swimming-bladder

I am inclined to think the practicable navigable balloon will be first attained by the use of a device already employed by Nature in the swimming-bladder of fishes.

Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought 1906

I found in a hundred parts of the air of the swimming-bladder four of oxygen and ninety-six of nitrogen.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

It looks like the bifurcated swimming-bladder in the

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

The swimming-bladder of the gymnotus is two feet five inches long in a fish of three feet ten inches.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

That's your big pike's swimming-bladder, that keeps him atop and feeding: that's his calling and election, his oil of anointing, his salvum fac regem, his yeoman of the wardrobe, who keeps the velvet-piled side of this world uppermost, lest his delicate eyes should see the warp that holds it.

The Saint's Tragedy Charles Kingsley 1847

They had some diseases in common; they were both subject to the same parasitical worms in the intestines; and, strange to say, the An has, in his structure, a swimming-bladder, no longer of any use to him, but which is a rudiment that clearly proves his descent from a Frog.

The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Again, the Frog had the power to live alike on land and in water -- a mighty privilege, partaking of a spiritual essence denied to the An, since the disuse of his swimming-bladder clearly proves his degeneration from a higher development of species.

The Coming Race Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Gymnotus electricus there exists, besides the large swimming-bladder, another situated before it, and much smaller.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

The swimming-bladder of the gymnotus is two feet five inches long in a fish of three feet ten inches.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

I found in a hundred parts of the air of the swimming-bladder four of oxygen and ninety-six of nitrogen.

Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814