Lexicographical Neighbors of Appresses
Literary usage of Appresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... but in alarm it appresses all the feathers, and, stretching out the neck to
get a good view of distant danger, appears extremely slender, ..."
2. Spolia Zeylanica by Colombo Museum, National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"Contrary to the usual habit of plume motha, this species appresses itself closely
to the surface on which it is resting ; also it frequently settles on the ..."
3. Proceedings of the Essex Institute by Essex Institute (1868)
"... the muscle runs to a point above, and is fleshy throughout. It approximates
mid appresses the marsupial bones, counteracting the obliquus ..."
4. Paulinism: A Contribution to the History of Primitive Christian Theology by Otto Pfleiderer (1877)
"... and the wall partition taken out of the way is the guilt before God which
appresses the world of sinners, or, in other words, the bond of the condemning ..."
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