| William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1805 - 622 pages
...and worthy of the south of France itself. " About nine an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention ; a shower of cobwebs falling from very...in all directions, but perfect flakes or rags, some nearly an inch broad, and five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity that showed they were... | |
| Geography - 1819 - 188 pages
...produces; cloudless, calm, and serene." " Atxnit nine, an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated...continuing without any interruption till the close of day. These webs were not single filmy threads, floating in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...worthy of the south of France itself." " About nine, an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated...continuing without any interruption till the close of day. These webs were not single filmy threads, floating in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes... | |
| 1843 - 684 pages
...a shower began to fall, and continued to do so, without interruption, to the close of the day. The webs were not single, filmy threads, floating in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes. Some were nearly an inch broad, and five or six long. That they were considerably heavier than the... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...worthy of the south of France itself." " About nine an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated...continuing without any interruption till the close of day. These webs were not single filmy threads, floating in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...to demand our attention ; a shower of cobwebs fell from very elevated regions, and continued without interruption, till the close of the day. These webs...all directions, but perfect flakes or rags ; some nearly an inch broad, and five or six inches long, which fell with a degree of velocity, that showed... | |
| Gilbert White - Natural history - 1829 - 364 pages
...About nine, an appearance very unusual began 'demand our attention — a shower of cobwebs fall»g from very elevated regions, and continuing, without...the day. These webs were not single filmy threads, floatng in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes 1 rags ; some near an inch broad, and five... | |
| Months - 1830 - 188 pages
...produces i cloudless, calm, and serene. " About nine, an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated...continuing without any interruption till the close of day. These webs were not single filmy threads, floating in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes... | |
| William Pinnock - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1833 - 738 pages
...worthy of the South cf France itself. "About nine, AM, an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, a shower of cobwebs falling from very elevated...rags ; some near an inch broad and five or six long. On every side the observer turned his eyes, might he behold a continual succession of fresh fakes falling... | |
| Gilbert White - Natural history - 1833 - 410 pages
...and worthy of the south of France itself. About nine, an appearance very unusual began to demand our attention, — a shower of cobwebs falling from very...without any interruption, till the close of the day. inch broad, and five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity, that shewed they were considerably... | |
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