 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 стор.
...day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be sufficient layer for a day. Thus, careful workmen,...they build mud-walls (informed at first, perhaps, by these little birds), raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist, lest the work should become... | |
 | T. Lindley Kemp - 1854 - 152 стор.
...the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen, when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by these little birds), raise but a moderate layer at a time,... | |
 | 1856 - 678 стор.
...the day to food and amusement gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems a sufficient layer for a day. Thus, careful workmen, when they build mud walls (informed perhaps at first by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time and... | |
 | G. Garratt - 1856 - 288 стор.
...the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen, when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by these little birds), raise but a moderate layer at a time,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1857 - 462 стор.
...rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus, careful...they build mud-walls (informed at first, perhaps, by these little birds), raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist, lest the work should become... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1858 - 454 стор.
...rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful...ruined by its own weight. By this method in about tsn or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1862 - 456 стор.
...rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful...desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so he ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest... | |
 | Robert Robinson (inspector of national sch, Ireland.) - 1863 - 490 стор.
...swallow. and amusement, so that the clay has sufficient time to dry and harden. . . . About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful...bird, raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then stop, lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. . . . By this method... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 358 стор.
...day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to he a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen, when they build mud-walla (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird), raise but a moderate layer at a time and... | |
 | Illustrated sketches - 1864 - 364 стор.
...Speaking of the gradual advance of the work, he says : " Thus careful workmen, when they build mud walls (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird),...become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight." Allusion is made in Holy Scripture to the Swallow, as observing " the time of its coming," * and as... | |
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... by its own weight, the provident architect has prudence and forbearance enough not to advance her work too fast ; but by building only in the morning, and by dedicating the rest of the day to food and amusement, gives it sufficient time to dry and... 
