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" Look now, as it is raised, and its coils drawn out! Three feet — six — nine, at least; with a capability of seemingly endless expansion; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black, with paler longitudinal... "
A Catalogue of the British Non-parasitical Worms in the Collection of the ... - Page 291
by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, George Johnston - 1865 - 365 pages
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

1855 - 602 pages
...nine, at least: with a capability of seemingly endless expansion ; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black,...motionless, a mere velvet string across the hand. Ask the neighboring Annelids and the fry of the rock fishes, or put it into a vase at home, and see. It lies...
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The Christian reformer; or, Unitarian magazine and review [ed. by ..., Volume 11

Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...feet—six—nine at least: with a capability of seemingly endless expansion; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black,...hand. Ask the neighbouring Annelids and the fry of rock fishes, or put it into a vase at home, and see. It lies motionless, trailing itself among the...
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Glaucus: Or, The Wonders of the Shore

Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 196 pages
...nine, at least: with a capability of seemingly endless expansion ; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black, with paler longitudinal lines. Is it alive ? It liangs helpless and motionless, a mere velvet string across the hand. Ask the neighboring Annelids...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 34

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pages
...nine, at least: with a capability of seemingly endless expansion ; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black, with paler longitudinal lines. la it alive ? It hangs helpless and motionless, a mere velvet string across the hand. Ask the neighboring...
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The Criterion; art, science and literature, Volume 1

1856 - 430 pages
...nine, at least; with a capability of seemingly endless expansion ; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black,...motionless, a mere velvet string across the hand. Ask the neighboring Annelids and the fry of the rock fishes, or put it into a vase at home, and see. It lies...
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The Boy's Yearly Volume for ...

1868 - 510 pages
...expansion ; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate black, with paler longitudinal lines. Is it alive ? It hangs,...rock fishes, or put it into a vase at home and see. Some little fish plays over and over it, till he touches at last the head, and in an instant a bell-shaped...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 2

1869 - 748 pages
...slim}- tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black, with palor longitudinal lines. Is it alive? It hangs helpless...motionless, a mere velvet string across the hand. Ask the neighboring Annelids and the fry of the rock-tishcs, or put it into a vase at home, and see. It lies...
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The American Naturalist, Volume 2

1869 - 744 pages
...feet—six—nine, at least; with a capability of seemingly endless expansion : a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate-black,...motionless, a mere velvet string across the hand. Ask the neighboring Annelids and the fry of the rock-fishes, or put it into a vase at home, and sec. It lies...
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Nature's Teachings: Human Invention Anticipated by Nature

John George Wood - 1877 - 564 pages
...expansion ; a slimy tape of living caoutchouc, some eighth of an inch in diameter, a dark chocolate black, with paler longitudinal lines. "Is it alive ? It hangs...hand. Ask the neighbouring Annelids and the fry of the rock-fishes, or put it into a vase at home, and see. It lies motionless, trailing itself among the...
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The Leigh parish magazine. [With] Parish magazine, ed. by J.E. Clarke

1879 - 512 pages
...more than ordinary interest in the habits of this strange creature. Speaking of it, he inquires, ' Is it alive ? it hangs helpless and motionless, a...annelids, and the fry of the rock fishes ; or put it in a vase at home, and see. It lies motionless, trailing itself among the gravel. You cannot tell where...
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