Little could be seen of her person, for heavy gold-embroidered damask curtains hung around the wide, lofty bedstead, falling from the canopy projecting, rootlike, above the top, where gilded child genii bore a royal crown.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
They did not breathe, but absorbed both their food and liquid gas through rootlike feelers on which they stood and moved.
"The Secret of the Ninth Planet"
Donald Allen Wollheim