Beeton's Dictionary of natural historyWard, Lock and Tyler, 1871 - 290 pages |
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Page 32 - Foulders, wherein are found broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees, cast up there likewise; whereon is found a certain spume or froth that in time breedeth into certain shells, in shape like those of the Muskle, but sharper pointed, and of a whitish colour...
Page 121 - The old geese submit quietly to the operation, but the young ones are very noisy and unruly. I once saw this performed, and observed that...
Page 144 - Moreover, the hand cares not only for its own wants, but, when the other organs of the senses are rendered useless, takes their duties upon it. The hand of the blind man goes with him as an eye through the streets, and safely threads for him all the devious way ; it looks for him at the faces of his friends, and tells him whose kindly features are gazing on him ; it peruses books for him, and quickens the .long hours by its silent readings.
Page 172 - Tungusian were fulfilled ; for, the part of the ice between the earth and the Mammoth having melted more rapidly than the rest, the plane of its support became inclined, and the enormous mass fell by its own weight on a bank of sand.
Page 144 - What moreover is a ship, a railway, a lighthouse, or a palace — what, indeed, is a whole city, a whole continent of cities, all the cities of the globe, nay, the very globe itself, in so far as man has changed it, but the work of that giant hand, with which the human race, acting as one mighty man, has executed its will!
Page 200 - The dog turned back ; the gentlemen rode on, and reached home; but to their surprise and disappointment the hitherto faithful messenger did not return during the day. It afterwards appeared that he had gone to the place where the shilling was...
Page 32 - ... they carry both mud and stones, while they always drag the wood with their teeth. All their work is executed in the night ; and they are so expeditious that, in the course of one night, I have known them to have collected as much as amounted to some thousands of their little handfuls.
Page 168 - It is situated between the trachea and base of the tongue, at the upper and fore part of the neck, where it forms a considerable projection in the middle line.