Citations:vermicular

English citations of vermicular

• 1796, Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Vol. I‎^[1], E-text number: 15707:

  The stomach and intestinal canal have a constant vermicular motion, which carries forwards their contents, after the lacteals have drank up the chyle from them; and which is excited into action by the stimulus of the aliment we swallow, but which becomes occasionally inverted or retrograde, as in vomiting, and in the iliac passion.

• 1806, Francis Huber, New observations on the natural history of bees‎^[2], E-text number: 26457:

  The worms proceeding from them pass their vermicular state in the same place where the eggs were deposited, which proves that bees are not charged with the care of transporting the eggs as has been supposed.

• 1816, Archibald Alison, Travels in France during the years 1814-1815‎^[3], E-text number: 27410:

  The disorders attending these small but inestimable members, the teeth, are invariably to be traced to a species of worm, and this the most obstinate, as well as the most fatal species in the vermicular tribe, which contrives to conceal itself at the root of the affected member.

• 1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia] [Volume 2 of 2]‎^[4], E-text number: 12046:

  In 1718; Vaillant,* who rejects the vermicular hypothesis of generation, supposes the influence of the Pollen to consist in an aura, conveyed by the tracheae of the style to the ovula, which it enters, if I rightly understand him, by the funiculus umbilicalis: at the same time he seems to admit the existence of the aperture in the coat.

• 1827, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 10,‎^[5], E-text number: 11341:

  With respect to the reptile, or, as we should say, insect, alluded to in the preceding letter, we suppose it to have been a vermicular insect, similar to those inhabiting the cells of corallines, of whose tiny labours, in the formation of coral islands, we quoted a spirited poetical description in No. 279 of the MIRROR. Corallines much resemble fossil or petrified wood; and we recollect to have received from the landlady of an inn at Portsmouth a small branch of fossil wood, which she asserted to be coral, and that upon the authority of scores of her visiters; but the fibres, &c. of the wood were too evident to admit of a dispute.

• 1850, Ira Mayhew, Popular Education‎^[6], E-text number: 27742:

  It has hence been called vermicular, or wormlike motion.

• 1862, Charles Darwin, More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II‎^[7], E-text number: 2740:

  Muller's reply is given in "Vegetable Mould," page 122.), and do they throw up on the surface of the ground numerous castings or vermicular masses such as we so commonly see in Europe?

• 1864, John Bell Bouton, Round the Block‎^[8], E-text number: 12243:

  It's a foolish thought, but I hardly know how I shall live without her." Mr. Whedell paused, for effect, and contemplated the vermicular work in the carpet.

• 1880, William Rounseville Alger, The Destiny of the Soul‎^[9], E-text number: 19082:

  The most loathsome and inexcusable instance in point is the "Vision of Annihilation" depicted by the vermicular, infested imagination of the great Teutonic phantasist while yet writhing under the sanguinary fumes of some horrid attack of nightmare.

• 1889, Barkham Burroughs, Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889‎^[10], E-text number: 14091:

  On the skin immediately adjacent to them being pressed with the finger nails, these bits of coagulated lymph will come from it in a vermicular form.

• 1891, Edward Egleston, The Faith Doctor‎^[11], E-text number: 27168:

  Nobody went around in that day to explain the vermicular motion of the stomach or the upward action of nerve-force, or the psychopathic value of animal magnetism.

• 1899, Anne Reeve Aldrich, A Village Ophelia and Other Stories‎^[12], E-text number: 14978:

  I will only tell you that during one especial occasion of rejoicing, a feast was given after a victory over a neighboring tribe, when the bound captives were piled together in black, shining heaps, that had a constant vermicular movement, each human pile guarded by a soldier.

• 1901, Jack London, The God of His Fathers‎^[13], E-text number: 1655:

  Mush-on! you Siwashes!" he cried, attempting, in a vermicular way, to kick at them, and discovering himself to be tottering on the edge of a declivity.

• 1902, Albert F. Blaisdell, A Practical Physiology‎^[14], E-text number: 10453:

  This may readily be seen in the muscular action of the intestines, called vermicular motion.

• 1902, Jack London, The People of the Abyss‎^[15], E-text number: 1688:

  By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind.

• 1910, W. C. Morrow, The Ape, the Idiot & Other People‎^[16], E-text number: 21616:

  A peculiar vermicular movement, beginning at his feet and ending at his head, was the precursor of a slow, vacant guffaw that expressed the most intense delight of which he was capable.

• 1915, Richard Le Gallienne, Vanishing Roads and Other Essays‎^[17]:

  It is this vermicular insignificance of the gossip that makes his detection so difficult, and gives him his security.

• 1920, Various, O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920‎^[18], E-text number: 11721:

  "That's the very feature of it that seems to me most dreadful; the vermicular aspect; the massed uprising; the massed death.