Olly shot him all over with a walkingstick from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. Ragweedby Avi - 2000 - 224 pagesNo preview available - About this book
| John William Carleton - 1841 - 528 pages
...season, or at other game in plenty of cover, the dog will stand like a haystack, rigid and earnest " from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail." The black-cock is noted for close lying; and as he leaves much foil after him, which a dog is likely... | |
| New York (N.Y.) - 1844 - 400 pages
...he is six feet and a 'alf from the tip of his tail to the tip of his nose, and seven feet ten inches from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. Like all Merrikens, the halligator is fond of young niggers, and the night afore he was ketched, he... | |
| Frederick William Shelton - Country life - 1853 - 376 pages
...and about two-thirds of a foot in length ; his paws of similar proportions, and exceeding fat ; and from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, he measured about two feet. After getting him on his back, it was a subject of some moments' serious... | |
| Henry Whitney Bellows - Walpole (N.H.) - 1855 - 156 pages
...— a delicious meat, so esteemed — and an enormous catamount, measuring a fabulous number of feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. The catamount was very much dreaded by all the best New-England hunters, and it was considered very... | |
| Daniel Stevens Dickinson - New York (State) - 1867 - 748 pages
...exhibiting: " Ladies and gentlemen," said he, " this is the royal Bengal tiger, measuring fourteen feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, and fourteen more from the tip of his tail back to the tip of his nose, making, in all, twenty-eight... | |
| 1875 - 592 pages
...rage on the ground. Of course he gets into a most unpleasant, sticky state, and is covered with leaves from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. The hunters hear him howling as he throws up the earth with his leaf-gloved paws, find out the spot,... | |
| Oliver Optic - 1875 - 972 pages
...existence. As he sat there, noting with a merry twinkle of the eye the effect of such wondrous news upon me, from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail was one quiver of delight. After that, each day at the same time, Ned might be ueen at his post, watching... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1880 - 516 pages
...Surely it was a hard world. He lay down on the beach, and began looking himself over. He was bruised from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail. One of his eyes was half-closed. His heel was smarting where Blitzen had bitten him, and he was dripping... | |
| Thomas Wallace Knox - East Asia - 1881 - 504 pages
...wounds healed in a few weeks, and he was as well as ever. The tiger measured eleven feet and one inch from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, and I sent the skin to a friend in England. " I once had a narrow escape from a tiger that I had been... | |
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