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...ncer. After a quarrel, his Turkish rival challenges him to a duel during which the notary gets his nose cut off. Thereupon, a surgeon is called for a grafting. The donor is a simple man from the Auvergne with whom the notary is forced to spend thirty days, his noze being literally glued to the arm of the man. But even after this term, his bad fortune doesn’t come to an end...

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...r will you ever be able to taste wine, because grapevines are also made by grafting a wild trunk. But I could express this same thing in another wa...

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...d unless there be absolute children in the party, there is a difficulty in grafting any special af- ternoon amusements on the Sunday pursuits of the m...

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...ks, beside the vine yards. In these we practise likewise all conclusions of grafting, and inoculating, as well of wild trees as fruit trees, which p...

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...urned down on the nose, and heals in the new posi- tion. This is a kind of grafting in a new position of part of an animal upon itself. Grafting of fr... ...rom another animal is also possible,—the case of teeth, for ex- ample. The grafting of skin and bone is done to facilitate healing: the surgeon places... ...ain- ful things, that I dare not shape too freely. But it is in the subtle grafting and reshaping one must needs do to the brain that my trouble lies....

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... Come, give me your confidence. There is no occasion to waste your time in grafting your great nature on that unthankful stock, when all your hopes an...

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...e plant, inserted the graft, then bound it up, fast, hard. It was like God grafting the life of man upon the body of the earth, intimately conjuring w...

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...the days of Milton, who has improved the natural offshoots of his brain by grafting it from the Athenian tree? I had a volume of Tennyson in my pocket...

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... modify or to deepen their colours. He knew what Cornelius meant when heating cer- tain grains, then moistening them, then combining them with others ...

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.... “Has it ever happened to you?” said Monte Cristo. “Once, sir, when I was grafting a rose-tree.” “Well, suppose you were to alter a signal, and subst... ...on, who, entering with zeal into his profession of gardener, was very busy grafting some Bengal roses. “Ah, count,” she exclaimed, with the delight ma...

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... the political world, it is possible to estimate just how effectually that grafting has been done. I have explained how the ideas of a trained aristoc...

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...ofitable speculations pay for the bad, and the pub- lisher pays his way by grafting, as it were, one book upon another. But if all of them turn out ba...

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...mas, Ira Aldridge, and Miss Greenfield, would seem to be the result of the grafting of the Anglo- Saxon on good, original, Negro stock. If the friends...

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...the right word, says that “they have a kind of bow-arrow tang.” Apples for grafting appear to have been selected commonly, not so much for their spiri...

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...aracter from that of the rest of the plant. Such buds can be propagated by grafting, &c., and sometimes by seed. These ‘sports’ are extremely rare und... ...d adaptation to widely different climates, does not always prevent the two grafting together. As in hybridisation, so with grafting, the capacity is l... ... of effecting an union is often very far from equal, so it sometimes is in grafting; the common gooseberry, for instance, cannot be grafted on the cur... ...inct cases run to a certain extent parallel. Something analogous occurs in grafting; for Thouin found that three spe- cies of Robinia, which seeded fr... ...ans seem to me to indicate that the greater or lesser difficulty of either grafting or crossing to- gether various species has been a special endow- m... ...rtant for the endurance and stability of specific forms, as in the case of grafting it is unim- portant for their welfare. Causes of the Sterility of ... ...oss and in the hy- brid produced from this cross. In the same manner as in grafting trees, the capac- ity of one species or variety to take on another...

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...n boots.” The third in the party, Couture by name, lived by specula- tion, grafting one affair upon another to make the gains pay for the losses. He w...

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... acorns ‘neath the boughs of elms. Nor is the method of inserting eyes And grafting one: for where the buds push forth Amidst the bark, and burst th...

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...aged. This sound result 4 The Marriage Contract was the fruit produced by grafting the Gascon on the Norman. Madame de Manerville died in 1810. Havin...

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...ssachusetts boy to go down there with a trunk full of choice scions, and his grafting apparatus, in the spring. The next morning we drove along throug...

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...d Mary as a cutting duly taken from the Ullathorne tree; not, indeed, as a grafting branch, full of flower, just separated from the parent stalk, but ...

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...y enough stock for him to spring from, but I should never have suspected a grafting of the Jew pawnbroker. However, there’s no knowing what a mixture ...

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...phi 15:13 13 And now, the thing which our father meaneth concern- ing the grafting in of the natural branches through the fulness of the Gentiles, is...

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...y enough stock for him to spring from, but I should never have suspected a grafting of the Jew pawnbroker. However, there’s no knowing what a mixture ...