tenticklers

Updated: May 7, 2025

They were seated round a tripod imbibing a brown beverage from small vessels resembling the half of a hollow sphere, and eating with incredible velocity a quantity of tiny round coloured objects closely related, as I subsequently had occasion to ascertain, to the Bellaria angelica, which they raised to their mouths with astonishing and unerring aim in the complex Handling-Machines, or Tenticklers, which form part of their wonderful organism.

Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves - The War of the Wenuses