...—This morning, while performing my ablutions with a large sponge, a centipede, four and a half inches long, crawled out of one of the orifices, and, ran over my hand...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...Indeed, the headof any Thysanurous insect seen from above, bears a general resemblancein some of its features to that of the Centipede and its allies...
Alpheus Spring Packard 「Our Common Insects」
...Thus in thelife-story of an insect or other arthropod, such as a lobster, a spider,or a centipede, there must be a succession of cuticle-castings—'moults'or ecdyses as they are often called...
Geo. H. Carpenter 「The Life-Story of Insects」
...The Centipede and the Porpoise doubled up on the cabin inparoxysms of laughter, and left us to get clear as best we could...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...We heard cries for help, in the unmistakable voice of the Centipede,and this time, on rowing closer, we were not fired upon...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...The Centipede was the first to be pulled aboard, and he camewillingly, though he objected when the constable put the handcuffs onhim...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
..."You didn't get the Porpoise," the Centipede said exultantly, asthough his escape materially diminished our success...
Jack London 「Tales of the Fish Patrol」
...Transforming self into a centipede he hides until he learnsher real wish...
Fay-Cooper Cole 「Traditions of the Tinguian: A Study in Philippine Folk-Lore」
...The centipede occurs only with god D...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...Representations of a centipede (probably a species of Scolopendra)occur in the Dresden Codex and in several others examined...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...In the Dresden Codex, god D constantly appears in connection with ahead-dress from which depends a centipede, greatly reduced andconventionalized...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...Two forms of this centipede are shown in , figs...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...13) there is a glyph which seems toshow the same centipede head although it has no connection with god D inthe place where it is found...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...This showsa prefix clearly representing the centipede and the “moon sign” is themain part of the glyph...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...The association of god D with the centipede may be explained by the factthat as this god is regarded as the Moon or Night god, so the centipedeis an animal which frequents dark places...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...The centipede is connected with death and destructionin the same way as the owl...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...11) gives several realisticreproductions of the centipede from pottery fragments...
Alfred M. Tozzer and Glover M. Allen 「Animal Figures in the Maya Codices」
...Its pale jointed body wassome twenty feet in length, and had apparently been developed fromthat of a centipede, with scores of racing legs that carried it withstartling speed over the rocky terrain...
Various 「Astounding Stories, May, 1931」
...It was two hundred feet long, and it lookedsomehow like a gigantic centipede...
Murray Leinster 「Morale」
...It looked more than ever like a monstrous,deadly centipede...
Murray Leinster 「Morale」
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