Métayer

“ Metaneira would have her seat herself on the couch but the goddess took the lowliest stool, saying in greeting: "May the gods give you all good, lady."
"Sorrow has set you wandering from your good home," said Metaneira to the goddess, "but now that you have come to this place you shall have all that this house can bestow if you will rear up to youth the infant Demophoon, child of many hopes and prayers." ”

“ The fuss I had over that horrid parcel. I thought I'd never get it back again. In the end I had to see Mrs. Bertram about it, and didn't she crush me just! She's an awful woman. I never want to speak to her again all my life, and as to the captain caring for Matty!"
"Where is Matty?" here interrupted Mrs. Bell. "She was not asked to stay behind after all, then?"
"She asked to stay behind? You speak for yourself, Matty. For my part, I think it was very unfair to give Matty that silk. We might all have had nice washing muslins for the price of it. Where are you, Matty? ”

“ But following the prevailing custom, I nevertheless had myself first introduced to the mehter. His ante-chamber, it being audience day, was cramful of people who, on our entrance, respectfully made way for us, standing aside. Some women present were pointing at me, saying: "This is the dervish from Constantinople, who will bestow benediction on our Khan. May the Lord hearken to his words!"
I found the mehter in a porch, surrounded by his men, who smiled at every word uttered by him. His dark complexion and long beard reaching to his chest showed him to be a Persian. ”

“ Methley’s servant, who was the greatest sufferer, kept his saddle until we reached Stamboul, but was then found to be quite benumbed in limbs, and his brain was so much affected, that when he was lifted from his horse he fell away in a state of unconsciousness, the first stage of a dangerous fever. Our Tatar, worn down by care and toil, and carrying seven heavens full of water in his manifold jackets and shawls, was a mere weak and vapid dilution of the sleek Moostapha, who scarce more than one fortnight before came out like a bridegroom from his chamber to take the command of our party. ”

“ For the time being, however, we are restricted to discussing general biogeographic patterns based on a fairly literal reading of the fossil record, with a skeptical eye always on the lookout for sampling biases.
One particular question of interest in the literature has been the ancestral “area of origin” of Metatheria. For much of the last century, it was explicitly stated or implicitly assumed that metatherians, including crown marsupials, originated and first diversified in North America, based on the great diversity of Late Cretaceous metatherian fossils (e.g., [69] ; [227] ; [228] ) . ”

“ Miette looked at Albert and Paul, and answered for them with remarkable frankness:
"It will be only right if you do weary us. It is we who asked you, and, besides, we have so often wearied you that it is only right you should have your revenge on us. Still——"
"Still, what?"
"Still, we can trust you," added Miette, laughing, and throwing her arms around Roger's neck.
CHAPTER XXV.
OXYGEN.
"We were saying that oxygen——" cried Miss Miette, with a smile, that evening, after dinner, seeing that Monsieur Roger had completely forgotten his promise. ”

“ Mattie quietly entered the shop. The spell was broken; Mr. Gray paused with his right arm above his head—he was just coming down with another bang on the counter—and Maurice leaped off his stool, to which he had been transfixed, and shook hands violently with Mattie in his bewilderment.
"He will see me, Miss Gray?"
"Yes. If you wish it."
"Thank you—thank you! Is he in the parlour?"
"Yes."
"And so be warned, young man—there is no excuse left you—not one, now. You have been warned of all the evils which a guilty life incurs upon those who go on their way defiantly!" ”

“ Then the heroes lay on their oars in fear, but Medeia spoke: "I know this giant. If strangers land he leaps into his furnace, which flames there among the hills, and when he is red-hot he rushes on them, and burns them in his brazen hands. But he has but one vein in all his body filled with liquid fire, and this vein is closed with a nail. I will find out where the nail is placed, and when I have got it into my hands you shall water your ship in peace." ”

“ Ces gens, croy-je, sont les plus grands harangueurs de toute la terre; ils ne font rien sans cela.
45 God willed that Meteourmite and some other captains should apprehend the danger, and so cause their people to withdraw. When evening came and all had retired, Meteourmite sent some of his men to excuse the misconduct of the morning, protesting that all the disorder had originated not with him, but with the Armouchiquois ”

