 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 568 pages
...years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird, — what...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1822 - 618 pages
...years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird, — what...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the... | |
 | Young lady - 1829 - 542 pages
...after remaining in this state, without food and without motion, for three years longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, —...What, think you, would be the sensation excited by the strange piece of intelligence ? — After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment... | |
 | James Wilson - 1834 - 502 pages
...longer, should, at the ead of that period, burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird — what...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence?" Yet the difference which exists between the sometimes repulsive aspect of a creeping caterpillar and... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - 1835 - 332 pages
...longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silk en cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird — what...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! — among the... | |
 | History - 1839 - 286 pages
...its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird;—what, think you, would be the sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment, would succeed! amongst the... | |
 | Mary Townsend - 1844 - 260 pages
...longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day, a winged bird, — what,...think you, would be the sensation excited by this intelligence?" Yet these changes are constantly going on in the insect world. From the egg deposited... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1846 - 642 pages
...years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird, — what...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ? After the first doubts of its truth were dispelled, what astonishment would succeed ! Amongst the... | |
 | 1848 - 910 pages
...years longer, should at the end of that period burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthy covering, and start into day a winged bird — what...sensation excited by this strange piece of intelligence ?" — Kirby and Spcnce — Entomology. Wonderful and incredible as this story would seem, it ¡s but... | |
 | 1848 - 300 pages
...should at the end of that period burst its silken eerements, struggle through its earthy eovering, and start into day a winged bird, what, think you, would be the sensation exeited by this strange pieee of intelligenee ?" After the first doubts of its truth were removed,... | |
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... else, an Egyptian mummy ; and which, lastly, after remaining in this state without food and without motion for three years longer, should, at the end of that period, burst its silken cerements, struggle through its earthly covering, and start into... 
