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nisus

[ni´sus] (L.)

an effort, strong tendency, or endeavor to achieve an outcome or aim.

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(10) Dante places Turnus between Euryalus and Nisus, the two inseparable friends, to point to Virgil's biased poetic justice.

Anger and Imagination in Dante and Virgil

However, on two occasions raptors were seen to strike grouse (peregrine and goshawk Accipiter gentilis each once) and raptors were flushed from freshly killed grouse on 15 occasions: peregrine and buzzard Buteo buteo (each 5), goshawk (3), and hen harrier and spar-rowhawk Accipiter nisus (each 1).

Survival of chicks and adults explains variation in population growth in a recovering red grouse Lagopus lagopus scotica population

"Cheering discovery" suggests that cynicism, because it acquiesces in the incorrigibility of human nature, lazily exempts itself from the nisus of reform.

Eighteenth-century allusions in Henry Esmond

Rome is no longer Queen of the World, the Father of Rome no longer holds the reins of the empire, the Pontifex Maximus no longer climbs to the Capitol with the Vestal virgin, a very long time has gone by, and yet the verses of Virgil are still read, Nisus and Euryalus have not been forgotten, and the fame of Horace endures.

De omnibus Rebus et Quibusdam Aliis: Leopardi's Zibaldone di Pensieri

Some containers also received 0.1 g of toxic bait: metaldehyde-based Corry's[R] Slug and Snail Pellets (Matson LLC, North Bend, Washington), orthoboric acidbased Niban[R] Granular Bait (Nisus Corporation, Rockford, Tennessee), iron phosphate--based Ecosense[R] Slug and Snail Killer (Ortho, Marysville, Ohio), or sodium ferric EDTA--based Ferroxx[R] Slug and Snail Bait (Neudorff North America, Brentwood Bay, Canada).

Biology and food habits of the invasive snail Allopeas gracile (Gastropoda: Subulinidae)

Vergil's Nisus and the language of self-sacrifice in Paradise lost.

TOTIUS AND THE IMAGERY OF DOOM AND IMPERIAL DESTRUCTION

The title plays upon the bellicose phrase "spearhavoc," but it actually means the modern sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) who speaks the poem.

Steve Ely. Englaland

However, significantly lower prevalence was found in Accipiter nisus, Falco tinnunculus and Accipiter gentiles.

PARASITOSIS EN EL PROVENTRICULO POR PROCYRNEA SP. (SPIRUROIDEA: HABRONEMATIDAE), DE UNA AGUILILLA CAMINERA (RUPORNIS MAGNIROSTRIS) DEL ESTADO DE VERACRUZ, MEXICO: REPORTE DE UN CASO

Eighteen eyes from five Accipitriformes: harrier (Circaetus gallicus), hawk (Falco peregrinus), kestrel (Falco tinniculus), buzzard (Buteo buteo) and sparrow hawk (Accipiter nisus) and from four Strigiformes: tawny owl (Strix aluco), barn owl (Tyto alba), little owl (Athene noctua) and great horned owl (Bubo bubo) were used in this study.

Morphological Study of the Iris Musculature in Diurnal and Nocturnal Raptors/ Estudio Morfologico de la Musculatura del Diafragma en Aves Rapaces Diurnas y Nocturnas

Aquila, Buteo, Circaetus, Circus, Hieratus and Pandion), the Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus) and the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis).