 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1845 - 612 pages
...so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over it, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All...had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chances of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1848 - 606 pages
...so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over it, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All...had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chances of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...stomach and the mouth was of course prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating, and dying of a hytrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chances of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
 | 1851 - 1000 pages
...halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. AH communication between the inferior portion of the...had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chances of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...All communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course preventsd, yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy,...had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chance of double fare. A new mouth, fnrnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 520 pages
...of Actinia crassicornis had swallowed a valve of a scallop shell as large as a saucer. He says — "The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed...had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chances of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
 | Edward Smith - 1855 - 522 pages
...inferior portion of the stomaeh and the mouth was, of eourse, prevented ; yet, instead of emaeiating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward aeeident, to inerease its enjoyments and its ehanees of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1857 - 398 pages
...Johnston has recorded from his own experience an example of this. " I had once brought me," he observes, " a specimen of Actinia crassicornis, that might have...had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chance of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
 | 1857 - 820 pages
...flattened like a pancake. All communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the month was of course prevented ; yet instead of emaciating...an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what had undoubtedly been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and ita chance of double... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1858 - 644 pages
...so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over it, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All...had been a very untoward accident, to increase its enjoyments and its chances of double fare. A new mouth, furnished with two rows of numerous tentacula,... | |
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... of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication between the... 
