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Since then, the earl had seen people dying in the great plague, the clergy conspicuous by its absence.
Among the most conspicuous of the first colonisers at Mount St Helens was the common raven, known to eat almost anything, including carrion.
Grasses were also a very conspicuous element of the vegetation and included the attractive Lagurus ovatus.
These, like most happenings, were characterized by a conspicuous lack of narrative sense.
The cells possessed eosinophilic cytoplasm, well-defined cell borders, and vesicular nuclei with small, conspicuous nucleoli.
Palaeozoic volcanicity was conspicuous along active continental margins especially where there was subduction.
The most commonly known varieties of vespids are the social wasps, with their conspicuous paper-like nests and sometimes aggressive behavior.
The most conspicuous symptom is coloration between the main veins of the leaf, which becomes particularly noticeable around veraison.
I'm only picking on the brothers who wear the bling because of hip-hop's wide-reaching and conspicuous influence.
We managed to clean up before we called for help so as not to look conspicuous but, boy!
Their typical slinkiness was as conspicuous as an uncloaked ghost floating over the Arc de Triomphe.
Accentuate the important layer with a conspicuous colour and use various shades of grey or undertints for the others.
As a result, they may undersell their strengths in order to avoid being singled out and made to feel conspicuous.
The succession begins with a conspicuous brown sideritic crust above the last rich cheiloceratid fauna.
They show conspicuous white edgings in the wing-coverts and an absence of a white neck-patch.
The elaborate floral displays of bikes and tricolours which many French villages put up were conspicuous by their absence.
Several invertebrate groups that are conspicuous deep sea benthos are rare or absent from vent communities.
Only a few shells measured had teeth or conspicuous apertural thickening, and these features were not measured in this study.
Less conspicuous species are woolly plantain, wild four-o'clock, yellow stargrass, and false toadflax.
These teens manifest a conspicuous sensualism and seek to push the pedal on life's enjoyments to the max.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The tree frogs of the Hyla rubra group are abundant and form a conspicuous element of the Neotropical frog fauna.
They were a strikingly handsome couple, for Colonel Schaumburg was as magnificent in appearance as he was conspicuous in courage.
The sclerenchymatous ring though present is very narrow and not very conspicuous.
It is what the lawyers would describe as the most conspicuous instance of self-incrimination on record.
The variety which is so conspicuous in the architectural construction of the pyramids is also to be found in their epigraphy.
But in every other sense, in all that touches the fathomable business of daylight, she has been a conspicuous success.
This resourcefulness and fertility of method are conspicuous characteristics of him.
Floating in nebulous masses about the blackberry thicket, the delicately conspicuous hue of the fireweed catches the eye.
This makes it very conspicuous in the middle of the flat white flower head.
Between these limits it fluctuates in a somewhat irregular way, in which the property of periodicity is not conspicuous.
No class of society, not even the most abjectly poor, forgoes all customary conspicuous consumption.
In the Achorutidae the head is forwardly directed, the tergum of the prothorax conspicuous, and the spring small or vestigial.
Four egg-sacs, or gonads, are conspicuous in horseshoe shape around the center of the disk.
This bag is very conspicuous in the granivorous tribes immediately after eating.
The Jupiter, with the Great Red Spot conspicuous in the southern hemisphere, is by Dr. Common.
Any poetry that is marked by violence, that is conspicuous in color, that is sensationally odd, makes an immediate appeal.
We find none of the marks of inexperience and archaism which are so conspicuous in the statues of sepa and Nesa.
There was about an acre of clear ground, covered with grass and flowers, among which helianthus and blue lupines were conspicuous.
It had been about as conspicuous as a snowflake would have been in a glass of milk.
This star will be conspicuous in the evening hours throughout the summer months, as will also the less brilliant spica in Virgo.
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