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The stairway is of a magnificent, richly figured, claret-red hardwood called tindalo, the favorite material for such construction in the islands. The panels of its wainscoting and the balusters are of a dark velvety epil, so dark and so glossy in some places that it looks almost like agate. All the columns are natural trunks of the palma brava. The Live-Stock Exhibit
When too much moisture approaches their nest, they convey their eggs deeper in the earth, or to some other place of safety. Epil. ad Hist. Insects, p. 153. Phil. Trans. No. 23. Lowthrop. B. 4, c. 13. Aristotle Hist. A friend of mine put about fifty large caterpillars collected from cabbages on some bran and a few leaves into a box, and covered it with gauze to prevent their escape.
'E'en in a bishop I can spy desert; Seeker is decent, Rundel has a heart. Pope, Epil. to Sat. ii. 70. He had never been a Papist, but almost everything else. Our Churchmen will not be Catholics; that stock seems quite fallen. Perhaps the Earl of Corke. Ante, iii. 183.
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