"Identifiable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... seen before, had a way of abruptly appearing on Meringe Plantation. Once, even, had there been an eruption of strange four-legged, horned and hairy creatures, the images of which, registered in his brain, would have been identifiable in the brains of humans with what humans ...
— Jerry of the Islands • Jack London
... Patrick's Well, anciently used in baptism. At Blairinroar, five miles west from Muthill, two or three cot-houses still bear the name S. Patrick's, but I don't know that the site of the original chapel is identifiable. At Struthill, two miles south of Muthill, both chapel walls and ancient burial-ground remained till about 50 years ago, when they were shamefully turned—the one into dyke material, and the consecrated soil and remains into top-dressing ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various
... re-appears; at least such is my inference from the following extract. "Batho is clearly and indisputably identifiable with something tangible, viz., the Sij or Euphorbia; though why that useless and even exotic plant should have been thus selected to type the Godhead, I have failed ...
— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham
... Unfortunately, a great client was considered as important as a weaver, and it was often his arbitrary sign that was woven. And sometimes a dealer, wishing glory through his dealings, ordered his sign in the galloon. And thus comes a long array of signs which are not identifiable always. In general, one or two initials were introduced into these symbols, which were fanciful designs that any idle pencil might draw, but in the lapse of years it is not possible to know which able weaver or what great purveyor to royalty the letter A or ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee
... conceal permanently. It is bulky and of an awkward shape, it is heavy, it is completely incombustible, it is chemically unstable, and its decomposition yields great volumes of highly odorous gases, and it nevertheless contains identifiable structures of the highest degree of permanence. It is extremely difficult to preserve unchanged, and it is still more difficult completely to destroy. The essential permanence of the human body is well shown in the classical case of ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman
... pteranthus) * Cereus paucispinus (Echinocereus coccineus ssp. paucispinus) Cereus pentalophus (Echinocereus pentalophus) Cereus peruvianus (Cereus repandus) Cereus pleiogonus (Echinocereus sp.—no longer identifiable)* Cereus polyacanthus (Echinocereus polyacanthus) Cereus procumbens (Echinocereus pentalophus ssp. procumbens) * Cereus reductus (Hybrid with Selenicereus sp. as one probable parent) Cereus repandus (Cereus repandus) * Cereus Royeni (Pilosocereus ...
— Cactus Culture For Amateurs • W. Watson
... of the other." Off the mouth of the river, now known as the Yodo, they encountered such a high sea that they called the place Nami-hana (Wave Flowers), a name subsequently abbreviated to Naniwa. Pushing on, the expeditionary force finally landed at a place—not now identifiable—in the province of Kawachi, which ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi |
