 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 pages
...intend toattack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps...he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin could scarely be received into the wound, which is consequently... | |
 | William Stephens Hayward - 1865 - 402 pages
...intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps...he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently... | |
 | John Timbs - Animal behavior - 1869 - 374 pages
...slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin would scarcely be received into the wound, which is, consequently,... | |
 | William Bingley - Zoology - 1871 - 1056 pages
...the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keep the person cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, and which is consequently... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Mammals - 1873 - 500 pages
...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature keeps fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head «fa pin 81 FIG. 36.— SPECTRE \tMViK&(yam$iruispectrum). could... | |
 | Spectre - Gambling - 1875 - 346 pages
...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, when, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently... | |
 | Achilles Daunt (writer of tales.) - 1883 - 456 pages
...sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature keeps fanning with its enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe — so very small, indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which... | |
 | English literature - 1888 - 882 pages
...where, while the creature continues fanning with its enormous wings " (oh, diabolical instinct ! ) " he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently... | |
 | Alfred Henry Miles - Animal behavior - 1895 - 462 pages
...intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps...he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small, indeed, that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently... | |
 | James B. Twitchell - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 236 pages
...intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally light near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps...he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently... | |
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Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great... 
