 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 432 pages
...depofiting its eggs, feldom leaves the water. Iu ufual method is to float alung upon the furface, and feize whatever animals come within its reach ; but when this method fails, it then goes clofer to the bank. There it waits in patient expectation of fome land animal that comes to drink ;... | |
 | William Bingley - 1803 - 624 pages
...Except when pressed by hunger, or with a view of depositing its eggs, this enormous creature seldom leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along...this method fails, it then goes closer to the bank. There it waits in patient expectation of some land animal that may come to drink ; the dog, the bull,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - 518 pages
...pressed by hunger, or with a view of depositing its eggs, leaves the water. Its usual method is to float upon the surface, and seize whatever animals come...then goes closer to the bank. Disappointed of its fisby prey, it there waits covered up among the sedges in patient expectation of some land animal that... | |
 | 1824 - 188 pages
...method is to float along upon the surface, (where it appears like a large piece of floating wood,) and seize whatever animals come within its reach ; but, when this method fails, it then goes closer 1o the bonk. There it waits in patient expectation of some land animal that may come to drink ; the... | |
 | Job (the patriarch), John Fry - 1827 - 630 pages
...powerful as in the waters, is yet very terrible even upon land. It seldom, except when pressed with hunger, or with a view of depositing its eggs, leaves...to float along upon the surface, and seize whatever animal comes within its reach ; but when this method fails it then goes closer to the bank. Disappointed... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...pressed by hunger, or urged by the necessity of depositing its eggs, this enormous creature seldom leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along upon the surface, like a large piece of timber, and seize whatever animals come within its reach; but, when this method... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 376 pages
...single blow of this it has often overturned a canoe, and seized upon the poor savage, its conductor. 4 Though not so powerful, yet it is very terrible even...sedges, in patient expectation of some land animal that may come to drink ; the dog, the bull, the tiger, or man himself. Nothing is to be seen of the... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 358 pages
...upon the poor savage, its conductor. Though not so powerful, yet it is very terrible even upon Jand. The Crocodile seldom, except when pressed by hunger,...sedges, in patient expectation of some land animal that may come to drink ; the dog, the bull, the tiger, or man himself. Nothing is to be seen of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...crocodile, however, except when pressed with hunger, or with a view of depositing its ee?s, seldom leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along...reach ; but, when this method fails, it then goes close to the bank. There it waits in patient expectation of some land animal that comes to drink ;... | |
 | Thomas Tucker Smiley - 1844 - 382 pages
...seldom leaves the water. Its usual method is to float upon the surface, and seize upon whatever comes within its reach ; but when this method fails, it...bank. Disappointed of its fishy prey, it there waits in patient expectation of some land animal, that may come to drink, the dog, the bull, the tiger, or... | |
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The crocodile seldom, except when pressed by hunger, or with a view of depositing its eggs, leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along upon the surface, and seize whatever animals come within its reach ; but when this method fails, it then goes... 
