 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 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 itself as much as possible, but it sec ..ed to be too sirong for the cobweb. I must own I was greally surprised when I saw the spider... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - England - 1859 - 618 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 itself as much as possible, but it scemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 664 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...when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in loss than a minute weave a new net round its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 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...immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a net round its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped, and when it was fairly hampered... | |
 | Washington Irving - Authors, Irish - 1868 - 486 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...when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in lees than a minute weave a new net round its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 pages
...the snare, und struggled hard to pet loose. Tho spider gave It leave to entangle itself я* much ns possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb....surprised, when I saw the spider immediately sally ont, and. in less than a minute, weave a new net round its captive, by which, the motion of its wings... | |
 | 1869 - 398 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 itself as mach as possible ; bat it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I mast own I was greatly surprised... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1872 - 448 pages
...At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and struggled hard to get loose. The epider gave it leave to entangle itself as much as possible,...when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and In lees than a minute weave a new net round its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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 itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be :oo strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider immediately sally... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...sustenance that I could perceive. At last 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 too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprised when I saw the spider sally out and in... | |
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Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost impatience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and... 
