 | Sir Robert Sibbald - Botany - 1803 - 510 pages
...shape like those of the Muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour ; wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace Of silke finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | John Stark - Natural history - 1828 - 542 pages
...shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | Edward Stanley - Birds - 1835 - 334 pages
...shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven as it were together; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles are... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon - Botany - 1838 - 796 pages
...shape like those of the muskle, but sharper-pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven as it were together, of a whitish colour, one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1865 - 1236 pages
...in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whiter colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven, as it were together ; one end wherof is fastened into the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1854 - 508 pages
...shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish color ; wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven, as it were, together, of a whitish color, one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oysters... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1856 - 460 pages
...in shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whiter colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven as it were together; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles arc:... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 582 pages
...shape like those of tho muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour ; wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke finely woven as it were together of a whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 584 pages
...shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour ; wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke finely woven as it were together of i whitish colour ; one end whereof is fastened unto the inside of the shell, even as the fish of... | |
 | English periodicals - 1867 - 520 pages
...shape like those of the muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is contained a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven as it were together ; one end whereof is fastened to the inside of the shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles are... | |
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... a thing in form like a lace of silke, finely woven as it were together... 
