 | 1857 - 922 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." Quitting the starfishes, let me call attention to those pretty cowries and the naked molluscs : —... | |
 | Edward Forbes - 1841 - 374 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision. Young specimens are by no means so fragile as those full grown ; and the fivearmed variety seems less... | |
 | 1844 - 288 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with the terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...something exceedingly like a wink of derision." The common cross-fish is much less brittle than this, although able, when occasion requires, to lay aside... | |
 | 1847 - 282 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." — Forbes1 History of British Star-fishes. " The screaming sea-fowl, widening ring o'er ring Till... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - 1849 - 270 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm, with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...something exceedingly like a wink of derision."* The dismembered fragments of the Luidia continue active long after their dispersion. The feet move about... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1850 - 372 lehte
...fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with...something exceedingly like a wink of derision." The red spots to be seen at the end of every ray of many star-fishes, surrounded by spines, have by some... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1850 - 264 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." With this exquisite specimen of natural history wonders, for which naturalists can only vouch that... | |
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision.' This self-dissolution of the luidia and other star-fish is not, however, an act of suicide, inasmuch... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 446 lehte
...escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision."* Our readers may be surprised at the mention of an eye in a Star-fish ; there is, however, at the extremity... | |
 | 398 lehte
...despair I grasped at the largest, and brought up the exttemity of an arm, with its terminating eye, tie spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." We now come to the Sca-Urcl.ins, a family in whuh the rayed appearance is different from what it is... | |
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... air was too much for him or the sight of the bucket too terrific I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brought... 
