 | 432 pages
...proved mortal : hut as yet he evinced no visihle distress ; after which I fired three shots with the Dutch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his...which he slowly shut and opened ; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling on his side, he expired." Heru is another case of an elephant,... | |
 | 1850 - 612 pages
...but as yet he evinced no visible distress ; after which 1 fired three shots at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his...which he slowly shut and opened ; his colossal frame quivered convulsively ; and, falling on his side, he expired. The tusks of this elephant were beautifully... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1851 - 604 pages
...but as yet he evinced no visible distress ; after which I fired three shots at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his...which he slowly shut and opened ; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling on his side, he expired. The tusks of this elephant were beautifully... | |
 | 1851 - 354 pages
...but ns yet he evinced no visible distress ; after which I fired three shots at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his...which he slowly shut and opened; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling on his side, he expired. The tusks of this elephant were beautifully... | |
 | Charles Wilkins Webber - 1852 - 622 pages
...but as yet he evinced no visible distress ; after which I fired three shots at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his...which he slowly shut and opened ; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling on his side, he expired. The tusks of this elephant were beautifully... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming - 1855 - 422 pages
...yet he evinced no visible distress ; after which I fired three shots at the same part with the D;itch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his eyes,...which he slowly shut and opened ; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling on his side, he expired. The tusks of this elephant were beautifully... | |
 | Roualeyn Gordon Cumming - 1856 - 434 pages
...but as yet he evinced no visible distress ; after this I fired three shots at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his...which he slowly shut and opened ; his colossal frame quivered convulsively, and, falling on his side, he expired. The tusks of this elephant were beautifully... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...at the same part with the Dutch six-pounder. Large tears now trickled from his eyes, which he simply shut and opened, his colossal frame shivered convulsively, and falling on his side he expired." (Vol> 'ii. p. 10.) In another place after detailing the manner in which he assailed a poor animal —... | |
 | sir James Emerson Tennent (bart.) - 1859 - 702 pages
...proved mortal. After which I firtMl »ir shots at the same part with tho Dutch six -pounder. /,.,.,/,• tears now trickled from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal frame shirered cotntilsittly, and falling on his side, he expired." (VoL ii. p. 10.) In another place after... | |
 | 1860 - 874 pages
...rifle, which must have eventually proved mortal. After which I fired six shots at the same part with the Dutch sixpounder. Large tears now trickled from his...convulsively, and falling on his side he expired." I never read this atrocious story without a feeling of tears for the poor animal, and execrations on... | |
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I first fired six shots with the two-grooved rifle, which must have eventually proved mortal. After which I fired six shots at the same part with the Dutch sixpounder. Large tears now trickled from his eyes, which he slowly shut and opened, his colossal... 
