 ... 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 sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable...  The national encyclopædia. Libr. ed - Page 51by National cyclopaedia - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Geological Society of London - Geology - 1824 - 660 pages
...sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep. The name I have originally given to this animal, PIesiosaurus, (approximate to the... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'— pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals : — ' Pursuing... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.' — pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals : — ' Pursuing... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies...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 - Art - 1837 - 528 pages
...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 pages
...among the sea-weed, and, raising its nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies...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... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...sea-weed, and, raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep." BBS vertebrae, and is also furnished with paddles, intermediate between feet and... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1840 - 522 pages
...among the sea-weed, and, raising its nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, may 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 in its jaws, and its incapacity... | |
 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat fromv the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach. Before concluding our account of this most extraordinary creature, we must notice a particularly striking... | |
 | Astronomy - 1847 - 110 pages
...concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies,...every animal fitted for its prey which came within reach." Megalosaurus.* — Remains of this crocodelian have been found in the oolite at Stonesfield,... | |
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