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...e been found in the stomachs of sperm whales. Whale skins are often scarred by the tentacled suckers of their foes. The marks are between 2 and 5 c... ...s eat deep sea fishes - as well as smaller squids. They use their very long feeding tentacles, equipped with "clubs" (suckers, or suction cups) to ...

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...a shadow crossed your eyes when she brought it up. She's as tactful as a tentacle." "You noticed me?" "Of course, I noticed. Your pain was obvi... ... anti-intellectual?" "Does a conch live in a shell? Has a squid got ten tentacles? Are oysters tasty?" "That bad." "I don't think Ch'ang-o ha...

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...pointed above Stella’s head. “Yes, I can see the demon with his poisonous tentacles all over you Stella Brown.” This was comedy central at its best; ...

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...nted to be the new U.S. Drug Czar. Instead, “How do we stop this monster with tentacles all over the world?” Gallucci said, "I must convince the Co...

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... pull an octopus out of its den, a thousand little stones are stuck to its tentacles, and this is how his brawny hands grasped the rock and had the...

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...s and watched silently as they passed families of purple jellyf sh, their tentacles trailing 12 feet behind them in the water. The Indian sailors con...

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...m to stretch closer to the ethereal realm of virtue and also gave him more tentacles for assessing reality, and the somewhat plagiarized and hastened ...

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...ld-Loeb-Rockefeller banking families have become shadow dynasties: hiding the tentacles of corporate power, influence and organized secret societies...

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...lf turned, keeping my eyes fixed upon the cylinder still, from which other tentacles were now pro- jecting, and began pushing my way back from the edg... ...ike lower lip, the incessant quivering of this mouth, the Gorgon groups of tentacles, the tumultuous breathing of the lungs in a strange atmosphere, t... ...ine it was, with a ringing metallic pace, and long, flexible, glitter- ing tentacles (one of which gripped a young pine tree) swing- ing and rattling ... ... returned. He saw this one pursue a man, catch him up in one of its steely tentacles, and knock his head against the trunk of a pine tree. At last, af... ...e water and flinging a splash and spray of mud and froth into the air. The tentacles swayed and struck like living arms, and, save for the helpless pu... ...extraor- dinary number of jointed levers, bars, and reaching and clutching tentacles about its body. Most of its arms were re- tracted, but with three... ...les about its body. Most of its arms were re- tracted, but with three long tentacles it was fishing out a number of rods, plates, and bars which lined... ...ure with a glittering integu- ment, the controlling Martian whose delicate tentacles actu- ated its movements seeming to be simply the equivalent of t... ...ense air. In a group round the mouth were sixteen slender, almost whiplike tentacles, arranged in two bunches of eight each. These bunches have since ...

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...eature, having much of the quality of a complicated insect, with whip-like tentacles and a clanging arm projecting from his shining cylindrical body c... ...e, two of them dexterously released one of the turns about my wrist. Their tentacle hands were soft and cold to my skin. I immediately seized a mouthf... ...r and again one of their queer heads came down close to my face, or a soft tentacle-hand touched my head or neck. I don’t remember that I was afraid t... ...our feet the thick-set Selenite came and patted each of our faces with his tentacles, and walked towards the open doorway. That also 81 H. G . Wells ... ...stabbed me behind with his goad. I wrenched my wrists free from the little tentacles that held them. I turned on the goad-bearer. “Confound you! “ I c... ...minate. There is particularly the Rapha, an inextricable mass of clutching tentacles that one hacks to pieces only to multiply; and the Tzee, a dartin... ... pulsations of his heart. He had long, soft, many-jointed arms ending in a tentacled grip, and his neck was many-jointed in the usual way, but excepti... ...t accompany most of the intellectuals: ushers, bearers, valets, extraneous tentacles and muscles, as it were, to replace the abortive physi- cal power... ... some of these are in actual nature—it is not figure of speech, the single tentacle of the mooncalf herd is profoundly modified for clawing, lifting, ...

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...med a brilliant garden of flow- ers, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea- stars studding the sandy bottom. It was a real grief to me ... ...ured infusoria, of veritable globules of jelly, provided with a threadlike tentacle, and of which as many as twenty-five thousand have been counted in... ...ters. I was tempted to gather their fresh petals, ornamented with delicate tentacles, some just blown, the others bud- ding, while a small fish, swimm... ...e, through which they propelled the water already drawn in. Of their eight tentacles, six were elongated, and stretched out floating on the water, whi... ...ke a gun on its carriage; and frightful-looking poulps, interweaving their tentacles like a living nest of serpents. We had now arrived on the first p... ... weed, I noticed some charming pink halcyons and actiniae, with their long tentacles trailing after them, and medu- sae, green, red, and blue. All the... ...ns of some naturalists, one of these animals only six feet long would have tentacles twenty-seven feet long. That would suf- fice to make a formidable... ...,” I replied. “Its head,” rejoined Conseil, “was it not crowned with eight tentacles, that beat the water like a nest of serpents?” “Precisely.” “Had ... ...the furies’ hair. One could see the 250 air holes on the inner side of the tentacles. The monster’s mouth, a horned beak like a parrot’s, opened and s...

