 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 338 pages
...diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach, as well as lungs; and can...as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing ; nor again in the autumn before it retires : through the height... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach, as well as lungs ; and can...as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing ; nor again in the autumn, before it retires ; through the height... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs ; and can...as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing ; nor again in the autumn before it retires; through the height... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs ; and can...as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing ; nor again in the autumn before it retires; through the height... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 594 pages
...ground a winter cave or residence. It was a diurnal animal, and never stirred after dark. It could refrain from eating as well as breathing for a great part of the year ; but during the heigbt of summer it fed voraciously, devouring all the food that came in its way.... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 416 pages
...ground a winter cave or residence. It was a diurnal animal, and never stirred after dark. It could refrain from eating as well as breathing for a great part of the year ; but during the height of summer it fed voraciously, devouring all the food that came in its way.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 342 pages
...diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs, and can...as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing, nor again in the autumn before it retires : through the height... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1842 - 348 pages
...dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs, and can re. frain from eating as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing, nor again in the autumn before it retires : through the height... | |
 | 1843 - 536 pages
...diurnal animal, and never pretends "to stir after it "becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs, and can...as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing ; nor again in the autumn before it retires : through the height... | |
 | 1843 - 1040 pages
...diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs, and can...as well as breathing for a great part of the year. When first awakened it eats nothing ; nor again in the autumn before it retires : through the height... | |
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... weatherglass; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise... 
