"Platypus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to the river mouth in the wake of the tug-boat Platypus, slow and toil some, set Jim in an itch of impatience. He was longing to feel land under his feet once more, and was leaning over the side, his awkwardly-packed canvas bag of belongings at his feet, watching ...
— In the Roaring Fifties • Edward Dyson
... challenged, Tom could not but consent. She tackled Zoology, and giving the three divisions of Plantigrada, Pinnigrada, and Digitigrada, added a list of animals to be classified accordingly. When it is said that the list included such widely diverging creatures as "A camel-leopard, a duck-billed platypus, Thomasina Bolderston, and Spring-heeled Jack," it can be imagined with what zest the pupils began ...
— Tom and Some Other Girls - A Public School Story • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... duck-billed platypus. Oh, I say, Pope, it's too rich. I can't help picturing it. ...
— Paradise Garden - The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment • George Gibbs
... 30th saw the Beagle on the way to Sydney, and Port Jackson was reached on January 12, 1836. An interesting excursion to the Blue Mountains and to Bathurst showed many aspects of colonial life, as well as the strange duckbill or platypus in its native haunts. Tasmania, with which island Darwin was greatly pleased, was visited in February. In April the Keeling Islands furnished much of the material for the future book on coral reefs, the essence of which is, however, included in ...
— Life of Charles Darwin • G. T. (George Thomas) Bettany
... the duck-billed platypus, the Rev. J. G. Wood, in "Homes without Hands," has some pertinent remarks upon the manner in which nearly all taxidermists allow the cuticle to dry and shrivel, to the ultimate distortion ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne |
