| J. Taylor - 1822 - 220 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and as large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. " It seems these are the creature's arms ; and, it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man of war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 620 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and large as the masts of middlesized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms; and it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man -of- war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of... | |
| Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 616 pages
...sometimes they stand up as high and large as thfr masts of middlesized vessels. It atoms these arc the creature's arms; and it is said, if they were...bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the water a short time, it begins slowly to sink again ¡and then the danger is as great as before,... | |
| Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and large as the masls of middlesized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms; and it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man -of- war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After tliis monster has been on the surface of... | |
| Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1839 - 406 pages
...large, as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms, and it is said that if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After the monster has been a short time on the surface of the water, he begins slowly to sink again ; and... | |
| Sir William Jardine - 1839 - 414 pages
...large, as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms, and it is said that if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom, After the monster has been a short time on the surface of the water, he begins slowly to sink again ; and... | |
| John Milford - 1842 - 346 pages
...something that floats and fluctuates like seaweeds. It is said that if the creatures arms (tentacula) were to lay hold of the largest manof-war, they would pull it down to the bottom. If the axiom be true, that greatness or littleness makes no change in the species, then this kraken... | |
| Samuel Maunder - 1843 - 914 pages
...aa high aud large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms ; aud it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. " It seems these are the creature's arms, and it is said if they...bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the water a short time, it begins slowly to sink again, and then the danger is as great as before,... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...and sometimes they stand up as high and as large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems that these are the creature's arms ; and it is said, if...man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom.' By and by, the monster sinks with a great eddy; and the bishop adds, that it possesses or emits a peculiar... | |
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