 What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and unpleasant surprise to a small community, the very existence of which you had not suspected, until the sudden dismay and scattering among its members produced by your turning the old stone over ! Blades...  Exercises in English composition - Sivu 48tekijä(t) Robert Skakel Knight - 1876Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | John Paterson Smyth - 1899 - 168 sivua
...were, around it as it lies. " Beneath it, what a revelation! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed; hideous crawling things; black crickets with their long filaments sticking out on all sides; motionless, slug-like creatures;... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 334 sivua
...over as a housewife turns a cake, when she says to herself, " It's done brown enough by this time " ? What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and...suspected, until the sudden dismay and scattering among the members produced by your turning • the old stone over ! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless,... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 328 sivua
...the members produced by your turning the old stone over ! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and...creatures, some of them coleopterous or horny-shelled, — turtle bugs one wants to call them; some of them softer, but cunningly spread out and compressed... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 328 sivua
...over as a housewife turns a cake, when she 5 says to herself, "It's done brown enough by this time"? What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and...dismay and scattering among its members produced by 10 your turning the old stone over ! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - 1904 - 328 sivua
...members produced by 10 your turning the old stone over! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and...creatures, some of them coleopterous or horny-shelled, — turtle bugs one wants to call them ; some of them softer, but cunningly 15 spread out and compressed,... | |
 | Elizabeth Hill Spalding - 1905 - 296 sivua
...over as a housewife turns a cake, when she says to herself, " It's done brown enough by this time " ? What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and...the old stone over ! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed ; hideous crawling creatures, some... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1907 - 370 sivua
...over as a housewife turns a cake, when she says to herself, " It's done brown enough by this time " ? What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and...the very existence of which you had not suspected, unt1l the sudden dismay and scattering among its members produced by your turning the old stone over... | |
 | Emma Serl - 1914 - 350 sivua
...its members produced by your turning the old stone over ! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed ; hideous crawling creatures ; black, glossy crickets, with their long filaments sticking out like the whips of four-horse stagecoaches... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 sivua
...over as a housewife turns a cake, when she says to herself, "It's done brown enough by this time " ? What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and...the old stone over! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed; hideous crawling creatures, some... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 sivua
...over as a housewife turns a cake, when she says to herself, "It's done brown enough by this time " ? What an odd revelation, and what an unforeseen and...the old stone over! Blades of grass flattened down, colorless, matted together, as if they had been bleached and ironed; hideous crawling creatures, some... | |
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