chambered nautilus

How to use chambered nautilus in a sentence

• What thought must have been in the mind of those who gave the chambered nautilus this name?

  Elson Grammar School Literature, Book Four. | William H. Elson

• chambered nautilus (cham'berd no'ti-lus), a shellfish belonging to the highest class of mollusks.

  Elson Grammar School Literature, Book Four. | William H. Elson

• The craft seemed to have been circular, with compartmentation in spiral form, like a chambered nautilus.

  Stamped Caution | Raymond Zinke Gallun

• Holmes, in The chambered nautilus, speaks of the “cold sea-maids” who “rise to sun their streaming hair.”

  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 | Charles Herbert Sylvester

• We have now only one species living, the chambered nautilus.

  The Chautauquan, Vol. III, January 1883 | The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle