 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pagina’s
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of...higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. Dut this growth being as rapid at the upper edge as it is lower down, the steepness of the tace of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1818 - 574 pagina’s
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of...stop, forming in time a level field with steep sides ajl round. The reef, however, continually increases, and being prevented from going higher, extends... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pagina’s
...in tlie form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest 'tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef, of...no longer extends itself upwards. The other parts, iu succession, reach the surface, and there btop ; forming, in time, a, level field, with steep sides... | |
 | 1818 - 428 pagina’s
...the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained ! the level of the highest tides, above •which ; the worm has no power to advance, and ! the reef, of course, no longer extends itself i upwards." — Lord Amhenft Embatsy tt China. WOMEN. DIDEROT says, that " when •writing on women,... | |
 | 1818 - 514 pagina’s
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power ,to advance, and the reef of course no long£r .extends itself upwards. The other parts, in successiqn, reach the surface, and there stop,... | |
 | 1821 - 726 pagina’s
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm. has no power to advance, and the reef of...however, continually increases, and being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | 1821 - 720 pagina’s
...in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above1 which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of...however, continually increases, and being prevented from growing higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth being as rapid at the upper... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 730 pagina’s
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till itb top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef of course no langer extends itself upwards. The other parts in succession reach the surface, and there stop, forming... | |
 | 1825 - 188 pagina’s
...the side of the house, till it reaches the- surface, above which the worm has no power to advance ; the other parts in succession reach the surface, and...level field, with steep sides all round. The reef, liowever, continually increases, and being prevented from growing higher, extends itself sideways in... | |
 | Luís de Camões - 1826 - 628 pagina’s
...rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and the reef, of...level field, with steep sides all round. The reef, as it can now reach no higher, extends itself laterally in all directions. But this growth, being as... | |
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The growth of coral appears to cease when the worm is no longer exposed to the washing of the sea. Thus a reef rises in the form of a cauliflower, till its top has gained the level of the highest tides, above which the worm has no power to advance, and... 
