 | 1854 - 1112 pages
...left. It was ereeping on its eight legs, whieh, from their soft and flexible nature, bent eonsiderably under the weight of its body, so that it was lifted by the efforts of its tentaeula only a small distanee from the roeks. It appeared mueh alarmed at seeing him, and made every... | |
 | Thomas Beale (surgeon.) - 1839 - 426 pages
...before ; it therefore appeared the more remarkable. It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing me, and made every effort to escape, while I was not much in the humour to endeavour to capture so... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...never *een one like it under such circumstances before. It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing me, and made every effort to escape, while I was not much in the humour to endeavour to capture so... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...never seen one like it under such circumstances before. It was creeping on its eight legs, which from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing me, and made every effort to escape, while I was not much in the humour to endeavour to capture so... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...never seen one like it under such circumstances before. It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...body, so that it was lifted by the efforts of its tcntacula only a small distance from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing me, and made every... | |
 | 1841 - 1042 pages
...crawling towards the surf, which it had only just left. It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing him, acd made every effort to escape. Mr. Beale endeavoured to stop it by pressing on one of its legs with... | |
 | 1853 - 892 pages
...never seen one like it under such circumstances before. It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed at seeing me, and made every effort to escape, while I was not much in the humour to endeavour to capture so... | |
 | 1845 - 398 pages
...retreating surf. I had never seen one like it before. It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...distance from the rocks. " It appeared much alarmed on seeing me, and made every effort to escape, while I was not much in the humor to endeavor to capture... | |
 | 1847 - 282 pages
...crawling towards the surf, which it had only just left. It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...distance from the rocks. It appeared much alarmed on seeing him, and made every effort to escape. Mr. Beale endeavoured to stop it by pressing on one... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1847 - 838 pages
...retreating surf. I had never seen one like it before. It was creeping on i?s eight- legs, \\hich, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably...body, so that it was lifted by the efforts of its ti ntacula only a small distai.ee from the rocks. "It appeared much alarmed on seeing me, and made... | |
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It was creeping on its eight legs, which, from their soft and flexible nature, bent considerably under the weight of its body, so that it was lifted by the efforts of its tentacula only, a small distance from the rocks. 
