(1) The aspidistra of the book's title comes from the pot plants to be found on every window sill which, for Comstock, symbolise all that is wrong with the "mingy, lower-class decency" he is desperate to escape.
Miny
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with mines; like a mine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(4) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(5) Values obtained by combining Mini-ESR with indices of the African Neonates were 100%, 85% and 94%.
(6) The capabilities of a mini-computer-oriented permanent pacemaker information system are described.
(7) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(8) We infer that a 5' cap is present on both of these RNAs and conclude that the mini-exon-derived RNA donates its 5' cap along with the mini-exon sequence to the pre-mRNA.
(9) EGF receptor-hyperproducing cells of squamous carcinoma origin were inoculated s.c. into the bilatero-abdominal regions of athymic mice and a mini-osmotic pump containing EGF was implanted on teh back.
(10) Mini-P1 plasmids and mini-F plasmids could not be introduced into the delta hupA-delta hupB double deletion mutant.
(11) However, insertion of a minitracheostomy tube over a dilator passed through an incision through the cricothyroid membrane (the suggested method of insertion of the 'Mini-trach II', [Portex]), can prove difficult.
(12) The gabCTDP gene cluster, which specifies and regulates synthesis of the gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) transport carrier, of glutamate-succinic semialdehyde transaminase, and of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, responsible for the uptake and metabolism of gamma-aminobutyric acid in Escherichia coli K-12, was cloned in vivo, using the mini-Mu replicon bacteriophage Mu dI5086 as the vector.
(13) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
(14) Reliable and valid instruments, the Hamilton Rating Scale, the Visual Analogue Mood Scale, the Present State Exam, and the Mini-Mental State Exam were employed to display the psychopathology.
(15) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
(16) With the SIDAM score (SISCO) [range 0 (minimum)-55 (maximum, no cognitive impairment)] and the SIDAM Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) (range 0-30), appropriate cutoffs for the category of DSM-III-R and ICD-10 dementia and "mild cognitive impairment" were defined.
(17) For each participant, we completed a questionnaire for the subject and an informant and a functional-capacity scale and Mini-Mental Status Examination by a community nurse, including the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale.
(18) This article describes a mini-unit to help teachers prevent molestation of elementary school children.
(19) The purpose of the 1988 Mini-Survey was the collection of up-to-date data from the ACNM membership, focusing on nurse-midwifery income.
(20) Clinical assessments employed the UBC scale and "Mini-Mental State" examination; neurophysiologic measurements were undertaken on wrist rigidity and speed and accuracy of hand movement, and toxicity screening tests were compared.