It appeared to us that the production called polypus resembled an animal much less than a carrot or asparagus.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

"Applied also to the nose it cureth the disease called polypus, which by time and sufferance stoppeth the nostrils.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Now this power of reproduction increases as you descend the scale; as an instance, take the polypus, which is as near as possible at the bottom of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

A creature called a polypus, that it still assumes the exact colour of that thing to which it cleaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.] Reference

But it would be like dissecting a 'polypus' or a 'madrepore' to enter into explanation with her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

They say of the fish called polypus that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

For the operation for polypus, .... .5 00 -- 25 00.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical Fee Bill] Reference

Unwashed hands may cause blindness, deafness, foulness of breath, or a polypus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

"And thou shalt not eat," he says, "the lamprey, or the polypus, or the cuttlefish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference

Each polypus, though closely united to its brethren, has a distinct mouth, body, and tentacula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

It was a poor woman, whose face was completely eaten away by a dread disease called nasal polypus.    From Wordnik.com.  [My New Curate] Reference

A polypus in the nose has to be cut out, but the patient must be under the influence of chloroform.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886] Reference

When the polypus was removed by a needle from any of the cells, these organs did not appear in the least affected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle] Reference

He does not omit similes taken from marine creatures, the perseverance of a polypus and the difficulty of removing it from.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

No remedy that sufferers apply themselves can be more than a temporary relief: it cannot really cure piles, polypus, fistula, tabs, pruritus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis] Reference

The mechanical genius of the race is like the polypus anxiously stretching its tentacles in every direction, and though frustrated thousands of times, it grasps something at last.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference

Pharyngeal polypus, description and treatment, 102.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

The mere existence of a polypus suffices for its endless multiplication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life.] Reference

It first places its tendrils ready for action, as a polypus places its tentacula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference

We owe nearly all that we do know about the treatment of this form of polypus to Mr. Syme.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

Remarks, in prose, on the polypus, priestcraft, &c. Poem in French, of an amatory character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 193, July 9, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference

Russia moving together against the common enemy, who with his polypus arms enfolds the globe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming Conquest of England] Reference

Gervis reports the removal of a large polypus of the uterus on the fifth day after confinement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Roberts reports a case of pregnancy associated with a large fibrocellular polypus of the uterus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

I suppose you have never seen such a thing as a polypus, nor observed the proceedings of that fish?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

This is exactly the same kind of tumor described as nasal polypus, the only difference being in the situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Holding it firmly, the forceps should then be slowly twisted round till the neck is destroyed and the polypus detached.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

Skye deposit, -- a cuttlefish, that preyed on the weaker molluscs, or a hungry polypus, terrible among the animalculæ.    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

Davis describes the spontaneous expulsion of a large polypus two days after the delivery of a fine, healthy, male child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

If attempts are made to seize the body of the polypus, it will break down under the forceps, bleed, and give much trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

It builds, organises, completes, and in this sense it stands as a contrast to the polypus in music, to “endless melody”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.] Reference

So far as I can make out, one object is ridicule of what the zoologists said about the polypus: a reprint in the form of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference

If you cut a polypus into twenty pieces, without any regard to division, in a short time you will have twenty perfect polypi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Olla Podrida] Reference

Its situation and immobility, its pink colour, and the shrinkage under cocain, distinguish it from the mucous polypus of the nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference