 | Gilbert White - 1900 - 622 стор.
...to hold the nut firm while he pierces it, like an adroit workman, he fixes it as it were, in a rice, in some cleft of a tree, or in some crevice, when,...standing over it, he perforates the stubborn shell. We have often placed nuts in the chink of a gate-post, where nut-hatches have been known to haunt,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 стор.
...but as this artist has no paws to hold the nut firm while he pierces it, like an adroit workman, he fixes it, as it were in a vice, in some cleft of a...standing over it, he perforates the stubborn shell. We have often placed nuts in the chink of a gate-post where nut-hatches have been known to haunt, and... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner, George Lyman Kittredge, Sarah Louise Arnold - 1907 - 520 стор.
...but, as this artist has no paws to hold the nut firm while he pierces it, like an adroit workman he fixes it, as it were in a vice, in some cleft of a...standing over it, he perforates the stubborn shell. CHAPTER V ARGUMENT ARGUMENT AND EXPOSITION In many cases there is no substantial difference between... | |
 | Abram Royer Brubacher, Dorothy Ermina Snyder - 1910 - 386 стор.
...bill but this artist has no paws to hold the nut with while he pierces it like an adroit workman he fixes it as it were, in a vice in some cleft of a tree or in some crevice^when standing over it he perforates the stubborn shell. GILBERT WHITE : Natural History of... | |
 | James Rendel Harris - 1916 - 98 стор.
...that As this artist has no paws to hold the nut firm while he pierces it, like an adroit workman he fixes it, as it were, in a vice, in some cleft of...standing over it, he perforates the stubborn shell. We have often placed nuts in the chink of a gate-post where nut-hatches have been known to haunt, and... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Lura E. Runkel, Clara E. Lynch, George Linnaeus Marsh - 1918 - 536 стор.
...to hold the nut firm while he pierces it, like an adroit workman, he fixes it, as it were in a vise, in some cleft of a tree, or in some crevice; when,...standing over it, he perforates the stubborn shell. We have often placed nuts in the chink of a gate-post where nut-hatches have been known to haunt, and... | |
 | Walter Johnson - 1928 - 372 стор.
...but as this artist has no paws to hold the nut firm while he pierces it, like an adroit workman, he fixes it, as it were, in a vice, in some cleft of...standing over it, he perforates the stubborn shell " (DB, LVI). An instance in which White, after methodical inspection, drew an excusably erroneous deduction,... | |
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... bill ; but as this artist has no paws to hold the nut firm while he pierces it, like an adroit workman, he fixes it as it were in a vice, in some cleft of a tree, or in some crevice, when, standing over it, he perforates the stubborn shell. 
