 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 336 pages
...winter quarters early in November. " It scrapes out the ground with its fore-feet," says the historian, "and throws it up over its back with its hind; but...its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock." "This creature not only goes under the earth from the middle of November to... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 pages
...tortoise, formerly mentioned, began first to dig the ground in order to the forming its hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its fore-feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 pages
...tortoise, formerly mentioned, began first to dig the ground in order to the forming its hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its fore-feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously... | |
 | Joseph Henry Wade, Emma Sylvester - 1908 - 360 pages
...to dig the ground in order to form its hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great turf of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its fore feet, and throws it over its back with its hind feet, but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - 1910 - 478 pages
...tortoise, formerly mentioned, began first to dig the ground in order to the forming its hibernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of...its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock ; and suitable, to the composure of an animal said to be a whole month in performing... | |
 | Frances Campbell Berkeley Young - 1910 - 502 pages
...tortoise, formerly mentioned, began first to dig the ground in order to the forming its hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its forefeet, and 10 throws it up over its back with its hind; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its fore-feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind; but...its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock. Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...tortoise, formerly mentioned, began first to dig the ground in order to the forming its hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its fore-feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...tortoise, formerly mentioned, began first to dig the ground in order to the forming its hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its fore-feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 pages
...tortoise, formerly mentioned, began first to dig the ground in order to the forming its hybernaculum, which it had fixed on just beside a great tuft of hepaticas. It scrapes out the ground with its fore-feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind ; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously... | |
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It scrapes out the ground with its fore feet, and throws it up over its back with its hind; but the motion of its legs is ridiculously slow, little exceeding the hour-hand of a clock... 
