word of the day: nervy, founder By 1972 the only males nervy or oblivious enough to cross between the subgroups were Hugo and Goliath, the two oldest males,...
word of the day: homebody Alongside other students and a growing corps of Tanzanian field assistants, I followed chimpanzees from dawn to dusk whenever...
word of the day: raid Defense of territory is widespread among many species, but the Kasekela chimpanzees were doing more than defending. They didn't wait to...
word of the day: sapling, steals forward After six minutes of waiting for the walker to appear, the tension is too much for the alpha male. But he can't walk...
word of the day: barrage, lolling It began as a border patrol. At one point they sat still on a ridge, staring down into Kahama Valley for more than...
word of the day: clique, careen In 1987 I joined Gilbert Isabirye-Basuta in his study of chimpanzees in the Kibale Forest, Western Uganda. One of the...
word of the day: barter, patrilineal And third, both in the field and in the laboratory, studies of chimpanzee behavior are producing numerous, increasingly...
word of the day: inexorable Bonobos are critical to the vision we will develop in this book, and they are fascinating especially because of their remarkable...
On the subject of the Wooster brain, opinions seem to diverge somewhat. Considering that I am almost constantly occupied in pondering fruity schemes of great...
Thus it was that while I was chewing somewhat the lower lip and frowning the brow to no little extent while taking a walk in Picadilly Circus after another of...
I was indeed chafing quite a bit on this dark-fated afternoon; not only had Jeeves again delivered those aforementioned derogatory comments, but only the day...
While I was thus trying to devise some means to put down this proud man's contumely of his, if ‘contumely’ means what I think, by some definitive and ...
... - Halloa halloa Wooster! said he, as he came within speaking distance. - What ho what ho what ho!, I replied civilly, smiling benignently as I approved his...
No man is quicker then Bertram Wooster to bury his dark thoughts and troubles to congratulate a chap who just won the first prize, especially so if the...
Such was the effect of this vision on me that it seemed that there must be something after all in all this idea of learning and studying. Add to this that the...
- Well, Sir, he said in a muffled tone, I fear that the situation of a student working towards a Ph.D. will no be congenial to you. It is a hard and unmerciful...
- Alaistair, I managed to articulate. This is no time for jest or jokes. One thing bears heavily on my mind. Charlotte has just said tonight that I was wedded...
The Caliph Harun al-Rashid once slept with three slave-girls, a Meccan, a Medinite and an Irakite. The Medinah girl put her hand to his yard and handled it,...
politburo Mao Zedong (1893-12-26 to 1976-09-09) was the chairman of the Politburo of the Communist Party of China from 1943 and the chairman of the Central ...
Know, O Commander of the Faithful, that I had a father who, after fulfilling his time, deceased and left me great store of wealth. I remained single for a...
When the old woman entered she salamed to me and kissing the ground before me, said, “I have at home an orphan daughter and this night are her wedding and...
So pity get hold on me and compassion and I said, “Hearing is consenting and, please Allah, I will do somewhat more for her; nor shall she be shown to her...
Arrived at the gate, before which hung a black curtain, the old woman knocked and it was opened to us; when we entered and found a vestibule spread with...
Then sat she down and said to me, O my sister, I have a brother who hath had sight of thee at sundry wedding feasts and festive seasons: he is a youth...
But she answered, "Now whist! just let him kiss thee and neither speak to him nor lean over him, so shalt thou keep shine oath and thy silver, and no harm...
Then he repeated to the slave, “Smite her, O Sa'ad!” And when the slave who was sitting upon me made sure of the command he bent down to me and said, “O ...
Deep sea fish is a term for fish that live below the photic zone of the ocean. Examples include the lanternfish, flashlight fish, cookie-cutter shark and...
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