 Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempest the ocean; there leviathan,' Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a sea.  Proceedings - Page 117by Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1879Full view - About this book
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...blood thrown into it, at every pulsation of the heart, is not less than from ten lo fifteen gallo?u. Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, on the deep, Stretched like a promontory, sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out, a... | |
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