Aye, aye; our intelligence, polyp-like, has long arms and can apprehend vast size and wide extent; but it can no more conceive of nothingness than it can of infinite space or time.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
My blood flows in a swifter course, and what my eager soul has once clasped with its polyp arms, it will never release until the death-hour comes.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
It appears to have grown one layer over another, and to have formed reefs of limestone as do the living coral-building polyp animals.
"The Student's Elements of Geology"
Sir Charles Lyell