The beroe is a most active being, its habits conforming to the organisation with which it is endowed. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852] Reference
This just means he has to keep speaking eloquently on this issue beroe it comes up again b/c the GOP will pull tbe race card during the general election so he and the DNC need to prepare for this. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Majority Liked Obama's Race Relations Speech, But Doubts About Wright Remain] Reference
In deep water, far from the land, the number of living creatures is extremely small: south of the latitude 35°, I never succeeded in catching anything besides some beroe, and a few species of minute entomostracous crustacea. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference
The Captain had advised Nellie to search amongst the old wooden piles of the pier, as a likely situation to find these animals, and others he named quite as curious, such as the ` beroe 'and the ` balanus,' which while looking as if inanimate yet are ` all alive, 'and, if not. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel] Reference
But we must leave the beroe, charmer though it be. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852] Reference
The beroe is spared the labour and uncertainty of the chase. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852] Reference
Presently it began to move up and down within its prison-house, and the paddles by means of which the beroe dances along its ocean-path were distinctly visible. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852] Reference
By stopping some of its paddles, and keeping others in play, the beroe can change its course at pleasure, and so wander 'at its own sweet will,' through the trackless waste. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852] Reference
The one, scarcely larger than a shilling, bore the common umbiliferous form, but had its area inscribed by a pretty orange-colored wheel; the other, still more minute, and which presented in the water the appearance of a small hazel-nut of a brownish-yellow hue, I was disposed to set down as a species of beroe. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
On getting one caught, however, and transferred to a bowl, I found that the brownish-colored, melon-shaped mass, though ribbed like the beroe, did not represent the true outline of the animal; it formed merely the centre of a transparent gelatinous bell, which, though scarce visible in even the bowl, proved a most efficient instrument of motion. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference
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