 | 1836 - 562 pages
...short time disappeared, that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment...such an unnatural extent — an extent which must have utterly destroyed all muscular power in any animal that was not, like himself, endowed with very... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pages
...self-defence. side, threatening every moment to protrude through the skin. The victim was now swallowed as far as the shoulders; and it was an astonishing...muscles when stretched to such an unnatural extent. When his head and neck had no other appearance than that of a serpent's skin, stuffed almost to bursting,... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1848 - 924 pages
...disappeared ; that Is to nay, externally; i but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly ou the outside, threatening every ; moment to protrude through the skin. The | victim hod nuw descended as far as the shoulders ; and it was an astonishing eight j to olwervc the extraordinary... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 308 pages
...short time, disappeared, — that is to say, externally; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment...such an unnatural extent — an extent which must have destroyed all muscular power in any animal that was not, like himself, endowed with very peculiar... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...short time disappeared, that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment...extraordinary action of the snake's muscles when stretched to so great an extent — an extent which must have utterly destroyed all muscular power in any animal... | |
 | G. Garratt - 1862 - 462 pages
...short time disappeared, that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment...snake's muscles when stretched to such an unnatural extent,—an extent which must have destroyed all muscular power in any animal that was not, like himself,... | |
 | 1834 - 304 pages
...short time disappeared — that is to say, externally; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment...astonishing sight to observe the extraordinary action of the snakes muscles when stretched to such an unnatural extent — an extent which must have destroyed all... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 pages
...short time disappeared, that ia to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment...such an unnatural extent — an extent which must have utterly destroyed all muscular power in any animal that was not like himself endowed with very... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 pages
...short time disappeared, that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on the outside, threatening every moment...shoulders ; and it was an astonishing sight to observe the extraordmary action of the snake's muscles when stretched to such an unnatural extent — an extent... | |
 | 1866 - 476 pages
...from their points, but they soon disappeared externally, though their progress was still very distinct on the outside, threatening every moment to protrude through the skin. The victim was now swallowed as far as the shoulders. It was a most extraordinary and terrific sight to observe... | |
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These protuberances opposed some little difficulty, not so much from their extent as from their points ; however, they also, in a very short time, disappeared ; that is to say, externally ; but their progress was still to be traced very distinctly on... 
