"Pappus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pappus, downy, soft, Follows with pistils loose, And the gosling of the early spring Becomes a ...
— Our Profession and Other Poems • Jared Barhite
... (Tragopogon pratensis).—Beautiful when open early in the day, beautiful when the long calyx is closed, and most beautiful with its handsome winged pappus—King's Lane, Otterbourne Churchyard. ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge
... of the Council of Nicea, affirms that "except Constantine and Sabinus, Bishop of Pamphilus, these bishops were a set of illiterate, simple creatures that understood nothing"; which is as though he had said they were a pack of fools. And Pappus, in his Synodicon to that Council of Nicea, lets us into the secret that the Canon was not decided by a careful comparison of several gospels before them, but by a lottery. Having, he tells us, "promiscuously put all ...
— The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons • H.S. Olcott |
