 | Edmund Burke - 1884 - 666 σελίδες
...possible in the attitude assumed by the animal during life. In this position it measures about thirty feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, and stands more than fourteen feet from the ground. These figures serve to give some idea of the size... | |
 | Samuel Kinns - 1885 - 578 σελίδες
...is the Megalosaurus, intensely ugly and of enormous size, being some fifty or sixty feet in length from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, and found in the ferruginous sands of Cucktield in Sussex, in the upper beds of the Hastings sands.*... | |
 | 1901 - 1162 σελίδες
...DOGS IN CARE OF PERSONRIGHT TO KILL DOG— LIABILITY. 1. A dog weighing ISO pounds, aiid measuring 7 feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, accompanied only by a child 6 years old, is not under the care of any person, within <îcn. St. 8 3757,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1887 - 500 σελίδες
...you can get one of that sort." The very next day Benny received his tiger. It was about two feet long from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, and it was very tame. It had sharp little white teeth, and in each foot were claus that would have... | |
 | Mrs. Walter Creyke - 1890 - 298 σελίδες
...passengers got down to watch me play and land my fish, and some of them even came up and took its measure; from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail! It was a proud moment for me; one of those moments in which one feels that there is nothing left to... | |
 | 1893 - 442 σελίδες
...intelligence " than the fur seal. A male in its prime, say six or seven years old, will measure 6 ^ to 7 ^ feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its abbreviated, abortive tail, and will weigh at least 400 pounds. The female on the other hand is very... | |
 | George Sand - 1893 - 320 σελίδες
...of the river, holding in his blouse a little lamb, which was quite black — to tell the truth — from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. As Sylvinet was very much alive, and neither injured nor soiled in person or dress, Landry was so glad... | |
 | 1896 - 254 σελίδες
...making them bend under her wee body. Three of these small mice hardly weigh so much as one penny piece ! From the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, the harvest mouse measures about five inches, and half this length is that of his tail. You would be... | |
 | 1898 - 726 σελίδες
...down to the little whiskered bat which measures only six inches across the wings and barely two inches from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. The word c-kiroplfrn exactly describes the chief features in these mammals, as they are " hand-winged,"... | |
 | 1901 - 936 σελίδες
...of $12 that is paid by the stockmen, a large buffalo wolf, which he had trapped. It was 7 feet long from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. North Dakota has abolished the office of State fish and forestry commissioner and the State game warden... | |
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The stoat — a little devil with all its hair, from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail... 
