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  • The northern crayfish frog, eastern fence lizard, ground skink, and broadheaded skink are common in the Southern Illinoian Till Plain (72j), but are rare in the Illinois/Indiana Prairies (54a) (Illinois Natural History Survey, on-line resource).

    Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA) 2008

  • This should have happened last week, but longtime PT contributor and author of the much-beloved “The Quixotic Message”, or “No Free Hunch”, and also the equally beloved Quixotic References, formerly known as theyeti, and catcher of broadheaded skinks and legless glass lizards, mild critic of hydrogen as an alternative fuel, HAS SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED HIS PHD!

    The Panda's Thumb: April 2006 Archives 2006

  • This should have happened last week, but longtime PT contributor and author of the much-beloved “The Quixotic Message”, or “No Free Hunch”, and also the equally beloved Quixotic References, formerly known as theyeti, and catcher of broadheaded skinks and legless glass lizards, mild critic of hydrogen as an alternative fuel, HAS SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED HIS PHD!

    A new Dr. Steve - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • The hatchways were secured with upright elm stanchions in a stout framing, the whole rendered impervious to any attempt at cutting them by having innumerable broadheaded nails driven home as close together as possible into every portion of the stanchions and frame that was exposed to view.

    Ralph Rashleigh 2004

  • Then, smiling the while, the Suta's son, that great bowman, with another broadheaded shaft, felled the head-gear of Kunti's son.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • Barbed arrows and Nalikas and broadheaded shafts are capable of being extracted from the body.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • A fine specimen of the latter stands at the entrance to the village, not a broadheaded tree, as is usual in the prime of its existence, but a mass of trunks irregularly throwing out immense branches in a most picturesque manner; the original trunk is apparently gone, and the principal mass of root stems is fenced in.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

  • Even as I can wishe, quoth Lionello, for I have been with my mistrisse, and have found her so tractable, that I hope to make the olde peasant, her husband, looke broadheaded by a paire of browantlers.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • "Ruthenians are still more broadheaded than the Great Russians," we learn.

    NYT > Home Page By LAWRENCE DOWNES 2011

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