 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 Seiten
...disappeared, that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude...extraordinary action of the snake's muscles when stretched to so great an extent — an extent which must have utterly destroyed all muscular power in any animal... | |
 | G. Garratt - 1862 - 462 Seiten
...disappeared, that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude...snake's muscles when stretched to such an unnatural extent,—an extent which must have destroyed all muscular power in any animal that was not, like himself,... | |
 | 1834 - 304 Seiten
...disappeared — that is to say, externally; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude...astonishing sight to observe the extraordinary action of the snakes muscles when stretched to such an unnatural extent — an extent which must have destroyed all... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 Seiten
...disappeared, that ia to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude...all muscular power in any animal that was not like himself endowed with very peculiar faculties of expansion and action at the same time. When his head... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 Seiten
...disappeared, that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude...shoulders ; and it was an astonishing sight to observe the extraordmary action of the snake's muscles when stretched to such an unnatural extent — an extent... | |
 | 1866 - 476 Seiten
...their points, but they soon disappeared externally, though their progress was still very distinct on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude through the skin. The victim was now swallowed as far as the shoulders. It was a most extraordinary and terrific sight to observe... | |
 | 1827 - 452 Seiten
...disappeared, that is to say, externally : but thoir progress was stifl to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude...must have utterly destroyed all muscular power in any auimal that was not, like itself, endowed with very peculiar faculties of expansion and action at the... | |
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These protuberances opposed some little difficulty, not so much from their extent, as from their points ; however, they also, in a very short time, disappeared ; that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on... 
