star-fish

The ceiling of this drawing-room was so crossed and recrossed by beams of unequal lengths, radiating from a centre, in a corner, that it looked like a broken star-fish.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

And for every wing above it had a leg below, with a claw like a comb at the tip, and a nostril at the root; and in the middle it had no stomach and one eye; and as for its mouth, that was all on one side, as the madreporiform tubercle in a star-fish is.

The Water Babies 2007

I heard a great story a few years back about how a bowler hatted Swayne with umbrella in hand was riding his bike past a fellow MP on a busy Westminster street and flung his arms off the handbars into the air, and thrust his legs forward off the pedals so he looked like a giant star-fish.

Archive 2006-07-01 Kerron Cross 2006

I heard a great story a few years back about how a bowler hatted Swayne with umbrella in hand was riding his bike past a fellow MP on a busy Westminster street and flung his arms off the handbars into the air, and thrust his legs forward off the pedals so he looked like a giant star-fish.

Tories Chances Going Down the Swayne Kerron Cross 2006

It simply “moves” on the ocean floor, when not reposing in apparently absolute and unconscious idleness like its distant relative, the star-fish.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The slimy disgusting Holuthuriæ (allied to our star-fish), which the

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Thus also shells, zoophytes, star-fish, polypi, spirifores, even fish and lizards brought by the water, left on the yet soft coal their exact likeness, “admirably taken off.”

The Underground City 2003

Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer - shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, ‘just like a star-fish,’ thought Alice.

Alice in Wonderland 2003

The outgoing tide exposed star-fish and sea-urchins, and the children tried to catch the flakes of foam which the wind blew away.

A Simple Soul 2003

The slimy disgusting Holuthuriæ (allied to our star-fish), which the

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003