When after a fatiguing march, and escaping a thousand dangers, (for they are sometimes three months in getting to the shore,) they have arrived at their destined port, they prepare to cast their spawn. History of Wonderful Fishes - Page 1111820 - 181 pagesFull view - About this book
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 824 pages
...that if any of them by accident is maimed in such a manner as to be incapable of proceeding, I Illrest fall upon and devour it on the spot, and then pursue...march, and escaping a thousand dangers, (for they are sometimos three months in getting to the shore,) they have arrived at their destined port, they prepare... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pages
...are possessed of offe most unsocial property, which is, that if any of them by accident is maimed in such a manner as to be incapable of proceeding, the...have arrived at their destined port, they prepare to cast their spawn. The peas are as yet within their bodies, and not excluded, as is usual in animals... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 pages
...are possessed of one most unsocial property, which is, that if any of them by accident is maimed in such a manner as to be incapable of proceeding, the...fall upon and devour it on the spot, and then pursue tlreir journey. When after a fatiguing march, and escaping a thousand dangers, (for they are some,... | |
| 1862 - 1092 pages
...which they sometimes tear off a piece of the skin, and leave the weapon where they inflicted the wound. "When, after a fatiguing march, and escaping a thousand...have arrived at their destined port, they prepare to ciist their spawn. For this purpose the crab has no sooner reached the shore than it eagerly goes to... | |
| William George Hamley - 1862 - 384 pages
...which they sometimes tear off a piece of the skin, and leave the weapon where they inflicted the wound. "When, after a fatiguing march, and escaping a thousand...have arrived at their destined port, they prepare to cast t " Yes, massa," one of the blacks said, " him will bery nice ; make massa a sweet supper. Supposin'... | |
| Sir James Sibbald David Scott (bart.) - 1876 - 350 pages
...rain falls during the day they do not fail to profit by the occasion. When after a fatiguing journey, and escaping a thousand dangers — for they are sometimes three months in reaching the shore — they prepare to cast their spawn. For this purpose, the crab has no sooner reached... | |
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