In this case, intermediate varieties between the several representative species and their common parent, must formerly have existed in each broken portion of the land, but these
links will have been supplanted and exterminated during the process of natural selection, so that they will no longer exist in a living state.
This land had been drained--to the huge discomfort of a colony of mosquitoes which had come to look on the place as their private property--and converted into
links, which had become a sort of refuge for incompetent golfers.
Men bolder than these had overthrown and rearranged -- not actually, but within the sphere of theory, which was their most real abode -- the whole system of ancient prejudice, wherewith was
linked much of ancient principle.
Hand me those main-mast
links there; I would fain feel this pulse, and let mine beat against it; blood against fire!
The clubhouse on the golf
links was used, of course, for many other purposes besides that of golf.
Other strips fastened it at intervals up his left leg to deaden the clanking and to prevent the slack
links from getting hooked in the bushes.
"Well," he remarked, "it's too far to get down to the
links again but I'll play you a game of bowls, if you like."
In the floating of logs down rivers, instead of having relays of shouters to prevent the logs from jamming, there is now a wire along the bank, with a telephone
linked on at every point of danger.
He called a railway porter, and bade him carry the portmanteau to the cloak-room: not that he had any notion of delay; flight, instant flight was his design, no matter whither; but he had determined to dismiss the cabman ere he named, or even chose, his destination, thus possibly balking the Judicial Error of another
link. This was his cunning aim, and now with one foot on the roadway, and one still on the coach-step, he made haste to put the thing in practice, and plunged his hand into his trousers pocket.
So viewed the four seemingly independent sections will be found to be
linked together in a real bond of unity.
"Ah, yes--the so-called Porlock is a
link in the chain some little way from its great attachment.
I, Hercule Poirot, know, but I lack the last
link in my chain.