How To Use Aspis In A Sentence
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On reflection, however, I feel this would be unlikely, because I cannot be alone in considering his regular waspish observations positive endorsement of a production.
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The Black Mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis), is an elapid snake and is one of Africa's most dangerous and feared snakes.
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The shield ([Greek: aspis]), we are told by followers of Reichel, was only worn by princes who could afford to keep chariots, charioteers, and squires of the body to arm and disarm them.
Homer and His Age
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That much," she waspishly informed an imperturbable Myst, curled comfortably on a chair," is impossible to deny.
A RAKE'S VOW
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The DA20's waspish empennage and T-tail were still there, as was the short chord, long-span, high-aspect ratio wing with upturned winglets.
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Like all diaries, it reflects the mood of the diarist and hence is scrappy, which in turns becomes waspish, gentle, melancholy, flirtatious and always directed by the seasons, scents, gardens and clothes.
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That should have ended it, except that certain newspapers have grown irritable and waspish with Tony Blair.
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After one particularly bland interview, a reporter waspishly criticized the starlet.
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There is no waspish remark to follow and I am sorry if this outbreak of sincerity causes any distress.
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Her caustic, waspish comments on the other housemates were biting and bitchy, but always spot on.
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Quasimodaspis, along with the inarticulate brachiopods that are the only other fossils so far recovered from this locality, was probably transported from a shallower facies.
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He fell completely beyond the arc of his waspish brain and acid tongue and so he seemed utterly confused by the reception he sometimes got.
The Grumpy Critic « Tales from the Reading Room
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And there's only so much waspish, scintillating badinage with Stereophonics one can take.
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The number three thousand, under three officers makes this sound like the body of hypaspists deserted under their chiliarchs and the archihypaspist, Holkias.
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Bill and I have been talking about the question of agency, or rather, I have been asking waspish questions and he has been replying with answers that turn into questions of his own.
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She had a waspish tongue which could hurt.
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Managing to hold his famously waspish tongue, he seemed at ease, a patron of the arts keen on charitable good works, as well as the kind of cause that many would consider lost.
Electric Proms: Elton John and Leon Russell – review
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Both he and Woods, who played in the same 1995 Walker Cup side, are blazing a trail for ethnic minorities on the US Tour, which is still dominated by golfers of a Waspish background.
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The administration that sold itself on simple homespun values and manly virtues has been caught in an act of waspish backstabbing to cover its dishonesty.
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The generic appellations of the several species of Ferns are derived thus: _Aspidium_, from _aspis_, a shield, because the spores are enclosed in bosses; _Pteris_, from _pteerux_, a wing, having doubly pinnate fronds; or from _pteron_, a feather, having feathery fronds;
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Asp can be carried back to the _aspis_ of the Romans, no trace being found in the dim vistas of preceding tongues.
The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year
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The manager does not take punishment well, and is waspish in his responses to journalists who question his tactics and second-season signings.
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She brushed off my waspish words, and waved me away.
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But its contents rapidly dispel any fears that this most entertainingly waspish of commentators succumbed to beatific mildness in his final years.
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Erasmus rushed to provide an immediate response to Luther's slanderous accusations, deciding that his new work, Hyperaspistes diatribae adversus Servum arbitrium Martini Lutheri (A Defensive Shield Against the “Unfree Will” of Martin Luther), would have to be written in two parts so that at least some of his rebuttal would circulate on the European book market simultaneously with Luther's book.
Desiderius Erasmus
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When in a particularly waspish mood, he wasn't above quoting a number as the door slammed.
GALILEE
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Are their early waspish criticisms insincere and their later affirmations the real deal, or are the affirmations the fakery and the waspishness the genuine thing?
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One really finds it beneath oneself to go ad hominen with the mom of a christianist lesbian love-child incubation chamber, but this time, the aspish Lyndy-Loo has exceeded the bounds of propriety.
Think Progress » Lynne Cheney: Putting Scooter Libby On Trial ‘Does Not Reflect Well On Our Judicial System’
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I suppose despite her waspish attitude she knows something about fashion.
