Abranchiate
Go down, abranchiate, to the mud and the mire, where your ancestors dwelt; in the suck slithering breaths that rasped through the fluted throats of your ichthyoid grandfathers and grandmothers, […]
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Abradant
The shark’s skin was smooth from gill to tail. When he dragged his palm towards the massive head, the dermal denticles, minute teeth that formed the aft edges of the […]
Aboutship
Near the northern tip of Catalina Island we faced a sudden gust of unseasonable wind. It came on heavily for so early in spring, so we tacked within sight of […]
Ablation
It was a spot of bad luck that Johann Strauss, the glacier (no relation to the German composer, glaciers being generally older than most Germans), hadn’t joined his fellow ice […]
Abject
There was a scrap of land not far from the shore, which wasn’t a very good shore at all, for it leapt abruptly from the thin beach into columns of […]
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