 I had now a mind to try how many cobwebs a single spider could furnish, wherefore I destroyed this, and the insect set about another. When I destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made...  Dwight's American Magazine - Page 438edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Arithmetic - 1872 - 264 pages
...the other also, the whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. . . . The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of...subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll np its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together, but cautiously watching all the time... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 216 pages
...entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of -to support itself, now it was deprived of its great means of subsistence, were indeed...would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey. Of this life, however, it soon began to grow weary, and resolved to invade the possession of some other... | |
 | Henry Major - 1875 - 310 pages
...destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of...would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey. Of this life, however, it soon began to grow weary, and resolved to invade the possession of some spider,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1874 - 454 pages
...destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of...would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey. tion, with great vigor, and at first was vigorously repulsed. Not daunted, however, with one defeat,... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it now made use of to support itself, now deprived of its...would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey. 9. Of this life, however, it soon began to grow weary, and resolved to invade the possession of some... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1876 - 452 pages
...destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of...motionless for hours together, but cautiously watching nil the time ; when a fly happened to approach sufficiently near, it would dart out all at once, and... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of...would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey. tion, with great vigor, and at first was vigorously repulsed. Not daunted, however, with one defeat,... | |
 | sir Arthur Naylor Wollaston - 1877 - 198 pages
...stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support i tself, now deprived of its great means of subsistence, were...sufficiently near, it would dart out all at once, and often s eize its prey. Of this life, however, it soon began to grow weary, and resolved to invade the possession... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of...subsistence, were indeed surprising. I have seen it roll iip its legs like a ball, and lie motionless for hours together, hut cautiously watching all the time... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 284 pages
...destroyed the other also, its whole stock seemed entirely exhausted, and it could spin no more. 8. The arts it made use of to support itself, now deprived of...would dart out all at once, and often seize its prey. 9. Of this life, however, it soon began to grow weary, and resolved to invade the possession of some... | |
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