 The alligator when full grown is a very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity, and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and some are supposed to be twenty-two or twenty-three feet Their body is as...  The Sentimental and Masonic Magazine - Page 1541793Full view - About this book
 | English essays - 1822 - 494 pages
...brood around her, you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking, like young puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity, and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and some are... | |
 | 1825 - 456 pages
...her brood around her, you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking like young puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity, and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and some are... | |
 | Josiah Priest - Adventure and adventurers - 1826 - 642 pages
...brood around her, you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking, like young puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strepgth and activity, and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and ?ome... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pages
...brood around her, you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking, like young puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity, and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and some are... | |
 | Willis Stanley Blatchley - Natural history - 1902 - 286 pages
...brood around her you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking, like younp' puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...very large and terrible creature and of prodigious strength, activity and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and some are... | |
 | Walter Malone - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 664 pages
...brood around her, you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking, like young puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...on the young as long as they can make prey of them. " But what is yet more surprising to a stranger, is the incredible loud and terrifying roar, which... | |
 | William Bartram - Indians of North America - 1928 - 426 pages
...her brood around her, you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking like young puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and some are... | |
 | William Bartram - Biography & Autobiography - 1928 - 476 pages
...her brood around her, you may hear the young ones continually whining and barking like young puppies. I believe but few of a brood live to the years of...very large and terrible creature, and of prodigious strength, activity and swiftness in the water. I have seen them twenty feet in length, and some are... | |
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