 | Cassell, ltd - 1863 - 848 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. When first awakened it eats nothing, nor again in the autumn before it retires ; through the height... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1866 - 448 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and tia it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.... | |
 | William Bingley - 1871 - 1056 pages
...into a corner. When the Tortoise is attended to, it becomes an excellent barometer, if it walk elat !, and, as it were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness, in a morning, there will almost invariably be rain before night. Mr. White was much pleased with the. sagacity of... | |
 | Gilbert White, Edward Jesse - 1872 - 536 pages
...the flowery herb, Slow moving with his feet."- — REV. J. MITFOKD. rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for aa sure as it walks elate, and, as it were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1875 - 698 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs ; and can refrain from eating as well... | |
 | Gilbert White, Francis Trevelyan Buckland, Roundell Palmer Earl of Selborne - 1875 - 664 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a dinrnal animal, and never prelends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles,... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - 416 pages
...yet did it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shufHing away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner." But man, at last, is the creature fullest of contradictions, and his vanity is at the bottom of most... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1877 - 588 pages
...as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running it's head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an...pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs ; and can refrain from eating as well... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1879 - 510 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...pretends to stir after it becomes dark. The tortoise, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs ; and can refrain from eating as well... | |
 | 1879 - 820 pages
...wheels of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first 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... | |
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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... 
