 | 1855 - 624 pages
...like a tapir's, (another instance of the repetition of forms,) has clasped him like a finger ; and now begins the struggle: but in vain. He is being...slipping and twining round every piece of gravel and stem cf sea-weed, with a tiring drag such as no Highland wrist or step could ever bring to bear on salmon... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1855 - 802 pages
...instant, from one lip, a concave double proboscis, just like a tapir's, has clasped him like a finger; and now begins the struggle: but in vain. He is being...line, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and twining round every piece... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1855 - 202 pages
...just like a tapir's, (another instance of the repetition of forms,) has clasped him like a finger; and now begins the struggle : but in vain. He is being...line, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and twining round every piece... | |
 | 1868 - 510 pages
...from one lip, a concave, double proboscis, just like a tapir's, has clasped him like a finger ; and now begins the struggle, but in vain. He is being...line, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, Trhich follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and twining round «very... | |
 | 1869 - 748 pages
...finger; and now begins the struggle : but in vain. He is being 'played' with such a tisrii ng-linc as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddart never could invent ; a living lino, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening... | |
 | 1869 - 744 pages
...just like a tapir's (another instance of the repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger; and now begins the struggle: but in vain. He is being...line, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and twining round every piece... | |
 | John George Wood - 1877 - 564 pages
...just like a tapir's (another instance of the repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger ; and now begins the struggle : but in vain. He is being...line, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and twining round every piece... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1877 - 548 pages
...a finger ; and now begins the struggle, but in vain. He is being ' played' with such a fishing line as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddart never could invent ; a living line, with an elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1884 - 320 pages
...just like a tapir's (another instance of the repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger ; and now begins the struggle : but in vain. He is being...line, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and twining round every piece... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...like a finger, and now begins the struggle; but in vain. He is being 'played,' with such a fishing-rod as the skill of a Wilson or a Stoddart never could...line, with elasticity beyond that of the most delicate fly-rod, which follows every lunge, shortening and lengthening, slipping and twining round every piece... | |
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In an instant a bell-shaped sucker mouth has fastened to his side. In another instant, from one lip, a concave double proboscis, just like a tapir's (another instance of the repetition of forms), has clasped him like a finger; and now begins the struggle:... 
