... this it changed to a bright yellow, dark olive, and a dull green ; but never appeared to such advantage as when irritated, or a dog approached it ; the body was then considerably inflated, and the skin clouded like tortoise-shell, in shades of yellow,... The Sporting Magazine - Страница 151815Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| 1814 - 774 страници
...; but never appeared to such advantage as when irritated, or a dog approached it; the body was then considerably inflated, and the skin clouded like tortoise-shell, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black. A black object always caused an almost instantaneous transformation. The roomi appropriated for its... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1814 - 830 страници
...advantage as when irritated, or a dog approached it ; the body •was then considerably inflated, and Ibe skin clouded like tortoise-shell, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black. A black object always caused an almost instantaneous transformation; the room appropriated for its... | |
| 1815 - 740 страници
...interesting and splendid " Oriental Memoirs"), when at Dazagan in Concan, then belonging to the Mahrattas, kept a chameleon for several weeks, and paid great...room was black, and the creature carefully avoided it ; but if by chance he came near it, or if a black hat were placed in his way, he shrunk to a skeleton,... | |
| 1815 - 534 страници
...the operating cause, the body be.came considerably inflated, and the skin clouded like torloiseshcll, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black: in...was most singularly affected by any thing black: the skirting* board of the room was black, and the creature carefully avoided it; but if, by chance, he... | |
| 1815 - 704 страници
...approached, in which case fear was perhaps the operating cause, the body became considerablyinflated, and the skin clouded like tortoise-shell, in shades...orange, green, and black : in these circumstances il appeared to most advantage. The animal was most lingnlarly affected by any thing black : he skirting-board... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1815 - 558 страници
...when a dog approached, in which case fear perhaps produced the same effect as anger,* the body was considerably inflated, and the skin clouded like tortoiseshell, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black: it was under these passions that it appeared to most advantage. But * Hasselquist says that the chamelion... | |
| William Cowherd - 1818 - 728 страници
...; but never appeared to such advantage as when irritated, or a dog approached it, the body was then considerably inflated, and the skin clouded like tortoise-shell, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black. A black object always caused an almost instautaueous transformation; the room appropriated for its... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 788 страници
...but never appeared to such advantage as when irritated, or a dog approached it ; the body was then considerably inflated, and the skin clouded like tortoise-shell, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black. A black object always caused an almost instantaneous transformation ; the room appropriated for its... | |
| Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 страници
...appeared to such advantage as when irritated, or a dog approached it ; the body was then con? siderably inflated, and the skin clouded like tortoise-shell,, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black. A black object always caused an almost instantaneous transformation ; the room appropriated for its... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1823 - 854 страници
...but never appeared to such advantage as when irritated, or a dog approached it : the body was then considerably inflated, and the skin clouded like tortoise-shell, in shades of yellow, orange, green, and black. A black object always caused an almost instantaneous transformation ; the room appropriated for its... | |
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