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Then he hove into sight—a gastropodous tub of a fellow, with a rascally red eye; and I shrank behind my curtains, for I never court parley with such gentlemen.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph

Equally efficacious might be the modern definition of the same creature as a "terrestrial, air-breathing, gastropodous mollusk."

From Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Lawrence, Robert Means