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Her caustic, waspish comments on the other housemates were biting and bitchy, but always spot on.
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He inspected his young visitors with a quizzical, waspish look.
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She was intelligent, could be witty, if sometimes waspish, and always rated in the top five of the list of Most Popular Women of the Year.
MURDER SONG
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He also fancies himself a playwright, and approaches the well-heeled Mr. Dangle (Darragh Kennan) and the waspish Mr. Sneer (Jonathan Smoots), a pair of opinionated connoisseurs, in the hopes of enlisting their support for his latest effort, a tragedy called "The Spanish Armada" that ranks alongside "The Most Lamentable Comedy and Most Cruel Death of Pyramus and Thisbe" as the worst play ever written.
Those Who Cannot Do…
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His humour was waspish and admired even by those who were often the target.
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Sister Agatha may be as waspish an Irishwoman as ever took the veil but she's an exceptionally good cook.
PROSECUTOR
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He is particularly good at the waspish one-line character summary.
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In _Iliad_, II. 388, the shield (_aspis_) is spoken of as "covering a man about" ([Greek: _amphibrotae_]), while, in the heat of battle, the baldric (_telamon_), or belt of the shield, "shall be wet with sweat.
Homer and His Age
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But we must now proceed to examine and record the structure of the raspberry, raspis, or hindberry, by all which names it is called.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852
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The most ancient known fish is a Pteraspis, one of the bucklered ganoids or plated fishes -- by no means a very low type -- allied to the sturgeon
Darwinism (1889)
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An enormous and heavy shield—the aspis or hoplon—some three feet in diameter covered half the body and completed the panoply.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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On the other hand, the archers of the Algonquins in their wars with the Iroquois, about 1610, used clubs and tomahawks but no spears, no missiles but arrows, and their leather shield was precisely the [Greek: amphibrotae aspis] of Homer, "covering the whole of a man.
Homer and His Age
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If I were a wasp and I’ve been called waspish on occasion, I’d rather be poisoned than stuck to glue where I’ll try to escape and rip off my legs or slowly die an agonizing, slow, slow death full of pain and suffering.
September, transmogrification and killer karma « knitnut.net
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The use of the aspis in Homer, therefore, throws no suspicion on the concomitant use of the corslet.
Homer and His Age
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Nehemiah, who goes with Christ-like love to a ruined Jerusalem, may have lived on in my mind, but my spirit was overtaken by a waspish bitterness that contradicted in my life what I had tried to argue in my book.
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This is O. osborni, a taxon from the Congo (first described in 1919 and given its own genus, Osteoblepharon) until recently regarded as a subspecies of O. tetraspis.
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians
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Charles Wood's script, which uses a stylised form of period dialogue, offers a waspish satire of the Victorian military Establishment.
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While no doubt a few of the neighbors were dismayed by this violation of Waspish color preferences, the effect was both unexpected and charming.
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Private thoughts made public reveal a waspish view of the world which readers may find surprising.
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The ichthyofauna includes nearly 85% of the reef fish species endemic to the west Indian Ocean region (399 species) including several commercially important endemics such as the slinger Charysoblephous puniceus. 991 species have been recorded. including summer aggregations of ragged-toothed shark Tiburon odontaspis and whale shark Rhynchodon typus.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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The viper mentioned in Acts 28: 3 was probably the vipera aspis, or the Mediterranean viper.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Raúl Esparza, cast as a fey mathematician who tries to explain chaos theory to Hannah, makes the mistake of reducing his big speech to unintelligible gabble, while Mr. Crudup is too genial to be convincing as a waspishly malicious academic.
When Good Enough Just Isn't Enough
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Both he and Woods, who played in the same 1995 Walker Cup side, are blazing a trail for ethnic minorities on the US Tour, which is still dominated by golfers of a Waspish background.
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An enormous and heavy shield—the aspis or hoplon—some three feet in diameter covered half the body and completed the panoply.
THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES
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Her waspish tongue has already landed her in trouble.
