 When the durion strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious effusion of blood preventing the...  The Castaways - Page 58by Mayne Reid - 1920Full view - About this book
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 688 pages
...dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees....dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1869 - 700 pages
...Wallace, vol. i., p. 118. unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When a Durian strikes a man in its fall it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
 | 1869 - 692 pages
...Wallace, vol. i., p. 118. unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When a Durian strikes a man in its fall it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1869 - 360 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When a Durian strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 pages
...not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When it strikes a man in the fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy. Poets and moralists, judging from the European trees and fruits,... | |
 | Nicholas Belfield Dennys - 1894 - 468 pages
...and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees. When a durian strikes a man in its fall, it produces a dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 450 pages
...dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen, it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees....dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy ; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1917 - 752 pages
...dangerous. When the fruit begins to ripen, it falls daily and almost hourly, and accidents not unfrequently happen to persons walking or working under the trees....dreadful wound, the strong spines tearing open the flesh, while the blow itself is very heavy; but from this very circumstance death rarely ensues, the copious... | |
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