Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right. From LearnThat.org. [Donald Culross Peattie.]
The bony excrescence between its horns. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In Sussex, the peculiar excrescence which is often found on the. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The human nose is, at its best, a needless excrescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
It would be an excrescence on the very vitals of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character] Reference
Aswatthaman had to give up the jewel-like excrescence on his head, then. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Lady's Chapel, so far from being an excrescence, as has been idly stated. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832] Reference
Nor are these stories a mere excrescence of theology, but theology itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
Aswatthaman had to give up the jewel-like excrescence on his head, then, O. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
The other excrescence is commonly found upon trees near the banks of rivers and lakes. From Wordnik.com. [History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing] Reference
Gall: an abnormal swelling or excrescence on a plant, produced by an insect: = cecidium. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference
Why such an excrescence should pollute the landscape of Sutherland, Hamish did not know. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
Immediately afterwards he had seen the curious, bird-like excrescence upon a tree nearby. From Wordnik.com. [The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'] Reference
It is not an addendum or an excrescence: it is an actual part of the fabric of life itself. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
My person, with its human powers and features, seem to me a monstrous excrescence of nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Man] Reference
And the humour is always essential to the delineation of character -- it is never an excrescence. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
At one time it went all around; later appeared only behind, like an excrescence on a bilbol-tree. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
And, after all, this excrescence with which I had been struggling consisted of but a single foot. From Wordnik.com. [The Guermantes Way] Reference
An excrescence is produced round the egg, and the insect, when developed, pierces a hole and escapes. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Dyes Being a Book of Recipes and Other Information Useful to the Dyer] Reference
"I don't mind going if a lunch is provided," observed the gentleman with the excrescence on his nose. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
Scotia an incubus and excrescence on her flourishing and progressive neighbours, Canada and New Brunswick. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
Like an excrescence on the flank of Mother Earth herself, the mound loomed; like an unhealthy, cancerous growth. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
The room was stiflingly hot and reeking — even to him — with the acrid, chemical excrescence of indigo clay. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
All the sap and nutriment of the state seemed to have been drawn to feed one bloated and unwholesome excrescence. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 561, August 11, 1832] Reference
It served to unbalance the rest of the building, which apart from the excrescence had a comfortable, sturdy appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
The adventitious petal or scale is an excrescence or an outgrowth from the primary organ, and formed subsequently to it. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Graphically and verbally hold it out like the repellent excrescence that it is, label it as such, and then make your pitch. From Wordnik.com. [Ellis Weiner: Catapult the Propaganda By Jiu-Jitsu-ing the Slime] Reference
Yet it seemed no more than a freak of nature, though most wondrous in its fidelity; being but an excrescence upon the trunk. From Wordnik.com. [The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'] Reference
She bore a child with a fleshy excrescence exactly resembling a lizard, growing from the breast, adhering by the head and neck. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Calladale House was a late Georgian mansion to which had been added, in mid-Victorian times, an excrescence of a long left wing. From Wordnik.com. [Spotted Hemlock]
In their first year stags grow no horns, but only an excrescence indicating where horns will be, this excrescence being short and thick. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
Fairfield's feelings to be a nose no more, but a swollen, gigantic, mountainous Slawkenbergian excrescence, -- in fact, he felt all nose!. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
Before the staring gaze of the speechless men an excrescence appeared -- a thick bulb on the mass -- that protruded itself into a tentacle. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
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