 | Miss Read - 2001 - 260 pages
...to test Gilbert White's assertion that it makes 'an excellent weatherglass'. He goes on to say that 'as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tip-toe,...in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.' Sometimes I think it would be a good idea to have a permanent tortoise on the strength. Certainly Ernest's... | |
 | Robert Finch, John Elder - 2002 - 1160 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her ited, the least "developed," for reasons that should...North American deserts which is the worst? A good like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach as well as lungs; and can refrain from eating as well... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1850 - 780 pages
...shuffling away on the tirât sprinklings, and running iU head up in a corner. If attended to, it heroines an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with créât earnectneu in the morning, ю »ure will it rain before night. Darwin'* great tortoise« marched... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1879 - 1642 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... 
