 | Robert Robinson (inspector of national sch, Ireland.) - 1863 - 490 Seiten
...raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then stop, lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. . . . By this method in about ten or twelve days a nearly globular nest is formed, with a small hole towards the top, strong, compact, and warm. 'The... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1867 - 542 Seiten
...ordinary degree of sense and intelligence, if not of something approaching to reason. — ED. (Gleanings.) ruined by its own weight. By this method, in about...twelve days, is formed an hemispheric nest, with a smal! aperture towards the top, — strong, compact, and warm, and perfectly fitted for all the purposes... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 Seiten
...add but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist, lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method, in about ten or twelve, days, a hemispherical nest is formed, with a small aperture towards the top; strong, compact, and warm, and... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 Seiten
...but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about...intended. But then nothing is more common than for the house sparrow, as soon as the shell is finished, to seize on it as its own, to eject the owner, and... | |
 | Early days, Gleanings - 1874 - 224 Seiten
...it sufficient time to dry and harden. About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. By this method, in about ten or twelve days is formed...perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it is intended. These industrious artificers are at their labours in the long days before four in the... | |
 | Philip George and son, ltd - 1875 - 362 Seiten
...raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist, lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method, in about ten or twelve days, is formed a hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 Seiten
...layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by it's own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve...as soon as the shell is finished, to seize on it as it's own, to eject the owner, and to line it after it's own manner. After so much labour is bestowed... | |
 | London readers - 1878 - 296 Seiten
...but a moderate layer at the time, and then desist, lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed a hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 Seiten
...raise but a moderate layer at a lime, and then desist, lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed a hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly... | |
 | George John Romanes - 1882 - 550 Seiten
...birds), raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist, lest the work should become top-heavy, and ruined by its own weight. By this method, in about ten or twelve days is formed a hemispheric nest, with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, 1 Newton, Encyel. Brit.,... | |
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Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten... 
