 ... guinea-pigs, and a blind puppy, and left them there to settle themselves and make music. He looked up the water, and there he saw a sight as strange as the noise ; a great ball rolling over and over down the stream, seeming one moment of soft brown...  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon - Page 152by Robert Armitage Sterndale - 1884 - 540 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 794 lehte
...stream ; cooing, and grunting, and whining, and squeaking, as if you had put into a bag two stock-doves, nine mice, three guinea-pigs, and a blind puppy, and...sight, he could not even see it, though it was not len yards away. So he took the neatest little header into the water, and started off to see for himself;... | |
 | 1862 - 648 lehte
...and left them there to settle themselves and make music. He looked up the water, and there he saw 8 sight as strange as the noise ; a great ball rolling...louder. Tom asked the dragon-fly what it could be i but, of course, with his short sight, he could not even see it, though it was not ten yards away.... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1891 - 328 lehte
...down the stream, seeming one moment of soft brown fur, and the next of shining glass: and yet it \\ns not a ball ; for sometimes it broke up and streamed...while the noise came out of it louder and louder. Torn asked the dragon-fly what it could be : but, of course, with his short sight, he could not even... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell - 1900 - 250 lehte
...over and over down the stream, seeming one moment of soft brown fur, and the next of shining glass. Yet it was not a ball ; for sometimes it broke up and streamed away into pieces, and then it joined again ; and all the while the noise came out of it louder and louder.... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1905 - 332 lehte
...looked up the water, and there he saw a sight as strange as the noise; a great ball rolling over and r; over down the stream, seeming one moment of soft brown...away in pieces, and then it joined again; and all the I while the noise came out of it louder and louder. Tom asked the dragon-fly what it could be; but,... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1899 - 364 lehte
...music. He looked up the water, and there he saw a sight as strange as the noise: a great ball roiling over and over down the stream, seeming one moment...again; and all the while the noise came out of it loudei and louder. Tom asked th'- dragon-fly what it could be; but, of course, with his short sight,... | |
 | Charles H. Sylvester - 1922 - 520 lehte
...whining, and squeaking, as if you had put into a bag two stockdoves, nine mice, three guinea pigs, and a blind puppy, and left them there to settle themselves...noise came out of it louder and louder. Tom asked the dragon fly what it could be; but of course, with his short sight, he could not even see it, though... | |
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