 | Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 pages
...regard to rain; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain...attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and 30 running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass; for as sure... | |
 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1922 - 600 pages
...regard to rain; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain...attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and so running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass; for as sure... | |
 | Walter Johnson - 1928 - 372 pages
...in humorous vein. " Though it has a shell which would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain...first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner " (DB, XIII). Again, White wishes to tell Barrington something about barn owls, and the manner in which... | |
 | 604 pages
...had observed — the excessive timidity of the creature about rain, " discovering as much solicitude as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinkling, and hiding its head up in a corner;" also that, "if attended to, it becomes an excellent... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1879 - 1642 pages
...regard to rain ; for though it has a shell which would secure it against the wheels of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain...sprinklings and running its head up in a corner.' And he goes on to suggest it becomes an excellent weather glass. Another pleasant paper 33 gives further... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1850 - 780 pages
...eipresses with regard to rain ; and though it has a shell that would secure it against a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain...dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the tirât sprinklings, and running iU head up in a corner. If attended to, it heroines an excellent weather-glass... | |
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No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a... 
