That is to say, those voracious fellows get into a school of menhaden, which are too large to swallow whole, and they bite them into pieces to suit their tastes.
The little beach-birds trotted past close to the water's edge, or paused but an instant to swallow their food, keeping time with the elements.
In this bank, above the clay, I counted in the summer, two hundred holes of the Bank Swallow within a space six rods long, and there were at least one thousand old birds within three times that distance, twittering over the surf.
So severely had we dealt with our supper the previous night, that we had little to eat but the biscuits, which were so dry and hard, that, hungry as we were, we could not swallow much.
Fritz; `he can never swallow a proper mouthful down this little gullet!
I saw nothing remarkable, however, but thousands of sea-fowl of every sort and kind, from the gull and sea-swallow to the mighty albatross.
Snakes have no grinders, but only fangs, therefore they cannot chew their food, and must swallow it whole.
But the horrible wretch is never going to swallow him all at once, father?
They will at any time steal physic in any shape or form, and swallow all they steal.
Mark--if God knew how happy I am writing poetry he'd make the earth open andswallow me up.
God made the earth swallow up Korah, Dathan and Abiram.
She tried to swallow the Kritik der reinen Vernunft and it disagreed with her and she died.
I cannot sympathize with such an apprehension: the spectacle is capable to swallow up all such objects; they are not seen in the great whole, more than an earthworm in a wide field.
A strange bird she proved there,--a lonely swallow that could not make for itself a summer.
I felt a foreboding of a mightier emotion to rise up and swallow all others, and I passed on to the terrapin bridge.
Michael was so much perturbed to hear this that without thinking he anxiously asked to be allowed to look, and wished that the drain by which he was standing would swallow him up when he realized by Kathleen's giggling what he had said.
The swallow is lingering on, And the silvery swift sandpiper, And I--tho I know my saddened heart Has lost an ineffable thing, That summer no more can bring.
I may add that Keene had advantage over me, he being the taller by nine inches of the two; and that my capacity of swallow is a marvel to the many leading medical gentlemen before whom, for scientific purposes, I have exhibited.
I found that, in jugglers' phrase, I couldswallow twenty-one inches of it.
In a fog two of the ships named the Swallow and the Squirrel separated from the others.
It was said that huge and horrible sea-dragons lived there, ready to wreck and swallow down any vessel that might venture near.
The men in the Swallow were glad, too, to see the Golden Hind and the Delight once more.
Soon after the re-appearance of the Swallow the Squirrel also turned up, so the four ships were together again.
So the Swallow was left with the sick and a few colonists who wished to remain, and in the other three Sir Humphrey put to sea with the rest of his company.
It is probably a natural human desire to see big corporationsswallow up little ones.
Why should the solid hill give way at this place, andswallow up a tree?
Having been forced to swallow rhymed platitudes in the belief that they are poetry, a permanent and perfectly natural repulsion for the very name of poetry is too often the children's only acquisition.
The swallow has a larger mouth in proportion to its size than any other bird.
He tried to swallow them with the dregs of his coffee, and they stuck in his throat.
Gordon waited, trying to swallow their petty punishments, but it went against the grain.
The most part was about her; only what was better seemed to swallow that up.
And Roxanne's eyes were so soft with entreaty to spare that family pride that I had to swallow the inconvenient lump in my throat again.
For two days I have had to keep my mind off Roxanne Byrd to make myself swallow one single morsel of anything to eat.
Only--they puts down the two fish I gives 'em in about one swallow for both fish.
After the sea-lion has swallowed it, the same white bear must reappear and swallow it too.
She thought it better, if only for her health's sake, to try and swallow something.
To see the swallow at its worst is upon the ground: there it is a poor thing indeed, and from the shortness of its legs and the length of its wings, has to shuffle along, rather than walk.
We all notice the first swallow almost as soon as the first cuckoo; for though the one bird's note catches the ear, the flight of the other arrests the eye as certainly.
With the swallow and the nightingale, many other birds "transmigrating come, unnumbered colonies on foreign wing, at Nature's summons.
Democritus held and proved, that most of the arts we have were taught us by other animals, as by the spider to weave and sew, by the swallow to build, by the swan and nightingale music, and by several animals to make medicines.
This was the case with Pascal in his illness, and, from a mistaken asceticism, he endeavoured to swallow the choice food without tasting it.
It was as disagreeable to them to swallow a spoonful of soup as if it were so much sea water, and it would take a policeman to make them open their mouths for a bit of meat, either boiled or roasted.
You dare to draw a gun on me and I'll make you swallow your own teeth.
If, however, too large pieces of food are offered to the little fish, many of them are likely to be choked and to die, from trying to swallow a piece a little too big for them.
It is, however, difficult in the very early stages of the trout's life to pound shrimps up small enough, and the little fish are much given to trying to swallow pieces of food which are too large for them to manage.
Swift as a swallow on the wing She darted, but, alas!
And he sprang to swallow her up alive; But it chanced a woodman from the wood, Hearing her shriek, rushed, with his knife, And drenched the wolf in his own blood.
