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" ... endowed with very peculiar faculties of expansion and action at the same time. When his head and neck had no other appearance than that of a serpent's skin stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power... "
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies - Page 552
1817
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The Methodist Magazine: For the Year ... ; Being a Continuation ..., Volume 41

John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...called, unabated; it was, in fact, the effect ot a contractile muscular power, assisted by two rowi of strong hooked teeth. With all this he must be so formed as to be able to •opend, for a time, his respiration ; for it is impossible to conceive that the process of Breathing...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 17

1817 - 610 pages
...skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on while the mouth and throat were so completely stuffed and expanded by the body...
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Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's Late Ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea ...

John M'Leod - 1817 - 316 pages
...skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on while the mouth and throat were so completely stuffed and expanded by the body...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 17

1817 - 592 pages
...skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time, iis respiration, for it is impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried im...
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The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Issues 1-11

1817 - 292 pages
...workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unahated ; it was, in fact the effect of a contractile muscular power, assisted hy two rows of strong hooked teeth. With all this he must he so formed as to he ahle to suspend, for...
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Narrative of a Voyage, in His Majesty's Late Ship Alceste: To the Yellow Sea ...

John M'Leod - 1818 - 272 pages
...skin stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on while the mouth and throat were so completely stuffed and expanded by the body...
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The Literary panorama, Volume 7

1818 - 550 pages
...(kin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated; it...assisted by two rows of strong hooked teeth. With all thishemnst be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time, his respiration, for it is impossible...
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The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Volume 11

1818 - 594 pages
...serpent's skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the working of the muscles were evident, and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated: it...power, assisted by two rows of strong hooked teeth." . . . . " The whole operation of completely gorging the goat occupied about two hours and twenty minutes...
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Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste: Along the Coast of Corea, to the ...

John M'Leod - 1818 - 358 pages
...skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...contractile muscular power, assisted by two rows of stronghooked teeth. With all this he must be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time, his respiration,...
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Weaver's Magazine and Literary Companion, Volume 2

1819 - 304 pages
...skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident, and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on while the mouth and throat was so completely stuffed and expanded by the body of...
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