The rubber band stretched almost to the breaking point.
Thesse men did much in order to publicke good, befor they spake biglie; bot done nothing since, saue that they haue drawin away considerable forces, raissed at wast charges for the publicke defence.
The present war has so adulterated our tongue with strange words, that it would be impossible for one of our great grandfathers to know what his posterity have been doing, were he to read their exploits in a modern newspaper.
While photic autotrophic cyanobacterial diazotrophs require light, P and iron for their activity, non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs may exploit a variety of metabolisms for their nutrition, including phototrophy in the sunlit layer, chemolithoautotrophy and chemoorganoheterotrophy, which could be also present in aphotic waters.