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Updated: May 2, 2025
I caught up a blanket from the cradle, I am not going to throw away that good old word for the ugly outlandish name they give it now, reminding one only of a helmet, I caught up a blanket from the cradle, I say, wrapped it round the treasure, which was shooting its arms and legs in every direction like a polypus feeling after its food, and rushed down stairs, and down the precipice into the study.
To explain the presence of coral in the midst of a zoological collection it is necessary to remind the visitor that this beautiful substance, which is chiefly a deposit of carbonate of lime, is also the fossil remains of that animal known to zoologists as the polypus.
It is, however, natural to consider a polypus, furnished with a mouth, intestines, and other organs, as a distinct individual, whereas the individuality of a leaf-bud is not easily realised; so that the union of separate individuals in a common body is more striking in a coralline than in a tree.
"Now, my sweet polypus," said the victor, going down on one knee and patting the vanquished on his shoulder, "next time you feels tempted to kick a gentleman specially a electrician at his dewotions, think of Jim Slagg an' restrain yourself. I bear you no ill-will however so, good-night." Saying this, Robin's champion left the room and Stumps retired to his berth growling.
Mucous polypus of the nose, which is often described as a myxoma, is merely a pendulous process of œdematous mucous membrane. [Illustration: FIG.
Behind, a great walnut tree with black naked branches like a monstrous polypus. The black fruit of it swung heavily on it. The last withered leaves were decaying and falling one by one upon the still pond.... It seemed to him that he had already seen them, the two trees, the pond ... and suddenly he had one of those moments of giddiness which open great distances in the plain of life.
Thus the doctor went on lecturing on the polypus over the dead body of our late companion his love of natural history making him for the moment almost forget the horrors of the scene. How to rescue the body from the grasp of the monster was our next consideration. Returning on shore, we cut some long sticks, intending to attack him with them.
During many long years Science had laughed at the gigantic polypus and at the sea serpent, another prehistoric animal many times encountered, supposing them to be merely the inventions of an imaginative sailor, stories of the forecastle made up to pass the night-watch. Wise men can only believe what they can study directly and then catalogue in their museums....
It is, however, natural to consider a polypus, furnished with a mouth, intestines, and other organs, as a distinct individual, whereas the individuality of a leaf-bud is not easily realised, so that the union of separate individuals in a common body is more striking in a coralline than in a tree.
Thus do we see the soft and gelatinous body of a polypus, through the agency of the vital laws, conquering the great mechanical power of the waves of an ocean which neither the art of man nor the inanimate works of nature could successfully resist.
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