The remark that I shall make on these cobweb-like appearances, called gossamer, is, that strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which swarm... Animal biography, or, Popular zoology - Сторінка 239автори: William Bingley - 1829Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| William Bingley - 1803 - 624 стор.
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
| 1817 - 494 стор.
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
| William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 552 стор.
...that baskets-full might have been collected. No one doubts, he observes, but that these webs are the production of small spiders, which swarm in the fields in fine weather in autumn, and have a power of snooting out webs from their tails, so as to vender themselves buoyant and lighter than the air a.... | |
| Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 стор.
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that, day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, aad why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
| William Kirby, William Spence - 1823 - 556 стор.
...that baskets-full might have been collected. No one doubts, he observes, but that these webs are the production of small spiders, which swarm in the fields...so as to render themselves buoyant and lighter than the air*. In Germany these flights of gossamer appear so constantly in autumn, that they are there... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 стор.
...notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real productions of small Spiders, which swarm in the fields in fine...to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air." Bishop Hall observes of a superstitious man, " That if heard but a Raven croke from the next roofe... | |
| Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 стор.
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
| Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 стор.
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
| Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 стор.
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
| Gilbert White - 1836 - 440 стор.
...nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which swarm in tfie fields in fine weather in autumn, and have a power...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
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