 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'—pp. 211,212. Dr. buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 pages
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.' — pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 pages
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'— pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - 1837 - 528 pages
...tntrfare from a oon*id«Table depth, may have found a wrure retreat from the as* mult* of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want nf strength in it? jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, t»v tbe suddenness... | |
 | 1840 - 530 pages
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey which came within its reach.' (Geof. Trans., vol. i.. part 2, p. 388, NS) Of the general characters... | |
 | 1830 - 596 pages
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep." BBS vertebrae, and is also furnished with paddles, intermediate... | |
 | 1840 - 522 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and llexibilily of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey which came within its reach.' (Geol. Trans., vol. i., part 2, p. 368, NS) Of the general characters... | |
 | 1843 - 280 pages
...surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat fromv the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility of its neck...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach. Before concluding our account of this most extraordinary creature, we... | |
 | 1848 - 572 pages
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assault of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach." The Pliosaurus was in most respects a gigantic plesiosaur, but had an... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1847 - 434 pages
...the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assault of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its...enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach." Professor Buckland is of opinion that the tail, being comparatively short,... | |
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... darting it down at the fish which happened to float within its reach. It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have... 
