 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 626 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. ' The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...stretching itself up to reach the high boughs, until its forelegs became longer than the hinder, and its neck so elongated, that it could raise Its head to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 618 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. ' The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...stretching itself up to reach the high boughs, until its forelegs became longer than the hinder, and its neck so elongated, that it could raise its head to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. 1 The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...Africa, where the soil was arid and devoid of herbage, hut being reduced by the nature of that country to support itself on the foliage of lofty trees, it... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 614 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. ' The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...to live in the interior of Africa, where the soil waa arid and devoid of herbage, but being reduced by the nature of that country to support itself on... | |
 | James Rennie - God - 1834 - 136 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. " The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...stretching itself up to reach the high boughs, until its fore legs became longer than the hinder, and its neck so elongated, that it could raise its head to... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1835 - 472 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...stretching itself up to reach the high boughs, until its fore legs became longer than the hinder, and its neck so elongated, that it could raise its head to... | |
 | James Rennie - Birds - 1835 - 408 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. " The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck, because...stretching itself up to reach the high boughs, until its fore legs became longer than the hinder, and its neck so elongated, that it could raise its head to... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 464 pages
...the peculiar slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...Africa, where the soil was arid and devoid of herbage ; 7 o * but, being reduced by the nature of that country to support itself on the foliage of lofty... | |
 | Robley Dunglison - 1856 - 768 pages
...extension ; until, in the course of time, they became completely web-footed. The camelopard, again, was not gifted with a long flexible neck, because...to live in the interior of Africa, where the soil is arid and devoid of herbage; but, being reduced by the nature of the country to support itself on... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - Evolution - 1867 - 598 pages
...rise to the slenderness of their legs, and the agility and elegance of their forms. The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it...live in the interior of Africa, where the soil was devoid of herbage ; but being reduced to live on the foliage of lofty trees, it contracted a habit... | |
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The camelopard was not gifted with a long flexible neck because it was destined to live in the interior of Africa, where the soil was arid and devoid of herbage ; but, being reduced by the nature of that country to support itself on the foliage of lofty... 
