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The aquarium must be built up slowly and tentatively, object by object: plants first, and of the simplest kinds; and not until they are well settled, and the water beaded with oxygen bubbles, should we think of introducing living creatures, -- and even then only the hardier kinds of actinias, mollusks, and crabs.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Various
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'Then don't break in with your actinias and stuff!'
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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And scramble ecstatically they did, up and over slippery stone and rock festooned with olive weed, peeping into pools of crystal clearness, and admiring rosy fans of weed, and jewel-like actinias embellished by the magic beauty of intense clear brightness.
The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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