 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 612 pages
...swam upon, or near the surface ; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1829 - 704 pages
...swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea- weed, and raising its nostrils, like the alligator, to a level with the surface, may have found... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...swam upon, or near the surface ; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...swam upon, or near the surface; arching back its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults... | |
 | 1840 - 522 pages
...long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to lloat wilhin its reach? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water...assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and llexibilily of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength in its jaws, and its incapacity... | |
 | 1830 - 596 pages
...long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within reach ? It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water...concealed among the sea-weed, and, raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults... | |
 | 1843 - 280 pages
...swam upon or near the surface ; arching hack its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat fromv the assaults... | |
 | 1847 - 112 pages
...it swam upon, or near the surface, arching its long neck like the swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...nostrils to the surface from a considerable depth, have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies, while the length and flexibility... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 pages
...swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assault... | |
 | 1848 - 572 pages
...swam upon or near the surface, arching back its long neck like a swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its...concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assault... | |
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... swan, and occasionally darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach ? It may perhaps have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the sea-weed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable... 
