"Llama" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gigantic size and extraordinary form. There are armadillos of many types, some being as large as elephants; gigantic sloths of the genera Megatherium, Megalonyx, Mylodon, Lestodon, and many others; rodents belonging to the American families Cavidae and Chinchillidae; and ungulates allied to the llama; besides many other extinct forms of intermediate types or of uncertain affinities.[190] The extinct Moas of New Zealand—huge wingless birds allied to the living Apteryx—illustrate the ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace
... is shaped much like the Llama, but much smaller and lighter, their wool being extraordinarily fine and much valued. These animals are often hunted after the following manner: Many Indians gather together, and drive them into some narrow pass, across which they ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X • Robert Kerr
... hoped, for the trial of the Moriarty gang left two of its most dangerous members, my own most vindictive enemies, at liberty. I travelled for two years in Tibet, therefore, and amused myself by visiting Lhassa and spending some days with the head Llama. You may have read of the remarkable explorations of a Norwegian named Sigerson, but I am sure that it never occurred to you that you were receiving news of your friend. I then passed through Persia, looked in at Mecca, and paid a short but interesting ...
— The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Magazine Edition • Arthur Conan Doyle
... and the Taruga, who are larger, and even swifter than the Vicunas, and wander about singly, among steep and rocky places. M. Frederic Cuvier thinks there are but three species; the Guanaco, which, in a domestic state, is the Llama; the Paco, or Alpaca; and the Vicuna. I am desirous of dwelling thus much upon these divisions, because the readers of South American travels are often much puzzled by the manner in which ...
— Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals • R. Lee
... Belen tocan a fuego, Del portal sale la llama, Es una estrella del cielo, Que ha caido entre ...
— Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan • Clement A. Miles
... but all which Spanish misrule has left of it are a few steps slipping from their places at the bottom of a narrow ditch of mud. It has gone the way of the aqueducts, and bridges, and post-houses, the gardens and the llama-flocks of that strange empire. In the mad search for gold, every art of civilization has fallen to decay, save architecture alone; and that survives only in the splendid cathedrals which have risen upon the ruins of the temples of ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester |
