 | Oliver Angell - 1858 - 268 sivua
...describes one of their engagements. 10. " Both armies met half way from their respeclive habitations, and the battle commenced. Thousands of ants took their...and fought in pairs, keeping firm hold of .their, antagonists by their mandibles. While a considerable number were engaged in the attack, others were... | |
 | John Ware - 1863 - 466 sivua
...paces distant from each other. Two empires could not possess a greater number of combatants. " f/et us figure to ourselves this prodigious crowd of insects, covering the ground lying between the two ant-hills, and occupying a space of two feet in breadth. The two armies met halfway from their... | |
 | William Smellie, John Ware - 1866 - 468 sivua
...hundred paces distant from each other. Two empires could not possess a greater number of combatants. " Let us figure to ourselves this prodigious crowd of insects, covering the ground lying between the two ant-hills, and occupying a space of two feet in breadth. The two armies met halfway from their... | |
 | John Ware - 1867 - 460 sivua
...hundred paces distant from each other. Two empires could not possess a greater number of combatants. " Let us figure to ourselves this prodigious crowd of insects, covering the ground lying between the two ant-hills, and occupying a space of two feet in breadth. The two armies met halfway from their... | |
 | Garden - 1882 - 530 sivua
...other, and alike in extent of population : what occasioned their discord I cannot pretend to say. " Let us figure to ourselves this prodigious crowd of...ground, and fought in pairs, keeping firm hold of their antagonists by their mandibles : a considerable number were engaged in the attack and in leading away... | |
 | 1896 - 722 sivua
...from their respective habitations, and the battle commenced; thousands of ants took their stations upon the highest ground, and fought in pairs, keeping firm hold of their antagonists by their mandibles. While a considerable number were engaged in the attack, others were... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 610 sivua
...hundred paces distance from each other. Two empires could not possess a greater number of combatants. Let us figure to ourselves this prodigious crowd of...ground, and fought in pairs, keeping firm hold of their antagonists by their mandibles : a considerable number were engaged in the attack and leading away... | |
 | Douglas Gordon Crawford - 1919 - 398 sivua
...hundred paces distance from each other. Two empires could not possess a greater number of combatants. Let us figure to ourselves this prodigious crowd of...ground, and fought in pairs, keeping firm hold of their antagonists by their mandibles : a considerable number were engaged in the attack and leading away... | |
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Let us figure to ourselves this prodigious crowd of insects covering the ground lying between these two ant-hills, and occupying a space of two feet in breadth. Both armies met at half-way from their respective habitations, and there the battle commenced.... 
