"Earthworm" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hurt. But you're scared to death being hurt yourself. That's how I know. I could kill you with the grip of one hand. But it wouldn't hurt you enough. At least not to suit me. You must be hurt first. You must know what it's like being hurt, you rotten, loathsome earthworm!" ...
— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum
... she proves more trustworthy they will not be allowed to return to her. Tell her, too, that when she wishes to communicate with me, she must choose some other messenger besides you, you impudent, grovelling little earthworm! Get out of my sight, or you will ...
— Marm Lisa • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... back of an earthworm be examined with a high-power lens (x500), small points of pigment will be seen here and there in its dorsal integument; these, I believe, are primitive eyes (ocelli). I think that the worm is enabled to tell the difference between light and darkness through the agency of these minute ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir
... us, and afraid even to speak of death, was horrified on seeing them, firmly believing that she would one day be eaten by them—a very general opinion at that time; few people being then aware that the finest mould in our gardens and fields has passed through the entrails of the earthworm, the vegetable juices it contains being sufficient to ...
— Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville • Mary Somerville
... power than the oyster does to the elephant; and a link of sensitive nature may be traced from the polypus to the philosopher. Now, in the polypus the sentient principle is divisible, and from one polypus or one earthworm may be formed two or three, all of which become perfect animals, and have perception and volition; therefore, at least, the sentient principle has this property in common with matter, that it is divisible. ...
— Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy
... The little earthworm, crawling across the garden path or burrowing its way into the loose soil, seems very common and insignificant, but it is a most useful servant ...
— Friends and Helpers • Sarah J. Eddy |
