 | Oliver Goldsmith, Sir James Prior - 1850 - 602 pages
...all its stock in former labors of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbor. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...seemed to have the victory, and the laborious spider waa obliged to take refuge in its hole. Upon this I perceived the victor using every art to draw the... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1851 - 400 pages
...all its stock in former labors of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbor. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...stronghold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned ; and when he found all arts in vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy. This brought on... | |
 | Washington Irving - American literature - 1851 - 402 pages
...all its stock in former labors of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbor. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...stronghold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned ; and when he found all arts in vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy This brought on another... | |
 | English periodicals - 1852 - 430 pages
...its stock in former labours of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbour. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...stronghold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned, and when he found all arts in vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy. This brought on another... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1853 - 626 pages
...all its stock in former labors of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbor. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...the victor using every art to draw the enemy from his stronghold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned, and when he found all arts vain, began to... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1853 - 404 pages
...all its stock in former labors of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbor. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...seemed to have the victory, and the laborious spider waa obliged to take refuge in its hole. Upon this I perceived the victor using every art to draw the... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...its stock in former labours of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbour. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...the victor using every art to draw the enemy from his stronghold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned, and when he found all arts vain, began to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 pages
...its stock in former labours of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbour. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...the victor using every art to draw the enemy from his strong-hold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned ; and when he found all arts in vain, began... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 480 pages
...all its stock in former labours of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbour Soon then a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...the victor using every art to draw the enemy from his stronghold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned, and when he found all arts vain, began to... | |
 | Theodore Alors W. Buckley - Children's literature, English - 1854 - 332 pages
...its stock in former labours of this kind, came to invade the property of its neighbour. Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader...the victor using every art to draw the enemy from his stronghold. He seemed to go off, but quickly returned, and when he found all arts vain, began to... | |
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Soon, then, a terrible encounter ensued, in which the invader seemed to have the victory, and the laborious spider -was obliged to take refuge in its hole. 
