 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 624 pages
...will go off from your finger' if you take them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and running to the top of a pnge, and _'!• - -•• i , >•-• •..,•, ••;•• •' ' I-'" -n "~ •"•' "' ""... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1805 - 622 pages
...Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to the top of a page, and shooting out a web, took its departure from...in a place where no air was stirring; and I am sure I did not assist it with my breath. So that these little crawlers seem to have, while mounting, some... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...will go off from your finger if you will take them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to...stirring ; and I am sure that I did not assist it with my breath. So that these little crawlers seem to have, while mounting, some locomotive power without the... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1818 - 552 pages
...will go off from the finger, if you will take them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour; and running to the...velocity in a place where no air was stirring; and 1 am sure that I did not assist it with my breath. So that these little crawlers seem to have while... | |
 | 1819 - 504 pages
...variable climate, ed at was, that it went off with consid- yet, besides the apple and the pear, erable velocity in a place where no air was stirring ; and I am sure that I did on our accounts c«/ . 07., , . a L . Indulgent to all moom, iome mcwuent plant not assist it with... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1822 - 380 pages
...will go off from your finger if you will take them into your hand. Last Summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to...stirring; and I am sure that I did not assist it with my breath. So that these little crawlers seem to have, while mounting, some loco-motive power without... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - Entomology - 1823 - 556 pages
...—. " Ibid. 85. vOL. II. Z you will take them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour ; and running to the...stirring; and I am sure that I did not assist it with my breath. So that these little crawlers seem to have while mounting some locomotive power without the... | |
 | James Rennie - Insects - 1829 - 342 pages
...go off from the finger if you will take them into your hand ; last summer one alighted on my book, as I was reading in the parlour, and running to the...a place where no air was stirring ; and I am sure I did not assist it with my breath ; so that these little crawlers seem to have, while mounting, some... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...will go off from your finger, if you t^ke them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book, as I was reading in the parlour ; and, running to the top of a page, and shooting out a web, it took its departure thence. But what I most wondered at was, that... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 424 pages
...they will go from off your finger if you take them in your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour, and running to the top of a page, and shooting out a web, took its departure from thence. But what I most wondered at, was, that... | |
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Every day in fine weather, in autumn chiefly, do I see those spiders shooting out their webs and mounting aloft: they will go off from your finger if you will take them into your hand. Last summer one alighted on my book as I was reading in the parlour... 