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She knew it was waspish, and ill-spirited and petty, and mean.
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But can gyrating a day-glo hoop around the middle really give you a waspish waist?
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When most male observational comics are trying to come across as the kind of regular blokes you might find propping up the bar at your local, Godliman's more the waspish girl in the corner with a glass of white wine who's smarter than the lot of them put together.
This week's new comedy
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So we have Marilyn Marks resigning from The Red Ant blog, the waspish Elizabeth Milias berating Aspen City Manager Steve Barwick, and the gnatty Andrew Kole professing his preference for blondes.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: The Loony Bin of Aspen Politics
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Common reptile species include asp viper Vipera aspis, viviparous lizard Lacerta vivipara, wall lizard Podarcis muralis and the green lizard Lacerta viridis.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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If there were more money in it, he would clearly have made an astute, if waspish critic.
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witty and waspish about his colleagues
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Mercurial, often waspish and at times given to unwarrantable snobbery, she was free to indulge herself, yet at the same time she was imprisoned by the constraints of the life that gave her all she wanted.
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Do they not sometimes get called waspish and shrewish by virtue of their very chastity?
Plutarch's Morals
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Even in the semi-formal surroundings of the Team GB press marquee there is a waspish chemistry between the pair, and an air of almost marital delicacy when the subject is broached of Grainger's recent outings with alternative partners during Watkins' recent injury break.
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test
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One of the first field experiments to detect adaptive population structure was conducted with Nuculaspis californica, a highly sessile homopteran scale insect that displayed local adaptation to individual ponderosa pine trees.
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The Argentine's waspish persistence and extraordinary retrieval made for some compelling rallies as he tried time and time again to bludgeon him into submission only to see the ball whistle back past his ears.
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Someday she'd tell him exactly what he could do with his job and his waspish remarks.
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In _Iliad_, II. 388, the shield (_aspis_) is spoken of as "covering a man about" ([Greek: _amphibrotae_]), while, in the heat of battle, the baldric (_telamon_), or belt of the shield, "shall be wet with sweat.
Homer and His Age
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He seems to be on the verge of agreeing in this lavish, Waspish enterprise.
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After the second moult, larvae preyed only on the first-instar nymphs of Libyaspis, while the larvae of later instars preyed on nymphs of a wide range of sizes.
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Quasimodaspis lacks the high-set semicircular eyes of Paleomerus, and the elongated, trapezoidal eleventh and twelfth segments of both Paleomerus and Strabops.
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As Martinez drove down the great spine of the Avenida de América, and on into Castellana, it hit Mulcahy full-on just like the heat had: the car horns, the waspish buzz of scooters, the hurtling, bustling sense of humanity always on the move.
The Priest
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I've been making my way through the September 2008 Journal of Paleontology, and so there was "A new desmatosuchine aetosaur (Archosauria; Suchia) from the Upper Triassic Tecovas Formation (Dockum Group) of Texas," "A juvenile skull of the primitive African ornithischian dinosaur Heterodontosaurus tucki from the 'Stormberg' of South Africa," and "The anatomy, affinity, and phylogenetic significance of Illemoraspis kirkinskayae (Osteostraci) from the Devonian of Siberia.
"The lengths that I will go to, the distance in your eyes..."
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A talented young artist, he returns with a portfolio of animal sketches - and a sudden enthusiasm for Waspish, heartland values.
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His prose was crisp and waspish, but balanced and well informed, and he was able to deliver an authoritative opinion on a wide range of musical events.
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But that's ignoring the host of other immigrant entertainers who also altered their names to a more Waspish form; I think this kind of stuff deserves a programme of its own.
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14 Peltasts, i.e. light infantry armed with the “pelta” or light shield, instead of the heavy aspis of the hoplite or heavy infantry soldiers.
Hellenica
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My generation's first exposure to Agnes Moorehead wasn't her work for Orson Welles, but when she was well into her 60s and perfecting the waspish put-down of her daughter's attempts at domesticity on a weekly basis in Bewitched.
Spotted: an older woman on screen
