| William Bingley - 1803 - 606 páginas
...seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen, when they build mud-walls, (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird), raise but...method, in about ten or twelve days, is formed an hemispherical nest, with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, 2nd warm ; and perfectly... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 392 páginas
...careful workmen, when they build mud-walls, (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird,) add but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist, lest...weight. By this method, in about ten or twelve days, a hemispherical nest is formed, with a small aperture towards the top ; strong, compact, and warm,... | |
| 1831 - 652 páginas
...Thus careful workmen, when they build mud-walls (informed at first perhaps by the little bird,) rais« but a moderate layer at a time and then desist; lest...this method, in about ten or twelve days, is formed a hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm, and perfectly... | |
| 1832 - 406 páginas
...seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen, when they build mud-walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird), raise but a...this method, in about ten or twelve days, is formed a hemispheric nest witli a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm, and perfectly... | |
| Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 páginas
...seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen, when they build mudwalls, (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird,) raise but...this method, in about ten or twelve days, is formed a hemispheric nest, with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm, and perfectly... | |
| 1833 - 270 páginas
...it sufficient time to dry and harden. " About half an inch seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. By this method, in about ten or twelve days, is formed an hemispheric nest, with a small opening towards the top, strong, compact, and warm, and perfectly fitted for the pvirposes for which... | |
| Gilbert White - 1836 - 398 páginas
...seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus, careful workmen, when they build mud-walls, (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird,) raise but...about ten or twelve days, is formed an hemispheric nesi, with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all... | |
| Gilbert White - 1837 - 678 páginas
...seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a...hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong3 compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended. But... | |
| Gilbert White - 1843 - 348 páginas
...seems to be a sufficient layer for a day. Thus careful workmen, when they build mud-walls (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird), raise but...top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this melhod, in about ten or twelve days, is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the... | |
| T B. M - 1844 - 274 páginas
...gradual advance of the work, he says : " Thus careful workmen, when they build mud walls (informed at first, perhaps, by this little bird), raise but...become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight." Allusion is made in Holy Scripture to the Swallow, as observing "the time of its coming,"* and as finding... | |
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