 Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise, under which it is difficult to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit. The feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire is increased tenfold under...  Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - Page 55by Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 356 lehteFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1892 - 598 lehte
...this comes from some defenceless fruit-eating animal, which is pounced upon by a tiger cat or stealthy boa-constrictor. Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harassing noise, under which it is difficult to keep up oue's buoyancy of spirits. The feeling of inhospitable... | |
 | Eliza Happy Morton - 1893 - 220 lehte
...defenseless fruit-eating animal, which is pounced upon by a tiger-cat or stealthy boa constrictor. Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most...to keep up one's buoyancy of spirit. The feeling of unhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire is increased tenfold under the fearful... | |
 | William Berryman Scott - 1913 - 732 lehte
...but improperly, called Mycetes) are gifted with most unusual vocal powers. Mr. Bates says of them : "Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing roar." "The brief evening chorus of animals then began, the chief performers being the howling monkeys,... | |
 | 1865 - 658 lehte
...which is pounced upon by a tiger-cat or stealthy boaconstrictor. Morning and evening the howlingmonkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise, under which...one's buoyancy of spirit. The feeling of inhospitable wildne&s which the forest is calculated to inspire is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar.... | |
 | Susan E. Place - 2001 - 268 lehte
...this comes from some defenceless fruit-eating animal, which is pounced upon by a tiger-cat or stealthy boaconstrictor. Morning and evening the howling monkeys...feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire, is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar. Often, even in the still hours... | |
 | Stephen R. Bown - 2002 - 284 lehte
...notable mostly for the different shading of their fur). "Morning and evening," he remembered, "the howler monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise, under...feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire, is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar." The eerie sounds, distant squawks,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1166 lehte
...this comes from some defenceless fruit-eating animal, which is pounced on by a tiger-cat or stealthy boa-constrictor. Morning and evening the howling monkeys...feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar. Often even in the still hours... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 552 lehte
...this comes from some defenceless fruit-eating animal, which is pounced upon by a tiger-cat or stealthy boa-constrictor. Morning and evening the howling monkeys...feeling of inhospitable wildness which the forest is calculated to inspire is increased tenfold under this fearful uproar. Often, even in the still hours... | |
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