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His multivolume Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1842 – 54) was completed by his sons.
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Viviparous quadrupeds utter vocal sounds of different kinds, but they have no power of converse.
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Viviparous quadrupeds, as a rule, present no great variety of form in the organ of smell.
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Viviparous animals, with the exception of the seal, the dolphin, and those others which after a similar fashion to these are cetaceans, are all provided with ears; for, by the way, the shark-kind are also viviparous.
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"Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America," is much praised by those persons in Europe whose praise is of most value.
The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various
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"Viviparous animals with blood and feet do not differ much in their bones, but rather by analogy, in hardness, softness, and size" (Cresswell, _loc.cit. _, p. 59).
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Viviparous plants are an illustration of substitution of vegetative buds for flower.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Viviparous creatures are a kind of specie-paying lot, but oviparous ones only give their notes, as it were, for a future brood, -- an egg being, so to speak, a promise to pay a young one by-and-by, if nothing happen.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various
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Viviparous, creatures are a kind of specie-paying lot, but oviparous ones only give their notes, as it were, for a future brood, -- an egg being, so to speak, a promise to pay a young one by and by, if nothing happen.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Viviparous, creatures are a kind of specie-paying lot, but oviparous ones only give their notes, as it were, for a future brood, -- an egg being, so to speak, a promise to pay a young one by and by, if nothing happen.
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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