| Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...hour hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scoop, ing the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in (he middle of the day, and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained... | |
| 1823 - 858 pages
...month in performing one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night aod day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body...continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet tbe work remained unfinished. Harsher wealiitr, and frosty mornings, would have quickened its 2 operations.... | |
| Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pages
...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...of the day; and though I continued there till the 13th of November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 722 pages
...little exceeding the hour hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great...the middle of the day, and though I continued there until the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished : harsher weather and frosty mornings... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier - 1831 - 782 pages
...little exceeding the hour hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great...the middle of the day, and though I continued there until the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished : harsher weather and frosty mornings... | |
| Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pages
...month in performing one feat oi copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great...of the day ; and though I continued there till the 13th of November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1832 - 440 pages
...habits and disposition s.ยง To see the crocodile Nothing can he more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scooping the 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... | |
| Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great...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,... | |
| Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...month in performing one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great...of the day ; and, though I continued there till the 1 3th of November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have... | |
| Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...month in performing one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great...of the day; and though I continued there till the 13th of November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have... | |
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