 ... round wildly, butting each other and everything in their way, and end in a general stampede for underground retreats from the region poisoned by sunshine. Next year you will find the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay; the ground-bird...  The Ohio Cultivator - Page 223by S.D. Harris - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Education - 1858 - 428 pages
...light of day let upon this compressed and blinded community of creeping things, than all of them that enjoy the luxury of legs—and some of them have a...ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Satire, American - 1858 - 430 pages
...things, than all of them which enjoy the luxury of legs — and some of them have a good many — rush round wildly, butting each other and everything in....ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole ; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 420 pages
...things, than all of them which enjoy the luxury of legs — and some of them have a good many — rusk round wildly, butting each other and everything in their way, and end in a general stampede for under ground retreats from the region poisoned by sun shine. Next year you will find tHe grass growing... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1859 - 852 pages
...creeping things than all of them enjoy the luxury of legs — and some of them have a good many — ruth round wildly, butting each other and everything in...the region poisoned by sunshine. Next year you will h'nd the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay ; the ground-bird builds her nost where the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1870 - 242 pages
...legs — and some of them have a good many — rush round wildly, butting each other and every thing in their way, and end in a general stampede for underground...ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 376 pages
...things, than all of them that enjoy the luxury of legs — and some of them have a good many — rush round wildly, butting each other and everything in...ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hola ; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans o- insect-angels open... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1873 - 410 pages
...things, than all of them which enjoy the luxury of legs — and some of them have a good many — rusk round wildly, butting each other and everything in....for underground retreats from the region poisoned by sur>shine. Next year you will find the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay ; the ground-bird... | |
 | Readers - 1875 - 324 pages
...things, than all of them which enjoy the luxury of legs — and some of them have a good many — rush round wildly, butting each other and everything in...underground retreats from the region poisoned by sunshine. 4. Next year you will find the grass growing tall and green where the stone lay ; the ground-bird builds... | |
 | Robert Skakel Knight - 1876 - 192 pages
...things, than all of them which enjoy the luxury of legs — and some of them have a good many — rush round wildly, butting each other and everything in...underground retreats, from the region poisoned by sunshine. A NOBLE CHIMNKY-SWEEPER. Lamb. In one of the state-beds at Arundel Castle, a few years since — under... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - English language - 1881 - 302 pages
...legs — and some of them have a good many — rush round wildly, butting each other and everything hi their way, and end in a general stampede for underground...ground-bird builds her nest where the beetle had his hole ; the dandelion and the buttercup are growing there, and the broad fans of insect-angels open and shut... | |
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