But these stoic souls are good for nothing, that I know of, but, "Fixed, like a plant, to one peculiar spot, To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot."
— from The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel: Founded on Fact by Hannah Webster Foster
Facial plate with four pairs, occipital plate with three pairs of large annular pores; the other pores small, subregular, circular.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel
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