| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - Počet stránok 728
...its hind, but the motion uf its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scoop, ing the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but as the noons of that season... | |
| Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - Počet stránok 894
...its hind, but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scoop, ing the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but as the noons of that season... | |
| 1823 - Počet stránok 858
...bind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding tbe hour-hand of a clock ; and suitable to the composure of an animal said to...Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night aod day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but, as the noons of that... | |
| Gilbert White - 1829 - Počet stránok 364
...hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock, and suitable to the composure of an animal said to...this creature night and day in scooping the earth, awl forcing its great body into the cavity ; but, as the noons of that season proved unusually warm... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1832 - Počet stránok 430
...the forming of its winter hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hypaticas. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature,...earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1832 - Počet stránok 440
...an acquired self-coercion of former habits and disposition s.§ To see the crocodile Nothing can he more assiduous than this creature, night and day,...earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity. . .If attended to, it hecomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it... | |
| Gilbert White - 1832 - Počet stránok 354
...hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock, and suitable to the composure of an animal said .to be a whole month in performing one feat oi copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1832 - Počet stránok 456
...self-government, and of an acquired self-coercion of former habits and dispositions.} To see the crocodile Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in •cooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity. . .If attended •°t it becomes... | |
| Gilbert White - 1833 - Počet stránok 338
...hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night...sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called fortb, by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the 13th of November,... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1833 - Počet stránok 594
...had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hypaticas. Nothing can be more assiduous than thiscreatnre, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ... If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it... | |
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