Such was the 'nidus' or soil, which constituted, in the strict sense of the word, the circumstances of Milton's mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

Asplenium nidus, at 200 feet above the bed of a nullah.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

Asplenium nidus, Conyza graveolens, south of the old clearings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

I envision the club serving as a nidus for an after-school science club.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newtonian poetry] Reference

In addition to the plants I have gathered, Asplenium nidus it very common.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

I have also found the little depressions caused by the tread of cattle affording a fine nidus for the plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883] Reference

On the summit I observed two species of Panax, a fruitescent or arbusculous Composita, Asplenum nidus, Laurineae, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference

“Niche” entered English in the 17th century, a borrowing from the French, who had borrowed it from the Latin nidus nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grammarphobia Blog » Blog Archive » A nitch to scratch] Reference

This observation of conflicting statements became the nidus forming PMW, a foundation which Itamar continues to direct today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play] Reference

But surely there was a germ of evil in the thing, and this germ found a nidus, found a nest in Gehazi's soul, in which to hatch its evil brood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters] Reference

But where Social Security established the nidus of a public institution that grew over time, the Senate bill proscribes any such new public institution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout for the Financial Sector?] Reference

Meanwhile a special nidus had been created in the South.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference

Remember, pollen-tubes protrude within anther in Neottia nidus-avis.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference

Patria Potestas, is the nidus out of which the entire Law of Persons has germinated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference

As this is not a proper nidus for the eggs; the young ones, when hatched, soon perish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

As this is not a proper nidus for the eggs, the young ones, when hatched, soon perish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Each lies in a deep fossa, termed the bird’s nest (nidus avis), between the uvula and the biventral lobule.    From Wordnik.com.  [IX. Neurology. 4a. The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon] Reference

With the help of the new tool, surgeons can more easily locate a cancer nidus without invasive measures, Shieh said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

Then the nidus of infection must be identified and eliminated, using surgical drainage, antimicrobial therapy, or both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It will not be difficult to induce me to give up the theory of the growth of shells, without their being the nidus of animals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1] Reference

The emergence of anti-Semitism from the shadows has led to its appropriation by many paranoids as the nidus of their delusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [ShrinkWrapped] Reference

Facebook had it's nidus as a private social network on college campuses, and has grown into it's own world-encompassing social ecosystem.    From Wordnik.com.  [symtym] Reference

The nidus of the present settlement is the tiny hamlet of Old Borth, perched on a spur of the promontory, and well out of reach of flood tides.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uppingham by the Sea a Narrative of the Year at Borth] Reference

” This pathway, named by Beard the germinal path, “leads them directly to the position which they ought finally to take up in the ` germinal ridge 'or nidus.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. Splanchnology. 3. The Urogenital Apparatus] Reference

Philosophy, and even Theology, found in Roman law not only a vehicle of expression, but a nidus in which some of their profoundest inquiries were nourished into maturity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society] Reference

"This is the insect which proceeds from the rough chalky-looking nidus figured by Mr. Ford.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology] Reference

A nidus proper for their support and increase, I cannot but suspect still that these cocci came to me originally from Andalusia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2] Reference