 The insect I am now describing lived three years; every year it changed its skin, and got a new set of legs. I have sometimes plucked off a leg, which grew again in two or three days. At first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so...  Select British Classics - Pagina 721804Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1845 - 550 pagina’s
...first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and upon my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared eithei for a defence or an attack. Tocomplete this description, it may be oliwrveil, that the male... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 846 pagina’s
...dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a tly out of my hand, and on my touching any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for defence or attack." The Chrysalis of a Bntterffy. There are many things relative to insects ' which... | |
 | 1852 - 788 pagina’s
...first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and upon my touching any part of the web,...hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack." CONTINENTAL RAMBLES.— LETTER II. MY DEAR , We entered the Garonne on the morning of the 19th of June,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 558 pagina’s
...dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my land ; , eithet for a defence or an attack. To complete this description, it may be observed, ;hat the male... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pagina’s
...first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and, upon my touching any part of the web,...hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack. — GoMsmith't animated Nature. MISCELLANY OF EXTRACTS AND CORRESPONDENCE. SERPENT-CHARMERS. IN the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pagina’s
...its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and, upon my touch ing any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack." CHAPTER XXVII. Honors at the Royal Academy. — Letter to his brother Maurice. — Family for tunes.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pagina’s
...its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and, upon my touch ing any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack." CHAPTER XXVII. Honors at the Royal Academy. — Letter to his brother Maurice. — Family for tunes.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 402 pagina’s
...its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and, upon my touch ing any part of the web, would immediately leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack." CHAPTER XXVII. Honor? at the Royal Academy. — Letter to his brother Maurice. — Family for tunes.... | |
 | 1852 - 430 pagina’s
...first it dreaded my approach to its web, but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand ; and upon my touching any part of the web,...leave its hole, prepared either for a defence or an attack.1' Insects impaled on Thorns. — Having seen a request from Mr. Douglas, for facts respecting... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pagina’s
...first it dreaded my approach to its web ; but at last it became so familiar as to take a fly out of my hand, and upon my touching any part of the web,...hole, prepared either For a defence or an attack. LOED CHESTEBFIELD. BOBN Sept. 22, 1694, educated at Cambridge, and afterwards distinguished both as... | |
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