... determine their relative strength. When this has been fairly ascertained, they advance to the brink of the precipice; and, taking each other by the tail, the weakest descends first, while the strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole... Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas - Page 325by Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - 1863 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ebenezer Henderson - Iceland - 1819 - 634 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...have provided themselves with a sufficient supply. June 11. My having crossed the Arnarfiord last night was most fortunate, as a violent storm commenced... | |
| 1823 - 496 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...they can with their feet against the rocks ; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient sapply.'... | |
| 1824 - 612 pages
...the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal ts then given, on which the uppermost fox pulls with...they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves, with a sufficient supply.'... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1824 - 616 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...might and the rest assist him as well as they can with theirfeet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided... | |
| Conduct of life - 1826 - 188 pages
...forming the last in the chain or row wupforis the whole number till the foremost has reached the prey ; a signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...him as well as they can with their feet against the rock, and in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have obtained a sufficient supply."... | |
| Llewelyn Lloyd - Hunting - 1831 - 468 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey; a signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...they can with their feet against the rocks ; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient supply."... | |
| 1834 - 536 pages
...suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which tho uppermost fox pulls with all his might, and the rest...they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient supply."... | |
| Periodicals - 1835 - 272 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...they can with their feet against the rocks ; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient supply."... | |
| 1835 - 284 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient supply."... | |
| English literature - 1824 - 618 pages
...strongest, forming the last in the row, suspends the whole number, till the foremost has reached their prey. A signal is then given, on which the uppermost fox...they can with their feet against the rocks; in this manner they proceed from rock to rock, until they have provided themselves with a sufficient supply.'... | |
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