"Discrete" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and vnlearned, nobles and men of baser sorte, aged fathers and tendre damiselles, and finailie the bones of the dead, as well women as men haue tasted of their tyrannie, so that now not onlie the blood of father Latimer, of the milde man of God the bishop of Cantorburie, of learned and discrete Ridley, of innocent ladie Iane dudley, and many godly and worthie preachers, that can not be forgotten, such as fier hath consumed, and the sworde of tyrannie moste vniustlie hath shed, doth call for vengeance in the eares of the Lord God of hostes: ...
— The First Blast of the Trumpet against the monstrous regiment - of Women • John Knox
... the first two or three tubes of the series will probably be so crowded as to be useless. Toward the end of the series, however, discrete colonies will be found, each of which can be transferred to a fresh tube of nutrient medium without risk of contamination from ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... infants prattling at his knees. Let therefore Diomede beware, lest strong And valiant as he is, he chance to meet 490 Some mightier foe than thou, and lest his wife, Daughter of King Adrastus, the discrete AEgialea, from portentous dreams Upstarting, call her family to wail Her first-espoused, Achaia's proudest boast, 485 Diomede, whom she must behold no more. She said, and from her wrist with both hands wiped The trickling ichor; the effectual touch Divine chased all her pains, and ...
— The Iliad of Homer - Translated into English Blank Verse • Homer
... are begun with a center circle of discrete tied yarn. Ten large loops are cast onto this. In the next round, each of the large loops has three loops tied onto it with the continuous cord, making a total of 30 loops for the circumference of the net (fig. 4). The gauge of the succeeding ...
— A Burial Cave in Baja California - The Palmer Collection, 1887 • William C. Massey
... paints its objects. Science is necessarily abstract, discrete; art necessarily concrete. So true is this, that when art begins to decline, it manifests a tendency to pass from the concrete to the discrete, abstract; it becomes self-conscious, reflective, scientific. ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 • Various
... said. The words were brittle and discrete. They hung in memory and the listeners waited as though for an echo of something shouted into a canyon. The echo ...
— General Max Shorter • Kris Ottman Neville |
