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" ... that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach... "
The Southern literary messenger - Page 517
1855
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 34

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1826 - 644 pages
...respiration most bave required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach ?' — p. 388. The habits here ascribed by Mr. Conybeare to the Plesiosaurus correspond very closely...
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A New System of Geology, in which the Great Revolutions of the Earth and ...

Andrew Ure - 1829 - 704 pages
...its respiration required frequent access of air, that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea- weed, and raising...
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Southern Review, Volume 8

1831 - 548 pages
...respiration must have requiled frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like : the swan, and, occasionally,...the fish which happened to float within its reach." The Quarterly reviewer ot 1826, thinks that it must have very closely resembled the lestudo ferox,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 8

1832 - 542 pages
...frequent acress of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the •wan, and, occasionally, darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach." The Quarterly reviewer of 1826, thinks that it must have very closely resembled the Testudo ferox,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volumes 55-56

1836 - 1184 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 56

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface ; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising...
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1840 - 530 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and, raising...
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Magazine of Natural History, Volume 3

1830 - 596 pages
...respiration must have, required frequent access of air), that-it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...it down at the fish which happened to float within reach ? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed,...
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The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ..., Volume 18

1840 - 522 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to lloat wilhin its reach? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 22

1843 - 280 pages
...respiration must have required frequent access of air) that it swam upon or near the surface ; arching hack its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising...
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