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" ... large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. " It seems these are the creature's arms, and it is said if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom. "
The Nautical Magazine: A Journal of Papers on Subjects Connected with ... - Page 272
1849
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Curiosities for the Ingenious: Selected from the Most Authentic Treasures of ...

J. Taylor - Curiosities and wonders - 1822 - 220 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and as large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. " It seems these are the creature's arms ; and, it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man of war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 7

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 620 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and large as the masts of middlesized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms; and it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man -of- war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of...
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Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences ..., Volume 7

Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1831 - 616 pages
...sometimes they stand up as high and large as thfr masts of middlesized vessels. It atoms these arc the creature's arms; and it is said, if they were...bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the water a short time, it begins slowly to sink again ”and then the danger is as great as before,...
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Encyclopędia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 608 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and large as the masls of middlesized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms; and it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man -of- war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After tliis monster has been on the surface of...
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The Natural History of the Amphibious Carnivora: Including ..., Volume 9, Part 1

Robert Hamilton (M.D., F.R.S.E.) - Pinnipedia - 1839 - 406 pages
...large, as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms, and it is said that if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After the monster has been a short time on the surface of the water, he begins slowly to sink again ; and...
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The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia

Sir William Jardine - Zoology - 1839 - 414 pages
...large, as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms, and it is said that if they were to lay hold of the largest man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom, After the monster has been a short time on the surface of the water, he begins slowly to sink again ; and...
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Norway, and Her Laplanders, in 1841: With a Few Hints to the Salmon Fisher

John Milford - Fishing - 1842 - 346 pages
...something that floats and fluctuates like seaweeds. It is said that if the creatures arms (tentacula) were to lay hold of the largest manof-war, they would pull it down to the bottom. If the axiom be true, that greatness or littleness makes no change in the species, then this kraken...
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The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopedia of the ...

Samuel Maunder - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1843 - 914 pages
...aa high aud large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems these are the creature's arms ; aud it is said, if they were to lay hold of the largest man of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the...
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Encyclopędia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of ..., Volume 21

Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pages
...water, and sometimes they stand up as high and large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. " It seems these are the creature's arms, and it is said if they...bottom. After this monster has been on the surface of the water a short time, it begins slowly to sink again, and then the danger is as great as before,...
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Chambers's pocket miscellany, Volumes 23-24

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853 - 398 pages
...and sometimes they stand up as high and as large as the masts of middle-sized vessels. It seems that these are the creature's arms ; and it is said, if...man-of-war, they would pull it down to the bottom.' By and by, the monster sinks with a great eddy; and the bishop adds, that it possesses or emits a peculiar...
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