earth-worm

“One can imagine something worm — like,” he said, “taking its air solid as an earth-worm swallows earth, or thick-skinned monsters —”

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

It would appear that the office of the tender caterpillar is that of a maker of manure; and it may have to be more highly organized than an earth-worm so as to perform its special duties in unpromising circumstances.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

No insect was to be seen in this dreary country, nor any species of reptile -- not even the common earth-worm.

The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 1993

Van Groot looked at Charlie as though he were examining a special species of earth-worm.

The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990

And still the wonder remains, that though the earth-worm exists merely as a lowly thing, created and having its being solely within the Mind of THE ALL -- yet THE ALL is immanent in the earthworm, and in the particles that go to make up the earth-worm.

The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Three Initiates

Spiritual Plane (each Minor Plane having its seven sub-divisions) comprise Beings possessing Life, Mind and Form as far above that of Man of to-day as the latter is above the earth-worm, mineral or even certain forms of Energy or Matter.

The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Three Initiates

Hookham-cum-Snivey Museum, and which is known as the _vermis communis_, or earth-worm, and which has always excited considerable interest among the various visitors.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various

And since few of us know how to bring up so much as an earth-worm reasonably, I can't see that it matters so very much which particular woman looks after the children.

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

The healthful movement is like that by which an earth-worm moves along the ground: so long as the tube is thus moving its contents onward, by contraction and expansion, no part can pass inside or outside that which is before it; but when one part loses nervous tension, and expands without contracting quickly enough, the part behind it tends to worm itself into it, and a "knot," as it is sometimes called, is formed.

Papers on Health John Kirk

THE ALL is in the earthworm, and yet the earth-worm is far from being THE ALL.

The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Three Initiates