The animalcule was only visible under a microscope. From LearnThat.org.
For instance, there is the word animalcule (plural animalcules), also written animalculum (plural animalcula). From Wordnik.com. [Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"] Reference
The microscope cannot find the animalcule which is less perfect for being little. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — First Series] Reference
These movements are termed amoebiform, because they quite resemble the movements of a small animalcule which is named amoeba. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference
An animalcule that does not wriggle must be morbid or peculiar. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
There is no matematical or physic law which can explain a primitive life form such as a animalcule. From Wordnik.com. [Why biology is harder than physics] Reference
A study of animal life from the lowest animalcule to the highly civilized man, teaches us to know, feel and act, in a particular manner. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on Islam] Reference
He had dipped up some of the water, finding in it animalcule, which would, however, not account for phenomena of geometric formation and high velocity. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
Is it not evident that if a parasitic animalcule desired to call its attention it would sink a hole in its shell and so stimulate its sensory apparatus? '. From Wordnik.com. [When The World Screamed]
That animalcule there, in the pea-jacket, is Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The Biglow Papers] Reference
The tiniest fly, the smallest animalcule, the dust of. From Wordnik.com. [A Ribband of Blue And Other Bible Studies] Reference
His first form is that which is permanent in the animalcule. From Wordnik.com. [A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'] Reference
California, from the microscopic animalcule to the Mastodon, the. From Wordnik.com. [What is Darwinism?] Reference
But man contemplates the universe as an animalcule would an elephant. From Wordnik.com. [Zanoni] Reference
But did the animalcule and she crawl over the rubric together, or did they not?. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
The same attraction holds together the animalcule, the sponge, the system, and the Universe. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
The animalcule that the marine polypus secretes live by millions at the bottom of their cells. From Wordnik.com. [Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English] Reference
The animalcule and the insectivorous plant know no boundaries between the animal and the vegetable. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
The newborn animalcule amazes us with its foresight; the adult insect astonishes us with its stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
Upon coasts occupied by the corallines, the reef-building animalcule does not work near the mouth of rivers. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth as Modified by Human Action] Reference
The animalcule and microbic life, itself microscopic, has yet its own order of sense-organs related to a world of vitality beyond our ken. From Wordnik.com. [How to Read the Crystal or, Crystal and Seer] Reference
When the animalcule is stained with eosin, the nervous system can very readily be made out and followed throughout all of its ramifications. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
The response to its charm is felt by every living thing, even by the smallest green plant and the invisible animalcule, as it is by man himself. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
Let the first globe above us be but a blood-globule, as to size, in the animalcule of a still larger globe, which call the second globe above us. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference
Another feature is that the locomotor activity of an animalcule often shows a distinct individuality: it may swim, for instance, in a loose spiral. From Wordnik.com. [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference
Every living creature from a man to a mushroom, or even to the smallest animalcule or unicellular plant is always partly fluid, but never entirely so. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference
As I stand on the mountain-side we are all, from animalcule to man, sympathizing and uniting, as members of one great race, in our adoration of the sun. From Wordnik.com. [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference
They exist by thousands in many parts of the world, varying in size from the huge skeleton of the elephant to the tiny shell of the microscopic animalcule. From Wordnik.com. [Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky] Reference
Inferior brown sugars are often full of a certain crab-like animalcule or minute bug, often visible without a microscope, in water where the sugar is dissolved. From Wordnik.com. [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference
Radiata, the jelly-fish in its embryonic state resembles a polype, and in a still earlier state an infusorial animalcule -- as does likewise the embryo of the polype. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of the Origin of Species Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844] Reference
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