I flung it away from me as I would a worm-eaten apple.
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I am accustomed to hearing malicious falsehoods about myself -- such as that old, worm-eaten chestnut that I have represented myself as indispensable.
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The only other artwork in the old reading room is a Caravaggio still life: a basket of slightly worm-eaten fruit stuck with a few pocked, withered leaves.
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"The brilliant snake's eyes that were set so deep in that dreadful rotting worm-eaten face glared unblinkingly at the witches who sat facing her," he wrote of the Grand High Witch.
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Let's talk about reclaiming wood, which is a process whereby worm-eaten, nail-bitten, weather-beaten pieces of lumber are made valuable by virtue of changing their name and transferring them from a place of neglect, like a barn in an advanced state of decay, to a place of endless want, like the suburbs.
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Chords badly worm eaten. Downstream chord has been reinforced in middle by a timber bolted on. Wood is but little better than a powder from worm action. All signs indicate a new bridge in from 2 to 4 years.
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It is made from a worm-eaten piece of wood, the holes of which were filled with smaller pieces of wood to portray the smallpox scars on the man's face. The wig block is now kept in the Shetland Museum.
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The phossy jaw can be clearly demarcated from similar entities by radiographs. In radiographs, the sequestra present as a typical worm-eaten appearance similar to a pumice stone. Sequestra appear osteoporotic and decalcified. Separation of the dead bone from the surrounding bone appears clearly demarcated in the radiographs.
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Apparently the end of a European or American oar, like tablet A, though of unknown wood, and cut with a steel blade. It measures 71.8 × 9 × 2.8 cm and is not fluted. Side a is worm-eaten and split at its thick end; side b has fire damage.
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Sanding removes all patina, and can change the character of old floors. The result does not always suit the character of the building. Sanding old boards sometimes exposes worm eaten cores, effectively ruining the floor's appearance. This can reduce the sale price, or even cause the floor to require replacement.
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Indeed, transience is suggested in this painting by the worm- eaten apple at the far right (in fact, the painting's entire surface seems to be eaten away by a mysterious process of decay). In the end, however, the moralizing message is far less powerful than Tulipanov's vivid and precise evocation of physical sensation.
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You have just two legs and you walk just fine, so what's wrong > with something that has three legs [pots] taking walks?... As for the giant > mushrooms, those are things people eat. You should go prepare them for the > table. And about the copper columns that you say are worm-eaten, those > things are a thousand years old.
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A rotted unfluted tablet of Pacific rosewood (Orliac 2005), 28.4 × 13.7 × 2.5 cm, M is one of the rongorongo tablets in the worst condition. It evidently lay on side b in damp soil, probably in a cave, for many years. The edges are rotted and the surfaces worm-eaten. Fischer suggests that the gashes on the top and side may have been intentional, for lashings.
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The anchor was manufactured specifically for the site. The anchor was hand-welded using rough iron to give it a unique look. A slightly worm-eaten wooden crossbar was inserted into the top of the anchor. The crossbar was painted black to protect it, and on the crossbar was a brass tablet was riveted to the crossbar on which was written: U. S. S. MAINE Blown Up February Fifteenth, 1898.
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A charred, worm-eaten, and heavily corroded beam, 70.5 × 8 × 2.6 cm of unknown wood. Not fluted. The area of visible inscription on side a (pictured) measures 14 × 5 cm, punctuated with a knothole. Métraux (1938) said of the Honolulu tablets T and U that, :Probably these tablets were kept for some time in a cave, and the side lying on the ground was greatly injured by the damp soil.
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Deciding to return home, Kidd left the Adventure Galley behind, ordering her to be burnt because she had become worm-eaten and leaky. Before burning the ship, he was able to salvage every last scrap of metal, such as hinges. With the loyal remnant of his crew, he returned to the Caribbean aboard the Adventure Prize. Some of his crew later returned to America on their own as passengers aboard Giles Shelley's ship Nassau.
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At the end of this cruise San Bernard returned to Galveston in early September. The ship was badly worm-eaten. Despite authorization to have her repaired in New Orleans, no funds were provided to pay for the work by the Minister of War and Marine. Later that month, the San Bernard was driven ashore by a gale, and lacking the $500 required to refloat her and have her repaired she became a deserted hulk in Galveston harbor.
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Physically, the book has a Tudor period-ornamental binding—itself "very much worm-eaten"—made of wood. This, in turn, is covered by leather, although the back has been replaced more recently than the front. There were once book clasps holding the tome together, but these have both long-since disappeared. One of the covers, says Gairdner, still possesses the brass nails that once held the clasp embedded within it, while the other possesses some of the clasps' ornamental fittings.
