Citations:chimæræ

English citations of chimæræ

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• 1834, Georges Cuvier, The Animal Kingdom, Edward Griffith, Whittaker and Co.; Volume X., page #593:

  The intestine of the cimæræ is short and straight, nevertheless we see in the interior a spiral valvule, as in the squali.

• 1875, Eliza Meteyard, The Wedgwood Handbook, George Bell and Sons; page #212:

  He made elephants¹ and pug dogs, though nobody has seen specimens ; and many of the sphinxes, chimæræ, and griffins, and not a few of the figures, have entirely disappeared.

• 1882, An Old Testament Commentary for English Readers, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.; Volume I., page #282:

  Others regard them as figures still more composite, like the Egyptian sphinxes or the chimæræ of the Greeks.