 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 pages
...notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his legs; while the horse would look down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and...Thus, by mutual good offices, each seemed to console tlie v;;cjnt hours of the other." The father of the writer of this article had three animals domesticated,... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his legs : while the horse would look down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and...to be somewhat mistaken : " Much less can bird with least, or fish with fowl, " So well converse, nor with the ox the ape." I am, &c. LETTER XXV. TO THK... | |
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his legs; while the horse would look down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and...lest he should trample on his diminutive companion. A DREADFUL DEATH. —Ingenious cruelty could scarcely have devised pains so awful as those an unhappy... | |
 | Peter Buchan - 1824 - 156 pages
...notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his legs; while the horse would look down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and circumspection, lest he should trample on his diminitive companion. By mutual good offices each seemed to console the vacant hours of the other;... | |
 | 1825 - 492 pages
...satisfation, and would move with the greatest caution and circumspection, lest he should trample upon his diminutive companion. Thus by mutual good offices,...seemed to •console the vacant hours of the other : «o that Milton, when he puts the following sentiment into the mouth of Adura, seems to be somewhat... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...borse would look down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and circumspection, lest be should trample on his diminutive companion. Thus by...Milton, when he puts the following sentiment in the month of Adam, seems to be somewhat mistaken : " Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl,... | |
 | 1829 - 642 pages
...notes of complacency, nibbing herself gently against his legs, while the horae would I, «>k down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and circumspection, lest he should trample i'ji lits diminutive companion — thus, by mutual good offices each seemed to console the vacant hours... | |
 | Great Britain - 1829 - 520 pages
...notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his legs, while the hors•would look down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and circumspection, lest he should tramplt on his diminutive companion — thus, by mutual good offices each seemed to console the vacant... | |
 | 1830 - 388 pages
...complacency r rubbing herself gently against his legs, while the horse would look down with •atisfaotion, and move with the greatest caution and circumspection,...offices each seemed to console the vacant hours of other. — Literary Gaaite. ' MINES OF WIBLISKA. — From superior advantages in engines, rail-ways,... | |
 | William Blackwood - 1831 - 986 pages
...notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against his legs ; while the horse would look down with satisfaction, and move with the greatest caution and...each seemed to console the vacant hours of the other. — While's Natural History of Selborne. 2. — On Me Effects of Earth-worms on the Soil, in promoting... | |
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... in a lonely orchard, where they saw no creature but each other. By degrees an apparent regard began to take place between these two sequestered individuals. The fowl would approach the quadruped with notes of complacency, rubbing herself gently against... 
