 | James Rennie - Elephants - 1829 - 440 pages
...Beechey's account of his Expedition to explore the Northern Coasts of Africa: — " The cry of the jackal has something in it rather appalling, when heard for...yell bursts out from several points at once, within a lew yards, or feet, of the place where the auditors are sleeping." The difficulty of domesticating... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - Mammals - 1834 - 328 pages
...hardly know a sound which partakes less of harmony ; and indeed the sudden burst of the long protracted scream, succeeding immediately to the opening note,...is heard in the distance — a circumstance which VOL. II. F often occurs — and the answering yell bursts out from several points at once, within a... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1839 - 518 pages
...which partakes less of harmony than that which is at present in question ; and indeed the sudden hurst of the answering long-protracted scream, succeeding...circumstance which often occurs), and the answering yell hursts out from several points at once, within a few yards or feet of the place where the auditors... | |
 | Natural history - 1840 - 180 pages
...usually come in packs, the first shriek which is uttered is the signal for a general chorus ;" — "the sudden burst of the answering long-protracted...thunder-clap immediately after a flash of lightning." The passages in the Scriptures, where the name of this animal (shual) occurs, describe with sufficient... | |
 | 1856 - 418 pages
...sudden burst of the an-wering, long-protracted scream, succeeding immediately to the opening-note, i* scarcely less impressive than the roll of the thunder-clap immediately after a Hash of lightning." The, j;ick:il has been called " Ills lion's provider," bee mse he is commonly supposed... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1861 - 904 pages
...scream, succeeding immediately to the opening note, is Ecarcely less impressive than the roll of tho thunder*clap immediately after a flash of lightning....music is very much increased when the first note is board in the distance (a circumetanco which often occurs), and the answering yell bursts ont from eevernl... | |
 | Traits, William White Cooper - 1861 - 402 pages
...succeeding immediately to the opening note, is scarcely less impressive than the roll of the thunder clap immediately after a flash of lightning. The effect of this music is very much increased when the 148 THE OLD QUARTERMASTER. first note is heard in the distance, a circumstance which often occurs,... | |
 | Harriet Myrtle, Lydia Falconer F. Miller - Animals - 1868 - 354 pages
...that I must tell you what he says : ' We hardly know a sound which partakes less of harmony than that in question ; and, indeed, the sudden burst of the...increased when the first note is heard in the distance, and the answering yell bursts out from several points at once, within a few yards or feet of the place... | |
 | Harriet Myrtle - 1870 - 252 pages
...that I must tell you what he says : ' We hardly know a sound which partakes less of harmony than that in question ; and, indeed, the sudden burst of the...increased when the first note is heard in the distance, and the answering yell bursts out from several points at once, within a few yards or feet of the place... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Animal behavior - 1874 - 296 pages
...uttered is the signal for a general chorus. " We hardly know," says Captain Beechey, the traveller, " a sound which partakes less of harmony than that which...circumstance which often occurs), and the answering yell breaks out from several points at once, within a few yards or feet of the place where the hearers are... | |
| |
We hardly know a sound which partakes less of harmony than that in question ; and, indeed, the sudden burst of the answering long-protracted scream succeeding immediately to the opening note, is scarcely less impressive than the roll of the thunder-clap... 
