C, Oral aspect of Arachnactis brachiolata, the larva of Cerianthus, with seven tentacles.
The Romance of 'Antar (Sirat 'Antar ibn Shaddad) is a work which was long handed down by oral tradition only, has grown to immense proportions and has been published in 32 vols.
But as against those advantages, which we have had, there is the advantage of months of direct exposure to the oral evidence, which he had.
With the benefit of the very full written and oral arguments submitted by counsel, the Court is now in a position to given judgment before the end of the year.
And yet that child began to practiseoral composition at the age of eighteen months, and at the age of three was able to use complex sentences with freedom and skill.
And it is because the oral lesson necessarily counts for so much, that the over-grouping of classes, with all its attendant evils, is so widely practised.
For twenty years they had taught the class subjects by the one safe method of vigorous oral cram.
There are still many schools in which this ridiculous practice lingers, and in which it constitutes the only attempt at oral composition that the child is allowed to make.
And both he and his teacher flattered themselves that this waste of words was oral composition!
Where it has died out the idea of teaching oral composition has too often died with it.
That is the type of oral lesson which is most common at the present day.
The consequence is that there are many schools in which the teacher now does everything during the oral lesson, while the child does as nearly as possible nothing.
The case of oral composition in the unemancipated elementary school is even more hopeless than that of written composition.
It is in the oral lesson that one would expect oral composition to be taught or at any rate practised.
In the days of payment by results separate and variable grants were given for these subjects; and which, if either, of two grants should be recommended depended in each case on the result of an oral examination conducted by H.
Oral tradition was well kept up among the Maori, and certain of them may be termed deep scholars in it.
Such as they are, they are mostly gathered from the oral narrations of eye-witnesses, both English and Maori, whose testimony I feel more inclined to believe than that of some printed accounts I have seen.
One might as well try to imagine Drake's "World Encompassed" handed down by oraltradition from the days of Queen Elizabeth to the days of Queen Victoria.
Now I do not suppose it will occur to any rational being to suggest that Hauk may have written down his version of Eric the Red's Saga from an oral tradition nearly three centuries old.
Sidenote: The story is not likely to have been preserved to Hauk's time by oral tradition only.
After several futile attempts to replace the ootheca in the hole, the female finally left the egg case on the floor of the cage and coated it with an oral secretion to which she attached bits of trash.
Hafez and Afifi (1956) reported that in Egypt Supella supellectilium attaches its ootheca to a suitable substrate with a gummy oral secretion but leaves the egg capsule otherwise exposed.
Both species placed a stickyoral secretion in the holes and then deposited their oothecae therein.
The account was drawn up by Witsen from an oral communication by one of the shipwrecked men, Rodivan Ivanov, who was for several years mate on a Russian vessel, employed in seal-fishing on the coast of Novaya Zemlya and Vaygats Island.
Others with a higher sense of duty brought forward a scheme of oralinstruction in Christian truth or of religion without letters.
The Sabbath-schools in which so many colored people there had learned to read and write had by 1834 restricted their work to oral instruction.
Moreover, because there was neither literary nor systematic oral instruction of the colored members of southern congregations, uniting with the Church made no change in the condition of the slaves.
Those three were negatived by an oral vote, and were not pushed to an actual division.
It is not usual to ask on Friday questions requiring an oral answer.
Doubtless some of it was still current in the form of oraltradition when the chronicler wrote, and owed to him its permanent record.
Hebrew slowly ceased to be the vernacular language, and was supplanted by Aramaic; the ancient history only reached the people by means of an oral translation.
In the perversions which claim sexual significance for the oral cavity and the anal opening the part played by the erogenous zone is quite obvious.
And since the opportunities for oral practice enormously outbalance those for written, it is the oral which are chiefly significant in the development of literary power.
As a rule, language once within our control can be employed for oral or for written purposes.
It must be compared with and tested by other records, for in these ancient days calculations were not unfrequently based on doubtful inscriptions, or mere oral traditions, perhaps.
Unfortunately, however, no trace can be obtained of the pre-existing Sumerian oral version which the theorizing priests infused with such sublime symbolism.
The ecclesiastical fathers mention a few sayings or events, the knowledge of which they drew from oral tradition or from writings that have since been lost.
It is evident that the great mass of this poetry died with the occasion that brought it forth, or lingered in oral tradition, exposed to a thousand chances of oblivion.
Ballads have a narrative; and this story in them has proved antiseptic, defying the chances of oral transmission.
Far be it from me to undervalue the oral teaching of the ministry.
Both are, as they should be, combined in the ministrations of the church; but the ceremonial fixes the oral teaching.
Jesus broke the Oral Law that he might bring his followers to a sense of its degrading spirit, and announced the new truth that "The Sabbath is made for man; not and for the Sabbath.
But the scene was drawing to a close; Jesus went on with his work after this tumult in the synagogue, opposing himself to the senseless rites of the Pharisees, defying the oral law, healing the sick, and preaching to the people.
When once embodied in a rite, the impressions of oral instruction, which otherwise so easily pass away, live for ever.
His first aim was to win the Jews from the Oral Law, to convince them of its emptiness; it is the key to the following scenes graphically depicted by Mr. Dixon.
But this is not the case, the Quakers say, with any oral worship.
If impressions should be afforded to them, but no impulse to oral delivery, they remain equally silent.
Volapük was almost the first real attempt at an organic language capable of being used for the oral transmission of thought.
Mouth permanently open against the endosarc, provided with 1 or 2 undulating membranes often prolonged into an inturned pharynx; ingestion by action of oral ciliary apparatus.
