| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 :... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| |