 ... arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray (or skate,) and a long angular tail equal in length to a third of the entire figure.  The Old Red Sandstone - Pàgina 78per Hugh Miller - 1852Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1858 - 620 pàgines
...with a single blow of the hammer; and there, on a ground of light-coloured limestone, lay the effigy of a creature fashioned apparently out of jet, with a body covered with plates, two powerful-looking arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of... | |
 | 1844 - 784 pàgines
...view his first specimen, he says — ' There, on a ground of light coloured limestone, lay the effigy of a creature, fashioned apparently out of jet, with...the ray, or the sun-fish, and a long angular tail. ... I have placed one of the specimens before me. Imagine the figure of a man, rudely drawn in black,... | |
 | 1850 - 676 pàgines
...with a single blow of the hammer; and there, on a ground of light colored limestone, lay the effigy of a creature fashioned apparently out of jet, with...the ray or the sun-fish, and a long angular tail." The observant boy who "carefully treasured up" the nodules of blue limestone, here presents himself... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1850 - 678 pàgines
...blow of the hammer ; and there, on a ground of light colored limestone, lay the effigy of a creaiure fashioned apparently out of jet, with a body covered...the ray or the sun-fish, and a long angular tail." The observant boy who " carefully treasured up" the nodules of blue limestone, here presents himself... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1844 - 766 pàgines
...view his first specimen, he says — ' There, on a ground of light coloured limestone, lay the effigy of a creature, fashioned apparently out of jet, with...the ray, or the sun-fish, and a long angular tail. ... I have placed one of the specimens before me. Imagine the figure of a man, rudely drawn in black,... | |
 | 1850 - 638 pàgines
...view by the single blow of a hammer, there appeared on a ground of light-colored limestone the effigy of a creature, fashioned apparently out of jet, with...entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray, (or skate,) and a long angular tail equal in length to a third of the entire figure. Its general resemblance... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pàgines
...with a single blow of the hammer ; and there, on a ground of lightcoloured limestone, lay the effigy of a creature fashioned apparently out of jet, with a body covered with plates, two powerful-looking arms articulated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of... | |
 | 1850 - 580 pàgines
...view by the single blow of a hammer, there appeared on a ground of light-coloured limestone the effigy of a creature, fashioned apparently out of jet, with...entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray (or skate,) and a long angular tail equal in length to a third of the entire figure. Its general resemblance... | |
 | 1850 - 652 pàgines
...view by the single blow of a hammer, there appeared on a ground of light-coloured limestone the effigy of a creature, fashioned apparently out of jet, with...body covered with plates, two powerful looking arms articidated at the shoulders, a head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray (or skate,) and... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 324 pàgines
...view by the single blow of a hammer, there appeared on a ground of light-colored limestone the effigy of a creature, fashioned apparently out of jet, with...head as entirely lost in the trunk as that of the ray (of skate), and a long angular tail equal in length to a third of the entire figure. Its general resemblance... | |
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