 | Hugh Miller - 1842 - 358 pages
...puzzle the naturalist to assign them even their class; — boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder; — fish plated over, like the tortoise, above...rudder-like fin ; — other fish, less equivocal in their form, but with the membranes of their fins thickly covered with scales; — creatures bristling... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pages
...puzzle the naturalists to assign them even their class — boatlike animals, furnished with oars and a rudder — fish plated over, like the tortoise, above and below, with a strong armor of bone, and furnished with but one solitary rudder-like fin ; other fish less equivocal in their... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pages
...puzzle the naturalists to assign them even their class — boatlike animals, furnished with oars and a rudder — fish plated over, like the tortoise, above and below, with a strong armor of bone, and furnished with but one solitary rudder-like fin : other fish less equivocal in their... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...puzzle the naturalist to assign them even their class : boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder ; fish plated over, like the tortoise, above...solitary rudder-like fin ; other fish, less equivocal in their form, but with the membranes of their fins thickly covered with scales, creatures bristling over... | |
 | David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...them even their class; boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder; fish plated over like a tortoise above and below, with a strong armour of bone, and furnished with but one rudderlike fin ; other fish less equivocal in their form, but with the membranes of their fins thickly... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 352 pages
...puzzle the naturalist to assign them even their class ; — boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder ; — fish plated over, like the tortoise, above and below, with a strong armor of bone, and furnished with but one solitary rudderlike fin ; other fish less equivocal in their... | |
 | William Garland Barrett - 1855 - 340 pages
...puzzle the naturalist to assign them even their class ; boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder; fish plated over like the tortoise, above...solitary rudder-like fin ; other fish less equivocal in their form, but with the membranes of their fins * " By mind, by hand, and by hammer." thickly covered... | |
 | William Adam - 1857 - 194 pages
...puzzle the naturalist to assign them even their class ; boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder ; fish plated over, like the tortoise, above...solitary rudder-like fin ; other fish, less equivocal in their form, but with the membranes of their fins thickly covered with scales; creatures bristling over... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1857 - 382 pages
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... creatures whose very type is lost, fantastic and uncouth, and which puzzle the naturalist to assign them even their class ; boat-like animals, furnished with oars and a rudder ; fish plated over, like the tortoise, above and below, with a strong armour... 
