"Invertebrate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the pale polite stewardess in her cabin. "I had better have a lemon, cut in two," she had said, feeling suddenly stifled with fear. For hours she had lain despairing, watching the slowly swaying walls of her cabin or sinking with closed eyes through invertebrate dipping spaces. Before each releasing paroxysm she told herself "this is like death; one day I shall die, it will ...
— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson
... invertebrate animal of the class nyrapod (Greek for many feet), so called because it has a great many (indefinitely one ...
— Orthography - As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois • Elmer W. Cavins
... Lesbia: every woman likes a man who stands up for his own. It is only your invertebrate husband whose wife drifts into the divorce court. I mean to keep and hold the prize I have won. When is it to ...
— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... the girl who had sent me on it, forgotten that I was once an erect and vigorous man with other interests than to crawl round for berries like an ape, and lie all day and sleep when once hunger was appeased. And thus I led an invertebrate, purposeless existence. I had warmth, food, and water, and the berries that gave me pleasant dreams, and I wanted nothing more. I took no note of the passing of time weeks, months God knows? even years! may have passed nay must have passed as ...
— A Rip Van Winkle Of The Kalahari - Seven Tales of South-West Africa • Frederick Cornell
... mentioned in connection with, worthy the attention of tailors, citizen of, baked, boiled, and roasted (nefandum!). Masses, the, used as butter by some. Maury, an intellectual giant, twin birth with Simms (which see). Mayday a humbug. M.C., an invertebrate animal. Me, Mister, a queer creature. Mechanics' Fair, reflections suggested at. Medium, ardentispirituale. Mediums, spiritual, dreadful liars. Memminger, old. Mentor, letters of, dreary. Mephistopheles at a nonplus. Mexican blood, its effect in raising ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
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