 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - 1908 - 360 pages
...feet, but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour hand of a clock. 240 and called forth by the heat in the middle of the...would have quickened its operations. No part of its behavior ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - 1908 - 360 pages
...hind feet, but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour hand of a clock. and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though 1 continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 478 pages
...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...would have quickened its operations. No part of its behavior ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain; for... | |
 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 pages
...earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity; but, as the noons of that 15 season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and...unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have 20 quickened its operations. No part of its behavior ever struck me more than the extreme timidity... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...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...of the day; and though I continued there till the 13th November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have quickened... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...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...of the day; and though I continued there till the i3th November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have quickened... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...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...of the day; and though I continued there till the 13th November, yet the work remained unfinished. Harsher weather, and frosty mornings, would have quickened... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the i3th November, yet the .work remained unfinished. Harsher...would have quickened its operations. No part of its behavior ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain; for,... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 pages
...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 heat of the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 676 pages
...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 heat of the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work... | |
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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... 
