 ... occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach. It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth,...  The Daguerreotype - Strona 2341848Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - Liczba stron: 698
...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility...fitted for its prey which came within its reach.* PLETHO'RA (a Greek word, r;-:V.*. pletkorr, ' fulness,' in which sense it is used by the Ureek medical... | |
 | 1880 - Liczba stron: 844
...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, may have fouuu a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility...neck may have compensated for the want of strength in it? jaw*, and its incapacity for swift motion through the witter, by the suddenness and agility of... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1880 - Liczba stron: 878
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." The geological range of the Plesiosaurus is from the Lias to the Chalk inclusive, and specimens have... | |
 | James Crowther - 1882 - Liczba stron: 204
...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...compensated for the want of strength in its jaws and incapacity for swift motion through the water, by the suddenness and agility of the attack they enabled... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - Liczba stron: 886
...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey. The appearance of the animal, which is far less formidable than that of the ichthyosaurus, shows that... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - Liczba stron: 886
...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth. * may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey. The appearance of the animal, which is far less formidable than that of the ichthyosaurus, shows that... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - Liczba stron: 886
...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth. may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey. The appearance of the animal, which is far less formidable than that of the ichthyosaurus, shows that... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - 1888 - Liczba stron: 420
...considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of powerful enemies ; whilst the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated...its incapacity for swift motion through the water." ORDER VII. PTEROSAURIA. The Reptiles of this order are all extinct, and, like those of the preceding... | |
 | Joseph Prestwich - 1888 - Liczba stron: 714
...level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...have compensated for the want of strength in its jaws .... by the suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted... | |
 | Richard Lydekker - 1892 - Liczba stron: 290
...level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...fitted for its prey which came within its reach." Nothing that has been discovered since the date when the above passage was penned can suggest any more... | |
| |
