"Incubator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Then, like a row of Chinese dolls, we nod our heads. I tell you," she said, tremulously, "we are becoming like that horrid, degenerate, wingless moth which is born, mates, and dies in one spot—a living mechanical incubator—a poor, deformed, senseless thing that has through generations lost not only the use, but even the rudiments of the wings which she once possessed. But the male moth flies more strongly and frivolously than ever. There is nothing the matter with the development of his ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers
... Wong stood at the edge and explained. "Also, as you may see, a concentration incubator, or spawning bed and ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various
... an odd collection of blubbery garments, hung up to dry, through which one crawls, much as a chicken in an incubator. Our walls of tent-canvas admit as much light as might be expected from a closed Venetian blind. It is astonishing how we have grown accustomed to inconveniences, and tolerate, at least, habits which a little time back were regarded with repugnance. We have no forks, but each man ...
— South! • Sir Ernest Shackleton
... were extenuating circumstances for Chick. It was unquestionably a handicap to have opened his eyes for the first time in an ash barrel, and in Mr. Flathers' ash barrel at that. The transfer in a patrol wagon to an incubator in the City Hospital had been the next move, hence back to Mr. Flathers' who, inasmuch as it was his ash barrel, felt called upon by ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... defense of her offspring obscured all others. In maintaining her possession of that infant, nothing could surpass the cunning of that ape mother. Will we ever succeed in outwitting her, and in getting one of her babies alive into a baby incubator? ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... Vanderbank agreed: "I've never indeed seen a woman avail herself so cleverly, to make up for the obloquy of that state, of the benefits and immunities it brings with it. She has bloomed in the hot-house of her widowhood—she's a Neapolitan hatched by an incubator." ...
— The Awkward Age • Henry James
... from a cot where he'd been watching the improvised culture incubator. "Stop tearing yourself to bits, Doc. We know the danger and we're still darned glad to have you here working ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... thing they need is an incubator, to keep up their hennery department an' supply their captains with the yellow legs of the land. Oh, but I ...
— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore
... me more like tying me up to a stanchion in a stall. I ain't ungrateful, gents. I know this younger element doesn't believe in setting hens in politics any more. It's the incubator nowadays—wholesale job of it. But, by dadder! my settings have always cracked the shells, twelve to the dozen! Then ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... was this. I interviewed everything from a red-handed murderer to an incubator baby. The town seemed to be running over with celebrities. Norberg, the city editor, adores celebrities. He never allows one to escape uninterviewed. On Friday there fell to my lot a world-famous prima donna, an infamous ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... from business. In the dispersion of its instruments the drum had reached a second-hand store. Nan, with a keen eye for such chances, had bought and dismantled the drum, and used the frame as a stockade for fresh chirpers from her incubator. The drumstick seemed to have been predestined of all time to serve ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... never knew a fool that sooner or later didn't gravitate to chickens. He will get an incubator next." ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... been that of an incubator and little more. She has given birth to an incubated race. She has given to her children what little she was permitted to give, but of herself, of her personality, almost nothing. In the mass, she has brought forth quantity, not quality. The requirement of a ...
— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger
... There is no longer room for doubt. Ocular proof I can now offer in the shape of five living eggs of this gigantic bird. All measures have been taken to hatch these eggs; they are now in the vast incubator. It is my plan to have them hatch, one by one, under the very eyes of the International Congress. It will be the greatest triumph that science has witnessed since the discovery of ...
— In Search of the Unknown • Robert W. Chambers |
