The fact of varieties of one species, when they range into the zone
of habitation of other species, often acquiring in a very slight degree some of the characters of such species, accords with our view that species of all kinds are only well-marked and permanent varieties.
The large and brilliantly coloured Lepidoptera bespeak the zone
they inhabit, far more plainly than any other race of animals.
He spoke disrespectfully of the equator, he skipped from continent to continent, he derided the zones
, he mopped up the high seas with his napkin.
which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone
Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with "the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone
, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,--that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
At once on th' Eastern cliff of Paradise He lights, and to his proper shape returns A Seraph wingd; six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments Divine; the pair that clad Each shoulder broad, came mantling o're his brest With regal Ornament; the middle pair Girt like a Starrie Zone
his waste, and round Skirted his loines and thighes with downie Gold And colours dipt in Heav'n; the third his feet Shaddowd from either heele with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain.
What the ancients imagined of the torrid zone
being uninhabitable is so far from being true, that this climate is very temperate: the heats, indeed, are excessive in Congo and Monomotapa, but in Abyssinia they enjoy a perpetual spring, more delicious and charming than that in our country.
It was then the bad season in Australia, the July of that zone
corresponding to our January in Europe, but the sea was beautiful and easily scanned round a vast circumference.
In the spring, when the streams are swollen by rain and by the melting of the snows, the lake rises several feet above its ordinary level during the summer, it gradually subsides again, leaving a sparkling zone
of the finest salt upon its shores.
From the wild energy of wanton haste Her cheeks were flushing, and her lips apart ; And zone
that clung around her gentle waist Had burst beneath the heaving of her heart.
His weight told, and he dragged her up from the hole and they fell together on the floor outside the zone
These Kaolians are most noble fighters, nor are the green men of the equator one whit less warlike than their cold, cruel cousins of the temperate zone