auricular appendage

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atrial auricle

QUIZZES

Set some time apart to test your bracket symbol knowledge, and see if you can keep your parentheses, squares, curlies, and angles all straight!

Question 1 of 7

Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”
When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth|Brian Moynahan|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or, one of the measures might resurface as an appendage to an unrelated law.
Why Arizona is Retreating on its Immigration Law|Terry Greene Sterling|March 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Bloggers brought another microphone to an already crowded GOP media table and became an appendage of talk radio.
Why the GOP Lost the Web Race|Eric Boehlert|May 20, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Their dresses were made as in England; but the pattern of the cloth, or some appendage to it, was different.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney

Religion has resumed her influence: the cathedral is very well attended, but auricular confession is not usual.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
Scarcely had we reached our first stage (about seven miles), before every appendage of a metropolitan city had disappeared.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
Thus, even the discovery which made chemistry a science, has attached to it in their award this feeble appendage.
Decline of Science in England|Charles Babbage
The Celtic Church had sunk into being a mere appendage of the wild tribes it had once tried to tame.
Is Ulster Right?|Anonymous