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...k proposed that organisms can inherit traits acquired by their ancestors. The first giraffes stretched their necks to eat leaves on tall trees. Thei...

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...oesn’t believe God has a sense of humor when you consider the aardvark? Or a giraffe? Or a toucan with a beak almost as long as its body? 158 When Go...

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...t twitch muscles fibers that enable it to run faster after its prey. In a giraffe it might be the genes that develop a longer neck so that it can re... ...ly coming to a true conclusion. ―If I say that ‗My friend Joe is a giraffe‘ and ‗all giraffes are honest‘ therefore ‗My friend Joe is honest.... ...ur list of animals to be treated nicely and only include herbivores, like giraffes and cows? If so should we eliminate people who eat meat from our ...

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... than nothing BEFORE, and NOW you have nothing. IﾁOve kicked out that rigid giraffe, Michael. At this house he is no more. Michael wonﾁOt be living ...

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...nd sandy-coloured rock and ‘sclusively tufts of sandy-yellowish grass. The Giraffe and the Zebra and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Hartebeest lived... ...- brownish colour of the High Veldt to one hair. This was very bad for the Giraffe and the Zebra and the rest of them; for he would lie down by a ‘scl... ...clusively yellowish-greyish-brownish stone or clump of grass, and when the Giraffe or the Ze- bra or the Eland or the Koodoo or the Bush- Buck or the ... ... and arrows, and the Leopard ‘sclusively with his teeth and claws—till the Giraffe and the Eland and the Koodoo and the Quagga and all the rest of the... ...id anything that looked like a Leopard or an Ethiopian; and bit by bit—the Giraffe began it, because his legs were the longest—they went away from the... ...and what with the slippery-slidy shadows of the trees falling on them, the Giraffe grew blotchy, and the Zebra grew stripy, and the Eland and the Kood... ... said the Ethiopian, ‘but it ought to be the aboriginal Flora. I can smell Giraffe, and I can hear Giraffe, but I can’t see Giraffe.’ ‘That’s curious,... ... remember them perfectly on the High Veldt, especially their marrow-bones. Giraffe is about seventeen feet high, of a ‘sclusively fulvous golden-yello... ...thiopian called out, ‘I’ve caught a thing that I can’t see. It smells like Giraffe, and it kicks like Giraffe, but it hasn’t any form.’ ‘Don’t you tru...

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...up, his last words were, in his own bright tone, ‘Tell granny from me that giraffes ought always to be seen by gaslight.’ Clara’s countenance returned... ...ark to her, as if, she said to herself, ‘she were no better than a stuffed giraffe, and knew and cared nothing about anybody!’ He might have guessed t... ...bowed to her as a stranger, and Louis talked of the transformations of the Giraffe. ‘Is it not humiliating,’ she said, ‘to be so altered by finery? Yo... ... little scream, Louis would hardly have felt himself in the company of his Giraffe. She had become a very fine-look- ing person, not quite handsome, b... ...ighly pleased with his sister. Hav- ing only seen her as the wild, untamed Giraffe, he was by no means prepared for the dignity and decision with whic... ... some one offering him a living,’ said Lord Ormersfield. ‘And the dear old Giraffe?’ said Louis. ‘Clara? She is looking almost handsome. I wish some g...

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...er, he — I mean the hippopotamus — and the el- ephant, and the long-necked giraffe, perhaps may lay their heads together and have a colloquy about the...

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...f diamonds on the ostrich farm. Lies too. And all the reminiscences of the giraffes—lies too. I never rode on no giraffes. I’d be afraid.” He looked a...

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...r. Louis let go the reins to catch hold of both hands, and cry, ‘Well, old Giraffe! what have you done with Jem?’ ‘Seeing to the luggage! You won’t le... ... Mrs. Ponsonby.’ ‘I never saw she was there!’ and slightly colouring, the ‘Giraffe’ erected her length, turned round a small insignifi- cant face slig... ... Jem take second-class tickets, that she might be ashamed of me.’ ‘My dear Giraffe, bend down your neck, and don’t take such a commonplace, convention... ...lly threatening all sorts of means to stop her growth. Clara reared up her giraffe figure, boasting of having overtopped all the world present, except... ...ave no time for that now. You see there’s nobody else to protect that poor Giraffe from being too rational.’ ‘Is that her great danger?’ said Mary. ‘T... ...James. ‘Can madness go fur- ther?’ ‘James! I am ashamed of you,’ cried the Giraffe, with great stateliness. ‘Here are the enemy threatening our coasts... ...at is inferior to yourself, but what is superior. Ah! you despair; but, my Giraffe, will you promise me this? Tell me, next Christmas, a good quality ... ...lf with Clara; but it was 198 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 quite contrary to the Giraffe’s notions to be engrossed by any one when Louis was coming. As if s...

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...d the figure. The seats are cheap. Why should A People, fabulous and lofty giraffe, want to charge or pay high prices? If it were the 4 Touch and Go ...

