 | 1859 - 148 pages
...strokes which they receive from all sides, and, stunned by the frequency and force of the electric shocks, disappear under the water. Others panting, with mane erect and haggard eyes, raise themselves and endeavour to escape. They are driven back by the Indians into the middle of the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 774 pages
...receive from all sides, and stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks, disappear under the waler. Others panting, with mane erect, and haggard eyes,...driven back by the Indians into the middle of the waler; but a small number succeed in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the... | |
 | George Hanneman Bennett - 1866 - 366 pages
...sides, in organs the most essential to life ; and stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks, they disappear under the water. Others, panting, with mane erect, and haggard eyes expressing anguish and dismay, raise themselves and endeavour to flee from the storm by which they are overtaken. They... | |
 | 1872 - 504 pages
...stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks disappear under the water. Others panting, with manes erect, and haggard eyes, expressing anguish, raise...storm by which they are overtaken. They are driven hack by the Indians into the middle of the water; but a small number succeed in eluding the active... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1879 - 234 pages
...themselves by repeated discharges of their electric force. Several horses sink beneath their violence, and disappear under the water. Others, panting, with mane erect and haggard eyes, make frantic efforts to escape from the attacks of their enemies ; and though driven back by the Indians,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 494 pages
...Others, panting, with main erect, and haggard eyes, expressing anguish, raise themselves, and endeavor to flee from the storm by which they are overtaken....the water: but a small number succeed in eluding the * 3 active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - 1895 - 462 pages
...standing erect, and wild looks, expressing anguish, raise themselves and endeavour to flee from the storms by which they are overtaken. They are driven back...into the middle of the water ; but a small number succeeds in eluding the active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every... | |
 | Stephen R. Bown - 2002 - 284 pages
..."from all sides in organs the most essential to life, and, stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks, disappear under the water. Others, panting,...mane erect and haggard eyes expressing anguish, raise and endeavour to flee from the storm by which they are overtaken." Within five minutes two horses had... | |
 | 1820 - 782 pages
...from all sides in organs the most essential to life ; and, stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks, disappear under the water. Others panting,...the water ! but a small number succeed in eluding die active vigilance of the fishermen. These regain the shore, stumbling at every step, and stretch... | |
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During a long time they seem to prove victorious. Several horses sink beneath the violence of the invisible strokes, which they receive from all sides in organs the most essential to life ; and, stunned by the force and frequency of the shocks, disappear... 
