Pyrrhic : Dibrach
A pyrrhic is a metrical foot used in formal poetry. It consists of two short syllables. It is also known as a dibrach.Pyrrhics are never used to construct a whole, serious poem.
For other meanings, see: Pyrrha, Pyrrhic victory.
Journ. Geol. Soc." Volume XXI., pages 130, 133, 1865;
glacial and drift or marine glacial. I see he alludes to the whole
Considering your facts on the Alpine plants of New Zealand and remarks, I
I presume he is sure to collect and send over the mountain rat of which he
mind.html">mind, prove former connection of New Zealand to some continent; for I can
esteemed in the Friendly Islands. Ramsay sent me his paper.html">paper (503/2. "On
Geol. Soc." Volume XVIII., page 185, 1862.) and asked my opinion on it. I
large extent true; my only doubt is, that in a much disturbed country, I
almost certainly have been left. I suggested a careful consideration of
lakes are there, [they are] very rare. I should fully subscribe to
that it hesitated to publish the paper.
We return home on the 30th. I have made up [my] mind, if I can keep up my
of the [British] Association there. I do so hope that you may be there
LETTER 504.html">504. TO J.D. HOOKER.
Valleys and Lakes: a Reply to Sir Roderick Murchison's Anniversary Address
How capitally it is written! It seems that there is nothing for style like
denudation--but the rocky-lake-basin theory is the part which interests me
running water, and sea.html">sea. I did not suppose that Ramsay would deny that
become valleys. The grandest valleys I ever saw were at Tahiti, and here I
said in my S. American Geology (504/2. "Finally, the conclusion at which I
the land is, that the latter is by far the most efficient agent, and that
to deepen them and to remove the wreck of the sea's destroying.
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