 | Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...properly propared, is verу like fine kid leather. LEAVES FROM THE NOTE-BOOK OF A NATURALIST. 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... | |
 | William John Broderip - Animal behavior - 1852 - 446 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 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 they raised themselves npon their legs, wiped their eyes with their forefeet, beat and brushed their wings with their hind-feet,... | |
 | William Bingley - Zoology - 1871 - 1056 pages
...of them, by degrees, began to exhibit signs of life. Some convulsive motions were first observed in the thighs; and at length they raised themselves upon their legs, wiped their eyes with their fore-feet, and, soon afterwards, flew away. The Rev. Mr. Kirby informs me, that he has made the same... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...bottle of Madeira wine sent to him from Virginia, came to life when exposed to the sun. " They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length...and brushed their wings with their hind feet, and aoon after began to fly, finding themselves in Old England without knowing how they came hither." xie... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1892 - 888 pages
...them bi-gnii by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thiglui, and at length they raised themselves upon their legs,...brushed their wings with their hind feet, and soon after begun to fly, Unding themxelves in Old England, without knowing ho*w they came thither. The third continued... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Universities and colleges - 1893 - 540 pages
...of the wine. In less than three honrs two of them began by degrees to recover life. They commenced by some convulsive motions of the thighs, and at length...wings with their hind feet, and soon after began to fiy, finding themselves in Old England, without knowing how they came thither. The third continued... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Biography & Autobiography - 1893 - 324 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 forefeet, beat and brushed their wings with their hind feet, and soon after began to fly, finding themselves... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 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 forefeet, beat 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... 
