 | Arthur Young - 1799 - 508 lehte
...then a four-shear or four years old sheep. The skin hung up by the nose, measured 1o feet ^ inches from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and was sold for 'js. 6d. in the common course of business. The carcass measured 5 feet from the nose... | |
 | 1812 - 1020 lehte
...true Wild Cat with a strong brindled fur, which inhabits most of thu natural forests of Scotland. Its length, from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, was 3 feet 9 inches ; from the nose to the root of the tail, '2 feet * inches ; the girth of the thickest... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - 1810 - 526 lehte
...four-shear, or four years and a half old sheep. The skin, hung up by the nose, measured 10 feet '2 inches from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and was sold for 7s. 6d. in the course of business. The carcase measured 5 feet from the nose to the... | |
 | 1821 - 818 lehte
...the wonderful lion from the wiles of Africa — the king of all handynial: — ten feet five inches from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and ten feet tive inches from the tail to the nose — only five years old — the most finest handymal... | |
 | Thomas Brown - 1829 - 590 lehte
...just seen an extremely small Pointer in the possession of CG Stewart Menteath, Esq. of Closeburn. His length, from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, is only two feet and half an inch; from the one fore-foot to the other, across the shoulders, two feet... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 lehte
...Linnœan Society, took the measurement of one of the Marqui* of Sligo's dogs, which was as follows : — " From the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, sixty-one inches : tail, seventeen and a half inche» long ; from the tip of the nose to the back part... | |
 | Francis Hervé - 1837 - 448 lehte
...any that I ever beheld : I am certain that some of them would have measured at least eighteen inches from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and were equally stout in proportion, and I have no doubt but that amongst their own coterie they were... | |
 | 1845 - 1048 lehte
...martin cat, brown over the back, and white along the belly and neck, and about two feet and a half in length from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and nine inches in height. It generally lodges in old birds' nests. Except these two, no others of... | |
 | sir Andrew Smith - 1849 - 250 lehte
...greatest convexity of the zygomatic arch of one side and the other 9 lines. DIMENSIONS. Inches. Lines. Length from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail 5 9 of the tail 2 0 of the head 1 5 Inches. Linet. Length of the fore-legs 1 0 of the hind-legs 1 9... | |
 | Robert Stewart (A.M.) - 1853 - 774 lehte
...animal is of considerable size, and has been known, in some instances, to measure six feet and a half from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail ; still it is cowardly, and by no means formidable to man : unless, indeed, when taken by surprise,... | |
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The skin, hung up by the nose, measured 10 feet 2 inches, from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, and was sold for seven shillings and sixpence in the common course of business. 