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...even he has his place among kings, demagogues, priests, charlatans, dukes, giraffes, cabinet ministers, Fabians, bricklayers, apostles, ants, scientis...

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...en he has his place amongst kings, demagogues, priests, charlatans, dukes, giraffes, Cabinet Ministers, Fabians, bricklay- ers, apostles, ants, scient...

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...dated strangers incon- gruous and improper reminiscences of an elephant, a giraffe, a gazelle; of a gothic tower—of an overgrown angel. Her Thursdays ...

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...s and looked at him with as much curiosity as they might have felt about a giraffe. Monsieur des Grassins and his son, to whom the appearance of a man...

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... than our Scottish heath. Again the cliff yawned, but now with a deeper entry; and the Casco, haul- ing her wind, began to slide into the bay of Anaho...

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...ed creature began to howl in despair when the band began to play; What the giraffe does with his neck when his cart is shut up; and, Whether the eleph...

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...ch could now no more be got in at the door, not to say stowed away, than a giraffe could be persuaded or forced into a flower pot): that this utterly ...

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...im as Flibbertigibbet did the giant warder, and caused him to respond—’The Giraffe.’ ‘Has it not another name, sir? A short or a long one, more or les... ...re in good part, just as I have pelted the masks at the Carnival.’ ‘Even a giraffe can bend his head and do at Rome as Rome does,’ murmured Ulick. But...

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...le grottos and sleek hides; camels slanted their heavy-ridded eyes at her, giraffes fastidiously observed her from their melancholy eminence, and the ...

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...imneys smoking with a quiet— almost a lazy—air, like giants smoking tobacco; and the great Shears moored off it, looking meekly and inoffensively out ...

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... not seem to fit mine, and so I found it a sort of uncomfortable garment. They gave my bobtail coat to somebody else, and sent me an ulster suit- able...

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...d above island 66, brimful of self conceit and carrying my nose as high as a giraffe’s, when Mr. Bixby said— “I am going below a while. I suppose you ...

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... poor boy with no fortune, and no one to depend on! Cast off by a carrotty giraffe! What do you expect, Crevel? Wenceslas is my poet, and I love him a...

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...men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his sock...

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...men they shipped; Daggoo retained all his barbaric virtues, and erect as a giraffe, moved about the decks in all the pomp of six feet five in his socks...

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...r diseases of the skin merely. One hastens to southern Africa to chase the giraffe; but surely that is not the game he would be after. How long, pray,... ...y that is not the game he would be after. How long, pray, would a man hunt giraffes if he could? Snipes and woodcocks also may afford rare sport; but ...

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...for diseases of the skin merely. One hastens to Southern Africa to chase the giraffe; but surely that is not the game he would be after. How long, pra... ...ely that is not the game he would be after. How long, pray, would a man hunt giraffes if he could? Snipes and wood cocks also may afford rare sport; ...

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...rofessor Owen’s Memoir on Mylodon robustus. 95 Charles Darwin that of the giraffe, which, by one of those beautiful provisions of nature, thus reache... ...nd prob- ably, according to Dr. Smith, two others, the hippo- potamus, the giraffe, the bos caffer — as large as a full-grown bull, and the elan — but... ...s, which belonged to three spe- cies: the same day he saw several herds of giraffes, amounting together to nearly a hundred; and that although no elep... ...ree tons and a half to each of the five rhinoceroses; perhaps a ton to the giraffe, and half to the bos caffer as well as to the elan (a large ox weig...

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...s hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to maculate giraffe. The circles of the stormy moon Slide westward toward the River Pla...

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...uce, on the one hand, organs of trifling importance, such as the tail of a giraffe, which serves as a fly-flapper, and, on the other hand, or- gans of... ...ences, might assur- edly be acted on by natural selection. The tail of the giraffe looks like an artificially constructed fly-flap- per; and it seems ... ...d leg of the horse,—the same number of vertebrae form- ing the neck of the giraffe and of the elephant,—and innumerable other such facts, at once expl... ...eing often monstrous Geographical distribution Geology, future progress of Giraffe, tail of Glacial period Gmelin on Distribution Gnathodon, fossil Go... ...es of horses Swallow, one species supplanting another Swim-bladder Tail of giraffe; of aquatic animals; rudimentary Tarsi deficient Tausch on umbellif...

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...ith yellow bottles and green bottles and a water spigot with a neck like a giraffe’s that rose out of the bar beside a varnished wood pillar that made...

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...e, and thought no more of Fred’s disinclination to schol- arship than of a giraffe’s, wishing that he himself were more of the same height. He was lyi...

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...blood shall daily quaff; Ride a tiger hunting, mounted on a thor- oughbred giraffe. “Not you, T om!” cried Hector. You, the swell, the Eton fellow! Yo...

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...ble, and thought no more of Fred’s disinclination to scholarship than of a giraffe’s, wishing that he himself were more of the same height. He was lyi...