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Hartley drew back a step, for the smell of _napi_ and onions is unpleasant even to the strongest of white men, and told Leh Shin to open the door wide as he wished to talk to him.
The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery Marjorie Douie
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Many moons have risen and set since she received my napi;
Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse Thomas Burke 1915
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He tried the effect of artificially induced cold conditions on the summer pupae of _Pieris napi_, and by keeping a batch for three months at the temperature of freezing water, he succeeded in completely changing every individual of the summer generation into the winter form.
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He took a female of _bryoniae_, an alpine and arctic variety of _Pieris napi_, showing in an intensive degree the characters of the spring brood.
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'Green-veined' white (_Pieris napi_) the characteristic greenish-grey lines of scaling beneath the wings along the nervures, are much broader and more strongly marked in the spring than in the summer generation, whose members are distinguished by systematic entomologists under the varietal name _napaeae_.
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Perhaps the oldest ceremony recorded is that which Ut-napištim, the
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895
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Ut-napištim, who, as the legend of the Flood relates, was raised and made one of the gods by Aa or Ea, for his faithfulness after the great catastrophe, when he and his wife were translated to the "remote place at the mouth of the rivers."
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Theophilus Goldridge Pinches 1895
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It is this last point that bears on Weismann's remarks (loc. cit., pages 44, 45) on Pieris napi.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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Zoltán Kósa, chairman of the association, told napi. hu.
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Some money exchanging offices might run out of currencies due to increased demand, online news portal napi. hu reports.
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