 | 1823 - 858 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he wilt escape if possible : and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...of the amorous kind : his fancy then becomes intent * P-4l7-on sexual attachments, which transport him beyond his usual gravity, and induce him to forget... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1829 - 364 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...forget for a time his ordinary solemn deportment. •• LI. I HAVE now read your miscellanies through with much care and satisfaction ; and am to return... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1832 - 354 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...forget for a time his ordinary solemn deportment. LI. I HAVE now read your miscellanies through with much care and satisfaction ; and am to return you... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1833 - 410 pages
...wicket and iuterstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible i and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...beyond his usual gravity, and induce him to forget for 8 time his ordinary solemn deportment. LETTER XCIIL TO THOMAS PENNANT, ESQ. A PAIR of honey-buzzards,... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1834 - 392 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...forget for a time his ordinary solemn deportment. * Several years ago a book was written entitled, "Fruit walls improved by inclining them to the horizon... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 680 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...induce him to forget for a time his ordinary solemn deportment8. 1 Interesting as the old family tortoise has been rendered by the anecdotes related of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...induce him to forget for a time his ordinary solemn deportment2. 3 Interesting as the old family tortoise has been rendered by the anecdotes related of... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1840 - 400 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...rambles seem to be of the amorous kind : his fancy tlien becomes intent on sexual attachments, which transport him beyond his usual gravity, and induce... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1843 - 424 pages
...wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...forget for a time his ordinary solemn deportment. LETTER LI. Selborne, Sept. 3, 1781. I HAVE now read your Miscellanies through with much care and satisfaction... | |
 | Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1843 - 532 pages
...and interstice in the fences, through which he will escape, if possible ; and often has eluded the care of the gardener, and wandered to some distant...forget for a time his ordinary solemn deportment.' Mr. Darwin in his Journal describes the habits of Testudo Indica, or rather one of the species that... | |
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... season of the year (usually the beginning of June) when his exertions are remarkable. He then walks on tiptoe, and is stirring by five in the morning; and, traversing the garden, examines every wicket and interstice in the fences, through which he... 
