 | Ezra Sampson - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...the sedgy sides of unfrequented rivers. It is of a palish yellow, spotted and barred with black. Its windpipe is fitted to produce the sound for which...is remarkable. This sound is like the interrupted bellow44 BITUMEN....BLACK. ing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile's distance,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...chiefly in .its colour, which is in general of a palish yellow, spotted and barred with black. Ita windpipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable ; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs is supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...heron chiefly in its colour, which is in general of a palish yellow, spotted and barred with black. Its windpipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs, is supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be filled... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1828 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...heron chiefly in its colour, which is in general of a palish yellow, spotted and barred with black. Its wind-pipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs is supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be filled... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...Heron chiefly in its colour, which is in general of a palish yellow, spotted and barred with black. Its windpipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable ; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs, is supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - عدد الصفحات: 670
...issuing from some formidable being that resided at the bottom of the waters. This is the Bittern, whose wind-pipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable ; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs being supplied with a thin loose membrane that can be... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1832 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...from some formidable being that re' sided at the bottom of the waters. This is the ' bittern, whose windpipe is fitted to produce the ' sound for which it is remarkable. These bellowing ' explosions are chiefly heard from the beginning of ' spring to the end of autumn;... | |
 | 1834 - عدد الصفحات: 700
...chiefly in its color, which is, in general, of a palish yellow, spotted and barred with black. Its windpipe is fitted to produce the sound for which it is remarkable ; the lower part of it dividing into the lungs, is supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...to give those who have not heard this evening call an adequate idea of its solemnity. It is like an interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and...heard at a mile's distance as if issuing from some formibable being that resided at the bottom of the waters. the opening of the sixth volume of Animated... | |
 | M. C. Best - 1844 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...is termed " booming." It is impossible for words to give an adequate idea of this evening call; it is like the interrupted bellowing of a bull, but hollower and louder, and is heard at a mile distance as if issuing from some formidable being that resided in the bottom of the waters. J... | |
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... supplied with a thin loose membrane, that can be filled with a large body of air, and exploded at pleasure. These bellowing explosions are chiefly heard from the beginning of spring to the end of autumn; and however awful they may seem to... 
