 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
 | Theodore Dwight - 1845 - 844 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
...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 - 527 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
...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 - 382 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
...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
...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
...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 - 312 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... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854
...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. — Goldsmith. 1. Do spiders live in companies or societies like bees ? 2. For what sort of life has... | |
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