and graspingthe soil, he collects his energies in a last effort to prevent himselfrolling over helplessly on the sand. Still more expressive, perhaps, and more pathetic, is the pictureof a lioness struck down by the same hand, but in a differentfashion (Fig. 80). One of three arrows that have… … On the Representations of Animals. 159 herself on her fore paws. She still faces the enemy, her halfopened jaws are at once agonised and menacing, and, as wegaze upon her, we can almost fancy that we hear her last groanissue from her dying lips. We might multiply these examples if we chose, but the…
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