exuvial

In the poet's mind, the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.

Representative Man (1850) 1850

They are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of polecats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn-out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes.

Narratives of the sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke : sons of a soldier of the Revolution, during a captivity of more than twenty years among the slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of North America, by dictated ? 1846

In the poet's mind, the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.

Representative Men Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

In the poet's mind, the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him — an atrior cura at his tail — and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous,

Catherine: a story 1839

-- I have often, I said, fancied that, besides the load of exuvial coats and breeches under which he staggers, there is another weight on him -- an atrior cura at his tail -- and while his unshorn lips and nose together are performing that mocking, boisterous, Jack-indifferent cry of "Clo ', clo'!" who knows what woeful utterances are crying from the heart within?

Catherine: a Story William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

The greatest scoundrel is always captain of the band of patrols; they are the offscouring of all things, the refuse, the fag end, the ears and tails of slavery; the scales and fins of fish, the tooth and tongues of serpents; they are the very fool's cap of baboons, the echo of parrots, the wallet and satchel of pole-cats, the scum of stagnant pools, the exuvial, the worn out skins of slaveholders; they dress in their old clothes;

Narrative of the sufferings of Lewis Clarke : during a captivity of more than twenty-five years, among the Algerines of Kentucky, one of the so called Christian states of America, by dictated 1845

In the poet’s mind the fact has gone quite over into the new element of thought, and has lost all that is exuvial.

Representative Men 2006