Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations of Animals, Classed According to Their Principle of ConstructionLongmans, Green and Company, 1866 - 632 páginas |
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... ground , and inhabited in the hot season by the luxurious . Even in such cases , however , the inherent defects of an underground dwelling make them- selves painfully apparent . The rooms , though cool , are close and depressing in the ...
... ground , and inhabited in the hot season by the luxurious . Even in such cases , however , the inherent defects of an underground dwelling make them- selves painfully apparent . The rooms , though cool , are close and depressing in the ...
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... ground and sit at the end of them , but forms a complicated subterranean dwelling - place , with chambers , passages , and other arrangements of wonderful completeness . It has regular roads leading to its feeding - grounds ...
... ground and sit at the end of them , but forms a complicated subterranean dwelling - place , with chambers , passages , and other arrangements of wonderful completeness . It has regular roads leading to its feeding - grounds ...
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... ground , or the seal when brought ashore . Replace it in the familiar earth , and it becomes a different being , -full of life and energy , and actuated by a fiery activity which seems quite inconsistent with its dull aspect and ...
... ground , or the seal when brought ashore . Replace it in the familiar earth , and it becomes a different being , -full of life and energy , and actuated by a fiery activity which seems quite inconsistent with its dull aspect and ...
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... ground which a single Mole covers with its network of roads and galleries , driven in every direction from the fortress , and sunk at various depths , according to the state of the ground and the position of the worms . Sometimes it ...
... ground which a single Mole covers with its network of roads and galleries , driven in every direction from the fortress , and sunk at various depths , according to the state of the ground and the position of the worms . Sometimes it ...
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... ground . I say an active existence , because there are many other creatures which lead a subterranean life , but which are comparatively quiet and listless during their sojourn underground . But the Mole absolutely riots in the ...
... ground . I say an active existence , because there are many other creatures which lead a subterranean life , but which are comparatively quiet and listless during their sojourn underground . But the Mole absolutely riots in the ...
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