 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 728 pages
...as sure as it walks elate, and, as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness, in a rooming, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a...other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach, as well as longs, and can refrain from eating, as well as breathing, for a great part of the year. I was much... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...becomes an excellent weatherglass; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain...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
...an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain...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... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Zoology - 1831 - 722 pages
...walks elate, and as it were on tip-toe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure it will rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal,...pretends to stir after it becomes dark. " The tortoise, as well as other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach, as well as lungs, and can refrain from eating,... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - Reptiles - 1831 - 782 pages
...walks elate, and as it were on tip-toe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure it will rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal,...pretends to stir after it becomes dark. " The tortoise, as well as other reptiles, has an arbitrary stomach, as well as lungs, and can refrain from eating,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1832 - 354 pages
...becomes an excellent weatherglass : for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain...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 - 1833 - 338 pages
...an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain...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 - Natural history - 1834 - 392 pages
...an excellent weather-glass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain...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 - Natural history - 1837 - 680 pages
...becomes an excellent weather-glass; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain...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 - Natural history - 1837 - 678 pages
...becomes an excellent weather-glass; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain...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... | |
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... rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe, feeding with... 
