Even a loud crack which announced the disrupture of the trunk, failed to divert their attention from the intense pursuit of gain ; at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures... The honey bee [by T. James]. - 83. oldalszerző: Thomas James - 1852Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 360 oldal
...of gain : at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth....by the catastrophe, and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about the ruins, without offering us any molestation. Every one of... | |
| Washington Irving - 1835 - 220 oldal
...of gain : at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth....made no attack and sought no revenge : they seemed slupified by the catastrophe and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about... | |
| William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1835 - 878 oldal
...monwealth. One of the hunters immediately j Arkansas in a buffalo skin, hunting the elk ran up with a whisp of lighted hay as a defence against the bees. The...made no attack and sought no revenge : they seemed and wild-horse, and freshening the soul in all the wild transports of untrammelled nature. Even privations... | |
| 1835 - 466 oldal
...of gain : at length, down came the tree, with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a whisp of lighted hay as a defence against the bees. The latter, however, made no attack, and sought... | |
| 1841 - 272 oldal
...of gain : at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth....by the catastrophe, and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about the ruins, without offering us any molestation. Every one of... | |
| William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 oldal
...of gain : at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a whisp of lighted hay as a defence against the Bees. The latter, however, made no attack and sought... | |
| Seba Smith, Lawrence Labree - 1844 - 498 oldal
...of gain ; at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth....by the catastrophe and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling aud buzzing about the ruins without offering us any molestation. Every one of... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 oldal
...pursuit of gain. At length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth....made no attack, and sought no revenge : they seemed stupefied by the catastrophe, and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 390 oldal
...displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a whisp of lighted hay as a defence against the bees. The...made no attack and sought no revenge ; they seemed stupefied by the catastrophe and unsuspicious of its cause, and remained crawling and buzzing about... | |
| Washington Irving - 1849 - 278 oldal
...of gain ; at length down came the tree with a tremendous crash, bursting open from end to end, and displaying all the hoarded treasures of the commonwealth. One of the hunters immediately ran up with a whisp of lighted hay as a defence against the bees. The latter, however, made no attack and sought... | |
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