 | James Hamilton - 1854 - 988 pages
...rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed every where around. The beauty and novelty of soch a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
 | Arts - 1854 - 394 pages
...twenty-five minutes of constant observation I was obliged to withdraw my eye, from fatigue, wit limit having seen the torrent for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Zoology - 1857 - 398 pages
...of liquid matter, and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Marine animals - 1858 - 588 pages
...torrent of fluid, and hurling along in rapid succession opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1858 - 168 pages
...long arrested my attention ; but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation, I was 6 INSECTS. obliged to withdraw my eye, from fatigue, without...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch at short intervals, till the... | |
 | Agrippa Nelson Bell - Biology - 1860 - 354 pages
...torrent of liquid matter, and hurling along in rapid succession opaque masses which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...direction or diminish the rapidity of its course."* It is by means of this incessant circulation that particles of organized matter suspended in the water... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1859 - 830 pages
...of liquid matter, and hurling along in rapid succession opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...for one instant, change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice, at short... | |
 | A.N. BELL, A.M., M.D. - 1860 - 340 pages
....torrent of liquid matter, and hurling along in rapid succession opaque masses which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...the torrent for one instant change its direction or dimmish the rapidity of its course."* It is by means of this incessant circulation that particles of... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Zoology - 1865 - 624 pages
...cavity an impetuous torrent of FlG. 10.— SPONGE IN ACTION. opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course. I continued to watch the same orifice at short... | |
 | Georg Ludwig Hartwig - Science - 1866 - 496 pages
...of liquid matter, and hurling along, in rapid succession, opaque masses, which it strewed everywhere around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in...for one instant change its direction, or diminish in the slightest degree the rapidity of its course.' Subsequent observations have proved that the living... | |
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... around. The beauty and novelty of such a scene in the animal kingdom long arrested my attention, but, after twenty-five minutes' of constant observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant... 
