After watching the butterfly for a time I seized it by the wings between my thumb and fingers with the greatest ease, so utterly lost did it appear to be to what was going on near it. In another spot I saw as many as sixteen of these large butterflies... The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine - Page 2731884Full view - About this book
| 1894 - 854 pages
...from the water thus passed constantly through the body was doubtless the object of the strauge action. In another spot I saw as many as sixteen of these large moths within the space of a square foot ou damp ground, all engaged in the same occupation. Some of... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 860 pages
...the wings between my thumb and fingers with the greatest ease, so utterly lost did it appear to be to what was going on near it. In another spot I saw...square foot, all engaged in the same strange action." — According to the London Academy, an ancient human skull has been found at Podhaba, near Prague.... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1894 - 660 pages
...from the water thus passed constantly through the body was doubtless the object of the strange action. In another spot I saw as many as sixteen of these large moths within the space of a square foot on damp ground, all engaged in the same occupation. Some of... | |
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