 | Ashbel Green - 1832
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26¿ inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree ofljghtness which will appear more strongly by contrast... | |
 | Ashbel Green - 1832
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strength, is truly surprising. One of them, measuring 26J inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree oflightness which will appear more strongly by contrast... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1833
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...which these veils are made, weighs four grains and one third ; whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs one hundred and thirty-seven grains, and one... | |
 | FRANCIS LIEBER - 1833
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...strongly by contrast with other fabrics. One square wil of the substance of which these veils are made, weighs four grains and one third ; whilst one square... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - Antiques & Collectibles - 1833
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degre? of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics. One square yard... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1833
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 gïain, a degree of lighuess which will [appear more strongly by contrast with other fabric». One... | |
 | Mechanics Institute, New York - 1833
...and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...and a half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1-51 graine, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics.... | |
 | Anti-Slavery Society - 1833
...»pinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but devouring every other part of the paste. The extreme lightness...truly surprising. One of them, measuring twenty-six anda half inches by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grains, a degree of lightness which will appear... | |
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... number of the caterpillars are placed at the bottom. A peculiar species is chosen, which spins a strong web; and the animals commence at the bottom, eating and spinning their way up to the top, carefully avoiding every part touched by the oil, but... 
