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Example sentences for "anemones"

Lexicographically close words:
anemia; anemic; anemometer; anemometers; anemone; anent; aner; aneroid; aneroids; anes
  1. I am not sure but that you have just now stopped reading to say to the primroses and anemones covering this slope, 'I am your brother!

  2. Then to-day the mother and her three companions have been riding on donkeys to the lovely Vigna Sersale through a fringe of coronilla and myrtle, anemones and violets.

  3. You cannot easily pull it from the rocks without harming it; but you will find other Anemones on stones and shells; and these you can put in a jar of sea-water, with some weed, and carry home to examine later on.

  4. The tiny Anemones were fixed to the glass and rock, all fishing for food with their little outspread tentacles.

  5. When the tide falls, you can walk among the rocks and pools by the sea, and find Anemones in plenty.

  6. Anemones are of many shapes, sizes, and colours.

  7. No doubt the Anemones themselves are eaten by other animals in the sea, but many kinds of fish will not touch them.

  8. Sea-anemones and seaweeds brighten the pool with their various colours.

  9. Many kinds of creatures live there, just as other kinds live on the earth; but it seems to me that the coral polyps and the sea-anemones are the strangest of all.

  10. Manuel whispers these words as though he fears the anemones may hear him and hide themselves from his sight.

  11. When the children get back to the others, they beg Alfonso to get a boat and row them around to where the anemones are growing.

  12. There are anemones too, purple and red and white, and lilies, but I think nothing would strike us so much as the homely little daisies which grow here just as they do at home.

  13. One street is just like a flower garden, lined with stalls piled up with violets and roses and anemones and other blossoms.

  14. But more beautiful still was the recollection of the sheets of anemones as I saw them in Sir Thomas Hanbury's beautiful garden of La Mortola.

  15. I tried to seek peace with my crewels and my needle, and bethought myself of the bunch of anemones which in haste I had thrown upon a table in the chapel hall.

  16. A few are the delight and joy of our own time, but most of them have perished, and are gone like the roses that Sir Philip Sidney picked for Stella, or the anemones that John Evelyn loved.

  17. The sea anemones are alive, but the circles of tentacles about their mouths make them look like flowers of the most beautiful colors.

  18. Between the anemones a bright yellow lichen-like growth almost covered the warm red granite, and tiny yellow, rose, and black and white striped snails were set like jewels on this background.

  19. Better remember that the only safe time to watch sea anemones is when the tide is just going out.

  20. That's how I happen to know about the sea anemones and the tides.

  21. The anemones were pulpy brown bodies varying in size from a pea to a tomato.

  22. Those that we can preserve we will, but the sea-anemones we'll have to work on in the Aquarium on Agar's Island, where they have some magnificent specimens.

  23. So does coral," was the reply, "and it eats and lives just in the same way, only that the coral polyp has a stony skeleton and most of the sea anemones have not.

  24. Marjorie was enraptured at the sight of the beautifully-arranged gardens, in which brightly-colored anemones took the place of flowers.

  25. Exquisite shells were strewn about, and brightly-colored anemones clung to the rocks on every side, while all kinds of oddly-shaped fishes swam about, peering at the children curiously as they passed.

  26. Then there were the anemones just out; and at sight of them the child jumped up and down, and had to be told what they were.

  27. For a whole month you shall forget that you've ever had a family to bring up or a house to take care of or anemones that won't grow properly--even in leaf-mould.

  28. My Saint Brigid anemones never really do--though what I put in of leaf-mould!

  29. That division of the Coelenterata of which the Sea-anemones may be taken as the type.

  30. Just behind us, for instance, there's a clump of anemones singing next to some primroses.

  31. Having attained this state of mind, she saw nothing unusual in sitting down with half a dozen women who clung to their sofas as sea-anemones to the rocks of an aquarium.

  32. The second of the great groups or phyla into which the metazoa are divided is the Coelenterata, in which are included most of the animals commonly known as zoophytes, and also the corals, sea-anemones and jelly-fish.

  33. In this class the primitive central cavity is not divided up by muscular partitions and there is no folding in of the anterior part of the body to form an oesophagus or stomatodaeum such as is found in the sea-anemones and coral polyps.

  34. Little Mary Samm looked longingly towards a clump of wood anemones dancing in the sunshine, as she followed her aunt, Joan Dewsbury, through a coppice of beech-trees on the outskirts of the city of Warwick.

  35. Joan Dewsbury took the bunch of anemones from her niece's cold fingers, laid it down carefully in Mary's rush basket and covered it with a corner of the cloth.

  36. The anemones in the centre still glimmered faintly as if shining by their own light.

  37. The small glass-topped specimen-table still lay where it had been overturned, and the fragments of the two green-glass flower-vases were strewn upon the carpet with the drooping red anemones themselves.

  38. What grass there is is not only an enamel of emerald, but is literally crowded with those crimson anemones which might well have called forth the great saying touching Solomon in all his glory.

  39. Clusters and crowds of crimson anemones were of a red not to be symbolised in blood or wine; but rather in the red glass that glows in the window dedicated to a martyr.

  40. Instances of long life in sea-anemones and other vertebrates.

  41. According to Dalyell, these anemones reach the adult condition in 15 months.

  42. The adder-tongues and violets and anemones are here in rare profusion in their time, and the wandering gray wolf, last of his kind, almost, treads softly over knolls carpeted with wintergreen and decorated with scarlet berries.

  43. Her cheeks are like blood-red anemones and her face like a pippin: she hath lips like wine and breasts like pomegranates twain and a shape supple as a rattan-cane.


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