| 1841 - 962 pages
...between them, which latter was not above six weeks old. The stoat, a little devil with all its hair, from the tip of its nose, to the end of its tail, standing at end, was at about two yards distance from them, working round and round to have an opportunity... | |
| George Sand - 1863 - 246 pages
...saw seated upon the opposite bank, his brother, holding in his blouse a young lamb, covered with mud from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail. On finding Sylvinet alive, and, to all appearance, unhurt, Landry was so overcome with joy, that he... | |
| 1878 - 916 pages
...color, the show'tl has much the appearance of a huge meadow mole, thirteen to fourteen inches in length from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, of a reddish color, and weighing three to three and a-half pounds. The males are larger than the females.... | |
| 1869 - 442 pages
...received on every side, and at every , corner. The largest one, and parent of the others, measured five feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, and weighed 150 Ibs."— Nov. 16, 1838. " CALHOUN COUNTY.—It appears by the official canvass, which... | |
| 1869 - 442 pages
...received on every side, and at every corner. The largest one, and parent of the others, measured five feet from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, and weighed 150 Ibs." — JVbe. 16, 1838. " CALHOUN COUNTY. — It appears by the official canvass,... | |
| 1878 - 882 pages
...color, the show'tl has much the appearance of a huge meadow mole, thirteen to fourteen inches in length from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, df a reddish color, and weighing three to three and a-half pounds. The males are larger than the females.... | |
| John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1878 - 104 pages
...i. The field-mouse is one of the smallest animals in this island. It is not quite five inches long from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail ; and its body is only the same length as its tail. It is of a reddishbrown colour, very like the ground.... | |
| Alfred Henry Garrod, William Alexander Forbes - 1881 - 662 pages
...almost entirely on land. On post-mortem examination it was found to be three feet two inches in length from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, along the back. The lungs were of a dark red colour, collapsed, containing scarcely any air, and scarcely... | |
| Fyodor Dostoyevsky - 1881 - 380 pages
...quadruped is said to possess. They examined each animal submitted to their inspection most carefully from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, looking into its eyes, nose, mouth, and ears, and feeling it all over with such an air of importance... | |
| Samuel Kinns - 1883 - 556 pages
...is the Megalosaurus, intensely ugly and of enormous size, being some fifty or sixty feet in length from the tip of its nose to the end of its tail, and found in the ferruginous sands of Cuckfield in Sussex, and in the upper beds of the Hastings sands.... | |
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