Hardwicke's Science-gossip: An Illustrated Medium of Interchange and Gossip for Students and Lovers of Nature, 27. köideMordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Ellor Taylor Robert Hardwicke, 1891 |
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... light tangled ball of silk as large as itself , a current of air caught it and it floated away nearly to the top of a tree ten yards away and caught , the spider gave it two or three tugs to be sure of it , and then with the utmost ...
... light tangled ball of silk as large as itself , a current of air caught it and it floated away nearly to the top of a tree ten yards away and caught , the spider gave it two or three tugs to be sure of it , and then with the utmost ...
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... light on the past history of the flowers . There remains a little finishing touch of purple on the flowerets of the daisy resembling the mark of a copying ink pencil , that is apt to attract notice . Were a Grinling Gibbons set to carve ...
... light on the past history of the flowers . There remains a little finishing touch of purple on the flowerets of the daisy resembling the mark of a copying ink pencil , that is apt to attract notice . Were a Grinling Gibbons set to carve ...
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... Light a candle and go all round joints , & c . , and you will soon find out where . Remedy : stop up with putty or pitch , and do not use the machine again till thoroughly set . bladder , by tying weights at each end of a cloth , and ...
... Light a candle and go all round joints , & c . , and you will soon find out where . Remedy : stop up with putty or pitch , and do not use the machine again till thoroughly set . bladder , by tying weights at each end of a cloth , and ...
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... light shone full in upon it from the small rounded entrance in the front of its very comfortable chamber . Pied wagtail ( Motacilla lugubris ) .— I have seen a nest of this bird which had been built in an old nest of the swallow , up in ...
... light shone full in upon it from the small rounded entrance in the front of its very comfortable chamber . Pied wagtail ( Motacilla lugubris ) .— I have seen a nest of this bird which had been built in an old nest of the swallow , up in ...
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... light is reflected from a properly - arranged lamp , by the mirror , on to a paper scale . The dots and dashes of the Morse code are indicated by the motions of the spot of light to the right and left respectively , of the centre of the ...
... light is reflected from a properly - arranged lamp , by the mirror , on to a paper scale . The dots and dashes of the Morse code are indicated by the motions of the spot of light to the right and left respectively , of the centre of the ...
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