 | Geological Society of London - Geology - 1824 - 660 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep. The name I have originally given to this animal, PIesiosaurus, (approximate to the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 606 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'— pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals : — ' Pursuing... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1836 - 610 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.' — pp. 211,212. Dr. Buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals : — ' Pursuing... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 1184 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its reach.'—pp. 211,212. Dr. buckland thus concludes his notice of these most interesting animals :—... | |
 | William Buckland - Bible and geology - 1837 - 476 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach." — GeoI. Trans. i». s. voI. i. part ii. p. 388. We began our account of the Plesiosaurus with quoting... | |
 | Sir Daniel Keyte Sandford - Art - 1837 - 528 pages
...for the want nf strength in it? jaws, and its incapacity for swift motion through the water, t»v tbe suddenness and agility of the attack which they enabled it to make on every animal fitted for its prey. GENUS MOSASAURUS. Tbe form of the head and teeth are nearly allied to those of the monitor*. The teeth... | |
 | 1840 - 530 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...fitted for its prey which came within its reach.' (Geof. Trans., vol. i.. part 2, p. 388, NS) Of the general characters of the Ichthyosauri Professor... | |
 | Natural history - 1830 - 596 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assaults of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...animal fitted for its prey, which came within its extensive sweep." BBS vertebrae, and is also furnished with paddles, intermediate between feet and... | |
 | Periodicals - 1843 - 280 pages
...have found a secure retreat fromv the assaults of dangerous enemies; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach. Before concluding our account of this most extraordinary creature, we must notice a particularly striking... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1847 - 434 pages
...have found a secure retreat from the assault of dangerous enemies ; while the length and flexibility of its neck may have compensated for the want of strength...fitted for its prey, which came within its reach." Professor Buckland is of opinion that the tail, being comparatively short, could not have been used... | |
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... float within its reach. It may, perhaps, have lurked in shoal water along the coast, concealed among the seaweed, and raising its nostrils to a level with the surface from a considerable depth, may have found a secure retreat from the assaults of... 
