 | 1850 - 602 стор.
...it has a shell that would secure it against a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitudo about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire,...were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. Darwin's great tortoises marched by night as well as... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 стор.
...out the earth. Though it has a shell which would secure it against a loaded cart, yet it discovers as much solicitude about rain, as a lady dressed in all her best attire — shuffling away at the first sprinkling, and running its head up in a corner. " If attended to, it becomes an excellent... | |
 | 1856 - 1178 стор.
...rain ; and though it has a shell that would secure it against a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, ifcuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes... | |
 | 1850 - 602 стор.
...rain ; and though it ha» a >lir|] that would secure it against a loaded cart, yet dues it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all...were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. Darwin's great tortoises marched by night as well as... | |
 | 1851 - 640 стор.
...rain ; and though it has a shell that would secure it against a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. Darwin's great tortoises marched by night as well as... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1852 - 446 стор.
...rain ; and though it has a shell that would secure it against a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. Darwin's great tortoises marched by night as well as... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1854 - 538 стор.
...— • " Feeding far from man, the flowery herb, Slow moving with his feet." — REV. J. MITFORD. rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and Tunning its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1866 - 448 стор.
...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...weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and tia it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.... | |
 | Ernest Menault - 1869 - 400 стор.
...distant approach of a shower makes it uneasy. Hence Gilbert White remarked that his tortoise showed " as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire." The bright light of the sun seems to be especially grateful to tortoises. Rarely will they stir out... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 стор.
...into a corner. When the Tortoise is attended to, it becomes an excellent barometer, if it walk elat !, and, as it were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness, in a morning, there will almost invariably be rain before night. Mr. White was much pleased with the. sagacity of... | |
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... much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first 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... 
