velox

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O. velox has three frontal cirri in a line, thus differing from the Woods Hole form.

From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Calkins, Gary N. (Gary Nathan)

Our specimen of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is referred to velox on the basis of the reddish, maculated breast, sides, and thighs.

From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.

Sit ipse Adam bene instructus quando respondere debeat, ne ad respondendum nimis sit velox aut nimis tardus, nec solum ipse, sed omnes persone sint.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

And St. Bernard, "Prodit enim castor proprio de corpore velox Reddere quas sequitur hostis avarus opes."

From The itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales by Cambrensis, Giraldus

Tu, quamcunque tibi velox indulserit annus,   Carpe diem; fugit, heu, non revocanda dies!

From Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes by Johnson, Samuel