 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...this animal is not lefs extraordinary than its appearance. Inftead of going direftly forward, it feems to kick up behind with one leg, and then, making a bound onward with the other, it gees with fuch prodigious velocity, that the fwifteft racer would be left far behind. Swallows every... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 452 pages
...animal moves is not lefs extraordinary than -its appearance. Inftead of going diretlly forward, it feems to kick up behind with one leg ; and then making a bound onward with the other, it goes with fuch prodigious velocity, that the fwifteft racer would be left far beliind. ' 'The fame degree of... | |
 | Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...animal, is not lefs extraordinary than its appearance. Inftead of going directly forward, it feems to kick up behind with one leg, and then, making a bound onward with the other, it goes with fuch prodigious velocity, that the fwifteft racer would be left far behind. It fwallows every thing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1816 - 470 pages
...him to the ground. The manner of going of this animal is not less -extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick...making a bound onward with the other, it goes with such prodigious velocity, that the swiftest racer would be left far behind. The same degree of voraciousness... | |
 | J. Macloc - Animals - 1820 - 348 pages
...the defence of a porcupine, and the swiftness of a courser. — Its mode of running is very singular; for instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick up behind with one leg, and then makes a bound with the other. It is a native of the East Indies, in which part of the world it is only... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Physical geography - 1828 - 612 pages
...him to the ground. The manner of going of this animal is not less extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick...making a bound onward with the other, it goes with such prodigious velocity, that the swiftest racer would be left far behind. The same degree of voraciousness,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 842 pages
...to the ground. The manner in which this animal moves is not less extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward it seems to kick...making a bound onward with the other, it goes with such prodigious velocity that the swiftest racer would be left far behind. The voraciousness of the ostrich... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...him to the ground. The manner of going of this animal is not less extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick...making a bound onward with the other, it goes with such prodigious velocity, that the swiftest racer would be left far behind. The same degree of voraciousness... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...him to the ground. The manner of going of this animal is not less extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick up behind with one leg, and then, making abound onward with the other, it goes with such prodigious velocity, that the swiftest racer would... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...less extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick up be hind with one leg, and then making a bound * onward with the other, it goes with such prodij gious velocity, that the swiftest racer would be left far behind. The same degree of voraciousness... | |
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... beats him down, and treads him to the ground. The manner of going of this animal is not less extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick up behind with one leg, and then making a bound onward with the other,... 
