"The fibrous stuff that Bendarek's been going on about?"
A web of fibrous stuff defied repeated battering by the worm's bony head, as it fought futilely to escape.
The sails were of a brown material, not canvas or linen, but a fibrous stuff that looked not woven but beaten together, as felt is made.
What was inside its lifted skull was not blood, bone, and tissue but fibrous pink stuff that reminded Johnny of the blown-in insulation he'd gotten for the second floor and attic of his new house the year after he'd moved in.
Savaj ripped Spock out of the cubicle and tore at the fibrous stuff at face and throat with his hands.
Then he turned to the problem, picked up a scrap of the fibrous stuff Savaj had torn off Spock's throat.
He tried to shake the anger off, remembering the moment in the corridor when he had been certain that the fibrous stuff had done its work.
There were great disks of chunky, fibrous stuff like huge kidneys.
Thus alerted, macrophages do their best to begin making collagen, the fibrous stuff of new tissue.
Huge clods of plasma and lumps of torn green fibrous stuff geysered high, momentarily hung in mid-air, then showered all around.