Shudderingly I made my way towards a portion of the reef that now lay exposed, keeping a wary eye on the seaweed lest another octopus should be lurking in the rocky crevices.
Little time was lost in getting back to the side of the submarine, the water being stained with the blood of the octopus so that it could not be seen clearly.
He had no doubt that theoctopus was hidden in some crevice of the rocks behind him and his companion, and, following its usual method, had reached out and seized the invaders of its haunts.
The pressure of the tentacles of the octopus had increased to what was an almost unendurable point, and then the arms seemed suddenly to relax.
The charge that would kill theoctopus would also kill them.
The two had come to the rescue, and on the bottom of the sea had advanced upon the octopus in its lair, stabbing it to death with long, spear-like knives.
At last, however, a tentacle of the feather-trade octopus reached out to Laysan.
The reader will notice that it is the way of the millineryoctopus to reach out to the uttermost ends of the earth, and take everything that it can use.
It seemed to suck the light out of the disk; paler and paler it became and bigger and bigger swelled the body of the octopus until it had swallowed the sun.
It escaped Lee's mouth, uncontrollably as the abyss of the subconscious opened and he saw: A monstrous animal shaped like an octopus crawling across a cotton field.
The two closed in and as they did the octopus flung its arms around the shining disk obscuring it as a dark cloud the sun.
Kirby saw to his horror that, in addition to four short legs with webbed, claw-tipped feet, there sprouted from the body a number ofoctopus tentacles.
When the octopuslays its eggs, they hatch out into the larval form.
I never tried giving an octopus a hypodermic injection of prussic acid before, but it ought to do the business.
The huge octopus suddenly sank below them, thrashing its arms about wildly.
Saranoff spent years in glandular experimentation, and no doubt he has managed to stimulate the thyroid of a normal octopus and produce a giant.
Suddenly, however, Kirby lurched sideways and backward, and as the octopus grip slackened for a flash, he himself got a wrestler's grip that left him ready to do business.
He turned off the lights in the ball and the octopus attacked again.
Before their horrified gaze was an octopus of a size to make them disbelieve their eyes.
I have seen pictures of a huge octopus pulling down a ship," said Carnes, "but I always fancied they were imaginary.
Momentarily the knife hung above his chest, and Kirby, dismayed at the powers of his opponent, almost felt that the thing must plunge before he could break the octopus hold.
The octopus sank and all the sea about was made black with its screen of ink.
Shortly afterward a dead octopus was found, measuring, with tentacles spread, forty feet over all.
It was not, however, the same octopus which attacked the fishermen, for that must have been much larger.
Two Newfoundlanders were once fishing in an open boat, when an octopus attacked the boat, reaching for it with two enormous arms, with the purpose of dragging it down.
The octopus is eaten extensively in the Mediterranean countries.
The spider-octopus came into view from around the rear of the manor and crawled leisurely toward the guest house.
The spider-octopus picked up the other end of the thong and clamped its braceletlike device around the old man's wrist.
Particularly I want to learn what Fenestra knows about John Munn and the octopus tattoo.
I wish you would forget that storm cave and the octopus tattoo," said Louise unsympathetically.
I've decided to run the octopus tattoo story on the front page of our first issue.
Yesterday Anchor Joe left a drawing of an octopus on his doorstep.
Between the two foremost arms of the octopus was sketched a single word: ALL.
You were afraid I'd learn too much about theoctopus tattoo.
He was here today to ask me about the octopus tattoo story.
As for the octopus tattoo, what is so strange about it?
I once saw an octopus tattoo such as you describe," declared Penny.
He may understand the significance of the octopus tattoo.
Another thing, why should Fenestra decide to have his octopus tattoo removed?
Oh, by the way, what's the significance of thatoctopus thing on your back?
Each man was marked with an octopus tattoo, wasn't he?
It would be hard enough to explain an earthly octopus in his living-room if the necessity arose, Farmer reflected for the teenteenth time--but how in the name of Neptune could he ever explain this?
John Andrew Farmer scowled at the octopus that sprawled on his living-room couch, rubbed his stubbly jaw with a stubby fist, and said, "I love you.
Then a minor official of theOctopus put temptation in his way by making him a proposition.
If the Octopus is responsible for our troubles, then where do the Mexicans come in?
There's a duplicate list among my papers that the Octopus would give anything to obtain possession of.
The Octopus is trying to gobble us up, but it hasn't succeeded, and won't if we can prevent.
Then perhaps a school or pack or flock of Octopus gigas would be found busy picking the sailors off a stranded ship, and then in the course of a few score years it might begin to stroll up the beaches and batten on excursionists.
Another god, named Haele-feke, used to manifest himself in the form of an octopus (feke).
The worshippers of the two former deities might not eat the divine octopus and the divine pig's liver.
But the worshipper who shrank from eating or drinking his god in the shape, say, of an octopus or of coco-nut water, would often look on with indifference while other people partook of these his divinities.
Whenever an octopus appeared in a certain pool, it was at once recognised as the god, and the priestess immediately went and awaited him at the shrine, which seems to have been a small raised platform.
But the octopus had firmly closed about its victim, whose struggles, before the year 100 A.
The Roman octopus from that moment had fastened its tentacles upon the hapless land; and in 45 A.
Some years ago a "plague" of Octopus very seriously affected the Lobster fishery in the English Channel.
The chances against a nude Ohio barber of 140 pounds in a wrestling match with an adult octopus are exactly a thousand to one.
Mr. Pottle staggered to the dry beach; a tentacle was still wound tight round his shoulder, but there was no octopus at the other end of it.
The actor, mocking the octopus below, had calmly stepped from one rock pinnacle to another.
The flabby, soulless octopus of civil life reached out its tentacles and dragged all these heroic creatures into its maw of oblivion.
Upon the bottom where he had stood a shapeless squirming, pulpy mass was all that remained of the octopus and about it, swarmed voracious fishes snapping at the dying, flaccid tentacles.
Rawlins was making one picture of a whopping big octopus fighting with a diver--fake devil fish made out of rubber, but natural as is.
Be fit as ever and ready for another scrap with anoctopus before dinner.
Say, I'll be able to make a corking film of an octopus next time.
But the boys did see an octopus or "sea cat" as the natives call them.
They were now making directly for the spot at which the octopus had disappeared, and a few minutes later they reached a ledge, with the cave immediately in front of them.
Seized by octopusand carried into cave some distance above your heads.
And I think, even for creatures so awful-looking, this method is indescribably base, and shows how much lower than an octopus even, is lordly man.
A calamaio is an ink-pot: also it is a polyp, a little octopus which, alas, frequents the Mediterranean and squirts ink if offended.
The octopus was connected to the ship's communicator and all its findings were being transmitted to the mother ship for study.
Such up to date, though in brief outline, is the history of the progress of the Prussian octopus in Turkish military and naval matters.
To do this the victory of our Allied Nations must be complete, and Germany's octopus monopoly of Turkish industries severed.
The tentacles of the octopus reach into Springfield, the State capital!
Then like a many-armed octopusit stretched out and out about it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octopus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
