 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 624 pages
...head up in a corner* — When the Tortoise is attended to, it becomes an excellent barometer : when it walks elate, and, as it were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness, in a morning, it will, almost invariably, be found to rain before night. — Mr. White was much taken with the sagacity... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...length, and six and a balf io bread ih. best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and miming its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness, in a rooming, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 858 pages
...rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first spriaklings, and cunning its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes...before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretende to stir after it becomes dark. Tbe tertobe, like other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...head up into a corner. When the Tortoise is attended to, it becomes an excellent barometer: if it walk elate, 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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Zoology - 1831 - 722 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain, as a lady dressed in her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure it will rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Reptiles - 1831 - 782 pages
...wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain, as a lady dressed in her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings,...feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure it will rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends to stir after it becomes... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 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... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1832 - 430 pages
...than this creature, night and day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass...feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure it will rain before night I was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind offices... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1832 - 440 pages
...day, in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity. . .If attended to, it hecomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks...feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure it will rain hefore night. . . 1 was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind... | |
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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... 