“ Once metatherians originated, they spread to various regions around the globe. The diversity of Cretaceous metatherians in North America, and to a lesser extent in Asia and Europe, indicates that most of their early diversification was centered in the northern continents. The lack of unequivocal Cretaceous metatherians in the southern continents is potentially due to sampling biases, as the Gondwanan latest Cretaceous fossil record is nowhere near as densely preserved or sampled as that in the northern continents. ”

“ Never, never shall ye fold, Save with me the man I hold.
But now the hiss and scream of the Serpents and the noise of their circling was quickened to a slurred savage sound and they closed on Ruark, and she felt him stifling and that they were relentless. So in the height of the tempest Bhanavar seized the Jewel in the gold circlet on her brow and cast it from her. Lo! the Serpents instantly abated their frenzy, and flew all of them to pluck the Jewel, chasing the one that had it in his fangs through the casement, and the hall breathed empty of them. ”

“ Mattie did not reply; that was a matter for future consideration.
"I never allow anything to be kept from me," he said sharply; "I shall be a hard father, rely upon it. I allow nothing for prevarication, and I spare no sin or weakness, however plausible may be the excuse which the sinner offers. I—how dreadfully askew everything is on this mantel-piece!" he added suddenly, putting the few ornaments thereon at regular distances from each other; "I shall not be a kind father—I know I shan't! The mountains are not harder to move than I am—you're not frightened at me, Mattie?" ”

“ Then said Demeter: "Foolish indeed are you mortals, and not able to foresee what is to come to you of good or of evil."
"Foolish indeed are you, Metaneira, for in your heedlessness you have cut off this child from an immortality like to the immortality of the gods themselves. For he had lain in my bosom and had become dear to me and I would have bestowed upon him the greatest gift that the Divine Ones can bestow, for I would have made him deathless and unaging. All this, now, has gone by. Honor he shall have indeed, but Demophoon will know age and death." ”

“ Metatherian mammals, which include the extant marsupials, are the second most diverse major clade of living mammals (~334 species; [1] ) . They are also an ancient group that has its origins deep in the Mesozoic Era. Today, metatherians are abundant and taxonomically and morphologically diverse in Central America, South America, and Australia, and are the dominant mammals on only one continent, Australia. However, during the Late Cretaceous, they were a diverse group on the northern continents of Laurasia. ”

“ Early in August, however, Metea, chief of the Pottawatomies, who lived a little to the west, sought her out and gave her to understand that he knew who she was and to assure her that any message she wished to send to Tecumseh would be transmitted.
“Metea goes to Yondotia (Detroit) ,” he said. “Even now his moccasins are on his feet and his tomahawk in his belt. Has the white maiden any word to send.” ”

“ And Medeia said slowly, "Why should you die? I have an ointment here. I made it from the magic ice-flower. Anoint yourself with that, and you shall have in you the strength of seven, and anoint your shield with it, and neither fire nor sword shall harm you. Anoint your helmet with it, before you sow the serpents' teeth, and when the sons of earth spring up, cast your helmet among them, and every man of them shall perish." ”

“ Metatherians underwent a substantial radiation during the Late Cretaceous, and while several Cretaceous metatherians are known from the Late Cretaceous of Europe and Asia (e.g., [2] ; [24] ; [12] ; [14] ; [25] ) , the majority are known from North America where they are represented almost exclusively by jaws and teeth.
The interrelationships of most major metatherian subclades are unresolved. Several recent cladistic analyses have looked at the higher-level phylogenetic relationships of mammals and have included some Cretaceous and Paleogene metatherian taxa ( [5] ; [38] ; [9] ; [29] ) . ”

“ The village postman conducted us, through a dusky winding road that was all a-twitter with the twilight songs of birds, to a large Swiss cottage that proved to be an inn, where we slept as if we had lived there all our lives.
The chirping of the birds woke us early, and we hastened to pay our visit to la Colonie, as the great Reformatory is cheerfully and properly called. For Mettray is neither more nor less than a collection of farms and factories, carried on by such waifs and strays of society as its humane founders have been able to snatch from destruction. ”

