 | 1824 - 312 pages
...more decidedly. Their hardness, too, is so extreme, that the natives chop them up for the purchasers like wood, and the chips of their carcasses fly off in the same way as splinters do froii nasses of timber and coals. The >rovisions collected here are the product of countries many thousand... | |
 | 1826 - 384 pages
...mure decidedly. Their hardness, too, is so extreme, that the natives chop them up for the purchasers like wood, and the chips of their carcasses fly off...the same way as splinters do from masses of timber and coals. The provisions collected here are the product of countries many thousand wersts beyond Moscow.... | |
 | 1826 - 376 pages
...extreme, that the natives chop them up for the purshas* rs like wood, and the chips of their carcases fly off in the same way as splinters do from masses of timber and coals. The provisions collected here are the product of countries many thousand wersts beyond Moscow,... | |
 | Thomas Masters (patentee of a freezing apparatus.) - 1844 - 240 pages
...great, that the natives chop them up for the purchasers like wood, and the chips of their carcases fly off in the same way as splinters do from masses of timber and coals, (Encyclop. Londinensis.) CONGELATION BY THE AIR-PUMP. — The very ingenious Dr. Cullen... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1865 - 462 pages
...to this dead scene. Their hardness, too, is so extreme, that the dealers chop them up for purchasers like wood, and the chips of their carcasses fly off in the same way as splinters from timber or coal. At certain hours, every day, the market, while it lasts, is quite a fashionable... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1868 - 906 pages
...to this dead scene. Their hardness, too, is so extreme, that the dealers chop them up for purchasers like wood, and the chips of their carcasses fly off in the same way as splinters from timber or coal. At certain hours, every day, the market, while it lasts, ia quite a fashionable... | |
 | Elena Molokhovets - 1998 - 710 pages
...hardness is so extreme that the natives chop them up for the purchaser, like wood; and the chips of theit carcasses fly off in the same way as splinters do...operation; as indeed it is generally applied to every orher act of ingenuity or strength.166 Normally, these frozen provisions were enough for the entite... | |
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Had an enchanter's wand been instantaneously waved over this sea of animals during their different actions, they could not have been fixed more decidedly. Their hardness, too, is so extreme, that the natives chop them up for the... 