They are sometimes dangerous to man and to his domestic animals, and are always destructive to fish ; and it is good to shoot them ; I killed half a dozen, and missed nearly as many more — a throbbing boat does not improve one's aim. We passed forests... Through the Brazilian Wilderness - Stran 53avtor: Theodore Roosevelt - 1919 - 410 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1914 - 906 strani
...with the head raised, sometimes with the jaws open. They are sometimes dangerous to man and to his domestic animals, and are always destructive to fish...were gathered, with flocks of cormorants and darters good thing for the body politic as a on the sand-bars, and stilts, skimmers, and whole, but a good... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1914 - 936 strani
...with the head raised, sometimes with the jaws open. They are sometimes dangerous to man and to his domestic animals, and are always destructive to fish...nearly as many more — a throbbing boat does not a.,ree. improve one's aim. We passed forests of palms that extended for leagues, and vast marshy meadows,... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1914 - 826 strani
...with the head raised, sometimes with the jaws open. They are sometimes dangerous to man and to his domestic animals, and are always destructive to fish...flocks of cormorants and darters on the sand-bars, and stilts, skimmers, and clouds of beautiful swaying terns in the foreground. About noon we passed... | |
 | Richard Gott - 1993 - 374 strani
...prosperity much like that which the Mississippi saw when the old men of today were very young . . . We passed forests of palms that extended for leagues,...flocks of cormorants and darters on the sandbars, and stilts, skimmers, and clouds of beautiful swaying terns in the foreground. About noon we passed... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt - 2006 - 441 strani
...Rondon's boat. Caymans were becoming more plentiful. The ugly brutes lay on the sand-flats and mud banks like logs, always with the head raised, sometimes...where storks, herons, and ibis were gathered, with iocks of cormorants and darters on the sand-bars, and stilts, skimmers, and clouds of beautiful swaying... | |
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