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The training Cavarozzi received at Crescenzi's academy can be seen in the still life with skull, rosary, books, and crucifix on the worm-eaten table. Also evident is Caravaggio's style in the remarkable handling of light in the Saint Jerome painting. One author suggested Cavarozzi was the painter known as the Master of the Acquavella Still Life, one of the finest still-life painters of early seventeenth-century Rome, but, this attribution is not universally accepted.Papi, Gianni (2015). Bartolomeo Cavarozzi 1587-1625.
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In each corner of The Court of Women was a roofless chamber 40 meters long and wide. Most commentators believe that the chambers were within the Court of the Women. But it is worth noting the opinion of Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel that the chambers were in fact connected to it from the outside. The Chamber of Wood was in the northeast corner, and is where the priests checked the firewood that was to be burnt on the altar for worm-eaten wood.
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Kristen Millares Young, Port takes step to sell Pier 48 to the state, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 2008. Accessed online 18 October 2008. Citing safety and the expense of maintaining the buildings on the worm-eaten pier, WSDOT demolished the warehouse on the pier in July 2010 in order to use the space as a staging area for the coming demolition of the nearby Alaskan Way Viaduct. Piers 46–48 are roughly in the area once occupied by Ballast Island (see above).
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He had an additional business line of insurance and tax valuations. He was honest in his dealings, generous, plain-speaking (sometimes crude), and "no respecter of persons". When asked by bookseller Gabriel Wells why he was selling Wells an Oscar Wilde manuscript for the price of $1,040, Harzof candidly admitted, "I wanted to make an even thousand-dollar profit". When one wealthy woman did not like his valuation of her worm-eaten books, she accused him of being a "mere junk dealer".
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Alexios III took no effective measures to resist, and his attempts to bribe the crusaders failed. His son-in-law, Theodore Laskaris, who was the only one to attempt anything significant, was defeated at Scutari, and the siege of Constantinople began. Unfortunately for the city, misgovernment by Alexios III had left the Byzantine navy with only 20 worm-eaten hulks by the time the crusaders arrived. In July, the crusaders, led by the aged Doge Enrico Dandolo, scaled the walls and took control of a major section of the city.
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While anchored offshore the ship began to take on more water and the carpenter could do nothing with the worm-eaten planking. As a result, the vessel had to be run aground. Dampier's crew was marooned there for five weeks before being picked up on 3 April by an East Indiaman and returned home in August 1701. Although many papers were lost with Roebuck, Dampier was able to save some new charts of coastlines, and his record of trade winds and currents in the seas around Australia and New Guinea.
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Henrik Ibsen, the "father" of modern drama. Naturalism, a theatrical movement born out of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859) and contemporary political and economic conditions, found its main proponent in Émile Zola. His essay "Naturalism in the Theatre" (1881) argued that poetry is everywhere instead of in the past or abstraction: "There is more poetry in the little apartment of a bourgeois than in all the empty worm-eaten palaces of history." The realisation of Zola's ideas was hindered by a lack of capable dramatists writing naturalist drama.
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During the Reformation, the nunnery was closed in 1580 one year after Marsens Abbey. The inn- restaurant De la Croix d’Or was built over the remains of the convent. The original chapel of Posat was built in the same period than the convent; it was destroyed, then re-built and consecrated in 1675 by the Jesuits. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary, it became a pilgrimage site in the 18th century: the worshippers came there to pray in front of a statue described as "miraculous yet fully worm-eaten".
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An eyewitness account of the last voyage of Cinque Ports was published by William Funnell, an officer on board St George, who went on to circumnavigate the globe after abandoning Dampier in January 1705. The owners of Cinque Ports subsequently took legal action against Dampier over the loss of their ship. According to a deposition given by Selkirk on 18 July 1712, Dampier's failure to advise the owners to have Cinque Ports and St George covered in protective wood sheathing had resulted in "the loss of both ships, for they perished by being worm eaten." Other witnesses supported this allegation.
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On the sides of the > basket are two disembodied shoots: to the right is a grape shoot with two > leaves, both showing severe insect predations resembling grasshopper > feeding; to the left is a floating spur of quince or pear. Much has been made of the worm-eaten, insect-predated, and generally less than perfect condition of the fruit. In line with the culture of the age, the general theme appears to revolve about the fading beauty, and the natural decaying of all things. Scholars also describe the basket of fruit as a metaphor of the Church.
