 | Geology - 1862 - 478 pages
...described by DuChaillu, as the most singular and awful noise heard in the African forest, he says, " it begins with a sharp bark, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1837 - 806 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....begins with a sharp bark, like an angry dog, then swells into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along... | |
 | African Americans - 1861 - 402 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....sharp bark like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
 | 1861 - 838 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....sharp bark, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - Literature - 1861 - 884 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....sharp bark like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....sharp bark, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1861 - 602 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense base-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....sharp bark, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep base roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
 | 1861 - 520 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....heard in these African woods. It begins with a sharp baric, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass ;•"//, which literally and closely resembles... | |
 | William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison - 1862 - 642 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance ; meantime giving vent to roar after roar....sharp bark, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
 | George Kearley - Zoology - 1862 - 356 pages
...breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense brass dmm, which is their mode of offering defiance, meantime giving vent to roar after roar....sharp bark, like an angry dog, then glides into a deep bass roll, which literally and closely resembles the roll of distant thunder along the sky, for which... | |
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He was not afraid of us. He stood there and beat his breast with his huge fists till it resounded like an immense bass-drum, which is their mode of offering defiance; meantime giving vent to roar after roar. The roar of the gorilla is the most singular... 
