 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 pages
...one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have quickened its operations.... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pages
...one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night aod day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...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
...hour hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...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
...hour hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...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
...one feat oi copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...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... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...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 body into the cavity...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
...one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...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
...one feat of copulation. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity...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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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 by the... 
