Ye think an artery is like a canal, with a lock-gate to it, I believe, said Billy, in a low, grumbling voice, to Upton, and you forget all its vermicular motion, as ould Fabricius called it, and that it is only by a coagalum, a kind of barrier, like a mud breakwater, that it can be plugged.
"The Fortunes Of Glencore"
Charles James Lever
Under the microscope, this proved an Oscillatoria, which I could not identify with any of the described species in Harvey's Phytologia: the filaments creeping and twining with the peculiar vermicular movements of the genus.
"The Romance of Natural History, Second Series"
Philip Henry Gosse
The worms proceeding from them pass their vermicular state in the same place where the eggs were deposited, which proves that bees are not charged with the care of transporting the eggs as has been supposed.
"New observations on the natural history of bees"
Francis Huber