 | Young people - 1852 - 1020 pages
...crocodile, however, except when pressed with hunger, or with a view of depositing its eggs, seldom leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along...surface, and seize whatever animals come within its reach ; tat, whea this method fails, it then goes close to the hank. There it waits in patient expectation... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 616 pages
...size is so superior ! The back-bone is jointed in the firmest manner ; the muscles of the fore and hinder legs are vigorous and strong ; and its whole...sedges, in patient expectation of some land animal that come* to drink ; the dog, the bull, the tiger, or man himself. Nothing is to be seen of the insidious... | |
 | 1852 - 388 pages
...hunger, or for the purpose of depositing its eggs, leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along the surface, and seize whatever animals come within...its reach ; but when this method fails, it then goes nearer the bank. There it waits, among the sedges, for any animal that may come down to drink, and... | |
 | 1854 - 834 pages
...necessity of depositing her eggs. Us usual method is to float along upon the surface like a log of timber, and seize whatever animals come within its reach ;...this method fails, it then goes closer to the bank, where it waits in patient expectation of some land animal, the dog, the bull, the tiger, or man himself.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 pages
...instrument of destruction is the tail : with a single blow of this it has often overturned a canue, and seized upon the poor savage its conductor. Though...along upon the surface, and seize whatever animals cone within its reach ; but when this method l.ti!-. it then goes closer to the bank. Disappointed... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...whose size is so superior! The back-bone is jointed in the firmest manner ; the muscles of the fore and hinder legs are vigorous and strong ; and its whole...covered up among the sedges, in patient expectation ot some land animal that comes to drink ; the dog, the bull, the tiger, or man himself. Nothing is... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 pages
...hunger, or with a view of depositing its eggs, leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along \ipon the surface, and seize whatever animals come within...covered up among the sedges, in patient expectation ot some land animal that conves to drink ; the dog, the bull, the tiger, or man himself. Nothing is... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...leaves the water. Its usual method is to fl oat along upon the surface, like a large piece of timber, and seize whatever animals come within its reach;...this method fails, it then goes closer to the bank. There it waits in patient expectation of some land animal that may coir-e to drink ; the Doj;, the... | |
 | 1846 - 792 pages
...the river. Except, however, when pressed with hunger or with a view of depositing its eggs, it seldom leaves the water. Its usual method is to float along...its 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 ;... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1835 - 440 pages
...crocodile, however, except when pressed with hunger, or with a view of depositing its eggs, 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; the... | |
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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... 
