"Limpet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two volumes were published, Cuvier contributed his first paper—namely, on some new species of "Cloportes" (Oniscus, a genus of terrestrial crustacea or "pill-bugs"); this was followed by his second memoir on the anatomy of the limpet, his next article being descriptions of two species of flies from his collection of insects.[120] Seven years later Lamarck gave some account of the genera of cuttlefishes. His first general memoir was a prodromus of a new ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... their soft bodies from the attacks of a host of enemies. Some build two shells—the Oyster and Mussel do, as you know. These are called bi-valves; that is, two valves or shells; and others, like the Garden Snail, the Limpet, and Periwinkle, have one shell only, and ...
— On the Seashore • R. Cadwallader Smith
... on like a limpet, Eddy. Thank Gord! you ain't dead after all." It's slow and it's sure and it's steady (Which is 'ard, for 'e's big and I'm small). The rockets are shootin' and shinin', It's rainin' a perishin' flood, The bullets are buzzin' and whinin', And I'm up to me stern in ...
— Rhymes of a Red Cross Man • Robert W. Service
... dilemma—because she wanted to trample on Paggy, and it was a dilemma—that he didn't care how long it went on. And do you know, dear, it did go on—one thing after another, that Frau glued to the clavier like a limpet not detachable without violence—till nearly one in the morning, having begun at ten about! And there was papa and Egerton and Theeny all sniggering at mamma, I know, in secret, and really proud of the connexion, if the truth were known. ...
— Somehow Good • William de Morgan
... warmly. 'Most assuredly not. I would not have it otherwise. I am a worker. A bee, not a drone. A Lusitania, not a limpet. Perhaps I have not yet that grip on my duties which I shall soon acquire; but it is coming. It is coming. ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse
... I'll stick to the canoe like one of those limpet things; mind you do too. I say, I'm beginning to like it, ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... position like a limpet. "You may have trifled with others, but him you love as you never ...
— The Woodlanders • Thomas Hardy |
