Regional plant life

Usage examples of flora.

Flora Abernethy lived in a basement flat on a rundown street near the center of Edinburgh.

I took it with me when I called on Flora Abernethy at her flat the following day.

However, I am convinced that as we move back through geophysical time so we re-enter the amnionic corridor and move back through spinal and archaeopsychic time, recollecting in our unconscious minds the landscapes of each epoch, each with a distinct geological terrain, its own unique flora and fauna, as recognisable to anyone else as they would be to a traveller in a Wellsian time machine.

This was the Silent Quarter, which Yama had rarely visitedhe and Telmon preferred the ancient tombs of the foothills beyond the Breas, where aspects could be wakened and the flora and fauna was richer.

This was the Silent Quarter, which Yama had rarely visited-he and Telmon preferred the ancient tombs of the foothills beyond the Breas, where aspects could be wakened and the flora and fauna was richer.

Jimmy felt Flora needed to know the whole truth, but decided against mentioning Coes real identity to Bram, Lorrie and the others.

Chipewyan and Dogrib Indians, the flora and fauna of the country through which he travelled, and his willingness to adapt to native ways, which set the pattern of Arctic survival for generations.

Thus it is not surprising that Mabel and Kathleen, conscientiously conducting one of the dullest dolls tea-parties at which either had ever assisted, should suddenly, and both at once, have felt a strange, unreasonable, but quite irresistible desire to return instantly to the Temple of Flora even at the cost of leaving the dolls tea-service in an unwashed state, and only half the raisins eaten.

Padre Sigismundi also wrote a herbal in Guarani, and a Portuguese Jesuit, Vasconellos, has left a curious book upon the flora of Brazil.

After the Triassic Red Sandstone period, which is characterized by its scanty plant growth, a new beginning is made: the flora of the Mesophytic Era.

Although the remnants of this group survive today in specialized habitats, these Mesozoic flora are poorly known.

Both give a good account of the customs and regimen of the missions, but both seem to have believed too readily fabulous accounts of the flora and fauna of Paraguay.

One of them suggests that Henry went west for some time to live among the Mohegan and other tribes, exploring great distances, making drawings, and collecting samples of flora and fauna.

He has displayed the same skill in water-colour in that astonishing iconography, in which he has detailed, with marvellous accuracy, all the peculiarities of the mycological flora of the olive-growing districts.

At this moment there opened before us a large grotto dug in a picturesque heap of rocks and carpeted with all the thick warp of the submarine flora.