 | Walter Scott - 1828 - 258 Seiten
...thread of his own spinning, was endeavouring, as is the«fashion of that creature, to swing himself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which he meant to stretch hia web. The insect made the attempt again and again without success ; and at length... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1828 - 256 Seiten
...thread of his own spinning, was endeavouring, as is the fashion of that creature, to swing himself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which he meant to stretch his web. The insect made the attempt again and again without success; and at length... | |
 | 1831 - 460 Seiten
...thread of his own spinning, was endeavonring, as is the fashion of that creature, to swing himself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which he meant to stretch his web. The inject made the attempt again and again'Without success ; and at length... | |
 | 1834 - 536 Seiten
...thread of his own spinning, was endeavouring, as is the fashion of that creature, to swing himself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which he meant to stretch his web. The insect made the attempt again and again without success; and at length... | |
 | William Youatt - 1839 - 238 Seiten
...hanging at the end of a long thread that it had woven, was endeavouring to swing itself from one beam of the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which it meant to stretch its web. It made the attempt again and again without success ; and at length Bruce counted, that it had tried... | |
 | 1841 - 722 Seiten
...Edit, 1788. despondency, he looked up to the ceiling, and saw a spider endeavouring "to swing himself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which he meant to stretch his web." Six times the spider made the attempt, and six times it failed. Bruce... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1845 - 176 Seiten
...his bed, and saw a spider, which, hanging at the end of a long thread of its own spinning, was trying to swing itself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line for its web. 7. The insect made the attempt again and again, without success ; and at length Bruce... | |
 | C. T - 1847 - 316 Seiten
...thread of his own spinning, was endeavouring, as is the fashion of that creature, to swing himself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which he meant to stretch his web. The insect made the attempt again and again without success ; and, at... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1849 - 180 Seiten
...his bed, and saw a spider, which, hanging at the end of a long thread of its own spinning, was trying to swing itself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line for its web. 7. The insect made the attempt again and again, without success ; and at length Bruce... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1850 - 344 Seiten
...end of a !i>"£ thread of its own spinning, wtis endeavouring, as is the fashion of thtit creature, to swing itself from one beam in the roof to another, for the piirpose of fixing the line on which it meant to stretch its web. The insect made the attempt again... | |
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... to swing itself from one beam in the roof to another, for the purpose of fixing the line on which it meant to stretch its web. 
