"Whelk" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The reversed whelk (Figure 125) is common at Walton, where the dextral form of that shell is unknown. Here also we find most frequently specimens of lamellibranchiate molluscs, with both the valves united, showing that they belonged to this sea of the Upper ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell
... (deterioration) 659; spots on the sun^; eyesore. stain, blot; spot, spottiness; speck, speckle, blur. tarnish, smudge; dirt &c 653. [blemish on a person's skin: list] freckle, mole, macula [Anat.], patch, blotch, birthmark; blobber lip^, blubber lip; blain^, maculation; scar, wem^; pustule; whelk; excrescence, pimple &c (protuberance) 250. V. disfigure &c (injure) 659; speckle. Adj. pitted, freckled, discolored; imperfect &c 651; blobber-lipped, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... found numbers of large hermit-crabs, crawling, or rather running, about in whelk shells, half a dozen of them occasionally having a grand fight amongst themselves. We picked up at least twenty different sorts of gracefully shaped pieces of coral, and quantities of shells of an infinite variety of form and colour; cowries, helmet-shells, the shells from which cameos ...
— A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' • Annie Allnut Brassey
... exceedingly high in Brighton. After all, the cost of food depends everywhere very much upon what you eat. I see no reason for supposing that the price of whelks in Brighton compares unfavourably with the price of whelks in other great whelk-eating centres; but the price of fruit is undeniably high. I saw some very large light-green grapes in a shop window, grown, I suppose, over blast furnaces, and when I asked what they cost I was considerably surprised. Being ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, September 8th, 1920 • Various
... case of insects that make galls on plants. There are also among kindred animals many forms of colonies, communities, and societies. Nutritive chains bind long series of animals together, the cod feeding on the whelk, the whelk on the worm, the worm on the organic dust of the sea. There is a system of successive incarnations and matter is continually passing from one embodiment to another. These instances must suffice to illustrate the central biological idea of the web of life, the interlinked System of Animate ...
— The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) - A Plain Story Simply Told • J. Arthur Thomson |
