 swims near the surface at all distances from land, and is seen not unfreqnently to spring out of its element ; its vivacity being such that it will for a long time play about a floating- straw, and leap over it many times in succession. When it has taken...  A History of British Fishes - Halaman 443oleh William Yarrell - 1841Tampilan utuh - Tentang buku ini
 | William Swainson - 1838 - 390 halaman
...the surface at all distances from land, and is not unfrequently seen to spring out of its element; its vivacity being such that it will for a long time...it struggles, with the most violent contortions, to escape : when newly taken it emits a strong smell." The gar-fish seem widely dispersed, for they occur... | |
 | 1858 - 810 halaman
...the surface at all distances from land, and is seen not unfreqnently to spring out of its element ; its vivacity being such that it will for a long time...often before the fisherman has felt the bite : and then with its slender body half out of the water, it struggles with the most violent contortions to... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1858 - 808 halaman
...element ; its vivacity being suih that it will fur a loni; time play about a floniing straw, and 1ечр over it many times in succession. When it has taken...often before the fisherman has felt the bite : and then with its slender body half out of the water, it struggles with the most violent contoi lions to... | |
 | British fishes - 1859 - 338 halaman
...swim near the surface, and not unfrequently it springs out of the water, its vivacity being so great that it will for a long time play about a floating straw, and leap over it many times in succession. It freely takes a bait, and strikes at it generally obliquely upward, starting into the air with the... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1861 - 550 halaman
...Guianensis. 6. Common Flying-Han, Exocilus volitans. it swims near the surface ; and its vivacity is such that it will for a long time play about a floating...straw, and leap over it many times in succession. 11. A modern Italian poet thus writes of the gar-fish, and of a curious method of capturing them which... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 halaman
...Common 1 ly in^-ti-h, jKzoctlu* vo£tlon#. it swims near the surface ; and its vivacity is such that it for a long time play about a floating straw, and leap over it many times in succession. 11. A modern Italian poet thus writes of the gar-fish, and of a curious method of capturing them which... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 584 halaman
...the surface at all distances from land, and is seen not unfrequently to spring out of its element ; its vivacity being such that it will for a long time...often before the fisherman has felt the bite ; and then with its slender body half out of the water, it struggles with the most violent contortions to... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 halaman
...the surface at all distances from land, and is seen not unfrequently to spring out of it« element ; its vivacity being such that it will for a long time...often before the fisherman has felt the bite ; and then with its slender body half out of the water, it struggles with the most violent contortions to... | |
 | William Jones (F. S.) - 1871 - 488 halaman
...that when this fish is taken by the hook, it mounts to the surface often before the fishermen have felt the bite, and there, with its slender body half out of the water, struggles with the most violent contortions to wrench the hook from its hold. In various... | |
 | Robert Hamilton - 1876 - 586 halaman
...surface at all distances from land, and is seen not unfrequently to spring out of its native element ; its vivacity being such that it will for a long time...straw, and leap over it many times in succession. In the Forth it is caught both by the net and hook, and it is sometimes found in the haddock-lines,... | |
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