 ... aim; but if it chanced to want anything of being perfectly opposite, would, at first peep, immediately slide down again, — till taking better notice, it would come the next time exactly upon the fly's back : but if this happened not to be within...  Insect Architecture - Page 355by James Rennie - 1830 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1830 - 426 pages
...the very shadow of the gnomon soemed not to be more imperceptible, unless the fly moved ; and llicu would the spider move also in the same proportion,...her motion, as if the same soul had animated both '''::•-•' little bodies ; and whether it were forwards, backwards, or to either side, without at... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - 1833 - 260 pages
...within a competent leap, then would this insect move so softly, as the very shadow of the gnomon J seemed not to be more imperceptible, unless the fly...animated both these little bodies ; and, whether it was forwards, backwards, or to either side, without at all turning her body, like a well-managed horse... | |
 | 1833 - 222 pages
...within a competent leap, then would this insect move so softly, as the very shadow of the gnoinen * seemed not to be more imperceptible, unless the fly...animated both these little bodies; and, whether it was forwards, backwards or to either side, without at all turning her body, like a well-managed horse... | |
 | Clinton G. Gilroy - 1845 - 560 pages
...(hunters), which are a sort of lupi (wolves) that have their dens in rugged walls and crevices of our houses ; a small brown and delicatelyspotted kind...either side, without at all turning her body, like a well-managed horse : but if the capricious fly took wing and pitched upon another place behind our... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 pages
...immediately slide down again, till, taking better notice, it would come the next time exactly upon the fly s back. But if this happened not to be within a competent...either side, without at all turning her body, like a well-managed horse. If, however, the capri- , cious fly" took wing, and pitched upon another place... | |
 | L M. Budgen - 1851 - 492 pages
...some allied venatores, how that one of them, if it " happened not to be within a competent leap, would move so softly as the very shadow of the gnomon seemed...her motion, as if the same soul had animated both those little * Mygale avicularia. t Salticus scenicus. See Vignette. SPIDERS AND BIRDS. 283 bodies."*... | |
 | Four little wise ones - 1853 - 456 pages
...exactly upon the fly's back. But, if this happened not to be within a competent leap, then would the insect move so softly, as the very shadow of the gnomon...that just time with her motion, as if the same soul animated both their little bodies ; and, whether it went forwards or backwards, or to either side,... | |
 | T. Lindley Kemp - 1854 - 152 pages
...back; but if this happened not to be within a competent leap, then would this insect move so slowly, as the very shadow of the gnomon seemed not to be...either side, without at all turning her body, like a well-managed horse; but if the capricious fly .took wing and pitched upon another place behind our... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1855 - 986 pages
...burning sun of summer. Its manners cannot be better described than in the words of old Evelyn : — " Such I did frequently observe at Rome, which, espying...either side, without at all turning her body, like a well-managed horse. If, however, the capricious fly took wing and pitched upon another place behind... | |
 | Philip Henry Gosse - 1857 - 396 pages
...burning sun of summer. Its manners cannot be better described than in the words of old Evelyn :—" Such I did frequently observe at Rome, which, espying...either side, without at all turning her body, like a well-managed horse. If, however, the capricious fly took wing and pitched upon another place behind... | |
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