 | 1850 - 432 pagine
...it can outclimb the monkey, out swim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing ; thus all these creatures fall its prey. The serpent has neither hands nor talons, yet it can outwrestle... | |
 | 1850 - 442 pagine
...yet it can outelimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing ; thus all these creatures fall its prey. The serpent has neither hands nor talons, yet it can outwrestle... | |
 | 1851 - 474 pagine
...yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing ; thus all these creatures fall its prey. The serpent has neither hands or talons, yet it can outwrestle... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1854 - 422 pagine
...yet it can outcHmb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into...has neither hands nor talons, yet it can outwrestle tho athleto and crust ihe tiger in the embrace of its ponderous overlapping folds. Instead of licking... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1855 - 156 pagine
...monkey, outswim the fish, outlcap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the elose coils of its erouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing : all these ercatures have bcen observed to fall its prey. The serpent has neither hands nor talons, yet it can... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 156 pagine
...the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the elose eoils of its erouehing spiral, it ean spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing : all these ereatures have been observed to'fall its prey. The serpent has neither hands nor talons, yet it ean... | |
 | 1861 - 316 pagine
...yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing : thus all these creatures fall its prey. The serpent has neither hands nor talons, yet it can outwrestle... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1866 - 704 pagine
...yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into...The serpent has neither hands nor talons, yet it can outwrcstle the athlete, and crush the tiger in the embrace of its ponderous overlapping folds: Instead... | |
 | 1869 - 844 pagine
...yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into...observed to fall its prey. The serpent has neither 1 On the Anatomy of the Vertebrate?, vol. i., ' Fishes and Reptile?,' London, 1866, p. 261. hands nor... | |
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It is true that the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing the close coils of its crouching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing: all these creatures... 
