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  • C'est moi sous forme de poulpe, dessiné près le illustrateur formidable, mon ami nouveau, Zariel!.

    Return From Imaginales Hal Duncan 2009

  • C'est moi sous forme de poulpe, dessiné près le illustrateur formidable, mon ami nouveau, Zariel!.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • If excerpts are acceptable, the relevant passages with the giant squid octopus, poulpe, whatever from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and the Watcher in the Water from The Fellowship of the Ring.

    Squidpunk…It Might Just Be Go-Time?… 2010

  • Jean-Marc ordered the pot-au-feu avec son os à moelle and I asked for fricassée de poulpe.

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

  • Zon donné une explication pour le 'serpent de mer' qui aurait bien pu etre une tentacule de poulpe geant car ca ca existe vraiment les poulpe geat et rellement geant!! c'est impressionnant z'ont montré un cadavre de poupe geant ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • The nautilus (or argonaut) is a poulpe or octopus, but one peculiar both in its nature and its habits.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Of those swimming creatures that appear to have feet, as is the case with the molluscs, these creatures swim by the aid of their feet and their fins as well, and they swim most rapidly backwards in the direction of the trunk, as is the case with the cuttle-fish or sepia and the calamary; and, by the way, neither of these latter can walk as the poulpe or octopus can.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • All molluscs are furnished with eight feet, and in all cases these feet are severally furnished with a double row of suckers, with the exception of one single species of poulpe or octopus.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • I refer to his claim that "les premiers conquérants de la mer furent induits en vénération du poulpe nageur (octopus) parce qu'ils crurent que quelque-uns de ces céphalopodes, les poulpes sacrés (argonauta) avaient, comme eux et avant eux, inventé la navigation" (_op.cit. _, p. 15).

    The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith

  • Animaux De La Mer Par: Medha and Marjan la baleine les ètoiles de mer l'hippocampe le poulpe (luh polp) le goldfish les mèduses le dauphin

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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