 | 1863 - 334 lehte
...The supporter by this time is strangled and dead; and the strange spectacle remains of the strangler clasping in its arms the lifeless and decaying body of its victim, in which wood-boring beetles have already commenced their operations. It soon crumbles in rapid decay;... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1863 - 516 lehte
...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown, becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually...approaches ; its support is gone, and itself also falls." The Murderer Sipo merely exhibits, in a more conspicuous manner than usual, the struggle which... | |
 | 1863 - 520 lehte
...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown, becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually...approaches ; its support is gone, and itself also falls." The Murderer Sipo merely exhibits, in a more conspicuous manner than usual, the struggle which... | |
 | 1863 - 648 lehte
...the murderer flourishes, rearing its crown of foliage to the sky mingled with that of its neighbor, and in course of time they kill it by stopping the...approaches ; its support is gone, and itself also falls." The Murderer Sipo merely exhibits, in a more conspicuous manner than usual, the struggle which... | |
 | Mary Sewell - 1863 - 344 lehte
...The supporter by this time is strangled and dead ; and the strange spectacle remains of the strangler clasping in its arms the lifeless and decaying body of its victim, in which wood-boring beetles have already commenced their operations. It soon crumbles in rapid decay... | |
 | 1864 - 848 lehte
...tree is killed, and " the strange spectacle remains of the selfish parasite, clasping in its arms tho lifeless and decaying body of its victim, which had...end approaches, its support is gone, and itself also falls." Thus the Liana merely exhibits, in a more conspicuous manner than usual, the struggle which... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1864 - 876 lehte
...which supports it with inflexible rings, till at length the treo is killed, and " the strange spectacle remains of the selfish parasite, clasping in its arms...fruited, reproduced and disseminated its kind ; and now whim the dead trunk moulders away, its own end approaches, its support is gone, and itself also falls."... | |
 | 1865 - 610 lehte
...intervals in mounting upwards, and the victim, when its strangler is full grown becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually...end approaches; its support is gone and itself also falls.' The strangling properties of some of the fig-tree family arc indeed very remarkable, and may... | |
 | 1865 - 654 lehte
...mingled with that of its neighbour, and in course of time they kill it by stopping the flow of its san. The strange spectacle then remains of the selfish...been a help to its own growth. Its ends have been ,-n vi I — it has flowered and fruited, reproduced and disseminated its kind ; and now when the dead... | |
 | 1866 - 900 lehte
...rearing its crown of foliage to the sky mingled with that of it» neighbor, and in course of time thcj kill it by stopping the flow of its sap. The strange...its victim, which had been a help to its own growth. Ita ends have been served — it has flowered and fruited, reproduced and disseminated its kind ; and... | |
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... becomes tightly clasped by a number of inflexible rings. These rings gradually grow larger as the murderer flourishes, rearing its crown of foliage to the sky mingled with that of its neighbour, and in course of time they kill it by stopping the flow... 
