 | Charles Joseph Barnes - 1884 - 514 pages
...is impenetrable to the attacks of every other insect, and its body is enveloped in a soft, pliable skin, which eludes the sting even of a wasp. Its legs...of a lobster; and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished for observation than for attack or... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 520 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...of a lobster, and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished for observation than for an attack... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft, pliant skin...are terminated by strong claws, not unlike those of the lobster ; and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not... | |
 | Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert - 1898 - 344 pages
...is impenetrable to the attacks of every other insect, and its body is enveloped in a soft, pliable skin, which eludes the sting even of a wasp. Its legs...of a lobster ; and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished for observation than for attack or... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 460 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft, pliant skin,...furnished for observation than for an attack or a defense, it has several eyes, large, transparent, and covered with a horny substance, which, however,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1901 - 572 pages
...of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped ma soft, pliant skin which eludes the sting even of a...are terminated by strong claws, not unlike those of the lobster; and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1903 - 302 pages
...covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable to the attempts of every other insect, and its belly is enveloped in a soft pliant skin,...of a lobster, and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished for observation than for an attack... | |
 | William James O'Shea, Andrew E. Eichmann - 1912 - 96 pages
...strong natural coat of mail which fortifies it against attempts of every other insect, and its trunk is enveloped in a soft pliant skin which eludes the...by strong claws, not unlike those of a lobster, and serve, like spears, to keep every assailant at a distance. Not less equipped for observation than for... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1918 - 424 pages
...is impenetrable to the attacks of every other insect, and its body is enveloped in a soft, pliable skin, which eludes the sting even of a wasp. Its legs...of a lobster; and their vast length, like spears, serves to keep every assailant at a distance. Not worse furnished for observation than for attack or... | |
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This insect is formed by nature for a state of war, not only upon other insects, but upon each other. For this state nature seems perfectly well to have formed it. Its head and breast are covered with a strong natural coat of mail, which is impenetrable... 
