mooncalves

• Who are the halfwits, the mooncalves, the clotpolls whose touches and yanks on the national tiller steered us onto the rocks? —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
• "They must think we are mooncalves," said I, "to be frightened at that They're coming along that passage," said Cavor They must be They'll not think of the cleft. —  The First Men in the Moon
• The spiral gallery straightened into a steeply ascendent tunnel, its floor bearing abundant traces of the mooncalves, and so straight and short in proportion to its vast arch, that no part of it was absolutely dark. —  The First Men in the Moon
• I could see no signs of mooncalves or Selenites, nor could I see Cavor, but I could see my handkerchief far off, spread out on its thicket of thorns. —  The First Men in the Moon
• And so he attains his end Or, again, a Selenite appointed to be a minder of mooncalves is from his earliest years induced to think and live mooncalf, to find his pleasure in mooncalf lore, his exercise in their tending and pursuit. —  The First Men in the Moon

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