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Molluscs in sentence

11 examples of Molluscs in a sentence

The fact is, I really do love molluscs.'
The mammals disappear, then the birds vanish, then the reptiles of the secondary period, and finally the fish, the crustaceans, molluscs, and articulated beings.
I am trying to recall the peculiar instincts of the monsters of the pre-adamite world, who, coming next in succession after the molluscs, the crustaceans and le fishes, preceded the animals of mammalian race upon the earth.
cried the sailor; "these will do instead of eggs!""They are not mussels," replied Herbert, who was attentively examining the molluscs attached to the rocks; "they are lithodomes."
Their hunger was thus appeased for the time, but not their thirst, which increased after eating these naturally-spiced molluscs.
They must, in fact, prepare some provisions and procure more strengthening food than eggs and molluscs.
However, to these molluscs, the lad added some edible sea-weed, which he gathered on high rocks, whose sides were only washed by the sea at the time of high tides.
And without waiting for a reply to this proposal, knowing that it would be approved of, the sailor and Neb detached a quantity of the molluscs.
These molluscs were of excellent quality, and the colonists consumed some daily.
The oyster-bed among the rocks was frequently renewed and furnished excellent molluscs.
The upper part of the mouth of the cetacean was, indeed, provided on both sides with eight hundred horny blades, very elastic, of a fibrous texture, and fringed at the edge like great combs, at which the teeth, six feet long, served to retain the thousands of animalculae, little fish, and molluscs, on which the whale fed.