"Long-stalked" Quotes from Famous Books
... very exciting. The players stand in a row with their hands behind them, and a number of long-stalked cherries are chosen from the basket and placed by the tip of the stalk between their teeth. At the word of command the players begin their efforts to draw the cherry up by the stalk into their mouths. All heads ... — What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes • Dorothy Canfield Fisher
... secretions. That it does this is now past doubting. In the first place, when the glands are excited they pour forth an increased amount of the ropy secretion. This occurs directly when a bit of meat is laid upon the central glands; and the influence which they transmit to the long-stalked marginal glands causes them, while incurving their tentacles, to secrete more copiously long before they have themselves touched anything. The primary fluid, secreted without excitation, does not of itself ... — Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray |