 | Anthropology - 1869 - 700 pages
...Polynesia. The rnias, at least, as our author tells us, seemed to be perfectly happy under the process, " lying quite still, with its arms and legs stretched...thoroughly brushed the long hair of its back and arms." The way in which it expressed approval or dislike of its food was amusing, and much akin to that usually... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Antarctic regions - 1871 - 778 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly, and when I brushed its hair seemed to be perfectly happy. After the first week I found I could feed it better with a spoon, and gave it a little more varied... | |
 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1882 - 448 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly, and when I brushed its hair seemed...hands to whatever it could lay hold of, and I had to be careful to keep ray beard out of its way, as its fingers clutched hold of hair more tenaciously... | |
 | Arthur Hallam Montefiore Brice - Explorers - 1892 - 328 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly, and . when I brushed its hair seemed...thoroughly brushed the long hair of its back and arms. ... It was a never-failing amusement to observe the curious changes of countenance by which it would... | |
 | Henry Drummond - Evolution - 1894 - 368 pages
...getting free, for the fingers are habitually bent inward at the last joint so as to form complete hooks. For the first few days it clung desperately with all...hands to whatever it could lay hold of, and I had to be careful to keep my beard out of its way, as its fingers clutched hold of hair more tenaciously than... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 802 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly ; and when I brushed its hair seemed...out, while I thoroughly brushed the long hair of its armg and legs. For the first few days it clung desperately with all four hands to whatever it could... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly, and when I brushed its hair seemed...hands to whatever it could lay hold of, and I had to be careful to keep my beard out of its way, as its fingers clutched hold of hair more tenaciously than... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Biography - 1905 - 260 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly, and when I brushed its hair seemed...while I thoroughly brushed the long hair of its back & arms. It was a never failing amusement to observe the curious changes of countenance by which it... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Scientists - 1905 - 250 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly, and when I brushed its hair seemed...while I thoroughly brushed the long hair of its back & arms. It was a never failing amusement to observe the curious changes of countenance by which it... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - Artists - 1916 - 402 pages
...ridiculously wry faces while the stream was running over its head. It enjoyed the wiping and rubbing dry amazingly, and when I brushed its hair seemed...quite still with its arms and legs stretched out. It was a never-failing amusement to observe the curious changes of countenance by which it would express... | |
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For the first few days it clung desperately with all four hands to whatever it could lay hold of, and I had to be careful to keep my beard out of its way, as its fingers clutched hold of hair more tenaciously than anything else, and it was impossible... 
