 | 1798 - 432 pages
...111011ftrous fize, and fucks the blood of men and cattle when they are faft afleep, even fometimes till they die ; and as the manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I (hall endeavour to give a diftincl account of it. Knowing by inftinct that the perfon they intend to... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...iards/irrro-w/ador.this is no other than a bat, of a mon- 1 strous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle while they are fast asleep, even sometimes till they die...instinct, that the person they intend to attack is in u sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 376 pages
...no other than a bat of monstrous size, that sucks the Wood from men and cattle while they arc fost asleep, even sometimes till they die ; and as the manner in which they proceed is truly wondeiful, I shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it. Knowing, by instinct, that the person... | |
 | Arminianism - 1821 - 992 pages
...which is no other (han a Bat of monstrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle while they are asleep, even sometimes till they die : and as the...give a distinct account of it Knowing, by instinct, thai the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet ;... | |
 | English literature - 1797 - 486 pages
...monltrous fize, that fucks the blood from men and cattle when they are taft afleep, even, fometimet, till they die ; and, as- the manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I fliall endeavour to give a diltir.'ft account of it. — Knowing by inltinft that tht pcrlbn they intend... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...Perrovolador. This is no other than a bat of monstrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle while they are fast asleep, even sometimes till they die;...in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack... | |
 | New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 398 pages
...extent of its outstretched wings two feet. This creature sucks the blood from men and cattle, while they are fast asleep, even sometimes till they die;...in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Animal behavior - 1845 - 354 pages
...perrovolador. This is no other than a bat of monstrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle, while they are fast asleep, even, sometimes, till they die...in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. " Knowing, by instinct, that the person they intend to attack... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...Perrovolador. This is no other than a bat of moustrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle while ed in the ant s -chamber, the OEil de Bccufof St. James, endeavor to give a distinct account of it. Knowing, by iustinct, that the person they intend to attack... | |
 | English literature - 1888 - 882 pages
...that I had been bitten by the Vampire, or Spectre of Guiana. This is no other than a bat of monstrous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle when...they are fast asleep, even sometimes till they die " (oh, cruel death ! ), " and as: the manner in which they proceed is truly wonderful, I shall endeavour... | |
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I shall endeavor to give a distinct account of it. " 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... 