| Carl von Linné - Lapland - 1811 - 696 pages
...is also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode... | |
| Gardening - 1831 - 780 pages
...is also applicable to the plant now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous seq>ents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode... | |
| Gardening - 1831 - 774 pages
...is also applicable to the plant now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode... | |
| William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...is also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode... | |
| William MacGillivray - Zoologists - 1834 - 418 pages
...is also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode... | |
| William MacGillivray - Natural history - 1834 - 408 pages
...is also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode... | |
| M. A. Burnett - 1850 - 204 pages
...contrived a more apposite fable. The plant is always found on some little turfy hillock, in the midst of swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock...bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the roots of the cistus. Dragons and venemous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles the abode of... | |
| 1848 - 640 pages
...— a virgin of most exquisite beauty and unrivalled charms. 'The plant is always fixed in some turff hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself...which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. A> the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction,... | |
| Literature - 1848 - 634 pages
...pools — a virgin of most exquisite beauty and unnvalle« charms. The plant is always filed in some turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained toa rock in the sea, which hnlhed her feet, as the fresh water does the root of the plant. As the distressed... | |
| Daniel Jay Browne - Trees - 1846 - 548 pages
...is also applicable to the piant now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the nwis of this piant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent... | |
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