It is well known that the gymnotus is a kind of eel, with a blackish, slimy skin, furnished along the back and tail with an apparatus composed of plates joined by vertical lamellæ, and acted on by nerves of considerable power. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Accordingly, the Tamanac Indians call the gymnotus, in their expressive language, arimna, which means something that deprives of motion. ❋ Unknown (1851)
Very fortunately the travelers had to contend with neither gymnotus nor sucuriju, and the passage across the submerged forest, which lasted about two hours, was effected without accident. ❋ Unknown (2003)
His limbs were becoming paralyzed little by little under the electric influences of the gymnotus, which lightly touched his body as it wrapped him in its folds. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The discharges of the gymnotus, at first somewhat weak, become more and more violent, and there would come a time when, exhausted by the shocks, he would be rendered powerless. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Benito had entirely lost consciousness beneath the violent shocks of the gymnotus. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Brazilians to the gymnotus, or electric snake, which had just attacked him. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And along the top of the water glided long and swiftly-swimming snakes, among them the formidable gymnotus, whose electric discharges successively repeated paralyze the most robust of men or animals, and end by dealing death. ❋ Unknown (2003)
A gymnotus being obtained, I conducted a series of experiments. ❋ Various (1909)
A galvanometer was readily affected by using the saddle conductors, applied to the anterior and posterior parts of the gymnotus. ❋ Various (1909)
The gymnotus can stun and kill fish which are in very various relations to its own body. ❋ Various (1909)
When a little helix containing twenty-two feet of silked wire wound on a quill was put into a circuit, and an annealed steel needle placed in the helix, the needle became a magnet; and the direction of its polarity in every cast indicated a current from the anterior to the posterior parts of the gymnotus. ❋ Various (1909)
Such were the general electric phenomena obtained from the gymnotus, and on several occasions many of the phenomena were obtained together. ❋ Various (1909)
The gymnotus frequently gives a double and even a triple shock, with scarcely a sensible interval between each discharge. ❋ Various (1909)
England ... 'and Byronic --' The inviolate Island ... 'shake the frame, as though smiting it with the tail of the gymnotus electricus. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Shakesperian 'This England ...' and Byronic -- 'The inviolate Island ...' shake the frame, as though smiting it with the tail of the gymnotus electricus. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
'This England ...' and Byronic -- 'The inviolate Island ...' shake the frame, as though smiting it with the tail of the gymnotus electricus. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Humboldt first tested the power of the gymnotus, or electric eel, large numbers of which are met with in all the tributaries of the Orinoco. ❋ Jules Verne (1866)
