| Gilbert White - 1833 - 410 Seiten
...their lateral spines, which, on these occasions, are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort, which lasted several minutes before either would give...tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue. From this period an interesting change takes place in the conqueror, who, from being a speckled and... | |
| Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 Seiten
...their lateral spines, which, on these occasions, are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort, which lasted several minutes before either would give...tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue. From this period an interesting change takes place in the conqueror, who, from being a speckled and... | |
| Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 Seiten
...lateral spines, which, on these occasions, are projected. I have witnessed a battla .of this sort, which lasted several minutes before either would give...submit, imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive niry of the conqueror, who, in the most persevering and unrelenting way, chases his rival from one... | |
| William Yarrell - 1836 - 454 Seiten
...other with their spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give way ; and when one docs submit, imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive fury of the conqueror ; who, in the most... | |
| 1837 - 704 Seiten
...other with their spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give...part of the tub to another until fairly exhausted by fatigue. They also use their spines with such fatal effect that, incredible as it may appear, I... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1837 - 602 Seiten
...occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before cither would give way ; and when one does submit, imagination...way, chases his rival from one part of the tub to the another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue. They also use their spines with such fatal effect,... | |
| 1830 - 596 Seiten
...their lateral spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give...persevering and unrelenting way chases his rival from one point of the tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue. From this period an interesting change... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 Seiten
...their lateral spines, which on this occasion are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give...tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue. From this period an interesting change takes place in the conqueror, who, from being a speckled and... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 Seiten
...these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minuit, before either would give way ; and when one does submit,...imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive fury of ih* conqueror, who, in the most persevering and unrelenting way, chases his rival from one part of... | |
| Hugh Miller - 1851 - 384 Seiten
...presence of iron, and the absence of bitumen, is different. It presents a mixture of gray, of pink, and of several minutes before either would give way ; and...tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue. From this period an interesting change takes place in the conqueror, who, from being a speckled and... | |
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