 | George Thompson - 1827 - 532 páginas
...the nose to the tip of the tail. His fore leg just at the knee was so thick that I could not clasp it with both hands ; and his neck, breast, and limbs...appeared, when the skin was taken ofF, a complete congeries of sinews. His head, which seemed as large and heavy as that of an ordinary ox, I had boiled... | |
 | 1828 - 612 páginas
...nose to the tip of the tail. His fore leg, just above the knee, was so thick that I conld not clasp it with both hands; and his neck, breast, and limbs, appeared, when Ihe skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews. His head, which seemed as large and heavy as... | |
 | John Le Keux - 1829 - 476 páginas
...wounds. " He proved to be a full-grown lion, of the yellow variety, about five or six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip...appeared, when the skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews."* It is rather with a view of exterminating these formidable beasts of prey that... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 páginas
...wounds. " He proved to be a full grown Lion of the yellow variety, about five or six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip...appeared, when the skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews." Major Denham furnishes us with the following anecdote. "The skin of a noble Lion... | |
 | 1834 - 440 páginas
...wounds. " He proved to be a full grown lion of the yellow variety, about five or six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip...appeared, when the skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews."* CHARACTER OF THE ARABS, ILLUSTRATING GEN. XVI. 12. THE Arabians have always... | |
 | 1834 - 700 páginas
...wounds. " He proved to be a full grown lion of the yellow variety, about five or six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip...appeared, when the skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews." Major Denham furnishes us with the following anecdote : " The skin of a noble... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1834 - 328 páginas
...six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip of the tail. His fore-leg, below the knee, was so thick that I could not span...appeared, when the skin was taken off', a complete congeries of sinews." The lion of Hindostan is scarcely less formidable to the natives of that country... | |
 | Thomas Pringle, Josiah Conder - 1835 - 716 páginas
...friends affirmed. He measured fully eleven feet from the nose to the tip of the tail. His fore-leg below the knee was so thick that I could not span...appeared, when the skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews. His head, which seemed almost as large as that of an ordinary ox, I caused to... | |
 | James Rennie - 1829 - 436 páginas
...wounds. " He proved to be a full grown lion of the yellow variety, about five or six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip...appeared, when the skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews*." We have thus contemplated the lion, as described by intelligent travellers and... | |
 | James Rennie - 1839 - 346 páginas
...six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip of the tail. His foreleg below the knee was so thick that I could not span...appeared, when the skin was taken off, a complete congeries of sinews."* We have thus contemplated the lion as described by intelligent travellers and... | |
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Lion of the yellow variety, about five or six years of age. He measured nearly twelve feet from the nose to the tip of the tail. His fore leg below the knee was so thick that I could not span it with both hands; and his neck, breast, and limbs appeared,... 
