 | Thomas Wallace Knox - East Asia - 1881 - 524 pages
....'.' A TARTAR TENT IN MOTION. 99 account, 'It was for all the world like an eagle, but one, indued, of enormous size ; so big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, v THK ROC, FROM A I'KRSUN DRAWING. and its quills were twelve paces long, and thick in... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Cambodia - 1882 - 466 pages
...twenty-two oxen, eleven abreast. A TARTAR TENT IN MOTION. THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE FAR EAST. account, 'It was for all the world like an eagle, but one,...big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, r THE ROC, FROM A PERSIAN DRAWING. and its quills were twelve paces long, and thick in... | |
 | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) - 1881
...return, •The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian. Colonel Henry Yule, CB is found the bird gryphon, which appears there at certain seasons. The description...so big in fact that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1883 - 756 pages
...nourished at certain seasons the bird gryphon, which persons who had seen it described as being •' for all the world like an eagle, but one indeed of...big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that... | |
 | Edmund Yates, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - English literature - 1883 - 752 pages
...here flourished at wrtain seasons the bird gryphon, which persons who had seen it described as being " for all the world like an eagle, but one indeed of...big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - Geographical myths - 1883 - 412 pages
...found the bird ' gryphon,' which appears there at certain seasons." Persons who had been there, and had seen it, told Messer Marco Polo, that "it was for all the world like an eagle, though one indeed of enormous size — so big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1897 - 578 pages
...entirely different from what our stories and pictures make it. For persons who had been there and had seen it told Messer Marco Polo that it was for all...thick in proportion. And it is so strong that it will .. .555. *iavr?5-r3t:;JeH:v»KrS. SauxiSbdB "* 3v- -V fp; Irfr^M =- f %• £• •*• •»- •*... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - Asia - 1897 - 308 pages
...entirely different from what our stories and pictures make it. For persons who had been there and had seen it told Messer Marco Polo that it was for all...big, in fact, that its wings covered an extent of thirty paces, and its quills were twelve paces long, and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 768 pages
...entirely different from what our stories and pictures make it. For persons who had been there and had seen it told Messer Marco Polo that it was for all...covered an extent of 30 paces, and its quills were 1 2 paces long, and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that it will seize an elephant in its... | |
 | 1920 - 976 pages
...entirely different from what our stories and pictures make it. For persons who had been there and had seen it told Messer Marco Polo that it was for all...enormous size; so big in fact that its wings covered an extant of 30 paces, and its quills were 12 paces long and thick in proportion. And it is so strong... | |
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... paces long, and thick in proportion. And it is so strong that it will seize an elephant in its talons and carry him high into the air, and drop him so that he is smashed to pieces; having so killed him the bird gryphon swoops down on him and eats... 
