| English literature - 1827 - 530 pages
...themselves or the dogs ; while the black natives give them a heavy blow over the loins with their maddie, which completely paralyzes their hind legs, as all...placenta of other animals is attached to the uterus, the month being contracted round the nipple, which swells out like a cherry inside it, nourishing the feetus... | |
| Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...thumb-top, and as bare and unshapely as a new born mouse, until it attains the size of a poodle dog, with a fine glossy coat of hair ready to leap out and hop along after the mother.— The mouth is contracted around the nipple, which swells out like a cherry inside it, nourishing the foetus... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 1178 pages
...inside the mother's pouch, from the period it is the size of your thumb top, and as bare and unshapen as a new-born mouse, until it attains the size of...hop along after the mother. The young are attached to the nipple in somewhat the same way as the placenta of other animals is attached to the uterus,... | |
| Birds - 1834 - 700 pages
...thumb top, and as bare and unshapen as a new-born mouse, until it attains the size of a poodle dog, with a fine glossy coat of hair, ready to leap out...hop along after the mother. The young are attached to the nipple in somewhat the same way as the placenta of other animals is attached to the uterus,... | |
| Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1857 - 756 pages
...mother's pouch from the period it is the size of your thumb top, and as bare and unihapen as a nc\\-born mouse, until it attains the size of a poodle-dog,...along after the mother. The young are attached by the moutli to the nipple in somewhat the same way as the placenta of other animals is attached to the uterus,... | |
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