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When the embryo has become partly developed, it detaches itself from the parent sponge, and, issuing from the oscula, propels itself through the water by means of a number of flagella. Silicious spicules next appear in its structure, and it then attaches itself to a rock and assumes its mature form.
It waves to and fro in the water, and the collection of lashes we see in any one chamber acts as a veritable brush, which by its movement not only sweeps water in by the pores, but sends it onwards through the sponge, and in due time sends it out by the bigger holes, or oscula. This constant circulation in the sponge discharges more than one important function.
But the school would be closed for the Christmas holidays, the children dispersed to their homes and happy. Limen amabile Matris et oscula . . . He had ordered claret a bottle of Lafitte, the best the house could produce and the waiter, impressed a little by the choice, now appeared noiselessly, almost deferentially, at his elbow, and poured out a first glassful of the wine. 'Waiter! 'Yessir!
Et siquid doliturus eris, sine testibus illis! Cum venient, siccis oscula falle genis: Sat tibi sint noctes quas de me, Paule, fatiges, Somniaque in faciem reddita saepe meam. In these lines, hardly to be read without tears, Propertius for once rises into that clear air in which art passes beyond the reach of criticism.
Nay, in the last capital, being, as it were, the cope-stone which our blessed founder placed on the pure and undefiled doctrine which he had enjoined, we are prohibited from offering, even to our sisters and our mothers, the kiss of affection 'ut omnium mulierum fugiantur oscula'. I shame to speak I shame to think of the corruptions which have rushed in upon us even like a flood.
"I know it must be good." "It is," smiled Keith. "I am engaged to be married." The old gentleman's book fell to the floor. "You don't say so! Ah, that's very good! Very good! I am glad of that; every young man ought to marry. There is no happiness like it in this world, whatever there may be in the next. "'Interea dulces pendent circum oscula nati. "I will come and see you," he smiled.
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