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" ... by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed by assailing it with all the force of military engines and showers of stones, after it had withstood the attack of their spears and darts... "
Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute - Page 91
by New Zealand Institute - 1896
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Vivarium Naturæ Or the Naturalist's Miscellany. ...

George Shaw - 1790 - 248 pages
...force of military engines and ihowers of ftones ; after it had ivithftood the attack of their fpears and darts : that it was regarded by the whole army as a more formidable enemy than even Carthage itfelf^ and that the whole adjacent region being tainted with the peftilential effluvia proceeding...
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Gallery of Nature and Art, Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ..., Volume 5

Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed by assailing it widi all the force of military engines and showers of stones,...tainted with the pestilential effluvia proceeding from it* remains, and the waters with its blood, the Roman army was obliged to remove its station : he also...
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The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science, Volume 5

Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 pages
...mouth, and devouring them, and killing several more by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed by assailing...enemy than even Carthage itself; and that the whole aHjacent region being tainted with the pestilential effluvia proceeding from its remains, and the waters...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 pages
...soldiers with its enormous mouth, and killed several others by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed by assailing...had withstood the attack of their spears and darts. It was regarded by the whole army as a more formidable enemy than even Carthage itself. The whole adjacent...
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The Hundred Wonders of the World: And of the Three Kingdoms of Nature ...

Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 pages
...soldiers with its enormous mouth, and killed several others by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed by assailing...with all the force of military engines and showers of stoues, after it had withstood the attack of their spears and darts. It was regarded by the whole army...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...soldiers with its enormous mouth, and killed several others by striking and squeezing them with the spires It was resarded by the whole army аз a more formidable enemy than even Carthage itself. The whole...
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The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2

1835 - 430 pages
...soldiers with its enormous mouth, and killed several others by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed by assailing...had withstood the attack of their spears and darts. It was resrarded by the whole army as a more formidable enemy than even Carthage itself. The whole...
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The Rover, Volume 2

Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 pages
...mouth, and devouring them, and killing several more by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed, by assailing...; that it was regarded by the whole army as a more for•midabie enemy than even Carthage itself; and that the whole adjacent region being tainted with...
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The Charms of Fancy: A Poem, in Four Cantos, with Notes

Richard Alsop - 1856 - 226 pages
...mouth, and devouring them, and killing several others by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, was at length destroyed, by assailing...had withstood the attack of their spears and darts, so that it was regarded by the whole army, as a more formidable enemy than even Carthage itself; and,...
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Cyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities of Nature and Art, Science and ...

John Platts - 1882 - 558 pages
...devouring them, and killing several more by striking and squeezing them with the spires of its tail, it was at length destroyed by assailing it with all the...the whole army as a more formidable enemy than even Car thage itself; and that the whole adjacent region being tainted with th? pestilential effluvia proceeding...
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