| Charles Waterton - 1839 - 430 Seiten
...ditches where they take up their abode. That man only, who has seen a weasel go into a corn-stack, can form a just idea of the horror which its approach...which they make to bolt from the invaded premises. No Irishman ever shunned the. hated presence of Dutch William in the Emerald Isle with greater marks... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1844 - 468 Seiten
...ditches where they take up their abode. That man only, who has seen a weasel go into a corn-stack, can form a just idea of the horror which its approach...commotion — whilst these destroyers of corn seem to he put to their last shifts, if you may judge by the extraordinary kind of whining which goes on amongst... | |
| H D. Richardson - 1852 - 158 Seiten
...the Weasel is a great devourer of the beetle, the moles, and the rats ; " That man only," says he, " who has seen a Weasel go into a corn stack can form...Hanoverians collected there for safety and plunder." They are sad devourers of eggs, which they invariably suck and leave the shells, while the rats will... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1861 - 464 Seiten
...ditches where they take up their abode. That man only, who has seen a weasel go into a corn-stack, can form a just idea of the horror which its approach...which they make to bolt from the invaded premises. No Irishman ever shunned the hated presence of Dutch William in the Emerald Isle with greater marks... | |
| John George Wood - 1864 - 478 Seiten
...it makes among rats as well as mice : — " That man only who has seen a Weasel go into a corn-stack can form a just idea of the horror which its approach...safety and plunder. The whole stack is in commotion, while, these destroyers of corn seem put to the last shift, if you may judge by the extraordinary kind... | |
| 1868 - 624 Seiten
...transgressions against the game-laws.. . . That man only who has seen a weasel go into a corn-stack can form a just idea of the horror which its approach...Hanoverians collected there for safety and plunder.' What w e have said of weasels and stoats I will, we think, hold good with regard to the I t'«x. Reynard... | |
| James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1877 - 600 Seiten
...field-mice and rats. " That man only," says Waterton, " who has seen a weasel go into a corn-stack can form a just idea of the horror which its approach causes to the Hanoverians (ie, rats) collected there for safety and plunder." He winds up his Essay on the weasel by remarking... | |
| 1877 - 612 Seiten
...field-mice and rats. " That man only," says Waterton, " who has seen a weasel go into a corn-stack can form a just idea of the horror which its approach causes to the Hanoverians (ie, rats) collected there for safety and plunder." He winds up his Essay on the weasel by remarking... | |
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