Siphons united for the greater part of their length, and with a circlet of tentacles near their extremities; foot reduced; shell gaping; ligament internal.
In Anodonta these pallial tentacles are confined to a small area surrounding the inferior siphonal notch (fig.
Anodonta has no eyes of any sort, and the tentacles on the mantle edge are limited to its posterior border.
The labial tentacles or palps of Anodonta (n, o in fig.
In such Lamellibranchs as the oysters, scallops and many others which have the edges of the mantle-skirt quite free, there are numerous tentacles upon those edges.
And most are well named, too, as for instance the Hydra, a small tube-shaped creature with a row of active tentacles at one end.
Or again, an anemone may draw in itstentacles without apparent cause, and after a few minutes expand more widely than ever.
The tentaclesbend over it exactly as the sticky hairs of the sun-dew plant close over a fly.
We need not stop here, for we may include sea anemones and corals, those most marvellously coloured flowers of the sea, which grow upon a short, thick stalk and send out their tentacles equally in all directions.
The circle of short tentacles and the four horse-shoe-shaped ovaries distinguish this jelly-fish from all others.
The graceful appearance of these exquisite creatures is increased by two long, fringed tentaclesstreaming behind, drifting at full length or contracting into numerous coils.
Others, as we have seen, have tentacles and settle down at once.
Greedy as a hungry animal deprived of its due the fire at his feet kept sending out spurts of flame like longing tentacles toward him; yet he delayed.
Railroads reached out like the tentacles of an octopus, where a generation before the buffalo had tramped its tortuous trail.
Were not its outstretched planes hovering lower and lower over the gleaming tablet; its tentacles moving aimlessly, feebly--wearily?
For an instant its fires flared and licked through the clinging blackness; it writhed half upright, threw itself forward, crashed down prostrate upon the enigmatic tablet which only its tentacles could manipulate.
I saw that only the swarms of tentacles that were the Keeper's hands and these only could be masters of its incredible intricacies.
I watched the tentacles of the Keeper grope over the tablet.
The tentacles of the Keeper moved more swiftly over the enigmatic tablet; writhing cloudily; confusedly rapid.
Greater grew the swarms of the tentacles winding about us like slender strands of glass, covering our faces, making breathing more and more difficult.
As the ends of the bars radiated into the annealing mist I saw the tentacles creep closer and ever closer to the rayless flame through which the mist flew.
From the tentacles of many swung immense shields like those which ringed the hall of the great cones.
Crouching, forgetful of our juxtaposition to these two unhuman, anomalous Things, we watched the play of the tentacles upon the upthrust rods.
The strangling clutch relaxed, the mass of the tentacles lessened.
The jelly-fishes, some of the commoner sorts at least, have their eyes, such as they are, where the longtentacles join the center of the bell underneath.
These things, which he cannot eat, he simply lets fall off his tentacles to the ground.
The hydra is a very small sea-anemone, about as long as a pin is thick, with a long slender stalk and a circle of long fingers or tentacles round their mouths.
The Phalanxes of Atlans" and "The Tentacles from Below" were very good.
So swift was their whirling motion that details of form were lost: only a confusion of lashing tentacles that whipped and tore, and one glimpse of a savage maw that sheared the tentacles off.
The trees were close, and their waving tentaclesdrew back, then shot out to splash about the intruder.
For a fleeting second the grip of the tentacles upon his shoulders loosened slightly.
The Tentacles from Below" is indeed a Science Fiction masterpiece.
The Tentacles from Below" was a surprisingly good story, especially when you consider that I don't like sea stories.
The Archeologist extended one of his eight tentacles toward the blackboard.
Another of his tentacles took up the spectacles and adjusted them over his three-inch protruding pupils.
Such was the strength of the tentacles which reached up to stay his struggles and to drag him back into the depths from which he willed to rise.
There it was, reaching out for him, holding out its tentacles that ceased to appear as such and became soft, inviting arms.
Thus was I saved in the very moment of my destruction; for the creature's tentacles smeared the back of my neck as I leapt, and then I had smitten, once and again, and conquered.
For example, some Cuttle-fishes or Cephalopoda have eight arms or tentaclesand others ten.
From the summit of the column the tentacles fringe over in rich masses, like the petals of a monster carnation, all of them in motion as if seeking something which they cannot find.
The lip is usually of a vivid green, and the tentacles exhibit rose, violet, orange, and white on their upper surfaces.
The tentacles are very regularly arranged around the mouth, but towards the margin they thicken and thicken till they form a dense fringe that overlaps the column, and continues ever waving as if stirred by trembling ocean currents.
In Terebratulina, Rhynchonella, Lingula, and possibly other genera, the arms can be unrolled and protruded from the opened shell; in this case the tentacles also straighten themselves and wave about in the water.
The right and left halves are connected ventrally to the oesophagus by a short vessel which supplies these tentacles in the immediate neighbourhood of the mouth.
The great arm-sinus of each side of the lophophore lies beneath the fold or lip which together with the tentacles forms the ciliated groove in which the mouth opens.
Externally on two sides and on the inner surface the tentacles are ciliated, and the cilia are continued across the gutter to the lip and even on the outer surface of the latter.
He shewed that the tubular body of these and the ring of tentacles surrounding the mouth were composed of the same two foundation-membranes of which all the organs of Medusæ are composed.
He found that fully developed Medusæ consisted each of a disc with tentacles and vesicular bodies at the margins, a stomach, and canals proceeding from it, and generative organs.
Tentacles of some terrible thing seemed enmeshing both Filhiol and the old captain—some catastrophe, looming black, impossible to thrust aside.
The captain could not keep cold tentacles of fear from reaching for his heart.
Instantly from the doorway sprang a monstrous mechanism on stilts, flexible tentacles of metal reaching out and wrapping themselves around the Professor.
Flesh, tendons and arteries gave, blood spurted, and in the same moment the tentacles fell away from Talbot and the Professor and withdrew with a dull clang.
In vain he strove to wrench the tentacles free of the Professor.
Tentacles and eye stalks rose up out of the tip as he watched.
That, for most purposes, should be a squat container with three wheels or treads, with eye-stalks and tentacles on top.
But the changes here indicated will some time come to pass without artificial aid, for the tentacles of the Kali Gandak are eating back northwards into the mountains much more quickly than the Tsangpo is eroding its valley.
When the reader understands more about this octopus, he will learn that its tentacles are far-reaching and that it has a mysterious and efficient way of crushing in its incipiency any embryo movement directed against it.
How many similar cases must there be to support the large advertising concerns, whose tentacles reach to the remotest corners of the country and who limit their activity and cater to "diseases of women" only.
Then with her scissors, careful not to gouge his hide, she cut off the corners so that the eight tentacles barely peeped out from underneath the cloth.
In the center of the tentacles there arose a column of black rubbery flesh, topped by a rounded dome in the center of which was one huge liquid black eye.
Entirely without fear or hesitation, she stepped into the triangle between two long black tentacles that lay on the salt and walked up to the erect column at the center.
At least a dozen of the Capella IV octopoids were spread eagled, their tentaclesout flat on the hot cement of the runway.
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