animalculae

"animalculae," and were confounded with all kinds of other small organisms.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Each mighty sea, all phosphorescent and glowing with the tiny lights of myriads of animalculae, threatened to overwhelm us with a deluge of fire.

Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan 2010

Each mighty sea, all phosphorescent and glowing with the tiny lights of myriads of animalculae, threatened to overwhelm us with a deluge of fire.

Story of a Typhoon off the Coast of Japan 2010

Among the lower forms of animal life, the infusorial animalculae we have already spoken of throw off certain portions, or break themselves up in various directions, sometimes transversely or sometimes longitudinally; or they may give off buds, which detach themselves and develop into their proper forms.

Essays 2007

“Yes,” replied Harding, “there will be new continents which millions and millions of animalculae are building at this moment.”

The Mysterious Island 2005

And these operations are made manifest to the sense chiefly by careful observation of the first beginnings and rudiments or essays of life in animalculae generated from putrefaction, as in ants 'eggs, worms, flies, frogs after rain, etc.

The New Organon 2005

Forty-seven millions of these insects are needed to weigh a grain, and yet, with the sea-salt they absorb, the solid elements of water which they assimilate, these animalculae produce limestone, and this limestone forms enormous submarine erections, of which the hardness and solidity equal granite.

The Mysterious Island 2005

Also the different materials of putrefaction, whence animalculae are generated, should be observed.

The New Organon 2005

“Yes,” replied Harding, “there will be new continents which millions and millions of animalculae are building at this moment.”

The Mysterious Island 2005

Forty-seven millions of these insects are needed to weigh a grain, and yet, with the sea-salt they absorb, the solid elements of water which they assimilate, these animalculae produce limestone, and this limestone forms enormous submarine erections, of which the hardness and solidity equal granite.

The Mysterious Island 2005