 ... 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 its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth,...  The Quarterly review - Seite 1381848Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 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 Seiten
...level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'— pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals : — ' Pursuing... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 Seiten
...level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'—pp. 211,212. Dr. buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals :—... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 Seiten
...level with the tntrfare from a oon*id«Table depth, may have found a wrure retreat from the as* mult* of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want nf strength in it? jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, t»v tbe suddenness... | |
 | 1840 - 530 Seiten
...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...fitted for its prey which came within its reach.' (Geof. Trans., vol. i.. part 2, p. 388, NS) Of the general characters of the Ichthyosauri Professor... | |
 | 1830 - 596 Seiten
...level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep." BBS vertebrae, and is also furnished with paddles, intermediate between feet and... | |
 | 1840 - 522 Seiten
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and llexibilily of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...fitted for its prey which came within its reach.' (Geol. Trans., vol. i., part 2, p. 368, NS) Of the general characters of the Ichthyosauri Professor... | |
 | 1843 - 280 Seiten
...level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat fromv the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach. Before concluding our account of this most extraordinary creature, we must notice a particularly striking... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 Seiten
...respiration must have required frequent access of air), that it swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach." Professor Buckland is of opinion that the tail, being comparatively short, could not have been used... | |
 | 1847 - 112 Seiten
...its nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies, while the length and flexibility...every animal fitted for its prey which came within reach." Megalosaurus*—Remains of thiscrocodelianhave been found in the oolite at Stonesfield, in... | |
 | 1848 - 874 Seiten
...its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the Ma-weed ; and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface...incapacity for swift motion through the water, by toe suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its... | |
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