 ... breathe securely during sleep, whilst the body remained floating at perfect ease beneath the surface : the animal might thus repose, moored to the margin of a lake or river, without the slightest muscular exertion, the weight of the head and body...  Natural History: Mammalia - Page 127by Philip Henry Gosse - 1848 - 302 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Children - 1836 - 498 pages
...muscular exertion, the weight of the head and body tending to fix and keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance of the bank ; as the weight of the body...instruments of defence. The structure of the scapula (shoulder-blade), seems to shew that the fore leg was adapted to co-operate with the tusks and teeth,... | |
 | Geology - 1837 - 454 pages
...muscular exertion, the weight of the head and body tending to fix and keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance of the bank ; as the weight of the body...clasped firmly around its perch. These tusks might have leen further used, like those in the upper jaw of the Wai. rus, to assist in dragging the body out... | |
 | Science - 1837 - 476 pages
...muscular exertion, the weight of the head and body tending to fix and keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance of the bank ; as the weight of the body...been further used, like those in the upper jaw of the Wairus, to assist in dragging the body out of the water, and also as formidable instruments of defence.... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1837 - 528 pages
...body tending to fix und keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance, of the bank ; as the weight ol the body of a sleeping bird keeps the claws clasped firmly around its perch.1' The gigantic. Dinotheriura (T>. giganteum} was the largest quadruped which has been known... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1841 - 488 pages
...muscular exertion, the weight of the head and body tending to fix and keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance of the bank ; as the weight of the body...firmly around its perch. These tusks might have been farther used, like those in the upper jaw of the Walrus, to assist in dragging the body out of the... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1846 - 1018 pages
...of the head and body tenditu? to fix and keep the tusk* fan anchored in the substance of the bank i as the weight of the body of a sleeping bird keeps the clawa clasped firmly •round its perch.** The gigantic Dinotherinm (D. giganteum) was the Urgent quadruped... | |
 | 1848 - 530 pages
...of the head and body tending to fix and keep the tusks last anchored in the substance of the bank. These tusks might have been further used, like those...instruments of defence. The structure of the scapula seems to show that the fore-leg was adapted to co-operate with the tusks and teeth, in digging and... | |
 | Home tutor - 1862 - 532 pages
...exertion, the weight of the head and body tending thus to nx and keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance of the bank — as the weight of the body...might have been further used like those in the upper jaws of the walrus, to assist in dragging the body out of the water, and also as formidable instruments... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 650 pages
...muscular exertion, the weight of the head and body tending to fix and keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance of the bank ; as the weight of the body...keeps the claws clasped firmly around its perch." The length of Dinotherium gtganteum must have exceeded eighteen feet. In the uppermost layers of the... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 588 pages
...muscular exertion, the weight of the head and body tending to fix and keep the tusks fast anchored in the substance of the bank, as the weight of the body of...instruments of defence. The structure of the scapula already noticed seems to show that the fore leg was adapted to co-operate with the tusks and teeth,... | |
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