The whale has no instrument of defence except the tail; with that it endeavours to strike the enemy, and a single blow taking place would effectually destroy its adversary: but the sword-fish is as active as the other is strong, and easily avoids the... A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature - Page 41by Oliver Goldsmith - 1816Full view - About this book
| Samuel Ward - 1776 - 410 pages
...and eafily avoids theftroke; then bounding into the air, it falls upon its adverfary, not with intent to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. " The « fea," The Greenland WHALE: agj " fea," fays Anderfon, " all about is «* dyed with blood, proceeding... | |
| Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...ftrong, and eafily avoids the flroke ; then bounding into the air,, it falls upon its great iubjacent enemy, and endeavours,, not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The feaall about is foon dyed with blood, proceeding from the wounds of the whale ; while the enormous... | |
| Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...ftrong, and eafily avoids the ftroke; then bounding into the air, it falls upon its great fubjacent enemy, and endeavours not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The fea all about is foon dyed with blood, proceeding fro n the wounds of the whale ; while the enormous... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1807 - 506 pages
...; then bounding into the air, it fulls upon its great subjacent опешу» and endeavours not lo pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The sea nil about is seen dyeil with blood, proceeding from the wounds of th« 11 líale ..... JÍnderton.... | |
| William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...opposite direction. The whale has no instrument of defence except the tail; with that it endeavours to strike the enemy ; and a single blow taking place...effectually destroy its adversary : but the sword-fish is an active as the other is strong, and easily avoids the stroke ; then bounding into the air, it falls... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pages
...the tail ; with that it endeavors to strike the enemy ; and a single effectual blow would destroy it. But the sword-fish is as active as the other is strong,...the air, it falls upon its great subjacent enemy and endeavors not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The sea all about... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...opposite direction. The whale has no instrument of defence except the tail : with that it endeavours to strike the enemy; and 'a single blow taking place, would effectually destroy the adversary < but the sword-fish is as active as the other is strong, and easily avoids the stroke;... | |
| Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 pages
...it endeavors to strike the enemy ; and a single effectual blow would destroy it. But the sword fish is as active as the other is strong, and easily avoids...the air, it falls upon its great subjacent enemy and endeavors not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The sea all about... | |
| Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 750 pages
...then bounding into the air, it falls ii;*m its great lubjaceht enemy, and endeavours, tut to pierce it with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The fea all about is leen place their principal fifm-ry, and for numbers of years were very luccefsful... | |
| Sir George Mouat Keith - 1819 - 160 pages
...terrible encounter. The whale has no instrument of defence, except the tail: with that it endeavours to strike the enemy; and a single blow taking place would...falls upon its great subjacent enemy, and endeavours to pierce it with its pointed beak. " The surrounding sea is seen dyed with blood, proceeding from... | |
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