What is "cocoons"

Usage examples of "cocoons".

So when sentient beings are engaged in sexual intercourse, the emanations inside their cocoons do their best to bestow awareness to the new sentient being they are creating.

My flashlight, which I'd not dared to use here before, revealed a series of three-inch-long, yellowish-white cocoons fixed in the angle where the back wall met the ceiling, home to developing moths or butterflies, or perhaps egg cases spun by an exceptionally fertile spider.

In one corner, at the ceiling, was a cluster of cocoons similar to those in the previous room.

Within a couple of the cocoons were dark shapes, curled like question marks, but they were so heavily swaddled in flossy filaments that I could make out no details of them.

A cold quiver of nausea wound through me as I realized that I'd been in these rooms in absolute darkness, unaware of the fat cocoons overhead.

Just as I moved the flashlight away from the cocoons, I thought I saw one of the dark, curled forms writhe inside its silken sac.

The upper cabinets hung under a soffit, and in the angle where the soffit met the ceiling, there were more cocoons than in the previous two rooms combined.

Imaginary mites crawled between the layers of my skin as I remembered the pendulant cocoons, and I had to agree with him, "Bad mojo.

For some reason, I surveyed the ceiling, half expecting to see five-inch long, fat cocoons spun in the corners.

From some limbs hung cocoons like those we had seen in the Dead Town bungalow, glossy and fat, pregnant with malignant life.

Delicate instruments packed in shockproof cocoons followed, along with sperm and the precious fertilized ova from Earth and First — Sallah was certain that Barr did not take a deep breath throughout those drops.

When seers see perception, they witness that the luminosity of the Eagle's emanations outside those creatures' cocoons brightens the luminosity of the emanations inside their cocoons.

Yet the results of that pres sure are vastly different among them, because their cocoons react to that pressure in every conceivable way.

They actually aimed at lighting up all the ema nations inside their cocoons, one band at a time.

That awareness is achieved by the constant pressure that the emana tions outside our cocoons, which are called emana tions at large, exert on those inside our cocoons.