 ... parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed, and, if in luck, so as to escape the watchful voracity of the thousand enemies that lie in wait, or prowl about to prey upon youth and inexperience, at length, having sown its wild oats, settles down...  Old Faces in New Masks - Página 239por Robert Blakey - 1859 - 391 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 páginas
...a joyous and vivacious juvenility, skipping up and down as if in mockery of its heavy and immovable parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed,...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it wojld live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | 1852 - 508 páginas
...a joyous and vivacious juvenility, skipping up and down as if in mockery of its heavy and immovable parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed,...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1852 - 500 páginas
...a joyous and vivacious juvenility, skipping up and down as if in mockery of its heavy and immovable parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed,...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its she'i, thickened... | |
 | 1852 - 508 páginas
...a joyous and vivacious juvenility, skipping up and down as if in mockery of its heavy and immovable parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed,...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1856 - 388 páginas
...appearance is a microscopic oystercherub, with wing-like lobes flanking a mouth and shoulders unencumbered with inferior crural prolongations. It passes through...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - 1864 - 1052 páginas
...a joyous and vivacious juvenility, skipping up and down as if m mockery of its heavy and immovable parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster'bed,...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | Edwin Lankester - 1862 - 398 páginas
...a joyous and vivacious juvenility, skipping up and down as if in mockery of its heavy and immovable parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed,...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | 1867 - 798 páginas
...wing-like lobes flanking a mouth and shoulders unencumbered with inferior crural prolongations. It ases through a joyous and vivacious juvenility, skipping...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 1867 - 392 páginas
...appearance is a microscopic oystercherub, with wing-like lobes flanking a mouth and shoulders unencumbered with inferior crural prolongations. It passes through...into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. It becomes the parent of fresh broods of oyster-cherubs. As such it would live and die, leaving its shell, thickened... | |
 | 1868 - 510 páginas
...joyous and vivacious juvenility, and skips up and down, as if in mockery of its heavy and immovable parents. It voyages from oyster-bed to oyster-bed,...settles down into a steady, solid, domestic oyster. An undisturbed oyster-bed is a concentration of happiness ; dormant though the congregated creatures... | |
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