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" 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 239
by William Bingley - 1829
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Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our ...

John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 808 pages
...indubitably the production of small spiders, which in autumn swarm in the fields in fine weather, " and have a power of shooting out webs from their tails,...to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air." " If he see a SNAKE unkilled, he fears a mischief," writes Bishop Hall of the superstitious man ; with...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1902 - 610 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...to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air. Note. — Permit me to observe, as a certain yet hitherto unnoticed etymology of this word, that it...
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The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne in the County of Southampton

Gilbert White - 1906 - 500 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...
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The Natural History of Selborne

Gilbert White - 1906 - 304 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...
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Secrets Out of Doors

1913 - 160 pages
...superstitious as were the . . notions about gossamers formerly, nobody in these days t doubts that they are the real production of small spiders, which...webs from their tails, so as to render themselves lighter than the air. Almost any bright autumn or late summer day is certain to reward our search —...
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Nature, Volume 97

Sir Norman Lockyer - 1916 - 570 pages
...Gilbert White 140 years ago : — " Nobody in these days doubts that they (the cobweb-like appearances) are the real production of small spiders which swarm...from their tails so as to render themselves buoyant." Possibly the first part of the sentence was not true when Gilbert White wrote it, seeing that it is...
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An English Anthology of Prose and Poetry, Shewing the Main Stream of English ...

Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 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...
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The Little Room

Guy Noel Pocock - 1926 - 290 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...
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Marginalia

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1980 - 792 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...to render themselves buoyant, and lighter than air. Permit me to observe, as a certain yet hitherto unnoticed, etymology of this word, that it is "God's...
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The Living Age, Volume 247

1905 - 1030 pages
...strange and superstitious notions formerly current about them, and says, that there is no doubt that they are the real production of small spiders, which...to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air, "though why these apterous Insects should that dan take such a wonderful aerial excursion, and why...
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