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" They hunt about, they plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry it without fail to their master. When the fish is too large, they then give each... "
A Natural History of the Globe: Of Man, of Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles ... - Page 56
by Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831
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Surveys of nature; historical, moral and entertaining

Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...fail to their mafter. When the rfiih is too large, they give each other mutual affiftance : one feizes it by the head, the other by the tail, and in this manner carry it to the [boat together. There the bpatman ftretches out one of his long oars, ton which they perch, and being delivered of...
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The General Genteel Preceptor

Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...fail to their mafter. When the fifh is top large, they give each other mutual affiftance: one ieizes it by the head, the other by the tail, and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman ftretches out one of his long oars, on which they perch, and, bein-; delivered of...
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Animal Biography: Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 2

William Bingley - 1803 - 606 pages
...plunge, they rise an hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry...and in this 'manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman stretches out one of his long oars, on which they perch, and being delivered of their...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Volume 4

Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 470 pages
...plunge, they rise a hundred times to " the surface, until they have at last found their " prey. They then seize it with their beak by the " middle, and carry...and in this manner " carry it to the boat together. There the boat" man stretches out one of his long oars, on which " they perch, and being delivered...
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A Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes ...

J. Macloc - 1820 - 348 pages
...still their natural voracity cannot be restrained even by education. While they fish, they have always a string fastened round their throats, to prevent them from devouring their prey; as otherwise they would soon satiate themselves, and discontinue their pursuit. THE FULMAR. THIS bird...
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Birds, pt. 5-6. Fishes, pt. 1-4. Of frogs, lizards and serpents

Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry...and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman stretches out one of his long oars, on which theyperch, and being delivered of their...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 498 pages
...rise a hundred times to , the surface, until they hixve at -last found .their prey. They then seiie ' it with their beak by the middle, and carry it without...it by the head; the other by the tail, and in this' munuer carry it to the boat together.: There -the boatman stretches oat one of his long. oars, on which...
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A Natural History of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes ..., Volume 2

Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pages
...still their natural voracity cannot be restrained even by education. While they fish, they have always a string fastened round their throats, to prevent them from devouring their prey ; as otherwise they would soon satiate themselves, and then discontinue their pursuit. Such was formerly...
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A History of the Earth and Animated Nature: In Three Volumes ..., Volume 2

Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - 612 pages
...plunge, they rise a hundred times to the surface, until they have at last found their prey. They then seize it with their beak by the middle, and carry...and in this manner carry it to the boat together. There the boatman stretches out one of his long oars, on which they perch, and being delivered of their...
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Dwight's American Magazine, Volume 3

Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...supply a very plentiful table Ħbut still, their natural gluttony cannot even be reclaimed by education. They have always, while they fish, a string fastened...throats, to prevent them from devouring their prey, or otherwise they would at once satiate themselves, and discontinue their pursuit the marnent they...
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