| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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