 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...may lurk for several days together, and digest their meal in safety. The smallest effort then will destroy them ; they scarcely can make any resistance...otherwise when this sleeping interval of digestion is ovcr; they then issue, with famished appetites, from their retreats, and with accumulated terrors,... | |
 | 1824 - 188 pages
...several days together, and digest their meat in safety. The smallest effort then will destroy thejn ; they scarcely can make any resistance ; and equally...they then issue, with famished appetites, from their re-: treats, while every animal of the forest flies from Iheir presence. When Captain Stedman was on... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...they may lurk for several days together, and digest their meal in safety. The least effort then will destroy them; they scarcely can make any resistance;...issue, with famished appetites, from their retreats, while every animal of the forest flies from their presence. When Captain Stedman was on board one of... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 798 pages
...that time the naked Indian himself does not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleepy interval of digestion is over; they then issue, with famished appetites, from their -etreats, and with accumulated rage, while every animal of the forest flies before them. 15. But though... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 358 pages
...where they may lurk for several days together, and digest their meal in safety. The smallest effort will then destroy them : they scarcely can make any...sleeping interval of digestion is over ; they then issue, VOL. IV. 0 with famished appetites, from their retreats, and with accumulated terrors, while every... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1834 - 1028 pages
...where they may lurk for several days together, and digest their meal in safety. The smallest effort will then destroy them : they scarcely can make any...sleeping interval of digestion is over; they then issue, wjth famished appetites, from their retreats, and with accumulated terrors, while every animal of the... | |
 | Edward Pett Thompson - 1851 - 434 pages
...together, and digest their meal in safety. The smallest effort then will destroy them; they can scarcely make any resistance ; and, equally unqualified for...issue, with famished appetites, from their retreats, while every animal of the forest flies from their presence. In the island of Java, we are assured that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...does not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleepy interval of digestion is over : j they then issue, with famished appetites, from their...accumulated terrors, while every animal of the forest flies before them. Carli describes the Long serpent of Congo making its track through the tall grass, like... | |
 | 1854 - 834 pages
...they may lurk for several days together, and digest ifyeir meal in safety. The least effort then will destroy them ; they scarcely can make any resistance...sleeping interval of digestion, is over; they then issue.with,.famished appetites, frpmtheir retreats; while every animal ,of the forest flies from their... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...that time (lie naked Indian himselt does not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleepy interval of digestion is over: they then issue, with...accumulated terrors, while every animal of the forest flies before them. Carli describes the Long Serpent of Congo making its track through the tall grass, like... | |
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The least effort then will destroy them; they scarcely can make any resistance; and equally unqualified for flight or opposition, even the naked Indians do not fear to assail them. But it is otherwise when this sleeping interval of digestion is over;... 
