Lexicographical Neighbors of Polyped
Literary usage of Polyped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"It is all right and fitting that a quadruped, or polyped,
like .Tock-with-the-many-legs, should ge on foot ; but a man, ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... polyped and quadruped, and proceed to hold her up for inspection as a simple
biped, an animal, and shall then leave the theme for individual reflection. ..."
3. Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society by Robert Southey (1831)
"It may be consumed by fire; and though it cannot be thrown down by a tempest, it
may be shattered by it, and its polyped unity destroyed. MONTESINOS. ..."
4. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"It ie all right and fitting that a quadruped, or polyped, like Jock-with-the
many-legs, should go on foot; but a man, being a mere biped, should know better ..."
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