 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - Liczba stron: 850
...from holes that were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time,...catch food. Others are so sluggish, that they may he nistaken for pieces of rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - Liczba stron: 354
...from holes which before were invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and size, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time,...alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the shape of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which move in every direction to catch food.... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1847 - Liczba stron: 434
...from holes, which were before invisible. The animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...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... | |
 | 1847 - Liczba stron: 828
...a great variety of shapes and izes, and in such vast numbers, that in a short time the whole urface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most ommon worm is in the form of a star, with arms from four to six nches long, which are moved about in... | |
 | Mary Fawler Maude - 1848 - Liczba stron: 412
...from holes that were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of rock, and are generally of a dark colour, and from four to five inches long and two or three round.... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - Liczba stron: 892
...surface which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo Choo was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - Liczba stron: 396
...surface, which were before quite invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...appears to be alive and in motion. The most common of the worms at Loo-Choo was in the form of a star, with arms from four to six inches long, which it... | |
 | David Page - 1849 - Liczba stron: 372
...holes which were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety «>f shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that in a short time the...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,... | |
 | 1856 - Liczba stron: 1270
...before invisible. These Animals are of great variety of shape and size, and in such pro- i digious numbers, that in a short time the whole surface of the rock seems to be alive and in motion. The most com- ( mon form is that of a star, with arms or tentacula,... | |
 | Frances Osborne - 1850 - Liczba stron: 344
...from holes that were before invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and, in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time,...sluggish, that they may be mistaken for pieces of rock; and are generally of a Q 4 dark colour, from four to five inches long, and two or three round.... | |
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... invisible. These animals are of a great variety of shapes and sizes, and in such prodigious numbers, that, in a short time, the whole surface of the rock appears to be alive and in motion. The most common worm is in the form of... 