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"Some of us can remember the old south wing – two enormous classrooms on the first floor and one on the ground floor – the rest of the space taken up with wide verandas and staircases, the whole constructed of ancient and somewhat worm- eaten wood, which must have caused a headache to the insurance company; the bad lighting and amazing discomforts which would not be tolerated by modern schoolboys." During this time, the enrolment soared to 300 and extensions became necessary. In 1911, the Wu Ting Fang Hall and St. Paul's Church were erected. In 1914, St. Paul's Girls School (now St. Paul's Co-educational College) was founded by Rev.
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While on an alms round, the sage of Geumgang Temple journeys to the house of a rich man (Korean: jangja) in Hamgyong Province who has accumulated wealth for a thousand years. When the man refuses to give him alms and abuses him, the sage curses the house. His pots will go on walks, mushrooms will sprout in his rice bags, his thousand-year-old copper columns will be worm-eaten, and so forth, and when such things happen he should know that he is "done for." The rich man's daughter-in-law warns him that the sage is cursing them, but he admonishes her for wanting to let vagrants in the house.
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Carina Garland notes how the world is "expressed via representations of food and appetite", naming Alice's frequent desire for consumption (of both food and words), her 'Curious Appetites'. Often, the idea of eating coincides to make gruesome images. After the riddle "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?", the Hatter claims that Alice might as well say, "I see what I eat…I eat what I see" and so the riddle's solution, put forward by Boe Birns, could be that "A raven eats worms; a writing desk is worm-eaten"; this idea of food encapsulates idea of life feeding on life itself, for the worm is being eaten and then becomes the eater a horrific image of mortality.
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After graduating from the Medical School in 1909, he spent the early days of his career as a venereologist, rather than pursuing his goal of being a pediatrician, as syphilis was highly prevalent during those times. It was during those early years that he described the affectation and characteristics of syphilis affecting the bones. He described the abnormal and concomitant change of the outline of the crests of the shin-bones with a pathological worm-eaten like appearance and creation of abnormal osteophytes in the bones of those suffering from later stages of syphilis. This became known as "Bulgakov's Sign" and is commonly used in the former Soviet states, but is known as the "Bandy Legs Sign" in the west.
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To get the all-important appearance of antiquity Mizner inflicted vandalism. He deliberately smudged up new rooms with burning pots of tarpaper, took penknife to woodwork and statuary, chipped tiles, used acid to rust the iron, made wormholes with an icepick, cracked a mantle with a sledgehammer, all creating what he called "the kiss of the centuries." He hired inexperienced help to lay roof tiles awry, and once had men in hobnailed boots walk up and down a stairway before the cement set to get the effect of centuries of wear. One of his original contributions to architecture was the discovery that worm-eaten cypress gave the desired effect of age; thus "pecky" cypress, weak and worthless for structural elements, suddenly became the mahogany paneling of Palm Beach.
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The first line of the stone presents the fivefold royal titulary of the king: "The living Horus: Who prospers the Two Lands; the Two Ladies: Who prospers the Two Lands; the King of Upper and Lower Egypt: Neferkare; the Son of Re: [Shabaka], beloved of Ptah-South-of-His-Wall, who lives like Re forever." The first three names emphasize the king's manifestation as a living god (especially of the falcon-headed Horus, patron god to the Egyptian kings), while the latter two names (the king's throne name and birth name) refer to Egypt's division and unification. The second line, a dedicatory introduction, states that the stone is a copy of the surviving contents of a worm-eaten papyrus Shabaka found as he was inspecting the Great Temple of Ptah.
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After the 13-day journey from the port of Jaffa "which had been one continued series of privations and disagreeable incidents of every kind", Forbin observed of Damietta, > The streets are narrow and unpaved, and the houses made of bricks, but the > whole are half destroyed. You cannot walk in the town, without being under > apprehensions of some worm-eaten post or projecting part of a building > falling on you: the whole surface is covered with dust and rottenness; the > mosques have lost their gates, and the minarets threaten to crush the > passenger with dilapidated and half broken down arches. They returned by the Nile to Cairo, where they disembarked in December 1818. Forbin provided a detailed illustration of Giovanni Belzoni's plans for penetration of the "second pyramid".
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Trotsky wrote several dispatches describing the atrocities: "An individual, a group, a party or a class that is capable of 'objectively' picking its nose while it watches men drunk with blood, and incited from above, massacring defenceless people is condemned by history to rot and become worm-eaten while it is still alive". A British Foreign Office report noted a telegram from the Italian consul in Skopje: "Atrocities being committed by Serbian troops and their evident intention of extirpating as many of the Albanian inhabitants as possible". A Swiss engineer employed as an overseer for the Oriental Railway submitted a report to the British embassy in Belgrade detailing Skopje after the arrival of Serbian troops. The report called the conduct of Serbs toward the Muslim population "cruel in every way", appearing to "have for its object their complete extermination".
