 | Scotland - 1857 - 878 pages
...saucer. The shell fixed within the stomach was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body stretched tensely over had become thin and flattened like a pancako. All communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Fishes - 1845 - 612 pages
...so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over it, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All...prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - Zoology - 1848 - 606 pages
...so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over it, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All...prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1849 - 396 pages
...saucer. The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become...prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating, and dying of a hytrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1849 - 282 pages
...stomach was so placed as to divide it completely into two equal parts, so that the body stretched over it had become thin and flattened like a pancake. All communication between the mouth and the interior of the stomach was of course prevented, but the animal, instead of dying of... | |
 | 1851 - 1000 pages
...saucer. The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become thin and flattened like a pancake. AH communication between the inferior portion of the stomach and the mouth was, of course, prevented... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...saucer. The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become...portion of the stomach and the mouth was of course preventsd, yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1855 - 520 pages
..."The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves ; so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become...prevented ; yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to... | |
 | Scotland - 1857 - 804 pages
...saucer. The shell fixed within the stomach was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body stretched tensely over had become thin...prevented ; yet instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what had undoubtedly been a very untoward accident, to... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Zoology - 1857 - 396 pages
...saucer. The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it completely into two halves, so that the body, stretched tensely over, had become...prevented, yet, instead of emaciating and dying of an atrophy, the animal had availed itself of what undoubtedly had been a very untoward accident, to... | |
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... that might have been originally two inches in diameter, and that had somehow contrived to swallow a valve of the great scallop (Pecten maximus), of the size of an ordinary saucer. The shell, fixed within the stomach, was so placed as to divide it... 
