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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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Popular cyclopaedia of natural science (by W.B. Carpenter).

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 608 pages
...awkward. The probability is, that it swam habitually on or near the surface of the water, arching back its long neck like the Swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach. Or it may have lurked in shoal water along the coast, like the long-necked Emydae of the present time...
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Zoology: Being a Sketch of the Classification, Structure ..., Volume 1

William Benjamin Carpenter - 1844 - 600 pages
...awkward. The probability is, that it swam habitually on or near the surface of the water, arching back its long neck like the Swan, and occasionally darting...the fish which happened to float within its reach. Or it may have lurked in shoal water along the coast, like the long-necked Emydae of the present time...
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Relics from the Wreck of a Former World, Or, Splinters Gathered on the ...

1847 - 112 pages
...addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air,) that it swam upon, or near the surface, arching its long neck like...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 Daguerreotype, Volume 2

1848 - 572 pages
...required frequent access of air), that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting it down at 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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Zoological Recreations

William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 pages
...required frequent access of air), that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting it down at 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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The Gallery of Nature: A Pictorial and Descriptive Tour Through Creation

Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 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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Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

1848 - 874 pages
...frequent access of air), that it swam upon, or near the surface, arching back its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the Ma-weed ; and raising...
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The British Museum, Historical and Descriptive ...

David Masson - 1850 - 444 pages
...not, therefore, be concluded that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting it down at 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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Petrifactions and Their Teachings: Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic ...

Gideon Algernon Mantell - 1851 - 524 pages
...addition to these circumstances, its respiration must have required frequent access of air, that it swam upon or near the surface, arching its long neck like...the fish which happened to float within its reach 1 It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising...
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The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffussion of Useful ..., Volume 18

1840 - 524 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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