 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
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1916 - 652 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... | |
 | 1875 - 618 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,...to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air.' The last fact is somewhat difficult to swallow, and so White seems to have felt it, for he goes on... | |
 | Belgravia - 1875 - 760 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,...to render themselves buoyant and lighter than air.' The last fact is somewhat difficult to swallow, and so White seems to have felt it, for he goes on... | |
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