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... now some of them more than a foot long, had unfortunately reminded her of tentacles reach- ing out after something; and they got into her dreams, gro... ...nless. He was lying, face upward, at the foot of the strange or- chid. The tentacle-like aerial rootlets no longer swayed freely in the air, but were ... ...hands. She did not understand. Then she saw from under one of the exultant tentacles upon his cheek there trickled a little thread of blood. With an i... ...ied to pull him away from the leech-like suckers. She snapped two of these tentacles, and their sap dripped red. Then the overpowering scent of the bl... ...as known to science only generi- cally, on the strength of a half-digested tentacle obtained near the Azores, and a decaying body pecked by birds and ... ...ape somewhat re- sembling an octopus, with huge and very long and flexible tentacles, coiled copiously on the ground. The skin had a glistening textur... ...g texture, unpleasant to see, like shiny leather. The downward bend of the tentacle-surrounded mouth, the cu- rious excrescence at the bend, the tenta... ...f a fair-sized swine about the 126 The Country of the Blind body, and the tentacles seemed to him to be many feet in length. There were, he thinks, s... ...ounded lump of rock, and flung it at one. And then, slowly uncoiling their tentacles, they all began moving towards him—creeping at first deliberately...

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...the valley, leaving blood and destruction in its path; the leviathan, with tentacles of steel clutching into the soil, the soulless Force, the iron-he... ...hori- zon, symbol of a vast power, huge and terrible; the levia- than with tentacles of steel, to oppose which meant to be ground to instant destructi... ...or town, involving it in one of a myriad branching coils, one of a hundred tentacles, drawing it, as it were, toward that centre from which all this s... ...atiate greed of the monster, caught and choked by one of those millions of tentacles suddenly reaching up from below, from out the dark beneath his fe... ...l manner of ingenious plans, won- derful devices. They were worthless. The tentacle held fast. He was stuck. By degrees, as his wagon carried him fart... ...t, who overlooked no oppor- tunity of plunder, however petty, who with one tentacle grabbed a hundred thousand acres of wheat, and with an- other pilf... ...eadful day’s work at the irrigating ditch to reach? To what length was the tentacle of the monster to extend? Presley returned toward the central, the... ...air be termi- nated, the incident closed? Where was that spot to which the tentacle of the monster could not reach? By now, he was sick with the dread... ... path. Yes, the Railroad had prevailed. The ranches had been seized in the tentacles of the octopus; the iniquitous bur- den of extortionate freight r...

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...orward, hesitated, and then touched my hand. Then I felt other soft little tentacles upon my back and shoulders. They wanted to make sure I was real. ... ... round thing, the size of a foot- ball perhaps, or, it may be, bigger, and tentacles trailed down from it; it seemed black against the weltering blood...

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... sent him charg- ing head down upon Mr. Rout. The chief’s arm, long like a tentacle, and straightening as if worked by a spring, went out to meet him,...

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... like a sea-creature restored to its element, stretching out the atrophied tentacles of girlish vanity and enjoyment to the rising tide of opportunity...

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... deck, and the large cod thinks very well of a little shiny piece of squid tentacle at the tip of a clam-baited hook. Next day they caught many fish, ...

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...e and power. In this persuasion that I am a gatherer of experience, a mere tentacle that arranges thought beside thought for this being of the species...

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...ve herself.” She noted that as a good saying, and it germinated and spread tentacles of explanation through her brain. The bio- logical laboratory, pe... ...ay to her, preparing, perhaps, to touch her, stretching hungry in- visible tentacles about her. She tried to think what she should do in this eventual...

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...tering out for a moment in a breath of wind, and like some shy independent tentacle with a secret to impart, came into momentary contact with my arm. ...

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...essed of a strength equal to that which the Creator gave to the diaphanous tentacles of the crab. The fire darting from his vivid glance seemed to str...

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...h, for his purpose, was still worth finding out? His little eyes were like tentacles thrown out to catch the floating inti- mations with which, to Sel... ...e whirling surface of existence, without anything to which the poor little tentacles of self could cling before the awful flood submerged them. And as...

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...in poli- tics before the London School Board was absorbed by the spreading tentacles of the London County Council. It gives a measure of the newness o... ...udiation. I became doubtful about the return of a nod, retracted all those tentacles of easy civility that I had hitherto spread to the world. I still...

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.... Her underbody colloid is open land her transporter-slings hang down like tentacles. We shut off our beam as she adjusts herself—steering to a hair—o...

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...long to a big overworking mod- ern place called London which stretches its tentacles all over the world. I am as much a home-coming tourist as you are...

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...th the strength of one arm, while with the other he slashed aimlessly, The tentacles of a second grey mass had entangled themselves with the struggle,...

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...putting together of pieces, yet quite lumi- nously, as it were by touch of tentacle-feelers—one evening that he passed with Sir Lukin Dunstane, when t...

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... minute and accurate man- ner, such details as the rays in a sea anemone’s tentacles, or 128 The Two Sides of the Shield the eggs in a shrimp’s roe. ...

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... of her husband’s loung- ing body, and was aware, through all her watchful tentacles, of a widening of his half-closed lids. “Y ou ‘managed’—?” She fa...

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...he enemy, the monster of bulging eyes and far-reaching quiv- ering groping tentacles—was exactly society, exactly the multiplication of shibboleths, e...

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...lump, I could discern his objective. His keen eyes had caught the project ing tentacle of a squid. Even as he swam, the tentacle was lazily withdrawn... ...here was no sign of the creature. But the brief exposure of the portion of one tentacle had advertised its owner as a squid of size. The pressure at a... ...which time he seemed to be groping and rooting around with his left hand. Then tentacle after tentacle, myriad suckered and wildly waving, emerged. La... ... feet beneath, wrapped about by an octopus that measured nine feet across from tentacle tip to tentacle tip and that could well drown the stoutest swi...

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...It was as if a rank weed were planted in her heart and slid long poisonous tentacles down every artery, so that each part of her body was en meshed. ...

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...zed and protected for years by the General Government. Having once got its tentacles fastened on to the economic and social life of the Repub- lic, it...

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...g- ined; entered the torture chamber, entered the inquisition, entered the tentacles of that sly and beaming polyp, le gouvernement français …. As I e...