 Its feet are formed to tread lightly upon a dry and shifting soil ; its nostrils have the capacity of closing, so as to shut out the driving sand when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert ; it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining water...  Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents - 32. lappuseautors: United States. Patent Office - 1853Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | James Rennie - 1829 - 438 lapas
...capacity of closing, so as to shut out the driving sand, when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert; it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining...well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. And thus, when a company of eastern merchants cross from Aleppo to Bussorah,... | |
 | 1829 - 436 lapas
...capacity of closing, so as to shut out the driving sand, when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert; it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining...well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. And thus, when a company of eastern merchants cross from Aleppo to Bussorah,... | |
 | James Melville M'Culloch - 1831 - 250 lapas
...capacity of closing so as to shut out the driving sand when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert ; it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining...well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. And thus, when a company of eastern merchants cross from Aleppo to Bussorah,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 442 lapas
...of closing, so as to shut out the driving sand, when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert ; and it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining...well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. Why do camels travel in a single file ? Because if any of the loads get... | |
 | John Timbs - 1832 - 356 lapas
...shut out the driving sand, when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert; and it is provided/with a peculiar apparatus for retaining water in its stomach,...well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. Why do camels travel in a single file • Because if any of the loads... | |
 | 1833 - 370 lapas
...when the wind raises and scatters it in the desert; and. above all, this animal is provided with an apparatus for retaining water in its stomach, so that...well, without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. With these advantages, it is not surprising that it should ever have been... | |
 | 1833 - 274 lapas
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 | 1834 - 440 lapas
...capacity of closing, so as to shut out the driving sand, when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert; it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining...well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. And thus, when a company of eastern merchants cross from Aleppo to Bussorah,... | |
 | 1834 - 222 lapas
...closing, so as to shut out the driving sand, when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert; it 13 provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining water...well without great inconvenience, although they be several hundred miles apart. And thus, when a company of eastern merchants cross from Aleppo to Bussora,... | |
 | James Hamilton Fennell - 1841 - 610 lapas
...have the capacity of closing to exclude the sand, when the whirlwind scatters it over the desert ; it is provided with a peculiar apparatus for retaining...inconvenience, although they be some hundred miles apart. And thus, when a company of Eastern merchants cross from Aleppo to Bussorah, over a plain of sand,... | |
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