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" ... but the swordfish is as active as the other is strong, and easily avoids the stroke; then bounding into the air, it falls upon its enemy, and endeavours not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. "
A History of the Earth and Animated Nature - Page 141
1810
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Surveys of nature; historical, moral and entertaining

Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...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...animal vainly endeavours to reach its invader, and Rrikes with its tail againfl the furface of the water, making a report at each blow louder than the...
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The General Genteel Preceptor

Francis Fitzgerald - 1797 - 556 pages
...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 animal vainly endeavours to reach its invader, and ftrikes with its tail againft the furface of the water, making a report at each blow louder than the...
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The Youth's Companion: Or An Historical Dictionary; Consisting of Articles ...

Ezra Sampson - 1813 - 434 pages
...great subjacent enemy and endeavors not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The sea all about is seen dyed with blood, proceeding from the wounds of the whale Anderson. SYMPATHETIC INK, a kind of ink or paint which has this singular property, that it will appear...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...endeavours not to pierce it with its pointed beak, but to cut it with lit edges. The sea all above it seen dyed with blood, proceeding from the wounds of the whale ; while the enormous animal vainly en. deavours to reach its invader, and strikes with its tail against the surface of the water, making...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...cut it with n> edges. The sea all above is teen dyed «ith blood, proceeding from the wounds of Jit whale ; while the enormous animal vainly endeavours to reach its invader, and siritei uitli its tail against the surface of the water, making a report at each blow louderthan the...
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The Youth's Companion, Or, An Historical Dictionary: Consisting of Articles ...

Ezra Sampson - 1816 - 432 pages
...great subjacent enemy and endeavors not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The sea all about is seen dyed with blood, proceeding from the wounds of the whale. — Anderson. SYMPATHETIC INK, a kind of ink or paint which has this singular property, that it will...
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the Arts ..., Volume 3

1816 - 740 pages
...with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed tdgcs. The lea nil about is fccn dyed with Wood, proceeding from the wounds of the whale ; while the enormous animal vainly endeavours to reach its envader, and flrikes with its tail againft the furface of the water, making a report at each blow louder...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 518 pages
...not to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut it with its toothed edsjes. The sea all about is soon dyed with blood, proceeding from the wounds of the whale ; while the enormous animal vamly endeavours to reach its. invader, and strikes with its tail against the surface of the water,...
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Scripture Natural History for Youth, Volume 2

Esther Copley - 1828 - 464 pages
...only to pierce with its pointed beak, but to cut with its toothed edges. The sea all about is soon dyed with blood, proceeding from the wounds of the whale, while the tortuous animal vainly endeavours to reach thr. invader, and strikes with its tail against the surface...
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A London Encyclopaedia, Or Universal Dictionary of Science, Art ..., Volume 3

Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 852 pages
...subjacent enemy, and endeavours, not to pierce it with its pointed beak, but to cut it with its toothed edges. The sea all about is seen dyed with blood,...animal vainly endeavours to reach its invader, and strike« with its tail against the surface of the water, making a report at each blow louder than the...
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