beroe

• “The beroe is a most active being, its habits conforming to the organisation with which it is endowed.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852

• “This just means he has to keep speaking eloquently on this issue beroe it comes up again b/c the GOP will pull tbe race card during the general election so he and the DNC need to prepare for this.”

  Poll: Majority Liked Obama's Race Relations Speech, But Doubts About Wright Remain

• “In deep water, far from the land, the number of living creatures is extremely small: south of the latitude 35°, I never succeeded in catching anything besides some beroe, and a few species of minute entomostracous crustacea.”

  Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle

• “The Captain had advised Nellie to search amongst the old wooden piles of the pier, as a likely situation to find these animals, and others he named quite as curious, such as the ` beroe 'and the ` balanus,' which while looking as if inanimate yet are ` all alive, 'and, if not”

  Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel

• “In deep water, far from the land, the number of living creatures is extremely small: south of the latitude 35 degrees, I never succeeded in catching anything besides some beroe, and a few species of minute entomostracous crustacea.”

  The Voyage of the Beagle

• “Mr Patterson, in his excellent _Introduction to Zoology_, mentions that on one occasion he divided a fragment of the body of a beroe, lately taken from the shore and shattered by a storm, 'into portions so minute that one piece of skin had but two cilia attached to it, yet the vibration of these organs continued for nearly a couple of days afterwards!”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852

• “By stopping some of its paddles, and keeping others in play, the beroe can change its course at pleasure, and so wander 'at its own sweet will,' through the trackless waste.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852

• “But we must leave the beroe, charmer though it be.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852

• “Presently it began to move up and down within its prison-house, and the paddles by means of which the beroe dances along its ocean-path were distinctly visible.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852

• “The beroe is spared the labour and uncertainty of the chase.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 423 Volume 17, New Series, February 7, 1852

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