 | 1824 - 462 pages
...mastication. On the keeper putting a spar o! wood, two inches in diameter, into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a...whole was reduced to a mass of splinters. The power ol his jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing;... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
...den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a minute the whole was reduced to splinters. The power of his jaws far exceeded any...saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so much as of a miner's crushing mill, or the scissars with which they cut off bars of iron and copper in the... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 704 pages
...smallest mastication. On the keeper putting a sparW wood, two inches in diameter, into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had 'been touchwood, and in...whole was reduced to a mass of splinters. The power of Ins jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...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. The power of his jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and... | |
 | William Buckland - Caves - 1824 - 378 pages
...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...saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so much as of a miner's crushing mill, or the scissars with which they cut off bars of iron and copper in the... | |
 | Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...snatch away children from the sides of their parents, — Dcscr Arabic, 147, as quoted by Pennant. been touchwood, and in a minute the whole was reduced...force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded mo of nothing so much as a miner's crushing mill, or the scissors with which they cut off bars of iron... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - Art - 1840 - 374 pages
...snatch away children from the sides of their parents..— Desvr- Arable, \41, as quoted by Pennant. been touchwood, and in a minute the whole was reduced...the scissors with which they cut off bars of iron or copper in the metal foundries."* The strength of Hyaenas, as manifested by their power of drag,... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Geology - 1841 - 398 pages
...without the smallest mastication. On the keeper putting a spar of wood, two inches in diameter, into Tiis den, he crushed it in pieces, as if it had been touch-wood,...bars of iron and copper, in the metal foundries." — Reliquia Diluviantz, p. 37. It is not to be supposed that the carcasses of the Elephant, Rhinoceros,... | |
 | William Dowling - 1849 - 356 pages
...smallest mastication. On the keeper putting a spar of wood two inches in dinmeter into his den, he cracked it in pieces as if it had been touchwood, and in a...was reduced to a mass of splinters. The power of his jaw far exceeded any animal force of the kind I ever saw exerted, and reminded me of nothing so much... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...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...off bars of iron and copper in the metal foundries." THE STRIPED HY^NA. When the hyaena is represented as laughing, the representation is correct, as its... | |
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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 a mass of splinters. The power of his jaws far exceeded any animal force of the kind... 
