Every fibre of her sang with the exultation of it as she turned into the room and encountered the fishlike stare of Big Lena.
Lapierre's glance flashed to her face and encountered the fishlike stare of the china-blue eyes, as he had encountered it once before.
Was it fancy, or did the china-blue, fishlikeeyes rest for just an instant upon the porcelain cup on the table?
And Big Lena, whose pale-blue, fishlike eyes stared first at one and then the other from out a face absolutely devoid of expression.
In all these animals the shape is fishlike, as is required by the fishlike habits; the skin is smooth and usually blackish, or black with white markings; the forelimbs have become paddles and the tail a pair of horizontal flukes.
The body approaches a fishlike form, and the four limbs are turned into more or less perfect paddles, or "flippers.
We have only to compare the running carnivora and ungulata, the leaping kangaroos and jerboas, the burrowing moles and hyperdaei, the flying cheiroptera and bats, the fishlikeswimming sirens and whales, and climbing lemures and apes.
Meanwhile the internal organs slowly transform from fishlike structures into things that display the characteristics of reptilian counterparts, and only later do they become truly avian.
The salamanders differ as regards the number of fishlike gill clefts that they all possess in their young stages, but which disappear entirely or in part during later life.
Meanwhile great changes are effected inside the body where the various systems of fishlike organs become remodeled into amphibian structures.
Like the Ichthyostegids, it probably swam by means of a fishlike tail.
The young tunicate is a free-swimming, active, tadpolelike, or fishlike creature, which possesses organs very like those of the adult of the simplest fishes or fishlike forms.
He had laid down as the fundamentals of a dirigible balloon these specifications: A cigar, or fishlike shape.
They suggested that the hull of submarines ought to be of metal and not of wood, and that their shape ought to be as nearly fishlike as possible.
These small, fishlike forms were cased in front with bony plates developed in the skin and covered in the rear with scales.
It is a fair inference that the tadpole stage in the life history of the frog represents a stage in the evolution of its kind,--that the Amphibia are derived from fishlike ancestral forms.
A group of fishlike animals including the Marsipobranchiata and Leptocardia.
Among these one important type was the ichthyosaur, a fishlike form which not uncommonly grew to be twenty to even forty feet long (Plate 18).
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