 ... these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material as to be considerably more weighty than air, and to descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill....  The Natural History of Selborne - Page 318by Gilbert White - 1822Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1897 - 592 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...power of coiling and thickening their webs in the air, ai~ Dr. Lister says they have, then, when they were become heavier than the air, they must fall.1 Every... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1906 - 304 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...up, spiders and all, by a brisk evaporation into the region where clouds are formed : and if the spiders have a power of coiling and thickening their webs... | |
 | Gilbert White - Natural history - 1906 - 500 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...up, spiders and all, by a brisk evaporation into the region where clouds are formed : and if the spiders have a power of coiling and thickening their webs... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - English literature - 1922 - 1032 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...up, spiders and all, by a brisk evaporation into the region where clouds are formed : and if the spiders have a power of coiling and thickening their webs... | |
 | Guy Noel Pocock - English essays - 1926 - 290 pages
...descend with precipitation, is a matter beyond my skill. If I might be allowed to hazard a supposition, I should imagine that those filmy threads, when first...their webs in the air, as Dr. Lister says they have, then, when they were become heavier than the air, they must fall. Every day in fine weather, in autumn... | |
 | Walter Johnson - Naturalists - 1928 - 372 pages
...explain why the filmy threads first rose and then fell, White " hazards a supposition " that they " might be entangled in the rising dew, and so drawn...up, spiders and all, by a brisk evaporation into the region where clouds are formed." We may smile at this effort, and smiling, recall the backward state... | |
 | 1875 - 618 pages
...difficult to swallow, and so White seems to have felt it, for he goes on to conjecture that ' these filmy threads, when first shot, might be entangled...evaporation into the regions where clouds are formed.' By which it will be seen that the 'scorched dew' of the poet and the ' exhalation' of the lexicographer... | |
 | Belgravia - 1875 - 760 pages
...difficult to swallow, and so White seems to have felt it, for he goes on to conjecture that ' these filmy threads, when first shot, might be entangled...evaporation into the regions where clouds are formed.' By which it will be seen that the ' scorched dew' of the poet and the ' exhalation' of the lexicographer... | |
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