 | Philip Henry Gosse - Zoology - 1857 - 396 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... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Caves - 1871 - 570 pages
...claws would next be applied to the opposite sides of the loosened trunk. ' The tree being thus partly undermined and 'firmly grappled with, the muscles...the anterior members in the efforts at prostration. If now we picture to ourselves the massive frame of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling,... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Caves - 1871 - 578 pages
...claws would next be applied to the opposite sides of the loosened trunk. ' The tree being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with, the muscles of...the anterior members in the efforts at prostration. If now we picture to ourselves the massive frame of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling,... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - Earthquakes - 1887 - 166 pages
...claws would next be applied to the opposite sides of the loosened trunk. " The tree being thus partly undermined and firmly grappled with, the muscles of...the anterior members in the efforts at prostration. If now we picture to ourselves the massive frame of the Megatherium, convulsed with the mighty wrestling,... | |
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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... 
