 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 стор.
...their walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these men would find that the earth...not so much injured by them as by many species of eoleoptera (scarabs) and tipulce (long-legs), in their larva, or grub-state ; and by unnoticed myriads... | |
 | Selina Gaye - 1900 - 412 стор.
...hated the worm in his day, as the former at least do still ; but he remarks that they would find ' the earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile.' The earthworm is an animal possessed apparently of more than the traditional nine lives, and endowed... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1903 - 170 стор.
...field of study, has declared, as a result of his own investigations, that "without worms the earth would soon become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile." They are Nature's own gardeners and tillers of the soil. They people the sod, and feed the roots of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1908 - 314 стор.
...their walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the latter because, as they think, worms eat their green corn. But these men would find that the earth...not so much injured by them as by many species of coleoplcra (scarabs), and tipulse (long-legs), in their larva, or grubstate ; and by unnoticed myriads... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1910 - 410 стор.
...where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile. . . . These hints we think proper to throw out, in order to set the inquisitive and discerning at work.... | |
 | 1914 - 588 стор.
...grass. Worms probably provide new soil for hills and slopes, where the rain washes the earth away. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile" (Letter Ixxvii.). The elder Buckland spoke of them as "hitherto unappreciated fellow laborers with... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1917 - 504 стор.
...where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile. , . , These hints we think proper to throw out, in order to set the inquisitive and discerning to work.... | |
 | 1921 - 560 стор.
...where the rain washes the earth away; and they affect slopes probably to avoid being flooded. .... The earth without worms would soon become cold, hardbound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile These hints we think proper to throw out, in order to set the inquisitive and discerning at work. A... | |
 | John Arthur Thomson - 1922 - 464 стор.
...stalks into the soil; and most of all by throwing up such infinite numbers of lumps of earth. . . . The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound,...and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile. Photo: JJ Ward. BRANCHED HAIRS FROM THE BODY OF A HUMBLEBEE, WITH POLLEN-GRAINS ENTANGLED The pollen,... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1922 - 170 стор.
...washes the earth away." He goes on to point out that though gardeners and farmers detest worms, they " would find that the earth, without worms, would soon...become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation." You may remember how Darwin describes the work of earth-worms in preparing for vegetable growth a superficial... | |
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... slopes where the rain washes the earth away ; and they affect slopes, probably to avoid being flooded. Gardeners and farmers express their detestation of worms ; the former because they render their walks unsightly, and make them much work : and the... 
