 I have had live crows, hawks, and owls ; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner of it, and, in this particular, our parallel does not altogether tally. I receive...  Footsteps to Fame: A Book to Open Other Books - Page 154by James Hain Friswell - 1874 - 310 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...and owls; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c. &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner...from all quarters, as they did into that of our great ancestor, yet I find means, by the distribution of a few fivepenny I'itx, to make them find the way... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - Birds - 1828 - 442 pages
...hawks and owls — opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark; but Noah had a wife in one corner of...from all quarters, as they did into that of our great ancestor, yet I find means, by the distribution of a few five penny bils, to make them find the way... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 532 pages
...hawks, and owls— opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &,c. so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's Ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner...receive every subject of natural history that is brought me ; and though they do not march into my ark from all quarters, as they did into that of our great... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1827 - 538 pages
...squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c. so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's Ark ; but Noali had a wife in one corner of it, and in this particular...receive every subject of natural history that is brought me ; and though they do not march into my ark from all quarters, as they did into that of our great... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1830 - 650 pages
...sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner of it, and in this particular it does not altogether tally. I receive every subject of natural history that is brought to mo, and although they do not march into my ark from all quarters, as thc'y did into that of our great... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - Birds - 1831 - 426 pages
...hawks, and owls; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c. so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner...from all quarters, as they did into that of our great ancestor, yet I find means, by the distribution of a few fivepenny bits, to make them find the way... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...and owls; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c. &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a .wife in one corner...from all quarters, as they did into that of our great ancestor, yet I find means, by .the distribution of a few fivepenny bit*, to make them find the way... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, William Jardine - Birds - 1832 - 576 pages
...Hawks, and Owls ; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c. so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner...particular, our parallel does not altogether tally. ' receive every subject of natural history that is brought to me ; and, though they do not march into... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 384 pages
...and owls; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards. &c. &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark; but Noah had a wife in one corner of...from all quarters, as they did into that of our great ancestor, yet I find means, by the distribution of a few fivepenny bits, to make them find the way... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 380 pages
...and owls; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c. &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark; but Noah had a wife in one corner of...from all quarters, as they did into that of our great ancestor, yet I find means, by the distribution of a few fivepenny bits, to make them find the way... | |
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