 | Joseph Taylor - 1838 - 672 pàgines
...almost to bursting, still the working of the muscles were evident, and unabated; this seemed to be the effect of a contractile muscular power, assisted...this he must be so formed as to be able to suspend his respiration for a time, for it is impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1848 - 924 pàgines
...effect of a contractile muscular power, atwieted by two rows of strong hooked teeth. With all thi - he must be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time, his reépuration, for It is impossible to conceive thai the process of breathing could be carried on while... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1850 - 308 pàgines
...skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it was, in fact, the eifect of a contractile muscular power, assisted by two rows of strong hooked teeth. With all this,... | |
 | G. Garratt - 1862 - 462 pàgines
...workings of the muscles were evident, and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unahated; it was, in fact, the effect of a contractile muscular...impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on while the mouth and throat were so completely stuffed and expanded by the body... | |
 | 1834 - 304 pàgines
...the muscles was evident ; and as the power of suction as it is generally, but erroneously called, was unabated ; it was in fact the effect of a contractile...be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time bis respiration ; for it is impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 pàgines
...skin stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried on while the mouth and throat were so completely stuffed and expanded by the body... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 pàgines
...almost to burating, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power of suction, as it ia erroneously called, unabated ; it was in fact the...rows of strong hooked teeth. With all this he must be BO formed as to be able to suspend for a time his respiration ; for it ia impossible to conceive that... | |
 | 1866 - 476 pàgines
...unabated; this seemed to be the effect of a contractile muscular power, assisted by his rows of sharp, hooked teeth. With all this he must be so formed as to be ahle to suspend his respiration for a time ; for it is impossible to conceive that the power of breathing... | |
 | 1827 - 452 pàgines
...serpent's skin stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated ; it...this he must be so formed as to be able to suspend, fota time, his respiration, for it is impossible to conceive that the process of breathing' could be... | |
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... endowed with very peculiar faculties of expansion and action at the same time. When his head and neck had no other appearance than that of a serpent's skin stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident ; and his power... 