“ This leaves him free to imagine a philosophic explanation of the myth based on the word Metis.**** We may agree with Müller that the "swallow-myth" is extremely archaic in character, as it is so common among the backward races. As to the precise amount, however, of philosophic reflection and allegory which was present to the cosmogonic poet's mind when he used Metis as the name of the being who could become a fly, and so be swallowed by her husband, it is impossible to speak with confidence. ”

“ Then he took the serpents' teeth and sowed them, and waited what would befall. But Medeia looked at him and at his helmet, lest he should forget the lesson she had taught.
And every furrow heaved and bubbled, and out of every clod rose a man. Out of the earth they rose by thousands, each clad from head to foot in steel, and drew their swords and rushed on Jason, where he stood in the midst alone. Then the Minuai grew pale with fear for him; but Aietes laughed a bitter laugh. "See! if I had not warriors enough already round me, I could call them out of the bosom of the earth." ”

“ No, Matty! honor bright, _I_ will not, though that ten cents might give us all a Merry Christmas. Honor bright, I will not treat. But I am not a saint, Matty! If anybody else treats, I must not be expected to be far away.”
Then he wiped her eyes with his own handkerchief and led her in to the service. Their own pew was already full. He had to take her back into Dr. Metcalf’s pew.
So Matty was spared one annoyance which was prepared for her.
Directly in front of her father’s pew, sitting in the most conspicuous seat on the other side of the aisle, was the hateful Mr. Greenhithe. ”

“ Beyond the valleys of the Oued Zeus and Oued Hallouf the road rounds Jebel Tadjera (968 ft.; Poste Optique) . 971⁄2 M. Métameur, formerly a ‘camp militaire’, on the brook of that name, below the small oasis and (1⁄2 hr.) Berber village of Ksar Métameur (391 ft.) , whose storehouses (rhorfas) , with keel-arched vaulting, recall very ancient buildings in Asia Minor.
101 M. Médenine (361 ft.; Médenine Hôtel, R. 21⁄2, B. 1⁄2, déj. 21⁄2 fr., good; pop. 1000, incl. 100 Europeans) , capital of the Ouerghamma (see above) , the league of the Berber tribes Khezour, Touazine, Ouderna, and Accara. ”

“ For here, as in the Frozen North among the Esquimo, and in a number of other cases, the iron available for primitive man was mainly that of meteorite origin.
In view of the relatively small number of meteorites that have fallen in historical times, and of the small part of the earth’s surface actually occupied by human settlements, we need scarcely be surprised at the statement that there is but one credibly recorded instance of the killing of a human being by a meteorite. ”

“ In North America, metatherians were far more numerous and taxonomically diverse than were eutherian mammals, the stem placental mammalian group that is dominant across most of the world today.
Our understanding of metatherian evolution during the Mesozoic and into the early Paleogene has grown rapidly over the past 20 years with the discovery of new fossils and the application of new analytical tools. ”

“ ONCE upon a time, long long years ago, there was a shepherd called Duldy, who dwelt in the forests which clothed the base of the great mountain of Kel. This mountain was in the centre of an immense plain, watered by many rivers, and dotted over with many cities, for the kingdom of Metella was a very rich place indeed, so rich that the inhabitants looked upon gold in the same way as we look upon tin or iron, as quite a common thing. ”

“ I!" cried Miette, running.
When Miette had returned with the articles, Monsieur Roger continued:
"I told you a moment ago that if balloons and smoke and clouds do not fall, it is because they find themselves in the midst of air which is heavier than they are. I am going to try an experiment which will make you understand what I have said."
Monsieur Roger took the cork, raised his hand above his head, and opened his fingers: the cork fell.
"Is it a heavy body?" said he. "Did it fall to the ground?"
"Yes," cried Paul and Miette together. ”

“ From the size of the audience and the air of gravity prevailing, David judged that Metipom had assembled his counselors to learn what the white man could tell them of the trouble between King Philip and the English. ”