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Ken ye how to gain a Whig, Aikendrum, Aikendrum Ken > ye how to gain a Whig, Aikendrum Look Jolly, blythe and big, take his ain > blest side and prig, And the poor, worm-eaten Whig, Aikendrum, Aikendrum For > opposition's sake you will win! Sir Walter Scott in his novel The Antiquary (1816) refers to Aiken Drum in a story told by an old beggar about the origins of what has been perceived by the protagonist as a Roman fort. The beggar tells him that it was actually built by him and others for "auld Aiken Drum's bridal" and that one of the masons cut the shape of a ladle into the stone as a joke on the bridegroom. The reference suggests that the rhyme, and particularly the chorus, was well enough known in the early nineteenth century for the joke to be understood.
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James Gordon Bennett, Sr., founder of the New York Herald. The New York Herald was founded on May 6, 1835 by James Gordon Bennett, a Scottish immigrant who came to the United States aged 24. Bennett, a firm Democrat, had established a name in the newspaper business in the 1820s with dispatches sent from Washington, D.C. to the New York Enquirer, most sharply critical of President John Quincy Adams and Secretary of State Henry Clay; one historian called Bennett "the first real Washington reporter". Bennett was also a pioneer in crime reporting; while writing about a murder trial in 1830, the attorney general of Massachusetts attempted to restrict the coverage of the newspapers: Bennett criticized the move as an "old, worm- eaten, Gothic dogma of the Court...to consider the publicity given to every event by the Press, as destructive to the interests of law and justice".
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We showed him the > remnants of the once-famous "Araratian Library" and placed in his hands an > Armenian work, printed by Jacob Shameer at Madras, in 1772, thinking we were > showing him a rare publication, but he said that he had seen it already in > the Madras Armenian Church Library. He then desired to see the manuscripts > and was visibly disappointed on learning that they had disappeared long ago. > The Araratian Library having ceased to exist with the mysterious > disappearance of the numerous books and manuscripts in the Armenian, > English, Latin, Greek, French, Dutch, Persian, Chinese and other tion in the > church library. When we looked at the books, we found that most of them were > worm-eaten but the older 17th and 18th century ones were in better shape > than the newer ones because paper used to be made from cotton rags rather > than wood pulp combined with softening chemicals.
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" The doctrine of the "impenetrable sphere" of pure > "Cambodian art" is shown clearly by the absence of French personnel in > official photos taken of the School and its students shortly after it was > put under Groslier and his French colleagues. In 1923, a visiting French journalist, François de Tessan, arrived at the school and came away with a very favorable impression of both the school and Groslier, who proudly described to de Tessan its dedicated masters and students: > "As you can see," [Groslier] told me, "we have settled in and are well > equipped. But for two years, at its very beginnings, the School of Arts was > functioning in a dark, nondescript warehouse a third the size of what was > needed... Every night during the rainy season we had to remove every piece > of silk from the looms, because of leaks in our worm-eaten roof. It was a > tedious task for masters and students alike.
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Of the forty objects meditated upon as kammatthana, the first ten are 'things that one can behold directly', 'kasina', or 'a whole': : (1) earth, (2) water, (3) fire, (4) air, wind, (5) blue, (6) yellow, (7) red, (8) white, (9) enclosed space, (10) bright light. The next ten are objects of repulsion (asubha): : (1) swollen corpse, (2) discolored, bluish, corpse, (3) festering corpse, (4) fissured corpse, (5) gnawed corpse, (6,7) dismembered, or hacked and scattered, corpse, (8) bleeding corpse, (9) worm-eaten corpse, (10) skeleton. Ten are recollections (anussati): : First three recollections are of the virtues of the Three Jewels: ::(1) Buddha ::(2) Dharma ::(3) Sangha : Next three are recollections of the virtues of: ::(4) morality (Śīla) ::(5) liberality (cāga) ::(6) the wholesome attributes of Devas : Recollections of: ::(7) the body (kāya) ::(8) death (see Upajjhatthana Sutta) ::(9) the breath (prāna) or breathing (ānāpāna) ::(10) peace (see Nibbana). Four are stations of Brahma (Brahma-vihara): :(1) unconditional kindness and goodwill (mettā) :(2) compassion (karuna) :(3) sympathetic joy over another's success (mudita) :(4) evenmindedness, equanimity (upekkha) Four are formless states (four arūpajhānas): :(1) infinite space :(2) infinite consciousness :(3) infinite nothingness :(4) neither perception nor non-perception.
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