 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.  Parliamentary Papers - Page viby Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1894Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1799 - 508 pages
...Bicker, being 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... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 1020 pages
...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 - Domestic animals - 1810 - 526 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1821 - 818 pages
...This is 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 - Dogs - 1829 - 590 pages
...Linnaean Society, took the measurement of one of the Marquis 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 inches long ; from the tip of the nose to the back part... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Amusements - 1833 - 640 pages
...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 - Balkan Peninsula - 1837 - 448 pages
...description of 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... | |
 | sir Andrew Smith - 1849 - 250 pages
...the back and sides than on the head and extremities. DIMENSIONS. Inches. Lines. Inches. Lines. Length from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail 10 6 ofthetail 3 9 Distance between the tip of the nose and the eye 0 10 Distance between the eye and... | |
 | Robert Stewart (A.M.) - Australasia - 1853 - 774 pages
...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,... | |
 | Llewelyn Lloyd - Animals - 1854 - 550 pages
...while she had several times attempted to make resistance. She was the largest fox I ever saw, measuring from the point of the nose to the tip of the tail, three feet eleven inches, and weighing fully seventeen pounds." The fox is cunning to a proverb ; but... | |
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