Quebracho wood derives its name from two Spanish words, quebrar to break and hache an axe, and this break-axe wood is one of the heaviest and hardest known, weighing some 85 pounds to the cubic foot, or over l/3 more than water, and playing ducks and drakes with axes, saws and other cutting tools.
[…] the book is easily recognized for what it is: a magnificent tour of metazoan relationships, characterized by a cautious, nondogmatic approach to both pattern and process.
The inanity of the British attack is obvious from some of the words the early Disgusteds of Tunbridge Wells complained about.
With this view, they made a Guy Faux, or dummy figure of a boy, dressed in coat and cap; such as might in a poor light be mistaken for a living figure.
