 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 sider
...out the ground with its fore feet, aud throws it up over its bark with its hind, but the motion uf its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the...more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scoop, ing the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but as the noons of that season... | |
 | Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good - 1818 - 894 sider
...the tortoise began to dig the ground, in order to form its bybf rnaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of Hepaticas. It scrapes out the...more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scoop, ing the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but as the noons of that season... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 sider
...suitable to the composure of an animal said to be a whole month in performing one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, awl forcing its great body into the cavity ; but, as the noons of that season proved unusually warm... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1832 - 430 sider
...the forming of its winter hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hypaticas. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature,...earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1832 - 440 sider
...an acquired self-coercion of former habits and disposition s.§ To see the crocodile Nothing can he more assiduous than this creature, night and day,...earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity. . .If attended to, it hecomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1832 - 456 sider
...self-government, and of an acquired self-coercion of former habits and dispositions.} To see the crocodile Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in •cooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity. . .If attended •°t it becomes... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 sider
...back with its hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this...sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called fortb, by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the 13th of November,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 594 sider
...had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hypaticas. Nothing can be more assiduous than thiscreatnre, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ... If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 416 sider
...self-government, and of an acquired self-coercion of former habits and dispositions. § To see the crocodile Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature,...earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity. . .If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-elass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 336 sider
...back with ita hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hourhand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this...that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was eontinually interrupted and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day ; and:though I continued... | |
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Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity ; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth... 
