 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 448 pages
...the little animal, I had. the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In...strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and ciime out very frequently. The first enemy, however, it had to encounter, was another and a much larger... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 604 pages
...of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In...exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed it rouad, examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In...in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, and examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - England - 1859 - 618 pages
...prevent its destruetion ; and, I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In thrce days the web was, with incredible diligence, completed ; nor could I avoid thinking, that the inseet scemed to exult in its new abode. It frequently traversed its round, examined the strength of... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1864 - 664 pages
...of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may Bay it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. " In...abode. It frequently traversed it round, examined the Htrength of every part of it, retired into its hole, mul came out very frequently. The first enemy,... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1866 - 236 pages
...of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. . In...in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, and examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - English language - 1868 - 216 pages
...spider in one corner of my room, making its web,3 and I had the good forture to prevent its destruction. In three days the web was with incredible diligence...that the insect seemed to exult in its new abode. The first enemy it had to encounter was another and a much larger spider, which, having no web of its... | |
 | 1869 - 398 pages
...the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction ; and, I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In...examined the strength of every part of it, retired to its hole, and came out very frequently. The first enemy, however, it had to encounter, was another... | |
 | Arithmetic - 1872 - 264 pages
...of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and I may Bay it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In...in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, and examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and, I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In...in its new abode. It frequently traversed it round, and examined the strength of every part of it, retired into its hole, and came out very frequently.... | |
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... of the little animal, I had the good fortune then to prevent its destruction, and, I may say, it more than paid me by the entertainment it afforded. In three days the web was with incredible diligence completed ; nor could I avoid thinking that the... 
