 | English literature - 1790 - 694 pages
...life. They commenced by fome convulfive motions in the thighs, and at length they raifed themfelves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore feet, beat and bruihed their wings with their bind feel, and foon after began to fly, finding themfelves in Old England... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1793 - 282 pages
...life. They commenced by fome convulfive motions in the thighs, and at length they raifed themfelves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore feet, beat and brufhed their wings with their hind feet, and foon after began to fly, finding themfelves in Old England,... | |
 | Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - France - 1794 - 542 pages
...commenced, by some convulsive motions in the thighs ; and at length they raised themselves U 4 upon upon their legs ; wiped their eyes with their fore...with their hind feet ; and soon after began to fly.* The number of animals, likewise, that continue in a torpid state, during the severity of winter, is... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 624 pages
...hours two of them began by degrees to have life. They commenced this by some convulsive motions in the thighs ; and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore-feet, and very soon afterwards flew away. THE COMMON FLESH-PLY*. This insect is in appearance... | |
 | Characters and characteristics - 1804 - 560 pages
...three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. This commenced by some convulsive motions in the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore-feet, beat and brushed their wings with their hind-feet, and soon after began to fly, finding... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1807 - 310 pages
...thighs, and at length they raised thems.-Ives upon tl-.eir legs, wiped their eyes with their forefeet, beat and brushed their wings with their hind feet,...soon after began to fly, finding themselves in Old hngland, without knowing how they came thither. The third continued lifeless until sun-set, when, losing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1811 - 190 pages
...three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions in the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their forefeet, beat and brushed their •wings with their hind feet, and soon after begar to fly, finding... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions in the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore-feet, beat and brushed their wings with their hind-feet, and soon after began to fly, finding... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...of the wine. In less than three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length...themselves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore-feet, beat and brushed their wings with their hind-feet, and soon after began to fly, finding... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1821 - 232 pages
...three hours, two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive moliuus of the thighs, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore-feet, eat and brushed their wings with their hind-feet, and soon after began to fly, finding themselves... | |
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They were, therefore, exposed to the sun upon a sieve which had been employed to strain them out of the wine. In less than three hours two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions... 
