| | Thurston's World - Interesting Foreign People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | It is not only the gracefulness of their forms or the novel richness of their colours, it is the numberless and confused associations that rush together on the mind, and produce the effect. |
 | | Their present residence is under a few bushes by a ledge of rock: it is no ways sufficient to keep out rain or wind; and now in the middle of summer it daily rains and as yet each day there has been some sleet. |
 | | Its head, with its sharp snout, was bowed very low, pushed down almost between its forelegs in the effort to crowd as close as possible to the wood and dig its claws as deep as possible under it. |
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