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Limpet

noun

Mollusk with a low conical shell.

Any of various usually marine gastropods with low conical shells; found clinging to rocks in littoral areas.

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... others who are not. It is these 'others' who are responsible for the sin of the world, the sickness and suffering. Any time you are sure you have a chance at a moral man, square and honest, in control of his brain and body, if you are a wise woman, Ruth, stick to him as the limpet to ...

— The Harvester • Gene Stratton Porter

... quotation to an amusing degree. In another week or two he will be at Rome.... How graphically you give us your Oxford student! Well! the picture is more distinct than Turner's, and if you had called it, in the manner of the Master, 'A Rock Limpet,' we should have recognised in it the corresponding type of the gifted and eccentric writer in question. Very eloquent he is, I agree at once, and true views he takes of Art in the abstract, true and elevating. It is in the application of connective logic that he breaks away from one so violently.... ...

— The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) • Frederic G. Kenyon

... out on this air-box in ordinary weather is by no means prudent, but on this night, when it was literally raked by weighty seas sufficient in strength to tear a limpet from its grip, the peril of doing so was extreme, but still, out on that fore air-box, determined to do or die, crept Richard Roberts, at that time the second coxswain of the lifeboat, leading the forlorn hope of rescue, and not counting his life dear to him. Up as the lifeboat ...

— Heroes of the Goodwin Sands • Thomas Stanley Treanor

... shell-fish, giving rise to the brackish proverb, "Sticking fast like a limpet to ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

Words linked to "Limpet" : Gastropoda, seasnail, shellfish, Fissurella apertura, class Gastropoda, Gasteropoda, Patella vulgata, Diodora apertura, class Gasteropoda