 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 páginas
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 páginas
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 páginas
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility, of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 páginas
...tntrfare from a oon*id«Table depth, may have found a wrure retreat from the as* mult* of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want nf strength in it? jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, t»v tbe suddenness... | |
 | 1830 - 596 páginas
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | 1840 - 530 páginas
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | 1840 - 522 páginas
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and llexibilily of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | 1843 - 280 páginas
...surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat fromv the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility of its neck...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | 1848 - 572 páginas
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assault of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 páginas
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assault of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for... | |
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... darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach. It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have... 
