 | Sir Robert Sibbald - Botany - 1803 - 510 pages
...onto certaine shcls, in shape like those of the Muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour ; wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace Of silke finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | John Stark - Natural history - 1828 - 542 pages
...unto certaine shells, in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | Edward Stanley - Birds - 1835 - 334 pages
...unto certain shells, in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of...woven as it were together; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles are ; the other end is made fast... | |
 | Edward Stanley (bishop of Norwich) - Birds - 1835 - 324 pages
...thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven as it were together; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles are ; the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude masse or lump, which in time cometh to the shape and form of a bird ; when... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Mollusks - 1835 - 234 pages
...contained a thing in form like a lace of silk, finely woven as it were, together, of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened into the inside of the shell, even as the fish of Oysters and Muskles are ; the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude mass or lumpe, which... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...together, of a whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even з-> the fish of oisters and muskles are : the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude masse or lumpe, which in time corameth to the shape and form of a bird : when... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Mollusks - 1836 - 230 pages
...contained a thing in form like a lace of sUk, finely woven as it were, together, of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened into the inside of the shell, even as the fiah of Oysters and Muskles are ; the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude mass or lumpe,... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 784 pages
...into certain shells, in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper-pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 794 pages
...lace of silke, finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles ; the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude mass, or lumpe, which in time cometh to the shape... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 pages
...unto certain shells, in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whiter colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of...silke, finely woven, as it were together ; one end wherof is fastened into the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles are ; the... | |
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... a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven, as it were, together ; one end whereof is fastened into the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles are ; the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude masse or lump, which... 
