 | English literature - 1804 - 174 pages
...single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp into the nest, but when the spicier came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving...disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 492 pages
...enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed tributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1809 - 350 pages
...such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp into the nest, but when the spider came out in order to seize it...disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 492 pages
...enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed tributed all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1820 - 486 pages
...order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantlv broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed...disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 384 pages
...such a life, for upon a single fly it subsisted for more than a week. I once put a wasp into the nest, but when the spider came out in order to seize it...disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1825 - 448 pages
...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...disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, £ expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | James Rennie - Insects - 1829 - 342 pages
...seized and dragged it into its hole. " I once put a wasp into the net ; but when the spider came out to seize it, as usual, upon perceiving what kind of...disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would set about repairing the breaches which were made in its... | |
 | Working class - 1832 - 220 pages
...enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the builds that held it fast, and (•»ни ilmied all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would set about repairing the breaches in its net ; but these... | |
 | English literature - 1835 - 432 pages
...when it was fairly hampered in this manner, it was seized, and dragged into the hole. In this maner it lived, in a precarious state ; and nature seemed...disengage so formidable an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
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I once put a wasp into the net; but when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in its power to disengage... 
