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The belief in the existence of gigantic cuttles is an ancient one.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)
Among those so stung with unrest were several of the gigantic, pallid cuttles.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir
This family becomes extinct at the close of the 79Mesozoic, though the cuttles as a whole perhaps culminate in the modern.
From The Chain of Life in Geological Time A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants by Dawson, Sir J. William
The distorted fishes; the ghastly cuttles; the hideous eel-like shapes; the crawling shell-encrusted things; the centipede-like beings; monstrous forms, to see which gives a shock to the brain.
From The Story of My Heart An Autobiography by Jefferies, Richard
The cuttles and squids may be compared to some of the sea-slugs, as Aplysia and Bullæa, and to some land-slugs, as Parmacella and Limax, which have an internal shell.
From Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Lee, H. W. (Henry William)
