dainty-tentacled

Updated: August 9, 2026

"My alternative route takes me round by a huge, shadowy cavern, very crowded and clamorous, and here it is I see peering out of the hexagonal openings of a sort of honeycomb wall, or parading a large open space behind, or selecting the toys and amulets made to please them by the dainty-tentacled jewellers who work in kennels below, the mothers of the moon world the queen bees, as it were, of the hive.

H. G. (Herbert George) Wells - The First Men in the Moon