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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... "
Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies - Sivu 552
1817
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The Methodist Magazine: For the Year ... ; Being a Continuation of ..., Nide 41

John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 sivua
...called, unabated; it was, in fact, the effect ot a contractile muscular power, assisted by two rowi of strong hooked teeth. With all this he must be so formed as to be able to •opend, for a time, his respiration ; for it is impossible to conceive that the process of Breathing...

The Quarterly Review, Nide 17

1817 - 610 sivua
...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...

Narrative of a Voyage in His Majesty's Late Ship Alceste, to the Yellow Sea ...

John M'Leod - 1817 - 316 sivua
...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...

The Quarterly Review, Nide 17

1817 - 592 sivua
...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...be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time, iis respiration, for it is impossible to conceive that the process of breathing could be carried im...

The Edinburgh Observer: Or, Town and Country Magazine, Numerot 1–11

1817 - 292 sivua
...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 power, assisted hy two rows of strong hooked teeth. With all this he must he so formed as to he ahle to suspend, for...

Narrative of a Voyage, in His Majesty's Late Ship Alceste: To the Yellow Sea ...

John M'Leod - 1818 - 272 sivua
...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...

The Literary panorama, Nide 7

1818 - 550 sivua
...(kin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the workings of the muscles were evident; and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated; it...assisted by two rows of strong hooked teeth. With all thishemnst be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time, his respiration, for it is impossible...

The British Review, and London Critical Journal, Nide 11

1818 - 594 sivua
...serpent's skin, stuffed almost to bursting, still the working of the muscles were evident, and his power of suction, as it is erroneously called, unabated: it...power, assisted by two rows of strong hooked teeth." . . . . " The whole operation of completely gorging the goat occupied about two hours and twenty minutes...

Voyage of His Majesty's Ship Alceste: Along the Coast of Corea, to the ...

John M'Leod - 1818 - 358 sivua
...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...contractile muscular power, assisted by two rows of stronghooked teeth. With all this he must be so formed as to be able to suspend, for a time, his respiration,...

Weaver's Magazine and Literary Companion, Nide 2

1819 - 304 sivua
...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 was so completely stuffed and expanded by the body of...




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