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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Aye, to those who are Tories," said Betty, with curling red lips, "but for me oh, Miss Bidwell, if you put in another pair of stockings I shall require as many feet as a centipede, who I read has hundreds of them." "Hundreds of feet?" echoed Miss Moppet. "Oh, Betty, do I live to hear you tell a fairy tale as if it were real?"
We have all heard of the centipede who could no longer proceed upon his journey when it occurred to him to question which foot he should next advance.
'She wishes to be out of my society now, at any rate! And he stared hard at the object of discourse, as one might do at a strange repulsive animal: a centipede from the Indies, for instance, which curiosity leads one to examine in spite of the aversion it raises.
The Little Big High Low Jack-in-the-game of the town came around and kowtowed. Oh, it wasn't to Herr Mees. They had heard about Judson Tate. "One afternoon me and Fergus McMahan was sitting on the seaward gallery of the Centipede, drinking iced rum and talking. "'Judson, says Fergus, 'there's an angel in Oratama.
An encounter between one of the smaller centipedes and a worm is like a fight between a ferret and a snake, so frantic is the writhing of the worm, so determined the hold which the hard and shiny centipede maintains with its hooked jaws. But the ferocity and destroying appetite of some of the water creatures would be appalling were it not for their small size.
The poster was illustrated by a huge machine gotten up on the centipede plan; at least, it resembled that hated insect from having attached to its frame two sets of wheels of different sizes along the sides like the legs of a centipede, but with a steam boiler for a head, and a big pipe for a throat from which the salt water was disgorged to wash out this immense amount of sand and give the gold to the miner.
That having had one good leg he should have another this would be to use vain repetitions as the Gentiles do. She would have been as much bewildered by him as if he had been a centipede. All pessimism has a secret optimism for its object.
"You have had the good fortune of starting in life as a graduate," explained Tzu-tsing as he smiled, "and yet are not aware of the saying uttered by some one of old: that a centipede even when dead does not lie stiff.
I have a distinct recollection of one huge-jointed centipede making a vicious grab at my leg; he failed to make his teeth meet in anything tangible, and emitting a venomous hiss disappeared in a circular pit. "Whilst I was the victim of this insect's ferocity the horizon had become darkened by the shadowy outline of an enormous apish form.
Any passing stranger, however, was as welcome to partake as if he had been specially sent for it by Apelesa. ASOMUA First Day. This was a household god, and particularly useful to the family in detecting and telling out the name of the thief when anything was missed. He was called first day, as it was supposed that he existed in the world before mortals. LEATUALOA The long god, or the centipede.
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