 The remark that I shall make on these cobweb-like appearances, called gossamer, is, that strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which swarm...  Animal biography, or, Popular zoology - Page 239by William Bingley - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 554 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts, but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1888 - 602 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 392 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1887 - 396 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 536 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1891 - 840 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...have a power of shooting out webs from their tails, BO as to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air. But why these apterous insects should that... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1893 - 368 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...in the fields in fine weather in autumn, and have a poorer of shooting out webs from their tails, so as to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air.... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1895 - 268 pages
...strange and superstitious as the notions about them were formerly, nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which...air. But why these apterous insects should that day take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why their webs should at once become so gross and material... | |
 | William Hamilton Gibson - 1897 - 300 pages
...Strange and superstitious as were the notions about gossamers formerly, nobody in these days doubts that they are the real production of small spiders, which...so as to render themselves buoyant and lighter than the air." I have italicized a phrase which is most suggestive, for such is the actual resource of the... | |
 | 1875 - 670 pages
...that ' nobody in these days doubts but that they are the real production of small spiders, which .... have a power of shooting out webs from their tails, so as to render themselves buoyant and tighter than air.' The last fact is somewhat difficult to swallow, and so White seems to have felt... | |
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