 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 588 pagine
...gravel ; you cannot tell where it begins or ends ; it may be a dead strip of sea-weed, Himanthaha lovea perhaps, or Chorda, filum; or even a tarred string....now begins the struggle ; but in vain. He is being " phiyed" with such a fishing-line as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddart never could invent; a living... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pagine
...it begins or ends; it may be a dead strip of sea-weed, Ilimantkalia lorea perhaps, or Chorda JUum; or even a tarred string. So thinks the little fish...lip, a concave double proboscis, just like a tapir's, has clasped him like a finger; and now begins the struggle: but in vain. He is being ' played' with... | |
 | British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology, George Johnston - 1865 - 446 pagine
...over it, till it touches at last what is too surely a head. In an instant a hellshaped sucker month has fastened to his side. In another instant, from...repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger ; mid now begins the struggle: but in vain. He is being 'played' with such a fishing-line as the skill... | |
 | 1869 - 748 pagine
...has fastened to his side. & «mother instant, from one lip, a concave double proboscis, ju.st liko a tapir's (another instance of the repetition of forms),...struggle : but in vain. He is being 'played' with such a tisrii ng-linc as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddart never could invent ; a living lino, with elasticity... | |
 | 1868 - 510 pagine
...vase at home and see. Some little fish plays over and over it, till he touches at last the head, and in an instant a bell-shaped sucker mouth has fastened...a concave, double proboscis, just like a tapir's, has clasped him like a finger ; and now begins the struggle, but in vain. He is being " played " with... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1877 - 538 pagine
...he touches at last what is too surely a head. In an instant a bell-shaped sucker has fastened to its side. In another instant, from one lip, a concave double proboscis, just like a'tapir's (another instance of the repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger ; and now begins... | |
 | 1881 - 790 pagine
...he touches what at last is too surely a head. In an instant a bell-shaped sucker has fastened to its side. In another instant, from one lip, a concave...forms — has clasped him like a finger ; and now the struggle begins, but in vain. He is being ' played ' with such a fishing-line as the skill of a... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pagine
...touches at last what is too surely a head. In an instant a bell-shaped sucker mouth has fastened to its side. In another instant, from one lip, a concave...struggle; but in vain. He is being 'played,' with such a fishing-rod as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddart never could invent; a living line, with elasticity... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pagine
...touches at last what is too surely a head. In an instant a bell-shaped sucker mouth has fastened to its the inner sense. One memory of the green corn, fresh beneath the sun and wind, will lift up fishing-rod as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddart never could invent; a living line, with elasticity... | |
 | 1884 - 588 pagine
...touches at last what is too surely a head, In an instant a bellshaped sucker-mouth has fastened to its side; in another instant, from one lip, a concave, double proboscis, just like a taper's (another instance of the repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger. And now he begins... | |
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In an instant a bell-shaped sucker mouth has fastened to his side. In another instant, from one lip, a concave double proboscis, just like a tapir's (another instance of the repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger; and now begins the struggle:... 