"Missing link" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in America, a girl of seven named "Krao," a native of Indo-China. The whole body of this child was covered with black hair. Her face was of the prognathic type, and this, with her extraordinary prehensile powers of feet and lips, gave her the title of "Darwin's missing link." In 1875 there was exhibited in Paris, under the name of "l'homme-chien" Adrien Jeftichew, a Russian peasant of fifty-five, whose face, head, back, and limbs were covered with a brown hairy coat looking like wool and several centimeters long. The other ...
— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould
... chain there came to be, in time, a "missing link;" the mother's life went out, and from the darkened fireside vanished the little flock, scattered through various ways to ...
— The World As I Have Found It - Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl • Mary L. Day Arms
... rather because, of them, his meek submission to the punishment of others, and the many similarly pleasing characteristics of this amusing work, being most imperfectly conveyed. By permitting myself a reasonable freedom of rendering—in many cases boldly supplying that "missing link" between the sublime and the ridiculous which the author, writing for the acute monkish apprehension of the 13th century, did not deem it necessary to insert—I have hoped at least partially to liberate the lurking devil of humor from his fetters, letting him caper, ...
— Shapes of Clay • Ambrose Bierce
... and for what? A lingering longing, dark and ill-defined, A something wanting, but I know it not, A missing link it is not mine to find, A flaming fire that scorches up the mind And goads me ever onward—onward where? I pray—I gasp for light—for I am blind, The light that never, never will be there; What can that something be my ...
— The Minstrel - A Collection of Poems • Lennox Amott |
