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" 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... "
Orr's Circle of the Sciences: Organic nature, v.1] The principles of physiology - Page 200
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Volume 49

Science - 1850 - 442 pages
...absolute comparison, we call superior to them. It is true, the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outelimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa,...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...
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The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: Exhibiting a View of the ..., Volume 49

Geology - 1850 - 432 pages
...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...
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Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1851 - 470 pages
...any animal which we call superior to them. It is true the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa,...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...
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art

Industrial arts - 1851 - 474 pages
...any animal which we call superior to them. It is true the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa,...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...
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The Principal forms of the skeleton and of the teeth

Richard Owen - 1854 - 362 pages
...animal which we call superior to them. It is true that the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa,...has neither hands nor talons, yet it can outwrestle the athlete and crush the tiger in the embrace of its ponderous overlapping folds. Instead of licking...
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The Principal forms of the skeleton and the teeth

Richard Owen - 1855 - 156 pages
...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...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 10

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1855 - 882 pages
...side. 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...
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The Principal Forms of the Skeleton and the Teeth as the Basis for a System ...

Richard Owen - Anatomy, Comparative - 1859 - 156 pages
...animal whieh we eall superior to them. It is truo that the serpent has no limbs, yet it ean outelimb the monkey, outswim 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 :...
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Interesting Chapters in Scripture History and Bible Illustration

Bible - 1861 - 316 pages
...any animal which we call superior to them. It is true the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, outswim the fish, outleap the jerboa,...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...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 9

Science - 1866 - 554 pages
...inferior to them, It is true that the serpent has no limbs, yet it can outclimb the monkey, ontswim the fish, outleap the jerboa, and, suddenly loosing...has neither hands nor talons, yet it can outwrestle the athlete, and crush the tiger in the embrace of its ponderous overlapping folds. Instead of licking...
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