Close as a rabbit-sucker from an old coney.

It is impossible to arrest this tendency: all we can do is to moderate its course so as to hinder it from degrading the moral status of societies by a too rapid effacement of those national traditions and customs which are the language of the national geniusthe deep suckers of healthy sentiment.

Fortunately, it was a real pump with real water and a sucker in good standing, warranted to need no priming.

Have you yet made up your mind on the subject of religious faith?" "Why, my dear general, not to be nibbling like a sucker with a sore mouth, with a person of your liberality, I shall give you a plain history of my adventures, in the way of experiences, that you may judge for yourself.

When disposed to change its situation, it stretches forth those on the side towards which it would go, fixes them by means of the sucker at the tip of each, and, simultaneously withdrawing those in the rear, pulls itself along.

This fish has an oval sucker on its head, by which it fixes itself to Whales, or even to the hull of a ship.

We've been at it since ten o'clock and we haven't lured a single sucker into the box!"

If the Goby wishes to stay still in one place, it presses its sucker to a stone; then it cannot be washed away by the ever-moving water.

The starfish were magnificent, of many colors, and one with fifteen arms covered with sharp, gray spines, and underneath pale yellow, fleshy feelers with suckers like a sea-anemone.