 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...  The Intellectual Observer - Página 371866Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1850 - 432 páginas
...call superior to them. It is true, the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, out swim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing...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 páginas
...call superior to them. It is true, the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outelimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing...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 - 470 páginas
...call superior to them. It is true the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing...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... | |
 | 1851 - 474 páginas
...call superior to them. It is true the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing...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 páginas
...superior to them. It is true that the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outcHmb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 882 páginas
...The serpent, simple as it is in form, can, by the wonderful wisdom displayed in its creation, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and suddenly loosing the close coils of its coaching spiral, it can spring into the air and seize the bird upon the wing; for all these creatures... | |
 | Richard Owen - 1859 - 156 páginas
...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 páginas
...call superior to them. It is true the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing...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 páginas
...superior to them. 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 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... | |
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