 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 520 páginas
...now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together,...make a web of its own. It formed an attack upon a neighbouring fortification with great vigour, and at first was as vigorously repulsed. Not daunted,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1888 - 490 páginas
...itself, now deprived of its great means of sube, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together,...its prey. Of this life, however, it soon began to grew weary, and resolved to invade the possession of some other spider, since it could not make a web... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 páginas
...now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together,...possession of some other spider, since it could not make a \veb of its own. It formed an attack upon a neighboring fortification with great vigor, and at first... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 páginas
...now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its glect ; we have had sufficient instances of this kind...But they are dead, and their sorrows are over. The spicier, since it could not make a web of its own. It formed an attack upon a neighbouring fortification... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 344 páginas
...now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together,...spider, since it could not make a web of its own. It made an attack upon a neighboring web with great vigor, and at first was as vigorously repulsed. Not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 302 páginas
...now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together,...make a web of its own. It formed an attack upon a neighbouring fortification with great vigour, and at first was as vigorously repulsed. Not daunted,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 páginas
...surprising. i have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours to- 5 gether, but cautiously watching all the time ; when a fly...invade the possession of some other spider, since it 10 could not make a web of its own. It forrned an attack upon a neighboring fortification with great... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1904 - 374 páginas
...watching all the time: when a fly happened to approach sufficiently near, it would dart out all at ouce, and often seize its prey. "Of this life, however, it soon began to grow weaiy, and resolved to invade the possession of some other spider, since it could not make a web of... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1918 - 424 páginas
...now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together,...spider, since it could not make a web of its own. It made an attack upon a neighboring web with great vigor, and at first was as vigorously repulsed. Not... | |
 | David Sinclair Burleson - 1925 - 440 páginas
...now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll up its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together,...near, it would dart out all at once, and often seize the prey. Of this life, however, it soon began to grow weary, and resolved to invade the possession... | |
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I destroyed this, and the insect set about another. When I destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were... 
