 Most people have, one time or other, seen a partridge run, and consequently must know that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably augmented. The...  Animal biography, or, Popular zoology - Page 51by William Bingley - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine, that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably augmented. The ostrich" тол-es like the partridge, wiih both these advantages ; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking... | |
 | 1814 - 984 pages
...that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine, that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably...augmented. The ostrich moves like the partridge with both these advantages; and 1 am satisfied that those I am speaking of, would have distanced the fleetest... | |
 | 1826 - 376 pages
...that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it; and it is easy to imagine, that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably...moves like the partridge, with this advantage; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of, would have distanced the fleetest race-horses that were... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1831 - 382 pages
...that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably...moves like the partridge, with this advantage ; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest race-horses that were... | |
 | Robert Jameson, James Wilson, Hugh Murray - 1833 - 394 pages
...that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy ta imagine that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably...moves like the partridge, with this advantage ; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest race-horses that were... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine that, if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably...moves like the partridge, with this advantage ; and I am satisfied, that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest race horses that ever... | |
 | 1834 - 532 pages
...know there is no man whatever able to keep up with it; and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably...augmented. The ostrich moves like the partridge, with both these advantages ; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest... | |
 | James Rennie - 1835 - 408 pages
...know there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step its speed would be considerably...augmented. The ostrich moves like the partridge, with both these advantages ; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest... | |
 | 1844 - 384 pages
...that there is no man whatever able to keep up with it ; and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step, its speed would be considerably...moves like the partridge, with this advantage ; and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest race-horses that were... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...know there is no man whatever able to keep up with it, and it is easy to imagine that if this bird had a longer step its speed would be considerably...augmented. The ostrich moves like the partridge, with both these advantages, and I am satisfied that those I am speaking of would have distanced the fleetest... | |
| |
