| Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 páginas
...pressure of the serpent's fold, or the teeth of the famished Jaguar. Nature has formed his fore legs wonderfully thick, and strong, and muscular, and armed his feet with three THIRD tremendous sharp and crooked claws. Whenever he JOURNEY. seizes an animal with these formidable... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1828 - 362 páginas
...scarcity; so that he soon THIRD obtains a sufficient supply of food, with very little JOURNEY. rr J trouble. He cannot travel fast ; man is superior to...through want of food. Nor does the antbear, in the mean time, suffer much from loss of aliment, as it is a well-known fact, that he •can go longer without... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 1178 páginas
...serpent's fold, nor the teeth of the famished jaguar. Nature has formed his fore-legs wonderfully thick, strong and muscular, and armed his feet with three...and keeps it there till it dies through pressure, or want of food. Nor does the Ant-bear, in the mean time, suffer from want of aliment, as it is a well-known... | |
| 1834 - 700 páginas
...jaguar. Nature has ftttacd his fore legs wonderfully thick, strong and muscular, and armed his feetNwith three tremendous sharp and crooked claws. Whenever...and keeps it there till it dies through pressure, or want of food. Nor does the ant-bear, in the mean time, suffer from want of aliment, as it is a well... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1836 - 362 páginas
...down in quest of ants, of which there is never the least scarcity; so that he soon JOURtfEY. . THIRD obtains a sufficient supply of food, with very little...through want of food. Nor does the ant-bear, in the mean time, suffer much from loss of aliment, as it is a well-known fact, that he can go longer without... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1839 - 322 páginas
...recesses of the forest, and seems partial to the low and swampy parts near creeks, where the troely tree grows. There he goes up and down in quest of ants,...through want of food. Nor does the ant-bear, in the mean time, suffer much from loss of aliment, as it is a well-known fact, that he can go longer without... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - 412 páginas
...pressure of the serpent's fold, or the teeth of the famished jaguar. Nature has formed his fore legs wonderfully thick, and strong, and muscular, and armed...through want of food. Nor does the ant-bear, in the mean time, suffer much from loss of aliment, as it is a well-known fact, that he can go longer without... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 páginas
...pressure of the serpent's foM, or the teeth of the famished jaguar. Nature has formed his fore legs wonderfully thick, and strong, and muscular, and armed...seizes an animal with these formidable weapons, he buys it close to his body and keeps it there till it dies tlirough pressure, or through want of food.... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 páginas
...the I via of the famished jaguar. Nature has formed lus fore legs wutideriully thick, and strong, aud muscular, and armed his feet with three tremendous...seizes an animal with these formidable weapons, he bags il close to his body and keeps it there till it dies through pressure, or through want of food.... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 páginas
...tremendous sharp and crooked clawa. Whenever he seizes an animal with these formidable weapons, lie hugs it close to his body and keeps it there till...through want of food. Nor does the ant-bear, in the mrau time, suffer much from loss of aliment, as it is a wellknown fact, that he can go longer without... | |
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