 | 1857 - 922 lehte
...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...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision." Quitting the starfishes, let me call attention to those pretty cowries and the naked molluscs : —... | |
 | 1844 - 288 lehte
...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...largest, and brought up the extremity of an arm with the terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and closed with something exceedingly like... | |
 | 1847 - 282 lehte
...terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve himself, at every mesh of the dredge, his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped...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
...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...with something exceedingly like a wink of derision."* The dismembered fragments of the Luidia continue active long after their dispersion. The feet move... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1850 - 264 lehte
...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...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
...not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve Jiis corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped...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... | |
 | Anne Pratt - 1850 - 372 lehte
...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...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."... | |
 | 1850 - 396 lehte
...not ; but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the drege his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped at the largest, and brough up the extremity of an arm with its terminating eye. the spineous eyelid of which opened and... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 446 lehte
...terrific, I know not, but in a moment he proceeded to dissolve himself; at every mesh of the dredge, his fragments were seen escaping. In despair I grasped...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... | |
 | Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society - 1853 - 254 lehte
...dissolve his corporation, and at every mesh of the dredge his fragments were seen escaping. In despair, he grasped at the largest, and brought up the extremity...terminating eye, the spinous eyelid of which opened and shut, with something exceedingly like a wink of derision. In the Marlstone, Sponges are occasionally... | |
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... gentle manner to introduce Luidia to the purer element. Whether the cold 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... 
