 ... of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for...  Select British Classics - Page 701804Full view - About this book
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 460 pages
...much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in...in a precarious state ; and nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 310 pages
...much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in...in a precarious state ; and nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 414 pages
...much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was 25 greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in...this manner, it was seized and dragged into the hole. 30 " In this manner it lived, in a precarious state ; and Nature seemed to have fitted it for such... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in...was stopped ; and, when it was fairly hampered in 25 this manner, it was seized and dragged into the hole. " In this manner it lived, in a precarious... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1907 - 472 pages
...much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in...this manner it lived, in a precarious state ; and ANECDOTES OF A SPIDER. 279 Nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life, for upon a single fly it... | |
 | English language - 1911 - 202 pages
...less than a minute weave a new net round its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopt, a ad when it was fairly hampered in this manner it was...lived in a precarious state, and nature seemed to have fitted it for such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - Readers - 1918 - 424 pages
...much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a net around its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped. When the fly was fairly hampered... | |
 | David Sinclair Burleson - English language - 1925 - 440 pages
...much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own, I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a net around its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped. When the fly was fairly hampered... | |
 | 1779 - 774 pages
...cobweb. I muft own I was greatly furprifed when I faw the fpider immediately Lilly out, and in lefs than a minute weave a new net round its captive, by which the motion of itt wing* was liopped, and when it was fairly hampered in this manner, it was feited aaJ dragged into... | |
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