 They soon met, and in the fury of their first encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate each other. What a fell aspect did they present!...  Amphibious animals - Page 107by William Bingley - 1805Full view - About this book
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, William Peterfield Trent, Ludwig Lewisohn - 1904 - 412 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate...the second found means to disengage itself from the first, and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture, and half creeping... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate...the second found means to disengage itself from the first, and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture, and half creeping... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate...the second found means to disengage itself from the first, and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture, and half creeping... | |
 | Frederick Clarke Prescott, John Herbert Nelson - 1925 - 302 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and, whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate...the second found means to disengage itself from the first, and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture; and, half creeping... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 1990 - 930 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate...the second found means to disengage itself from the first and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture, and half creeping... | |
 | Teresa A. Goddu - 1997 - 242 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate each other. What a fell aspect did they present! (184) This spectacle of snakes in mortal combat is a parable of America's embrace of slavery, an entanglement... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ulate through me; I am f1ve minutes, the second found means to disengage itself from the first and hurried toward the ditch.... | |
 | Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur - 2006 - 246 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate...the second found means to disengage itself from the first, and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture, and half creeping... | |
 | Hector St. Joh Crevecoeur - 2006 - 302 pages
...encounter, they appeared in an instant firmly twisted together; and whilst their united tails beat the ground, they mutually tried with open jaws to lacerate...the second found means to disengage itself from the first, and hurried toward the ditch. Its antagonist instantly assumed a new posture, and half creeping... | |
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