A genus of grasses with broad leaves and a dense spike of flowers.
1Then Phalaris motioned for a particular girl and youth to approach him.
2The epistles of Cicero were fine, and so were those of Phalaris.
3In the centre. Phalaris was large and sullen, with a pursed mouth.
4The sheath-like cotyledons of Phalaris Canariensis are extremely sensitive to apogeotropism.
5They halted before Phalaris and gave him a parody of the imperial salute.
6With a gesture quite as majestic as any of Constantius's, Phalaris acknowledged the salute.
7People who had never heard of the Epistles of Phalaris began to inquire about them.
8These epistles give a further reason to believe, that the others were written by Phalaris.
9Such was the message of Phalaris; and his statement is in strict accordance with the facts.
10A pot with seedlings of Phalaris was covered
11Suddenly Phalaris reached up and tore the girl's dress at the shoulder; it fell to her knees.
12As he came near, behold two heroes of the Ancient army, Phalaris and Æsop, lay fast asleep.
13On behalf of the Ancients, stress was laid by Temple on the letters of Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum.
14The cotyledons of Phalaris bend much more slowly towards a very obscure light than towards a bright one.
15Avena sativa.-Thecotyledons of this plant become quickly bowed towards a lateral light, exactly like those of Phalaris.
16What more cruel would Phalaris say?
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