 | John Dean Caton - 1877 - 434 pages
...Auduhon says, " They pass along, up or down hills or along the level plains with the same apparent ease, while so rapidly do their legs perform their graceful...bodies over the ground, that, like the spokes of a fast turning wheel, we can hardly see them, but instead observe a gauzy or tilm-like appearance where... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1906 - 1030 pages
...inconceivably swift. They pass along, up or down hills, or along the level plain with the same apparent ease, while so rapidly do their legs perform their graceful...film-like appearance where they should' be visible." (Aud. & Bach. "Quads, of NA," vol. II, p. 198.) Antelope poses. Mr. WT Hornaday says: "In running it... | |
 | 1906 - 1380 pages
...inconceivably swift. They pass along, up or down hills, or along the level plain with the same apparent ease, while so rapidly do their legs perform their graceful...wheel, we can hardly see them, but instead, observe a gauzv or film-like appearance where they should' be visible." (Aud. & Bach. "Quads, of NA," vol. II,... | |
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... Antelope is given first place for swiftness among the four-foots of America. "Their walk is a slow and somewhat pompous gait, their trot elegant and graceful, and their gallop or 'run' light and inconceivably swift. They pass along, up or down hills,... 