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" Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great... "
Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted Negroes of ... - Page 147
by John Gabriel Stedman - 1813
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The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 4

1798 - 432 pages
...generally alight near the feet, where, while the ereature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, fo very fmall indeed that the head of a pin could fcarcely be received into the wound, which is confequently...
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Animal Biography, Or, Authentic Anecdotes of the Lives, Manners ..., Volume 1

William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 524 pages
...generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged td disgorge. He then begins again, and thus continues...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins again, and thus continues...
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Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition, Against the Revolted ..., Volume 2

John Gabriel Stedman - Guiana - 1806 - 518 pages
...feet, where, while the creature fM creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, CHAP. XXII. which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...consequently not painful; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins again, and thus continues...
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The Flowers of Modern Travels: Being Elegant, Entertaining and ..., Volume 2

John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1816 - 352 pages
...generally alight near the- feet.; where- white the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...could scarcely be received into the wound, which is conse(paentry irofpainfu'l; yet tli rough this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is...
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A Collection of the Most Celebrated Voyages & Travels, from the Discovery of ...

R. P. Forster - Africa - 1818 - 514 pages
...generally alight near the feet, where while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins again, and thus continues...
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Spirit of the English Magazines, Volume 10

1821 - 488 pages
...generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge. HethenL^ins again, and thus continues...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine, Volume 44

Arminianism - 1821 - 992 pages
...generally alight near the feet ; and while the creature ' continues Tanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...consequently, not painful ; yet, through this orifice he continues to suck the blood until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins again, and thus continues...
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The flowers of literature, or, Encyclopędia of anecdote, a coll ..., Volume 1

William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the...consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins again, and thus continues...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 4

1826 - 240 pages
...continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he biles a piece out of the tip of dm great toe, so very small, indeed, that the head of...consequently not painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck tin*, blood until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins again ; and thus continues...
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