| Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1810 - 702 pages
...like cock-spurs, to help it in seizing its prey. It is an amphibious animal, that is, k delights in low and marshy places, where it lies coiled up like...its immense bulk it is not active enough to pursue. When hungry it will devour any animal that comes within its reach, and is indifferent whether it is... | |
| John Gabriel Stedman - Guiana - 1813 - 550 pages
...like cockspurs, to help it in seizing its prey. It is an amphibious animal, that is, it delights in low and marshy places, where it lies coiled up like...its, immense bulk it is not active enough to pursue. When hungry, it will devour any animal that comes within its reach, and is indifferent whether it is... | |
| Augustin Calmet - Bible - 1814 - 636 pages
...an amphibious animal, that is, it delights in low and marshy places, where it lies coiled up«like a rope, and concealed under moss, rotten timber, and...its immense bulk it is not active enough to pursue. When hungry, it will devour any animal, that cornea within its reach, and is indifferent whether it... | |
| R. P. Forster - Africa - 1818 - 514 pages
...claws like cock-spurs, to help it in seizing its prey. It is an amphibious animal, that is, delights in low and marshy places, where it lies coiled up like...rotten timber, and dried leaves, to seize its prey by surprize, which from its immense bulk it is not active enough to pursue. When hungry, it will devour... | |
| Charles Hulbert - America - 1823 - 374 pages
...under the Iwdy, near the tail, is armed with two strong claws like cock-spurs, to help it in seizyijl its prey. It generally haunts low and marshy places,...abounds in monstrous centipeds, which in Don Juan and Ultoa's voyage, are described as being a yard in length, and in breadth about five inches ; in spiders... | |
| Esther Copley - Animals in the Bible - 1828 - 464 pages
...like cockspurs, to help it in seizing its prey. It is an amphibious animal, that is, delights in low marshy places, where it lies coiled up like a rope,...its immense bulk, it is not active enough to pursue. When hungry, it will devour any animal that comes within its reach, and is indifferent whether it be... | |
| George Hanneman Bennett - Guyana - 1866 - 366 pages
...like oockspur.-i, to help it in seizing its prey. It is an amphibious animal, that is, it delight* in low and marshy places, where it lies coiled up like...its immense bulk it is not active enough to pursue. "When hungry, it will devour any animal that comes within its reach, and is indifferent whether it... | |
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