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... dead its shell is of a lighter shade , a grayish or yellowish color . The method of swimming has been variously described as " clinging with their foot to the sur- face of the water , " and as a " creeping on the under surface of the ...
... dead its shell is of a lighter shade , a grayish or yellowish color . The method of swimming has been variously described as " clinging with their foot to the sur- face of the water , " and as a " creeping on the under surface of the ...
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... creature to death . Twice I have attempted to keep such a bug alone , but within twenty - four hours or so the poor prisoner would be found floating , dead . Mrs. Scorpion - Bug evidently ob- 18 UP AND DOWN THE BROOKS .
... creature to death . Twice I have attempted to keep such a bug alone , but within twenty - four hours or so the poor prisoner would be found floating , dead . Mrs. Scorpion - Bug evidently ob- 18 UP AND DOWN THE BROOKS .
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Mary Ellen Bamford. floating , dead . Mrs. Scorpion - Bug evidently ob- jects to being monarch of all she surveys . Some scorpion - bugs carry merely a few eggs , and do not cover their backs entirely . One of my scorpion - bugs used to ...
Mary Ellen Bamford. floating , dead . Mrs. Scorpion - Bug evidently ob- jects to being monarch of all she surveys . Some scorpion - bugs carry merely a few eggs , and do not cover their backs entirely . One of my scorpion - bugs used to ...
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... dead parents with great pomp and ceremony . This order of things is quite reversed among the Water - scorpions ; that is , the parents devour the children , but there is no pomp and ceremony about the performance . And from all I have ...
... dead parents with great pomp and ceremony . This order of things is quite reversed among the Water - scorpions ; that is , the parents devour the children , but there is no pomp and ceremony about the performance . And from all I have ...
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... - times find the bottom of the jar covered with dead scorpion - bugs , their bodies gaping wide open . But words cannot describe the horrifying ap pearance of lively scorpion - bugs . One might well WATER - SCORPIONS . 21.
... - times find the bottom of the jar covered with dead scorpion - bugs , their bodies gaping wide open . But words cannot describe the horrifying ap pearance of lively scorpion - bugs . One might well WATER - SCORPIONS . 21.
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Página 143 - But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; And the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee. Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 146 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Página 26 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Página 215 - The heathen philosopher, when he had a desire to eat a grape, would open his lips when he put it into his mouth; meaning thereby, that grapes were made to eat, and lips to open. You do love this maid?
Página 68 - A pick-axe, and a spade, a spade, For and a shrouding sheet: O, a pit of clay for to be made For such a guest is meet.
Página 145 - Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny." Says Simple Simon to the pieman "Indeed I have not any." Simple Simon went a-fishing, For to catch a whale; All the water he had got Was in his mother's pail. Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
Página 94 - Ser Nuto, being brought by the mob into the court, was suspended from the gallows by one foot ; and those around having torn him to pieces, in little more than a moment nothing remained of him but the foot by which he had been tied.
Página 95 - Dioscorides, saith that, before they have an hole through them, they containe in them either a flie, a spider, or a worme : if a flie, then warre insueth; if a creeping worme, then scarcitie of victuals ; if a running spider, then followeth great sickenesse or mortalitie.