 | William Bingley - 1805 - Страниц: 622
...may lurk for several days together, and digest their meal in safety. The smallest effort then will destroy them ; they scarcely can make any resistance...otherwise when this sleeping interval of digestion is ovcr; they then issue, with famished appetites, from their retreats, and with accumulated terrors,... | |
 | 1824 - Страниц: 188
...several days together, and digest their meat in safety. The smallest effort then will destroy thejn ; they scarcely can make any resistance ; and equally...they then issue, with famished appetites, from their re-: treats, while every animal of the forest flies from Iheir presence. When Captain Stedman was on... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - Страниц: 350
...they may lurk for several days together, and digest their meal in safety. The least effort then will destroy them; they scarcely can make any resistance;...issue, with famished appetites, from their retreats, while every animal of the forest flies from their presence. When Captain Stedman was on board one of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Страниц: 798
...that time the naked Indian himself does not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleepy interval of digestion is over; they then issue, with famished appetites, from their -etreats, and with accumulated rage, while every animal of the forest flies before them. 15. But though... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - Страниц: 358
...destruction : for whenever they seize and swallow their prey, they seem like surfeited gluttons, unwieldy, stupid, helpless, and sleepy. They at the same time...sleeping interval of digestion is over ; they then issue, VOL. IV. 0 with famished appetites, from their retreats, and with accumulated terrors, while every... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - Страниц: 1028
...destruction : for whenever they seize and swallow their prey, they seem like surfeited gluttons, unwieldy, stupid, helpless, and sleepy. They at the same time...sleeping interval of digestion is over; they then issue, wjth famished appetites, from their retreats, and with accumulated terrors, while every animal of the... | |
 | Edward Pett Thompson - 1851 - Страниц: 434
...together, and digest their meal in safety. The smallest effort then will destroy them; they can scarcely make any resistance ; and, equally unqualified for...issue, with famished appetites, from their retreats, while every animal of the forest flies from their presence. In the island of Java, we are assured that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - Страниц: 616
...does not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleepy interval of digestion is over : j they then issue, with famished appetites, from their...accumulated terrors, while every animal of the forest flies before them. Carli describes the Long serpent of Congo making its track through the tall grass, like... | |
 | 1854 - Страниц: 834
...they may lurk for several days together, and digest ifyeir meal in safety. The least effort then will destroy them ; they scarcely can make any resistance...sleeping interval of digestion, is over; they then issue.with,.famished appetites, frpmtheir retreats; while every animal ,of the forest flies from their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - Страниц: 712
...that time (lie naked Indian himselt does not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleepy interval of digestion is over: they then issue, with...accumulated terrors, while every animal of the forest flies before them. Carli describes the Long Serpent of Congo making its track through the tall grass, like... | |
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The least effort then will destroy them; they scarcely can make any resistance; and equally unqualified for flight or opposition, even the naked Indians do not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleeping interval of digestion is over;... 
