 | Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 Seiten
...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 her best attire, shuffling...so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a dinrnal animal, and never prelends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - 416 Seiten
...yet did it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shufHing away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner." But man, at last, is the creature fullest of contradictions, and his vanity is at the bottom of most... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 Seiten
...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 her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running it's head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weatherglass ; for as sure as it... | |
 | 1879 - 820 Seiten
...would secure it against the wheels of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner.' And he goes on to suggest it becomes an excellent weather glass. Another pleasant paper 33 gives further... | |
 | A. P. Russell - 1879 - 412 Seiten
...that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet did it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling...sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. But man, at last, is the creature fullest of contradictions, and his vanity is at the bottom of most... | |
 | 1879 - 826 Seiten
...would secure it against the wheels of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner.' And he goes on to suggest it becomes an excellent weather glass. Another pleasant paper 33 gives further... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1880 - 554 Seiten
...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 her best attire, shuffling...becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as its walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1883 - 554 Seiten
...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 her best attire, shuffling...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in & morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a iliurnal animal, and never pretends to... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 Seiten
...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 her best attire, shuffling...with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rajn before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 Seiten
...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 her best attire,- shuffling...becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as its walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will... | |
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No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for 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... 
