 ... joined awkwardly to the trunk with scarce a vestige of neck, and the great muscular arms, and deep, cavernous breast, give to this waddle an ungainly horror, which adds to his ferocity of appearance. At the same time, the deep-set grey eyes sparkle...  The Dublin Review - Page 477edited by - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...As he draws nigh his enemy, Man, to whom he bears so awful a resemblance, the deep-set eyes sparkle with gloomy malignity ; the features are contorted...which a human limb would be crushed as a biscuit. Then, indeed, it behoves a hunter to look with care to his priming, and to keep his fire to the very... | |
 | 1861 - 632 pages
...combine to render the animal extremely frightful. When meeting an enemy, "the grey eyes sparkle out -with gloomy malignity, the features are contorted...the powerful jaws, in which a human limb would be crashed as a biscuit." The vast paunch, swelled with berries and other vegetable food, protrudes before... | |
 | 1861 - 634 pages
...combine to render the animal extremely frightful. When meeting an enemy, " the grey eyes sparkle out with gloomy malignity, the features are contorted...sharply-cut lips, drawn up, reveal the long fangs an<î the powerful jaws, in which a human limb would be crashed as a biscuit." The vast paunch, swelled... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...horror, which adds to his ferocity of appearance. At the same time, the deep-set grey eyes sparkle out with gloomy malignity ; the features are contorted...minutes, waiting with growing nervousness for the moment when he may relieve his suspense by firing. I have never fired at a male at greater distance... | |
 | G. Garratt - Instinct - 1862 - 462 pages
...his arms, somewhat as sailors walk on shipboard. At the same time, the deep-set grey eyes sparkle out with gloomy malignity ; the features are contorted...minutes, waiting with growing nervousness for the moment when he may relieve his suspense by firing. I have never fired at a male at greater distance... | |
 | James Greenwood - Adventure and adventurers - 1862 - 438 pages
...with gloomy malignity ; the features are contorted in hideous wrinkles ; and the slight sharply cut lips, drawn up, reveal the long fangs and the powerful...which a human limb would be crushed as a biscuit. "When the hunter has fired at the gorilla, he stands still : to run would be fatal. If the hunter has... | |
 | James Greenwood - Adventure and adventurers - 1862 - 492 pages
...horror which adds to his ferocity of appearance. At the same time, the deep-set grey eyes sparkle out with gloomy malignity ; the features are contorted in hideous wrinkles ; and the slight sharply cut lips, drawn up, reveal the long fangs and the powerful jaws, in which a human limb would... | |
 | James Greenwood - Game and game-birds - 1870 - 496 pages
...horror which adds to his ferocity of appearance. At the same time, the deep-set grey eyes sparkle out with gloomy malignity ; the features are contorted...which a human limb would be crushed as a biscuit. When the hunter has fired at the gorilla, he stands still : to run would be fatal. If the hunter has... | |
 | Charles H. Jones - Africa - 1875 - 582 pages
...horror, which adds to his ferocity of appeararce. At the same time, the deep-set gray eyes sparkle out with gloomy malignity; the features are contorted in hideous wrinkles ; and the slight, sharply cut lips, drawn up, reveal the long fangs and the powerful jaws, in which a human limb would... | |
 | John Hogg (publisher.) - Animals - 1878 - 536 pages
...horror, which adds to his ferocity of appearance. At the same time, the deep-set gray eyes sparkle out with gloomy malignity ; the features are contorted in hideous wrinkles, and the slight, sharply-cut jips, drawn up, reveal the long fangs and tho powerful jaws, in which a 'iimum limb would be crushed... | |
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