 | Benjamin Maund - Gardening - 1849 - 204 pages
...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 a grain and a half; a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly by contrast with other fabrics.... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 544 pages
...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... | |
 | C. Gough - 1853 - 428 pages
...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£ by 17 inches, weighed only a grain and a half, a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1866 - 818 pages
...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 grains. — Babbage on " The Economy of Machinery." The Paston Letteri. — This very curious... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1836 - 460 pages
...light. One of them, measuring twenty-six inches and a half by seventeen inches, weighed only 1.51 grain; a degree of lightness which will appear more strongly...the substance of which these veils are made weighs 4| grains, whilst one square yard of silk gauze weighs 137 grains, and one square yard of the finest... | |
 | R. E - 1849 - 430 pages
...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£ by 17 inches weighed only one grain and a half! a degree of lightness which will appear more extraordinary... | |
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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... 
