 | Washington Irving - 1903 - 336 pages
...utmost impatience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare,...struggled hard to get loose. The spider gave it leave to 120 entangle itself as much as possible, but it seemed to be too strong for the cobweb. I must own... | |
 | 1911 - 200 pages
...utmost impatience, repairing the breaches of its web and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare,...too strong for the cobweb. I must own I was greatly surprized when I saw the spider immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a new net round... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1918 - 424 pages
...with the utmost patience, repairing the breaks of its web, and taking no food that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare...immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a net around its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped. When the fly was fairly hampered... | |
 | David Sinclair Burleson - 1925 - 440 pages
...with the utmost patience, repairing the breaks of its web, and taking no food that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare...immediately sally out, and in less than a minute weave a net around its captive, by which the motion of its wings was stopped. When the fly was fairly hampered... | |
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Now then, in peaceable possession of what was justly its own, it waited three days with the utmost impatience, repairing the breaches of its web, and taking no sustenance that I could perceive. At last, however, a large blue fly fell into the snare, and... 
