| Sir Robert Sibbald - Botany - 1803 - 510 pages
...breedeth 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... | |
| William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...unto certain shells, in shape like those of the Muscle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of Oysters and Muscles are ; the other end is made fast unto the belly of a rude masse or lump, which... | |
| Chapbooks - 1820 - 188 pages
...into certain shells, in shape like those of a tnugcle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour. One end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oysters and muscles, and the other end is made fast unto the belly, of a rude mass, which in time cometh... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1825 - 682 pages
...breedeth into certain shells, in shape like those of the muscle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing, in form like a lace of silk finely woven together, one end whereof is fastened to the inside of the shell, even as the fish... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1827 - 332 pages
...breedeth into certain shells, in shape like those of the muscle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing, in form like a lace of silk J finely woven together, one end whereof is fastened to the inside of the shell, even as the fish... | |
| John Stark - Natural history - 1828 - 542 pages
...breedeth 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... | |
| James Rennie - Animal behavior - 1833 - 422 pages
...breedeth unto certain shells, in shape, like those of the mussel, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silk finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour ; one end wereof is fastened unto the inside... | |
| Thomas Brown - Mollusks - 1835 - 234 pages
...breedith 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 silk, finely woven as it were, together, of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened into the... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...breedeth unto certaine Miels, 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 silko finely woven, as it were, together, of a whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1836 - 394 pages
...breedeth into certain shells, in shape like those of the muscle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing, in form like a lace of silk finely woven together, one end whereof is fastened to the inside of the shell, even as the fish... | |
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