 | Sharon Turner - 1833 - 594 pages
...thiscreatnre, 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... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1839 - 416 pages
...forcing its great body into the cavity. . .If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-elass ; for as sure as it walks elate, and as it were on tiptoe,...feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure it will rain before night. . . 1 was much taken with its sagacity in discerning those that do it kind... | |
 | Popular history - 1843 - 434 pages
...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...and never pretends to stir after it becomes dark. When first awakened it eats nothing, nor again in the autumn before it retires ; through the height... | |
 | 1843 - 1040 pages
...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...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, s') sure will it rain before nisrht. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 pages
...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...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends... | |
 | 1843 - 524 pages
...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...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends... | |
 | 1843 - 536 pages
...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...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. It is totally a diurnal animal, and never pretends... | |
 | 1850 - 602 pages
...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...were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain before night. Darwin's great tortoises marched by night as well as... | |
 | Bourne Hall Draper - 1845 - 510 pages
...rain, as a lady dressed in all her best attire — shuffling away at the first sprinkling, and running its head up in a corner. " If attended to, it becomes...excellent weatherglass; for, as sure as it walks elate, as it were, on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in a morning, so sure will it rain before night.... | |
 | 1856 - 1178 pages
...rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, ifcuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes...were on tiptoe, feeding with great earnestness in the morning, so sure will it rain Before night. It never pretends to stir after it Becomes dark. It... | |
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... 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, and running its head up in a corner. If attended to, it becomes an excellent weather-glass ; for as... 
