Its beams had become so weakened by the ravages of the crustaceous insects that it had become dangerous. From LearnThat.org.
On this shining shell I discovered a new kind of crustaceous animal, of a beautiful ultramarine blue, like the shell; I knew this to be a Pinnothera. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888] Reference
Would that be the member for St Albans my crustaceous friend?. From Wordnik.com. [Out With The Old...] Reference
The Siberian salt-lakes are inhabited by small crustaceous animals; and flamingoes. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
They are crustaceous animals, and many of the species are noxious to oysters, others to cod-fish, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 398, November 14, 1829] Reference
Restorations in plaster of paris of the fossil crustaceous eurypterus and hughmilleria were also exhibited. From Wordnik.com. [New York at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, St. Louis 1904 Report of the New York State Commission] Reference
Fruiting spikelets with the first glume forming a crustaceous nut-like envelope to other glumes and grain 17. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
On the contrary, the predaceous cephalopods and the highly organized crustaceous are among the oldest fossils. From Wordnik.com. [An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges] Reference
As we proceeded on the soft, crustaceous surface, diminutive spouts of vapor would spit forth, as if to resent our intrusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Within the primine lies the bony crustaceous secundine, which is quite loose, and seems as if it were independent of the primine. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
Somehow it survived the catastrophe, and, forming a hard, crustaceous shell about itself, has continued to live here in space as an asteroid. From Wordnik.com. [The Beast of Space] Reference
Synopsis: Two members of an underwater science team located on another planet defy orders to get a closer look at the crustaceous inhabitants. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: The Year's Best Science Fiction #22 edited by Gardner Dozois] Reference
While in other animals the glutinous is dry, for which reason the covering of the invertebrates is testaceous or crustaceous, in the vertebrates it is rather of the nature of fat. From Wordnik.com. [On the Generation of Animals] Reference
Nicholas Ridley, Britain's crustaceous cabinet secretary for Trade and Industry, scandalized Europe -- and lost his job -- last week with an outburst of vintage little-England geopolitics. From Wordnik.com. ['You Might As Well Give It To Hitler'] Reference
The hard-skinned or crustaceous animals, like the crawfish, swim by the instrumentality of their tail-parts; and they swim most rapidly tail foremost, by the aid of the fins developed upon that member. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
By the time he was thirty-five, he was known as the Shoe King of Long Island, where, distancing himself from the crustaceous scootings on Orchard Street, he owned and operated dozens of footwear boutiques. From Wordnik.com. [Skinny Legs and All]
Besides the people attacked by typhus, many other persons fell ill from lighter disease of the intestines, after having eaten of these crustaceous bivalves, the symptoms being diarrhoea and pains in the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration] Reference
She pines with chagrin A lobster is crustaceous; an. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
The metal used does give it a crustaceous appearance. From Wordnik.com. [PR News:] Reference
Three or four kidney-shaped seeds, the testa thin and crustaceous. From Wordnik.com. [The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines] Reference
2 / +3I wonder what they'll discover next, besides the blind crustaceous. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
There were few mosses; but crustaceous lichens were numerous, and nearly all of them of. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
On the other hand he's got those crustaceous blond dreads that make my scalp itch in empathy. by M.J. Fine. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A few crustaceous lichen-like variolariae, leprariae, and urceorariae, were scattered about upon the basalts. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference
I dont understand it either but it seems to be a genetic trait found only in the megolithic era of the crustaceous period. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
In all these, from the hairy to the crustaceous, the real coat, the coat turned out by a special industry, does not exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles] Reference
The breeze which was supposed to have upset the temper of the crustaceous multitude in the Tarn blew up bad weather before night. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine] Reference
The Gulf also contains a large variety and exhaustless supplies of the finny tribe, together with several species of the crustaceous and testaceous order. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
Being, however, a crustaceous animal, I, the heir of all the new impulses of the age, was born and reared in closest neighbourhood with strange relics of a vanished time. From Wordnik.com. [Wilfrid Cumbermede] Reference
Among these were some individuals of the squilla tribe, which, though one of the tenderest of the crustaceous family, had not suffered the least injury from pressure or friction. From Wordnik.com. [Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time] Reference
The Siberian salt-lakes are inhabited by small crustaceous animals; and flamingoes (Edin. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IV] Reference
The book is on its way … the blog does have a more crustaceous tone … I feel we’re moving towards the end of a chapter …. From Wordnik.com. [shameless self-promotion] Reference
"Well, said the Professor, with the most imperturbable tranquillity," it is the shell of a crustaceous animal of the extinct order of the trilobites; nothing more, I assure you. ". From Wordnik.com. [Voyage au centre de la terre. English] Reference
And boldly herd with the crustaceous race. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Household Management] Reference
17. crustaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
(fruticose), leafy (frondose), incrusting (crustaceous), and gelatinous. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
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