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silurian
1. The high sea levels of the Silurian
2. Silurian icecaps were less extensive than those of the late
3. At the end of the Silurian, sea levels dropped again,
4. Only during the Late Silurian
5. We gathered, dressed in our kit, stood straight and waited, and when the door opened, Ambrosius himself came in with a train of high ranking captains following, with lawyers and priests and officials, and they all packed into the room so Ambrosius could formally announce that his daughter was going to marry the young Silurian warrior, Arthur, son of Uthyr Pendragon
6. He might not be so willing to kiss your Silurian arse for everything you want if the baby is a girl
7. His Silurian cloak was rolled up across his horse’s rump and his sword was at his side—though not the one he wanted, the magic sword he had taken in war from the red-bearded Saxon
8. And what they saw was a true Silurian, standing stock-still and wearing his Silurian cloak, colours deep blue, bright gold and black
9. He turned his head to his right, indicating without words that it would be the Silurian standing at his back as his guard
10. It was the meanest, hardest, fiercest battle our Silurian ever led us into
11. These Saxon youths thought they could take our land from us, but they could not have it while this dark-eyed Silurian stood in their way
12. That I had chosen some wild Silurian over my own kinsmen
13. “How can you resist it? Look at it! I swear to you, it’s eight inches of pure Silurian rod
14. Somehow the Silurian had made it all One
15. He said, “How could I have ever imagined in my wildest dreams that you, you, my Silurian offspring would become what you became? How could I have foreseen such a remarkable thing? The idea of it stuns me speechless
16. Another said to me, “What is he like really, this Silurian? If he is to fly over us as Pendragon, I want the truth
17. And Arthur had made a point of wearing his Silurian colours to confront his father; the colours of the cloak rich and bright as he had given it to a woman to clean, and so he was unmistakably a Silurian
18. Lot too came in with them, and he gave no sign that he had lost his precious chest of coins to his Silurian nephew
19. With us gathered around him, King Garwy Hir explained to his people in rapid speech who we were and why we were here–and not a single one of them was prepared now for the Silurian
20. Above me the Silurian
21. You are Silurian
22. “We come to fight for the Silurian
23. I held her look till she turned back to Arthur, and damn her sweaty bones, she poked him in the chest and said, “You are the Silurian, you have eyes black as coal—will you hunt Saxons for me?”
24. Silurian, you are him?”
25. “The Silurian will let that Saxon run wild on the south coast
26. And as he came through, Medraut called out to him, “Hoi! Silurian!”
27. “Knows my aunt? I thought all my Silurian family were gone…my father said they were all long gone
28. I always thought I had no Silurian relations left
29. I said before Llacheu could answer Arthur’s question, “This one is Silurian looking, but how would you know who this aunt really is? She could be a pretender, to claim relation to you
30. “My father says they are all dead, my Silurian relations
31. My mother said that the Lady Rhosyn is the sister of the mother of Arthur, the Silurian Supreme Commander
32. I left the horses in charge of the grooms and went back to crush some Silurian nuts
33. We heard Arthur was rejected because he is Silurian and his father did not like it
34. He was a Silurian
35. I glanced over at Llacheu; this was his very first battle with the Clan, and as I looked at him, at his set and determined face, I realised with a smile that I was once again riding with a Silurian at my side
36. He said nothing, but grabbed Arthur by his shoulders, causing him to cry out in pain, and hauled him up to his feet and dragged him out onto the field, crying out at the top of his voice, “To the Silurian! Another victory! The Silurian! The Silurian!”
37. And as we drank, I listened to Medraut telling me stories of his extraordinary father, Lot; a man of passions so wild and fierce, I wondered how any soul could survive him, and his brother, Uthyr, the father of Arthur…Arthur, of Silurian nobility, mixed with the incestuous blood of the Gododdin
38. Indomitable, these old men would have to learn this of the Silurian if they wanted to ride with him to war
39. Then, during the Silurian period, the tops of mountains gradually appeared above the waves, islands emerged, disappeared beneath temporary floods, rose again, were fused to form continents, and finally the earth's geography settled into what we have today
40. Murchison at their head, were until recently convinced that we beheld in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the first dawn of life
41. Barrande added another and lower stage, abounding with new and peculiar species, beneath the then known Silurian system; and now, still lower down in the Lower Cambrian formation, Mr Hicks has found South Wales beds rich in trilobites, and containing various molluscs and annelids
42. There are three great series of strata beneath the Silurian system in Canada, in the lowest of which the Eozoon is found
43. But the descriptions which we possess of the Silurian deposits over immense territories in Russia and in North America, do not support the view that the older a formation is the more invariably it has suffered extreme denudation and metamorphism
44. The Silurian Lingula differs but little from the living species of this genus; whereas most of the other Silurian Molluscs and all the Crustaceans have changed greatly
45. In the genus Lingula, for instance, the species which have successively appeared at all ages must have been connected by an unbroken series of generations, from the lowest Silurian stratum to the present day
46. Barrande, also, shows that there is a striking general parallelism in the successive Silurian deposits of Bohemia and Scandinavia; nevertheless he finds a surprising amount of difference in the species
47. Therefore it is quite possible, as we have seen in the case of some Silurian forms, that a species might go on being slightly modified in relation to its slightly altered conditions of life, and yet retain throughout a vast period the same general characteristics
48. I need give only one instance, namely, the manner in which the fossils of the Devonian system, when this system was first discovered, were at once recognised by palaeontologists as intermediate in character between those of the overlying carboniferous and underlying Silurian systems
49. We will suppose the letters A to L to represent allied genera existing during the Silurian epoch, and descended from some still earlier form
50. But the existing genus F14 may be supposed to have been but slightly modified, and it will then rank with the parent genus F; just as some few still living organisms belong to Silurian genera
