Popular natural history and characteristics of animalsJames Blackwood and Company, 1869 - 309 Seiten |
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anecdotes animal appearance approach Arabian horse assagai astonishment attack banderilleros beast Black Rat blood boar body breed brought bull cage carbonic acid chase colour creature dead deer discovered disposition distance docile domesticated door enemy escape eyes fallow deer favourite feet ferocity flesh frequently Gelert gentleman goat greyhound ground habits hare head heard herd horns horse hounds hunters hunting hyæna inches instance instantly keeper killed kind kitten lamb Lapland leap legs length leopard lion lioness manner master menagerie miles mole morning mules native natural never Newfoundland dog night observed occasion poor possess prey puma pursued quadrupeds remarkable returned sagacity says seemed seen seized sheep skin soon South America species sport spot spotted hyena stag stoat tail tiger tion took tree turned vampyre wild wounded yards young
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Seite 306 - As soon as there was light enough, I went to his hammock, and saw it much stained with blood. " There," said he, thrusting his foot out of the hammock, " see how these infernal imps have been drawing my life's blood.
Seite 263 - By wintry famine roused, from all the tract Of horrid mountains which the shining Alps, And wavy Apennine, and Pyrenees, Branch out stupendous into distant lands ; Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave ! Burning for blood ! bony, and gaunt, and grim ! Assembling wolves in raging troops descend ; And, pouring o'er the country, bear along, Keen as the north wind sweeps the glossy snow. All is their prize.
Seite 35 - Who hath sent out the wild ass free? or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing.
Seite 306 - Some years ago I went to the river Paumaron with a Scotch gentleman, by name Tarbet. We hung our hammocks in the thatched loft of a planter's house. Next morning I heard this gentleman muttering in his hammock, and now and then letting fall an imprecation or two, just about the time he ought to have been saying his morning prayers. ' What is the matter, Sir? ' said I, softly ; 'is any thing amiss?' — 'What's the matter ?' answered he, surlily, ' why, the Vampires have been sucking me to death.
Seite 45 - ... had found his way from Point de Gat to Gibraltar, a distance of more than two hundred miles, through a mountainous and intricate country, intersected by streams, which he had never traversed before, and in so short a period, that he could not have made one false turn.
Seite 19 - ... be brought to stand for a smith to shoe him. — The day after Sullivan's half-hour lecture, I went, not without some incredulity to the smith's shop, with many other curious spectators, where we were eye-witnesses of the complete success of his art.
Seite 242 - And now I'm in the world alone, Upon the wide, wide sea: But why should I for others groan, When none will sigh for me? Perchance my dog will whine in vain, Till fed by stranger hands; But long ere I come back again He'd tear me where he stands.
Seite 193 - ... as quietly as possible. It was after he had broken cover, or when he found himself in a situation so as to be fairly at bay, that the serious part of the sport began, in which case he attacked his enemies boldly, and always died fighting. He added, that the lion, though not so large or swift an animal as the tiger, was generally stronger and more courageous. Those which have been killed in India, instead of running away when pursued through a jungle, seldom seem to think its cover necessary at...
Seite 228 - ... drove in her state of suffering is beyond human calculation ; for her road lay through sheep the whole way. Her master's heart smote him when he saw what she had suffered and effected...