 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...  Dwight's American Magazine - Page 440edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885
...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...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net, but those it seems... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1886 - 258 pages
...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...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
...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...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net ; but those it seems... | |
 | English language - 1891 - 106 pages
...when the spider came out in order to seize it as usual, upon percieving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that held it fast, and contribeted all that lay in its power to disengage so formidable an antigonist. When the wasp was at... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 541 pages
...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...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net ; but those, it seems,... | |
 | Emma J. Todd, William Bramwell Powell - Readers - 1892 - 511 pages
...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...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net ; but those it seems... | |
 | Emma J. Todd - 1896
...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...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net; but those it seems... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - Readers - 1898 - 317 pages
...nest, but when the spider came out to seize it as usual, upon perceiving what kind of an enemy it had to deal with, it instantly broke all the bands that...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900
...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...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net, but those it seems... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 282 pages
...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...antagonist. When the wasp was at liberty, I expected the spider would have set about repairing the breaches that were made in its net, but those it seems... | |
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