Crossword-Solution: ISOPODS 7 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The circumstance that there are still numerous wingless species among the Orthoptera, and that some of these (_Blattidæ_) are so like certain Crustacea (Isopods) in habit that both are indicated by the same name (“_Baratta_”) by the people in this country, can scarcely be regarded as of any importance.

Big-mouthed fish, worms, spiders, anemones, sea-cucumbers, polyzoa, prawns, little fish like sardines, one spiky fish like nothing on earth, starfish and octopus, limpets with jointed shells, sponges, ascidians; isopods, and all kinds of sea lice.

There was a girl there with features that were as delicate as though chiselled out of palest amber; and I remember she wore a most wonderful jewelled, helmet-like head-dress, and jingling bangles on her ankles, and when she danced she made most graceful and poetic gestures with her supple wrists--but that has nothing to do with isopods, absolutely nothing.

Once, however, as I sat alone in the middle of the floor, classifying my isopods, I was not only astonished but totally unprepared to find myself repeating aloud a verse that I myself had unconsciously fashioned: "An isopod Is a work of God." Never before in all my life had I made a rhyme; and it worried me for weeks, ringing in my brain day and night, confusing me, interfering with my thoughts.

The dredgings gave at some places, for instance off Chabarova, a rich yield, especially of isopods and sponges.