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Well, that's my rant; long, I know; anthea, I think, by the way, I might know of you .... do you have an Aussie (ex English) friend called Lynda?
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Susan is prominent in the field of translation studies, and Peter has also been an academic and is a noted translator from Spanish. on 17 Jan 2007 at 10: 28 pm michael b google is also a friend to fans of translators! thank you anthea bell for your work. we have especially enjoyed reading your translation of ottfried preussler aloud at bedtime. on 25 Mar 2007 at 5: 45 pm Ravina
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » INTERVIEW: Anthea Bell, Part 1 2006
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But since the Naples variety contains a certain amount of ordinary green pigment, and since the Trieste variety is tolerably sure to contain some algæ, both spectroscopists have been operating on a mixture of two wholly distinct pigments -- diatom-yellow and anthea-green.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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Thus, then, the coloring matter described as chlorophyl by Lankester has really been mainly derived from that of the endodermal algæ of the variety _plumosa_, which predominates at Naples; while the anthea-green of Krukenberg must mainly consist of the green pigment of the ectoderm, since the Trieste variety evidently does not contain algæ in any great quantity.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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POSTSCRIPT ainei de palaion men oinon, anthea d 'hymnon neôterôn+
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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+Transliteration: ainei de palaion men oinon, anthea d 'hymnon neôterôn.
Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866
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Qui mæstos hyacinthos, et picti [Greek: anthea] tophi
Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Henry Vaughan 1658
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Buy a Contemporary, Save the World: Flat Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy kate r said ... absolutely anthea.
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Buy a Contemporary, Save the World: Flat Out Sexy by Erin McCarthy kate r said ... absolutely anthea.
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So, too, did a beautiful rose and white dianthus, which Dick had picked up adhering to an ugly old oyster-shell; and, the even rarer anthea, whose long hanging filaments were never altogether withdrawn into its body when disturbed, as was the case with the other sea-anemones, and which were thus a constant source of alarm to Bob's little crabs; for, it was ever listlessly waving perilously near these nervous creatures, making them hurry out of their way in such frantic haste as their lateral conformation permitted.
Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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