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" ... attempting to escape. The very instant the wound is inflicted, though small in itself, it appears more painful than the sting of a bee. This pain, which is so suddenly felt, far from abating, grows every moment more excruciating and dangerous ; the... "
Natural history; or, A short introduction to animated nature - Page 186
by Natural history - 1854
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Surveys of nature; historical, moral and entertaining

Francis Fitzgerald - 1787 - 768 pages
...head. head, which is foon of a monflrous fize ; the mouth is too (mall to contain the fwelling tongue ; the eyes are red and fiery ; the heart beats quick, with frequent interruptions ; the pain becomes infupportable ; devouring thirft torments the patient, and water or drink makes it worfe; the fpittle...
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Natural History of Birds, Fish, Insects and Reptiles: Embellished with ...

Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1793 - 418 pages
...dangerous ; the limb fwells ; the venom reaches the head, which is foon of a monftrous fize; the eyes arc red and fiery ; the heart beats quick, with frequent interruptions : the pain becomes in-- fupportable, and fome expire under it in five or fix hours ; but others, who are of ftronger conftitutions,...
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A History of the Earth and Animated Nature, Volume 1

1810 - 312 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous. The limb -well* : the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size : the eyes are red and fiery :...the heart beats quick, with frequent interruptions. In short, the pain becomes intolerable, and some expire under it in five or six houra: but others,...
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Birds, pt. 5-6. Fishes, pt. 1-4. Of frogs, lizards and serpents

Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 510 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous: the limb swells; the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size; the eyes . are red and fiery;...hours, but others, who are of stronger constitutions, survife the agony for a few hours longer, only to sink under a general mortification, which ensues...
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A History of the Earth, and Animated Nature, Volume 3

Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 518 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous : the limb swells ; the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size ; the eyes are red and fiery ;...hours, but others, who are of stronger constitutions, curvive the agony for a few hours longer, only to sink under a general mortification, which ensues...
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Buffon's Natural history, corrected and enlarged by J. Wright. (To which are ...

Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 526 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous: the limb swells; the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size; the eyes are red and fiery; the...agony for a few hours longer, only to sink under a general mortification which ensues, and corrupts the whole body. The usual motion of the Rattlesnake...
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A System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific: Comprising a ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 1028 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous ; the limb swells, the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size ; the eyes are red and fiery ;...agony for a few hours longer, only to sink under a general mortification which ensues, and corrupts the whole body. The usual motion of the Rattlesnake...
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A Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal ...

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1841 - 516 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous ; the limb swells, the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size ; the eyes are red and fiery ;...agony for a few hours longer, only to sink under a general mortification which ensues and corrupts the whole body. The usual motion of the Rattlesnake...
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A History of the earth and animated nature v.1, Volume 1

Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous; the limb swells; the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size ; the eyes are red and fiery ;...agony for a few hours longer, only to sink under a general mortification, which ensues, and corrupts the whole body. As a gentleman in Virginia was walking...
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Pictorial Geography of the World: New world

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 802 pages
...moment more excruciating and dangerous ; the limb swells, the venom reaches the head, which is soon of a monstrous size ; the eyes are red and fiery ;...insupportable, and some expire under it in five or six hours ; bin others, who are of stronger constitutions, survive the agony for a few hours longer, only to...
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