 But it is while lying thus bloated and passive at the mercy of the waves, that this animal is really most secure ; for the numerous spines, with which the surface of the body is universally beset, are raised and erected by the stretching out of the skin,...  A familiar history of the British fishes - Seite 250von British fishes - 1859 - 317 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Peter Mark Roget - 1834 - 644 Seiten
...having the power of directing itself during this state of forced distension. But it is while lying thus bloated and passive at the mercy of the waves,...whatever side he may venture to begin the attack. There is a numerous family of fishes, found in the seas of India, so constructed as to be able to crawl... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - 1834 - 660 Seiten
...having the power of directing itself during this state of forced distension. But it is while lying thus bloated and passive at the mercy of the waves,...whatever side he may venture to begin the attack. There is a numerous family of fishes, found in the seas of India, so constructed as to be able to crawl... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1836 - 484 Seiten
...upon its back, without having the power of directing itself during this state of forced distension. But it is while thus bloated and passive, at the mercy...whatever side he may venture to begin the attack."* Pennant's fish measured one foot seven inches in length ; the belly when distended, one foot ; the... | |
 | Peter Mark Roget - 1836 - 442 Seiten
...having the power of directing itself during this state of forced distention. But it is while lying thus bloated and passive, at the mercy of the waves,...whatever side he may venture to begin the attack. There is a numerous family of fishes, found in the seas of India, so constructed as to he able to crawl... | |
 | William Yarrell - 1841 - 642 Seiten
...itself during this state of foreed distension. But it is while thus bloated and passive, at the merey of the waves, that this animal is really most secure;...whatever side he may venture to begin the attack."* The following extract is derived from the very scientific and interesting narrative by Mr. Charles Darwin... | |
 | Richard Thomas Lowe - 1843 - 282 Seiten
...having the power of directing itself during this state of forced distension. But it is while lying thus bloated and passive at the mercy of the waves,...presenting an armed front to the enemy, on whatever side be may venture to begin the attack." — Fifth Bridgew. Treat, i. 433. In the month of July 1836, passing... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1851 - 344 Seiten
...upon its back, without having the power of directing itself during the state of forced distension. But it is while thus bloated and passive, at the mercy...whatever side he may venture to begin the attack."* Specimens of a species called Pennant's Globefish (Tetraodon Pennantii, YARR.) are occasionPENNANT... | |
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