 | Charles Joseph Barnes - Children - 1884 - 514 pages
...when it was fairly entangled in this manner, it was seized and dragged into the hole. spider came out to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of...contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so powerful an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would have set about... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes - Readers - 1884 - 524 pages
...when it was fairly entangled in this manner, it was seized and dragged into the hole. spicier came out to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of...contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so powerful an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would have set about... | |
 | Charles Joseph Barnes, J. Marshall Hawkes - Readers - 1884 - 516 pages
...when it was fairly entangled in this manner, it was seized and dragged into the hole. spid,er came out to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of...contributed all that lay in its power to disengage so powerful an antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected that the spider would have set about... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1884 - 296 pages
...usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bauds that held it fast, and contributed all that lay in...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 - 1885 - 520 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, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 608 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 \vaa set at\ifoesty,\ the spider would have set ahout repairing the breaches that were made in its... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, W. B. Powell - 1890 - 522 pages
...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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a net round its captive, by which the motion of its...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... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 546 pages
...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 - 1893 - 780 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 a,, 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... 
