may increase its own length or crassitude, and by degrees the living ring may become a living tube With this new organization, or accretion of parts, new kinds of irritability may commence; for so long as there was but one living organ it could only be supposed to possess irritability; since sensibility may be conceived to be an extension of the effect of irritability over the rest of the system. —  Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
• Some like a thicket for their crassitude; —  At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History
• Some like a thicket for their crassitude, —  Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers
• In his "Superbić Flagellum," he describes a great variety of beards in his time, but omitted his own, which is that of a screw Now a few lines to paper I will put Of men's beards strange, and variable cut In which there's some that take as vain a pride As almost in all other things beside Some are reap'd most substantial like a brush Which makes a nat'rel wit known by the bush And in my time of some men I have heard Whose wisdom have been only wealth and Beard Many of these the proverb well doth fit Which says, bush natural, more hair than wit Some seem, as they were starched stiff and fine Like to the bristles of some angry swine And some to set their love's desire on edge Are cut and prun'd like a quickset hedge Some like a spade, some like a fork, some square Some round, some mow'd like stubble, some stark bare Some sharp, stiletto fashion, dagger-like That may with whisp'ring, a man's eyes outpike Some with the hammer cut, or roman T Their Beards extravagant, reform'd must be Some with the quadrate, some triangle fashion Some circular, some oval in translation Some perpendicular in longitude Some like a thicket for their crassitude That heights, depths, breadths, triform, square, oval, round And rules geometrical in Beards are found Illustration: Lord Mayor of York escorting Princess Margaret through York in 1503. —  At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History
• Thus you estrange the crassitude of an ignorant democracy still more from the intelligence of the educated classes by combining it with the most selfish and abject of all the apprehensions that are ascribed to aristocracy and wealth. —  The Parisians — Volume 02

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