fucus

• The Discipline, my mind had undergone, "Ne falleretur rotundo sono et ver- suum cursu, cincinnis et floribus; sed ut inspi- ceret quidnam subesset, quæ sedes, quod firma- mentum, quis fundus verbis; an figuræ essent mera ornatura et orationis fucus: vel sanguinis e materiæ ipsius corde effluentis rubor quidam nativus et incalescentia genuina;" removed all obstacles to the appreciation of excellence in style without diminishing my delight. —  Biographia Literaria
• These "cures" wont work, and even if they did, I would lose my personality and the abilities I fucus on. —  Aussie-Nintendo.com Forums
• A long-continued course of the simple process thus roughly described must of necessity result at last in the elimination of all the most conspicuous pipe-fish, and the survival of all those unobtrusive and retiring individuals which in any respect happen to resemble the fucus or coralline among which they dwell. —  Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
• This elegant fucus is of the Erica Marina or Sargazo kind, but has much finer parts than that. —  A Voyage to New Holland
• With regard to fish, both species of Barbel occur; {68} the most killing bait for the large one, or Bookhar of the Assamese, is the green fucus, which is common, adhering to all the stones in these hill-streams: it is difficult to fix it on the hook. —  Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries

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