But the ancient bridge so recently replaced by this structure was much more picturesque, curving across the flood and supported upon multitudinous feet, like a long-legged centipede of the innocuous kind.
Not daring to make a move, as the centipede is supposed to strike very swiftly, Captain Wright was compelled to stand still while it slowly made its way to the pillow and thence to the floor, where it was killed.
He was bitten on the ankle by a centipede nearly a foot long.
On these evidences it would seem just, for the present, to set down the scorpion and the centipede as painful, rather than dangerous, assailants.
Well, set a torch to it and see if he is lurking anywhere about the crevices like a centipede in a crack!
So he became a centipede and he went in the crack of the floor where Aponibolinayen was lying.
Transforming self into a centipede he hides until he learns her real wish.
A great centipede comes down from yonder mountain, enters my palace, and destroys my children and grandchildren.
The arrow sped forth into the night and struck the centipede in the middle of the head, but glanced off immediately without inflicting any wound.
One by one they have become food for this dread creature, and I fear soon that unless something can be done to slay this centipede I myself shall become a victim.
Hence he conjectures that its caustic nature, in the instance here recorded, might arise from its food; which he had reason to think had at that time been the electric centipede (Geophilus electricus).
Secondly, as regards the last-mentioned author's explanation of such serial homology as exists in the centipede and its allies, the very groundwork is open to objection.
Centipede (from a specimen in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons) .
In the spider, we have a specially constructed antenna; and finally in the centipede a pair of modified thoracic limbs.
He would explain the serial homologies of such creatures as the lobster and centipede thus: Animals of a very low grade propagate themselves by spontaneous fission.
Brigham (1866) saw a cockroach kill and eat a centipede four or five inches long.
The body of thiscentipede reaches a maximum length of 27 mm.
The insect was held beneath its captor's body, ventral surface upward, by several of the anterior legs while the centipede fed.
After feeding on an adult cockroach, the centipede is not inclined to kill another for 2-3 days.
The centipede Scutigera coleoptrata capturing and feeding on cockroaches in the laboratory.
Illustration: "The Centipede and the Porpoise doubled up on the cabin in paroxysms of laughter.
The Centipede was the first to be pulled aboard, and he came willingly, though he objected when the constable put the handcuffs on him.
You didn't get the Porpoise," the Centipede said exultantly, as though his escape materially diminished our success.
The Centipede and the Porpoise doubled up on the cabin in paroxysms of laughter, and left us to get clear as best we could.
In Mangaia the tribe of Teipe, whose members were liable to serve as victims in human sacrifices, worshipped the centipede: there was a shrine of the centipede god at Vaiau on the eastern side of Mangaia.
The utility of a fine mat and a fan to a centipede is too obvious to be insisted on.
In Texas, the lady who had been frightfully stung by a centipede pointed every moral.
The centipede had crept into my bedclothes, and got a good chance at me, I can tell you.
Once outside, the centipede seemed to have disappeared, and his prospective murderers began a thorough but cautious search for their victim.
The centipede showed genius in concealing himself in such bare quarters.
The dotted lines round the centipede are tracks which it leaves on a man's skin.
I held an inquest on him, brought in a verdict against some snake, scorpion, orcentipede unknown, and sent him overboard.
But I suppose the centipede poison and the kicking I had given him had upset the one--he was always a cantankerous sort--and he persuaded the other.
We'll give our consent to that operation, but keep quiet for the present till our two friends come back to see how neatly the old centipede fixed us.
Into my mind flashed a picture of the bloodthirsty Wizards of the Centipede stretching out in exactly the same manner centuries before a white man sailed into the Pacific!
They evidently expected the officiating wizard to announce in sporting phraseology that the centipede had won the engagement with one swift blow to the body, and when no news was forthcoming they were puzzled.
The strange stone structures similar to the one upon which Holman and Verslun narrowly escaped being offered up as sacrifices to the Centipedeare to be found in many islands of the Pacific at the present day.
We learned that the one-eyed white man and the last of the Wizards of the Centipede had been dispatched by Maru and Kaipi, and we also received the news that the four carriers had bolted back to the yacht.
This is the legend of the lost centipede that once held undisputed sway of the Lost Property Office at Scotland Yard before it came to an untimely end.
But even a centipede cannot defy Scotland Yard with impunity.
Now there were not less than forty of the giant ants about the remnants of the monstrouscentipede Moran had killed.
The almost yard-long enormity standing two and a half feet high, was in the act of carrying away a section of one of the legs of the giant centipede Moran had killed earlier.
To test the reasoning powers of these ants, I partially disabled a centipede and threw it into the square a short distance from the patrol line.
Again the arrow hit the mark, it struck the centipederight in the middle of its head, only to glance off and fall to the ground.
The arrow hit the centipede right in the middle of its head, but instead of penetrating, it glanced off harmless and fell to the ground.
The warrior asked where the centipede lived, so that he might attack the creature at once.
Then Hidesato called to the Dragon King to come out with him on the balcony, for the centipede was dead and he had nothing more to fear.
This time the arrow again hit the centipede right in the middle of its head, but instead of glancing off harmlessly as before, it struck home to the creature's brain.
For some time past we have lived in terror, for a monster centipede has discovered our home, and night after night it comes and carries off one of my family.
I did not feel so sure about that; but, having made up my mind to be a Centipede, a Centipede I was bound to be.
If the selectmen are still disposed to punish the malefactors, I can supply Lawyer Hackett with evidence enough to convict Pepper Whitcomb, Phil Adams, Charley Marden, and the other honorable members of the Centipede Club.
Besides, there was just then a certain movement on foot by the Centipede Club which helped to engross my attention.
This time the arrow again hit the centipede right in the middle of its head, but instead of glancing off harmlessly as before it struck home to the creature's brain.
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