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Page 17 - Bring oil to fire, snow to their colder moods; Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaks With every gale and vary of their masters, Knowing nought, like dogs, but following.
Page 563 - Some were swimming about at the full extent of their strings, or lying half in and half out of the water, others were rolling themselves in the sun on the sandy bank, uttering a shrill whistling noise as if in play. I was told that most of the fishermen in this neighbourhood kept one or more of these animals, who were almost as tame as dogs, and of great use in fishing, sometimes driving the shoals into the nets, sometimes bringing out the larger fish with their teeth.
Page 115 - Trepang by diving, in from three to eight fathoms water ; and where it is abundant, a man will bring up eight or ten at a time. The mode of preserving it is this : — the animal is split down one side, boiled, and pressed with a weight of stones, then stretched open...
Page 15 - ... ejected, as is done by all birds of prey, being dried on purpose to form the nest, they are scattered about the floor of the hole in all directions, from its entrance to its termination, without the least order or working up with the earth, and all moist and fetid.
Page 29 - The first species it is true, have most excellent noses, and, I make no doubt, will kill their game at last, if the day be long enough; but, you know, the days are short in winter...
Page 135 - I gave the animal successively three shin bones of a sheep ; he snapped them asunder in a moment, dividing each in two parts only, which he swallowed entire, without the smallest mastication. On the keeper putting a spar of wood, two inches in diameter, into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a, minute the whole was reduced to splinters.
Page 241 - Consider their incredible numbers, their universal distribution, their insatiable voracity; and that it is the particles of decaying vegetable and animal bodies which they are appointed to devour and assimilate. Surely we must in some degree be indebted to those ever active invisible scavengers for the salubrity of our atmosphere.
Page 581 - ... a vesicle filled with air, without which it would be impossible for the plant to support its enormous length in the water, the stem not being thicker than the finger, and the upper branches as slender as common pack-thread.
Page 395 - My little friend was, upon the whole, very engaging; and when he was found lifeless in the same posture in which he would naturally have slept, I consoled myself with believing that he had died without pain, and lived with as much pleasure as he could have enjoyed in a state of captivity.
Page 135 - ... and two donkies, -whose flesh these animals are particularly fond of, carried off, in spite of the efforts of the people. We constantly heard them close to the walls of our own town at nights; and on a gate being left partly open, they would enter and carry off any unfortunate animal that they could find in the streets.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The English Cyclopaedia, Part 2, Volume 3 The English Cyclopaedia, Charles Knight |
| Editor | Charles Knight |
| Publisher | Bradbury, Evans, 1867 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jan 8, 2007 |
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