 ... combing his hair with his paws : but the dragon-fly never stirred, and kept on chatting to Tom about the times when he lived under the water. Suddenly, Tom heard the strangest noise up the stream ; cooing, and grunting, and whining, and squeaking,...  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon - Page 152by Robert Armitage Sterndale - 1884 - 540 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 542 lehte
...cooing, and grunt; ing, and whining, and squeaking, as ü you had put into a bag two stock-doves, 438 439 nine mice, three guinea-pigs, and a blind puppy, and...the water, and there he saw a sight as strange as tho noise ; a great ball rolling over and over down the stream, seeming one moment of soft brown fur,... | |
 | 1862 - 648 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...make music. He looked up the water, and there he saw 8 sight as strange as the noise ; a great ball rolling over and over down the stream, seeming one moment... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1891 - 328 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...brown fur, and the next of shining glass: and yet it \\ns not a ball ; for sometimes it broke up and streamed away in pieces, and then it joined again ;... | |
 | Etta Austin Blaisdell McDonald, Mary Frances Blaisdell - 1900 - 250 lehte
...about the times when he lived under the water. Suddenly Tom heard the strangest noise up the stream. He looked up the water, and there he saw a sight as...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... | |
 | Frederick Brigham De Berard - 1905 - 332 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...strange as the noise; a great ball rolling over and r; over down the stream, seeming one moment of soft brown fur, and the next of shining glass; and yet... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1906 - 154 lehte
...whining and squeaking. Tom looked up the water, and there he saw as strange a sight as the noise. It was a great ball, rolling over and over, down the stream,...soft brown fur, and the next of shining glass. And when the ball came nearer it turned out to be four or five beautiful creatures, who were swimming about,... | |
 | Chestine Gowdy, Lora M. Dexheimer - 1913 - 352 lehte
...Suddenly he heard the strangest noise up the stream — • cooing and grunting and whining and squeaking. He looked up the water, and there he saw a sight as...of soft brown fur, and the next of shining glass. When he came near, the ball turned out to be four or five beautiful creatures, many times larger than... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1899 - 364 lehte
...— cooing, and grunting, and whining, and squeaking, as if you had put into a bag two stockdoves, nine mice, three guinea-pigs, and a blind puppy, and...saw a sight as strange as the noise: a great ball roiling over and over down the stream, seeming one moment of soft brown fur, and the next of shining... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1994 - 228 lehte
...stream; cooing, and grunting, and whining, and squeaking, as if you had put into a bag two stock-doves, nine mice, three guineapigs, and a blind puppy, and...left them there to settle themselves and make music. again; and all the while the noise came out of it louder and louder. Tom asked the dragonfly what it... | |
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