As soon as the night set in, fishermen's lights were seen moving along the beach in all directions, and gliding about in canoes, while the sea was filled with myriads of phosphorescent Animalcula.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
We now used one of them to strain the water, and were astonished to see that each gallon left behind it a plump spoonful of Animalcula.
"Captured by the Navajos"
Charles A. Curtis
The strong devoured the weak, until the most diminutive of the Animalcula were reached, when these turned on their persecutors, and profiting by their insignificance, commenced devouring the strongest.
"The Monikins"
J. Fenimore Cooper