How To Use obolus In A Sentence
- I recommend seven or eight small pieces of iron to be prepared, a fathom in size, in thickness like a thick specillum, and bent at the extremity, and a broad piece should be on the extremity, like a small obolus. On Hemorrhoids
- If, after such conduct, he proves he has done well, I would not give an obolus for the hide of old men. The Clouds
- If we may trust the old marbles, my friend with his arm stretched over my head, above there, (in plaster of Paris,) or the discobolus, whom one may see at the principal sculpture gallery of this metropolis, -- those Greek young men were of supreme beauty. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
- Sporobolus is mostly self-pollinated due to a high degree of sheath cleistogamy, while Panicum is a self-incompatible outbreeder.
- It soon became apparent that Pilobolus was physicalizing the face of our culture that permits our more regressed instincts to rule.
- _Ascobolus_, 71-73; Fig. 43. culture of, 71. spore fruit, 71. archicarp, 71. spore sacs, 72. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
- Because, though old and broken-down as he is, he would put to sea on a hurdle to gain an obolus. Peace
- If then you learn this science, which is false, I shall not have to pay an obolus of all the debts I have contracted on your account. The Clouds
- No statue of a warrior was sculptured in the varied attitudes of attack and defence; no wrestler, no _discobolus_, no pugilist exhibited the grace, the vigor, or the muscular action of a man; nor were the beauties, the feeling, and the elegance of female forms displayed in stone: all was made to conform to the same invariable model, which confined the human figure to a few conventional postures. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
- He also produced two ideal statues, "Hope," and a discobolus.
