Later, in the 18th century, seallike symbols were engraved on the stationery of Popes, royalty and merchants.

There is only one habitable planet in the system, and the life form inhabiting it is a seallike creature which seems to sing.

But there was something as seallike as human about them, and a trace of otterine slenderness and grace.

A pink scar-maybe a crease from a rifle bullet- furrowed one cheek and cut a track through the thick, almost seallike pelt that grew there.

They were seallike creatures, from what we could see, with sleek wet bodies, three sets of flippers, with the front pair looking larger and very prehensile, fingerlike.

He is a seal-like man who lives by the creek.

Through the seal-like fur, I could feel its shivering ease a little.

Here, sweet," she whispered to the great seal-like animal. "

Reach out to one side and you glide, seal-like, through a clear, waterless sea.

Like a specter from the deep, some hundred feet away was a form, seal-like in appearance, yet not wholly seal.

Attractive in an anthropomorphic, seal-like way, even from behind.

A crowd of sleek, seal-like figures in black bathing-dresses surrounded him.

Then it moved to the chest, where it produced deep seal-like barks.

The huge, seal-like creature seated beside him became unbearably ominous.

He realized that the seal-like animals were lying low until the submarine passed, its size having awed them.

Observe him prepare for action, an orange float in hand, ready to plunge seal-like through the breakers.

Then one of the males let out a low, seal-like bark — a signal for an even higher state of arousal.

Occasionally she caught a glimpse of a sleek, seal-like body rising momentarily above the slow ground swells.

He was known for his seal-like arms, which were caused by a congenital medical condition known as phocomelia.

Finally the scientist transforms himself and his canine companion into the seal-like beings that can survive the surface.

Bill Dzik hauled his bulk through the corridors with a seal-like grace. '

Not infrequently they devoured, or were devoured by, their seal-like relatives.

There great seal-like bodies slop and wallow about in the manner natural for them, which many humans find disgusting.

The spaceling came heaving seal-like toward her, whimpering.

A sleek, seal-like body emerged from the water in front of Ataka and began to gesticulate with its very movable arms.

• Brassy, barky, seal-like cough Most children are not markedly ill.

A seal-like barking cough could be croup.

One of the warm-blooded, seal-like creatures that roam the space between the stars, natural prey to the pyropods, friend to man.

It had huge seal-like flippers, and its polished brown hide was made up of scales as big as dinner plates.