 He was laboring painfully to carry a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks, but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to pass endways ; and the exertion and inconvenience combined led him...  Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical - Page 283by Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1859Full view - About this book
 | American literature - 1860 - 620 pages
...carry a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks, but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to...horse. On seeing us halt, the elephant raised his head, reconnoitcred us for a moment, then threw down the timber and forced himself backwards among the brushwood... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...carry a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks, but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to...horse. On seeing us halt, the elephant raised his head, reconnoitered us for a moment, then threw down the timber and forced himself backwards among the brushwood... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1861 - 586 pages
...endways ; and the exertion and this inconvenience combined led him to utter the dissatisfied sounds wbich disturbed the composure of my horse. On seeing us...reconnoitred us for a moment, then flung down the timber, and voluntarily forced himself backwards among the brushwood so as to leave a passage, of which he expected... | |
 | William Jordan Unwin - 1862 - 374 pages
...heav-y beam of tim-ber, which he bal-anced a-cross his tusks, but the path-way be-ing nar-row, h'e was forced to bend his head to one side to per-mit it...us for a mo-ment, then flung down the tim-ber, and vol-un-ta-ri-ly forced him-self back-wards a-mong the brush-wood so as to leave a pas-sage, of which... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 832 pages
...which he balanced across his tusks ; but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head on, one side to permit it to pass endways ; and the exertion...disturbed the composure of my horse. On seeing us halty the elephant raised his head, r"econnoitered us for a moment, then threw down the timber and... | |
 | Sir James Emerson Tennent - Elephants - 1867 - 246 pages
...forced to bend his head to one side to permit the load to pass endways ; and the exertion and this inconvenience combined led him to utter the dissatisfied...reconnoitred us for a moment, then flung down the timber, and voluntarily forced himself backwards among the brushwood so as to leave a passage, of which he expected... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1870 - 884 pages
...a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks ; but, the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to...combined led him to utter the dissatisfied sounds. On seeing us halt, the elephant raised his head, reconnoitred us a moment, then flung down the timber... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1871 - 838 pages
...which he balanced across his tusks ; but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head on one side to permit it to pass endways ; and the exertion...raised his head, reconnoitred us for a moment, then threw down the timber and forced himself backwards among the brushwood, so as to leave a passage, of... | |
 | Harland Coultas - Animal welfare - 1874 - 196 pages
...carry a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks ; but the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to pass endways, which put him to great extra exertion and inconvenience : hence the dissatisfied sounds which had frightened... | |
 | George John Romanes - Animal behavior - 1882 - 550 pages
...carry a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks, but, the pathway being narrow, he was forced to bend his head to one side to permit it to pass endways ; and the exertion and this inconvenience combined led him to utter the dissatisfied sounds which disturbed the composure... | |
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