 | 1825 - 182 Seiten
...and painful posture, fresh bees relieving their comrades when weary, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days! At the end of this period they had prepared enough wax, with which they built pillars that kept it firm ; by some accident the comb was again unsettled,... | |
 | Mary Roberts - 1831 - 388 Seiten
...constrained and painful posture, fresh bees relieving their weary comrades, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days. At...had prepared a sufficiency of wax, with which they erected pillars, that kept it in a firm position. From what source did this extraordinary adaptation... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...relieving their comrades at intervals, and each working in its turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days : at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with. But these pillars having accidentally... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1839 - 386 Seiten
...relieving their comrades at intervals, and each working in its turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days : at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with. But these pillars having accidentally... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1842 - 434 Seiten
...intervals, and thus, each working in his turn, did THE OBSERVATORY HIVE. 263 these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days, at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with ; but these pillars having accidentally... | |
 | William Charles Cotton - 1843 - 84 Seiten
...relieving their comrades at intervals, and thus, each working in his turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days, at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with ; but these pillars having accidentally... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 Seiten
...relieving their comrades at intervals, and each working in its turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days, at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with. But these pillars having accidentally... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 Seiten
...relieving their comrades at intervals, and each working in its turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days, at the end of which time they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with it. And what is still further curious,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1847 - 406 Seiten
...relieving their comrades at intervals, and each working in its turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days : at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to build pillars with. But these pillars having accidentally... | |
 | 1851 - 658 Seiten
...relieving their comrades at intervals, and each working in its turn, did these affectionate little insects support the comb for nearly three days ; at the end of which they had prepared sufficient wax to bnild pillars with it. And, (what is still further curious,)... | |
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... forefeet on the table on which the comb stood, and so with their hind feet kept the comb from falling. When these were weary others took their places. In this constrained and painful posture, fresh bees relieving their comrades at intervals, and each... 
