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  • The ancestors of Terebratulina caput serpentis may have been present at a battle of Ichthyosauria in that part of the sea which, when the chalk was forming, flowed over the site of

    Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

  • The ancestors of Terebratulina caput serpentis may have been present at a battle of Ichthyosauria in that part of the sea which, when the chalk was forming, flowed over the site of Hastings.

    Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909

  • I think it probable that critical and unprejudiced examination will show that more than one species of much higher animals have had a similar longevity; but the only example, which I can at present give confidently is the snake's-head lamp-shell (Terebratulina caput serpentis), which lives in our English seas and abounded (as Terebratulina striata of authors) in the chalk.

    Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909

  • * Nam cum dominus adveniens sanasset illa quae Adam portaverat vulnera et venena serpentis antiqui curasset, legem dedit sano et pracepit ne ultra jam peccaret, ne quid peccanti gravius eveniret.

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • Sed instinctu serpentis, et sua culpa a bonitate et rectitudine deficiens, peccato, morti, variisque calamitatibus factus est obnoxius.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Sed instinctu serpentis, et sua culpa a bonitate et rectitudine deficiens, peccato, morti, variisque calamitatibus factus est obnoxius.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Habuerunt enim promissiones evangelicas insignes, quales hae sunt: Semen mulieris conculcabit caput serpentis

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • The ancestors of _Terebratulina caput serpentis_ may have been present at a battle of Ichthyosauria in that part of the sea which, when the chalk was forming, flowed over the site of Hastings.

    Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

  • (_Terebratulina caput serpentis_), which lives in our English seas and abounded (as _Terebratulina striata_ of authors) in the chalk.

    Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky Various 1880

  • The ancestors of Terebratulina caput serpentis may have been present at a battle of Ichthyosauria in that part of the sea which, when the chalk was forming, flowed over the site of Hastings.

    Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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