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“To define oneself by geography devonian/londoner/geordie was a meaningful definition when most people were born, lived and died in the same county, and probably communicated in a certain dialect.”
“Presumably synapsids, giant devonian centipedes, and pterosaurs as well; the 99% of life now extinct.”
I don't even know where to start with this one . . . - The Panda's Thumb
“He took me down to devonian gardens, its was so nice.”
“I think I do the devonian method, only because the jam doesn't spread as well once the cream is there.”
““This fish belongs to an extinct family, of which only fossil traces are found in the devonian formations.””
“I am glad to have paul and his smart-assed comments in my notes. i love Paul. (shor-t) i remember back in the day when I had a crush on Paul, and he had long flowing locks, we went to devonian gardens, and he gave me a leather wrist cuff, only to ASK FOR IT BACK mere weeks (maybe days?!) later! man.”
“This fish belongs to an extinct family, of which only fossil traces are found in the devonian formations.”
“The so-called 'transition rocks', in the two divisions of upper and lower graywacke (silurian and devonian systems), the latter being formerly designated as old red sandstone.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
“Types of the sedimentary structures considered in their most simple and general characters; silurian and devonian formations (formerly known as rocks of transition); the lower trias (mountain limestone, coal measures, together with 'todilegende' and zechstein); the upper trias (butter sandstone, muschelkalk, and keuper);”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
“The Goniatites, of the tribe of Ammonites, * a are manifested in the transition chalk, in the graywacke of the devonian periods, and even in the latest silurian formations.”
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1
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Blood Meridian: The Words
Words from Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian"
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Words of Dinosaurology
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