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He suddenly felt a resistance and realized that he had struck something and hoped that it might be the tentacle of the octopus. In another moment he felt the pressure on his arm and body relax and then realized that something had fallen from them. He struck out vigorously with both arms, the pressure upon his lungs from having held his breath so long beginning to be unbearable.
This continues while the tentacle is inflected or the gland fed by animal matter, but vanishes by dissolution when the work is over and the tentacle straightens. That absorption takes place, and matter is conveyed from cell to cell, is well made out, especially by the experiments with carbonate of ammonia.
The tentacle flourishing in air thrashed the surface with impotent fury; that around Jenks's waist grew taut and rigid. The axe flashed with the inspiration of hope. Another arm was severed; the huge dismembered coil slackened and fell away. Yet was he anchored immovably. He turned to look at Iris. She never forgot the fleeting expression of his face. So might Lazarus have looked from the tomb.
A touch of the fire seared them unmercifully. Nevertheless with a swift move it slapped a tentacle squarely down over the hose nozzle. The flame was extinguished as the flame of a candle is pinched out between thumb and forefinger. I retreated. "Catch!" came a voice behind me. The Professor swung his four-foot jet my way. I held my hose to it, and the flame burst out again.
The men who organise national disputes are a sort of mosquito, infecting their fellow-creatures with perverted mentality and disease, they should be exterminated." "Why not begin with the newspaper offices?" suggested Gwent "The purlieus of cheap journalism are the breeding-places of the human malaria-mosquito." "True! Cut off one tentacle, it grows another.
Harriet and I had not been here above a week when we first made the acquaintance of Miss Aiken, or rather she made our acquaintance. For she fills the place, most important in a country community, of a sensitive social tentacle reaching out to touch with sympathy the stranger.
When a child was born, a thin tentacle from the central mass of strands reached out and fastened itself upon him, dragging out his desire year by year until the strand was thick and strong and woven in securely among the old scaly ones. The folk who lived at the mills had hardly anything to do with the Life of Five Points. They were merely the dynamo that kept the Life alive.
These are the tentacle sacs, in which are coiled up the tentacles, which we shall describe presently. Lastly you can notice that the bands outside the globe are broader in the middle than at the ends, and are striped across by a number of ridges. In moving the tumblers the water has naturally been shaken, and the creature being alarmed will probably at first remain motionless.
He hurled a stone, picked out of the landslip at the corner, and hit a tentacle full and fair with a dull thud like leather. But the beast never moved. He was suspicious of the wily one, however. The devil, he knew, was sometimes busiest when he made least show of business.
The tentacle was now some way, two yards or more, in the room, and twisting and turning, with queer sudden movements, this way and that. For a while I stood fascinated by that slow, fitful advance. Then, with a faint, hoarse cry, I forced myself across the scullery. I trembled violently; I could scarcely stand upright.
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