| Gilbert White - 1895 - 620 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...its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes ac excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with... | |
| John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 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...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner." The old tortoise begins to dig a hole in the ground to go into winter quarters early in November. "It... | |
| John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 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...first sprinklings and running its head up in a corner. " The old tortoise begins to dig a hole in the ground to go into winter quarters early in November.... | |
| John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 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...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner." The old tortoise begins to dig a hole in the ground to go into winter quarters early in November. "It... | |
| John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 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...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner." The old tortoise begins to dig a hole in the ground to go into winter quarters early in November. "It... | |
| Mrs. Brightwen (Eliza Elder) - 1895 - 294 стор.
...by the heat of the sun. Gilbert White has remarked upon the tortoise as a weather prophet. He says, "As sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night." I can confirm this statement from my own observation,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1900 - 622 стор.
..." Feeding far from man, the flowery herb, Slow moving with bin feet." — KIT. J. MITFORD. rain aa a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away...attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for aa sure as it walks elate, and, as it were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning,... | |
| F. W. Bockett - 1901 - 302 стор.
...the ground with his forefeet and throwing it up over his back with his hind ; Timothy, who showed as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, who shuffled away on the first sprinklings, running his head in a corner ; Timothy, who was put in... | |
| John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 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...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner." The old tortoise begins to dig a hole in the ground to go into winter quar186 ters early in November.... | |
| John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 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...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner." The old tortoise begins to dig a hole in the ground to go into winter quarters early in November. "... | |
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