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... become as much so as if they had never been wild . " Though superior in strength to most other animals , the Horse never attacks them ; and if assailed , it either disdains its foes and flies , or gives a fatal blow THE HORSE . 3.
... become as much so as if they had never been wild . " Though superior in strength to most other animals , the Horse never attacks them ; and if assailed , it either disdains its foes and flies , or gives a fatal blow THE HORSE . 3.
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... attack , when , having sufficiently prepared himself for the combat , he made a sudden spring at the horse , which defended itself by striking his adversary a most violent blow on the chest . The lion instantly retreated , groaned , and ...
... attack , when , having sufficiently prepared himself for the combat , he made a sudden spring at the horse , which defended itself by striking his adversary a most violent blow on the chest . The lion instantly retreated , groaned , and ...
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... attacks only individuals , strikes only the surface , and destroys the form , but can have no power over matter , and can do no harm to nature , which thereby only appears to more advantage . She does not permit him to destroy the ...
... attacks only individuals , strikes only the surface , and destroys the form , but can have no power over matter , and can do no harm to nature , which thereby only appears to more advantage . She does not permit him to destroy the ...
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... attacks of the animal , which will never desist till a period is put to its life . Frequent mention is made of our savage cattle by his- torians : one relates that Robert Bruce was ( in chasing these animals ) preserved from the rage of ...
... attacks of the animal , which will never desist till a period is put to its life . Frequent mention is made of our savage cattle by his- torians : one relates that Robert Bruce was ( in chasing these animals ) preserved from the rage of ...
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... attacks of a fly with two wings , the astrus bovis of Linnĉus ; the female of which makes a number of small punctures in the backs of horned cattle , and in each of them deposits an egg , which is afterwards hatched by the warmth of the ...
... attacks of a fly with two wings , the astrus bovis of Linnĉus ; the female of which makes a number of small punctures in the backs of horned cattle , and in each of them deposits an egg , which is afterwards hatched by the warmth of the ...
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Page 255 - And they sat down to eat bread : and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Page 322 - ... prostrate foe, looking round in conscious power and pride upon the bands of his assailants — and with a port the most noble and imposing that can be conceived. It was the most magnificent thing I ever witnessed. The danger of our friends, however, rendered it at the moment too terrible to enjoy either the grand or the ludicrous part of the picture. We expected every instant to see one or more of them torn in pieces ; nor, though the rest of the party were standing within fifty paces with their...
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Page 322 - ... turned calmly away, and driving the snarling dogs like rats from among his heels, bounded over the adjoining thicket like a cat over a footstool, clearing brakes and bushes twelve or fifteen feet high, as readily as if they had been tufts of grass, and, abandoning the jungle, retreated towards the mountains.
Page 126 - I have described the process somewhere else ; — it is done by putting the skin of the dead lamb upon the living one ; the ewe immediately acknowledges the relationship, and after the skin has warmed on it, so as to give it something of the smell of her own progeny, and it has sucked her two or three times, she accepts and nourishes it as her own ever after. Whether it is from joy at this apparent reanimation of her young one, or 242 THE MIRROR.
Page 171 - My grandfather was killed in the chase of the Chamois ; my father was killed also ; and I am so certain that I shall be killed myself, that I call this bag, which I always carry hunting, my windingsheet. I am sure that I shall have no other; and yet, if you were to offer to make my fortune upon the condition that I should renounce the chase of the Chamois, I should refuse your kindness.
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Page 17 - ... gambols are dangerous to the timid or unskilful. They are all easily and suddenly alarmed, when anything they do not understand forcibly catches their attention, and they are then to be feared by the bad horseman, and carefully guarded against by the good. Very serious accidents have happened to the best. But, besides their general disposition to playfulness, there is a great propensity in them to become what the jockeys call vicious.
Page 320 - Hottentots the leaders of the chase. The first point was to track the lion to his covert. This was effected by a few of the Hottentots on foot : commencing from the spot where the horse was killed, they followed the spoor...
Page 322 - Bastuards, in place of now pouring in their volley upon him, instantly turned and fled helter-skelter, leaving him to do his pleasure upon the defenceless Scots ; who, with empty guns, were tumbling over each other, in their hurry to escape the clutch of the rampant savage. In a twinkling he was upon them, and with one stroke of his paw dashed the nearest to the ground. The scene was terrific ! There stood the lion with his...