| Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - 1860 - 490 pages
...of these creatures invariably made their appearance, especially if the weather was calm and sunny. and the sea smooth, crowding around us at the distance...and merriment, seemed, to our imagination, to excite them, and to make them course round us with greater rapidity and animation. At the same time, the slightest... | |
| Marcius Willson - Readers (Elementary) - 1865 - 276 pages
...Bay, numbers of seals invariably made their appearance, especially if the weather was calm and sunny, and the sea smooth, crowding around us at the distance...some kind of notion that we were of the same species with themselves. 4. " The gambols 3 in the water of my playful pupils, and their noise and merriment,... | |
| William MacGillivray - 1866 - 464 pages
...invariably made their appearance, especially if the weather was calm and sunny, and the sea imooth, crowding around us at the distance of a few yards, and looking as if they had some kind )f notion that we were of the same species, or at east genus, with themselves. The gambols in the rater... | |
| Joel Asaph Allen - Mammals - 1880 - 812 pages
...as though they they were the same species with themselves. " The gambols in the water," he writes, " of my playful companions, and their noise and merriment, seemed, to our imagination, to excite them, and to make them course round us with greater rapidity and animation." Mr. Bell also quotes Mr.... | |
| Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - Geology - 1880 - 814 pages
...though they fancied they were the same species with themselves. " The gambols hi the water," he writes, "of my playful companions, and their noise and merriment, seemed, to our imagination, to excite them, and to make them course round us with greater rapidity and animation." Mr. Bell also quotes Mr.... | |
| Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - Bering Sea controversy - 1895 - 458 pages
...numbers of these creatures invariably maue their appearance, especially if the weather was calm and sunny and the sea smooth, crowding around us at the distance...they had some kind of notion that we were of the same genus with themselves. The gambols in the water of my playful companions and their noise and merriment... | |
| Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration - Bering Sea controversy - 1895 - 562 pages
...innvariably made their appearance, especially if the weather was calm and sunmiiy and time sea snmnooth, crowding around us at the distance of a few yards, and looking as if they had sonne kind of notion that we were of the same genus witin themselves. The gambols in the water of my... | |
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