 ... great folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly -outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected superiority; it acquired two great folds likewise, which necessarily extended the body...  Memoir of His Own Life - Page 187by Roger Lamb - 1811 - 296 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected...; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other, until at last the stalk to which the black snake was fastened, suddenly... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1857 - 398 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the Black one gained an unexpected...; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other, until at last the stalk to which the Black Snake was fastened suddenly... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected...; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other, until at last the stalk to which the black snake was fastened suddenly... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 pages
...rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black OEB gained an unexpected superiority; 'it acquired two...alternate; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other, until at last the stalk to which the black snake was fastened suddenly... | |
 | Cecilia Lucy Brightwell - 1861 - 400 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected...; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, Bometimes to the other, until at last the stalk to which the black snake was fastened suddenly... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected...: victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other; until at last the stalk to which the Black Snake was fastened, suddenly... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected...; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other, until at last the stalk to which the black snake was fastened suddenly... | |
 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1875 - 942 pages
...and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the fresh struggles of the black one gained an unexpected superiority....doubtful, inclining sometimes to the one side and some53* 533 times to the other, until at last the stalk to which the black snake was fastened suddenly... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1894 - 712 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched ; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected...alternate; victory seemed doubtful, inclining sometimes to one side, sometimes to the other, until at last the stalk to which the black snake was fastened suddenly... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 390 pages
...folds, and by that operation rendered the other more than commonly outstretched; the next minute the new struggles of the black one gained an unexpected...adversary in proportion as it had contracted its own. . . . At last the stalk to which the black snake fastened, suddenly gave way, and . . . they both plunged... | |
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