| David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 460 pages
...arts vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy. This brought on another battle, and, contrary to my expectations, the laborious spider became conqueror,...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... | |
| Washington Irving - 1864 - 468 pages
...in vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy. This brought on another battle, and, contrary to my expectations, the laborious spider became conqueror,...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 310 pages
...arts vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy. This brought on another battle, and, contrary to my expectations, the laborious spider became conqueror,...was justly its own, it waited three days with the The utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its Spider web, and taking no sustenance that I could... | |
| Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...iu vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy. This brought on another battle, and, contrary to my expectations, the laborious spider became conqueror, and fairly killed his antagonist. 15 " Now, then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost... | |
| English language - 1911 - 202 pages
...vain began, to de. molish the new web without mercy. Thia brought on another battle, and, contrary to my expectations, the laborious spider became conqueror,...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... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1914 - 434 pages
...arts vain, began to demolish the new web without mercy. This brought on another battle, and, contrary to my expectations, the laborious spider became conqueror,...justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last,... | |
| Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - Readers - 1918 - 424 pages
...it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaks of its web, and taking no food 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... | |
| David Sinclair Burleson - English language - 1925 - 440 pages
...it waited three days with the utmost patience, repairing the breaks of its web, and taking no food 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... | |
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