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• The fly leaf is inscribed "To J. Walter Wilson with the undying regard of a regular feller who knows another regular feller thoroughly but loves him still; also when he isn't still." —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 2
• My part will, I trust, vanish in due time, and the law turn out to have been, after all, only the imperfect gospel, just as the leaf is the imperfect flower. —  The Vicar's Daughter
• If the insect alights upon the disk of the leaf, the viscid secretion holds it fast--at least, an ordinary fly is unable to escape--its struggles only increase the number of glands involved and the amount of excitement; this is telegraphed to the surrounding and successively longer tentacles, which bent over in succession, so that within ten to thirty hours, if the leaf is active and the fly large enough, every one of the glands (on the average, nearly two hundred in number) will be found applied to the body of the insect. —  Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism
• The pattern of the leaf is then not visible and the rugged leaf edges are unidentifiable as a leaf, unless it's turned upside down. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
• 'Over the leaf is a letter to my mother.' —  Life Of Johnson

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