 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 páginas
...always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her * In a copy of the work entitled Memoirs fur the Natnial Hbtory of Animals, from the French Academy,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 páginas
...regard to rain ; for though it has a (bell tbat would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, ytt does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her • In a copy of the work entitled Memoirs for the N.-umal History of An mnls, frnrn the French Academy,... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1821 - 752 páginas
...always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her * In a copy of the work entitled Memoirs for the Natural History of Animals, from the French Academy,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 páginas
...always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude...sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weatherglass; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were... | |
 | 1823 - 858 páginas
...expresses with » ' regard to rain ; for though it bas a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude...in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first spriaklings, and cunning its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 782 páginas
...always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell which would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain, as a lady dressed in her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 722 páginas
...always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell which would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain, as a lady dressed in her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 páginas
...always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude...sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weatherglass : for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 páginas
...always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude...sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 páginas
...regard to rain j for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cait, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain...sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were... | |
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No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a... 
