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The Island World of the Pacific: Being ... Travel Through the Sandwich Or ... - Page 190
by Henry Theodore Cheever - 1851 - 406 pages
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, Volume 10

Walter Scott - Europe - 1821 - 726 pages
...over it, the coral •worms protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 514 pages
...over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which before were invisible. The» animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of s star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about with a...
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The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White ...

Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which before were invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the roek appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of a star, with arms from...
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Voyage to Loo-Choo, and Other Places in the Eastern Seas in the Year 1816 ...

Basil Hall - Korea - 1832 - 350 pages
...worms protrude themselves from holes on the surface which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most com- ' mon of the worms at Lob-Choo was in the form of a star, witli arms from four to six inches long,...
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Library of Useful Knowledge: Natural philosophy, Volume 3

1834 - 578 pages
...over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about...
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Book of lessons for the use of schools, Book 5

Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Jjoo-Choo is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about...
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Fifth Book of Lessons for the Use of the Irish National Schools

Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...over it, the coral-worms protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about...
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The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montombery, Lamb, and Kirke White ...

English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...nvrr it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which before were invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short lime, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the...
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The Moral and Intellectual School Book: Containing Instructions for Reading ...

William Martin - Readers - 1838 - 368 pages
...over it, the coral worms protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and, in...alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo Choo is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which are moved about...
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The Wonders of Geology, Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological ..., Volume 2

Gideon Algernon Mantell - Geology - 1838 - 372 pages
...wash over it, the polypi protrude themselves from holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common form is that of a star, with arms, or tentacula, which are moved about with a rapid motion in all directions,...
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