 | 1842 - 634 pages
...legs at as great a height as possible, and firmly grapples it with the muscles of the trunk, while the pelvis and hind limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the unusually large spinal cord, combine all their forces in the effort about to be made. And now conceive the massy frame of the Megatherium... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 536 pages
...partly undermined and firmly grappled with, the muscles of the trank, the pelvis, anil hind-limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the unusually...prostration. And now let us picture to ourselves the massive tram« of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibrating fibre reacting upon... | |
 | English periodicals - 1844 - 440 pages
...robustus, as are unequalled in any other known existing or extinct animal. The tree being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with, the muscles of...to ourselves the massive frame of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibratting fibre reacting upon its bony attachment with... | |
 | Natural history - 1844 - 444 pages
...robustus, as are unequalled in any other known existing or extinct animal. The tree being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with, the muscles of...cord, would combine their forces with those of the an. terior members in the efforts at prostration. And now let us picture to ourselves the massive frame... | |
 | 1844 - 490 pages
...now be applied to the opposite sides of the loosened trunk of the tree." "The tree being thus partly undermined, and firmly grappled with, the muscles...trunk, the pelvis, and hind limbs, animated by the influence of the unusually large spinal cord, would combine their forces with those of the anterior... | |
 | David Thomas Ansted - Paleontology - 1847 - 422 pages
...forelegs at as great a height as possible, and firmly grapples it with the muscles of the trunk, while the pelvis and hind limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the unusually large spinal cord, combine all their forces in the effort about to be made. And now conceive the massive frame of the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1847 - 640 pages
...legs at as great a height ая possible, and firmly grapples it with the muscles of the trunk, while the pelvis and hind limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the unusually large spinal chard, combine all their forces in the effort about to be made. And now conceive the massive frame... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - Animal behavior - 1848 - 320 pages
...being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with, the muscles of the body, the pelvis, and the hind limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the...to ourselves the massive frame of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibrating fibre reacting upon its bony attachment with a... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...being thus partly undermined, and firmly grappled with the muscles of the body, the pelvis and the hind limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the...to ourselves the massive frame of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling, every vibrating fibre re-acting upon its bony attachment with... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 596 pages
...legs at as great a height as possible, and firmly grapples it with the muscles of the trunk, while the hind limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the unusually large spinal cord, combine all their forces in the effort abont to be made. And now conceive the massy frame of the megatherium... | |
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The tree being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with, the muscles of the trunk, the pelvis and hind limbs, animated by the nervous influence of the unusually large spinal cord, would combine their forces with those of the anterior members in... 
