 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...in form ; but this seems to depend more on the sand crumbling away than upon any deficiency in the original workmanship. The bird, in fact, always uses...thigh to the head forming the radius of the circle, though it does not trace this out as we would do, by fixing a point for the centre, around which to... | |
 | Samuel Roper - 1832 - 178 pages
...in form ; but this seems to depend more on the sand crumbling away, than upon any deficiency in the original workmanship : the bird, in fact, always uses...forming the radius of the circle. It does not trace out this as we should do, by fixing a point for the centre, around which to draw the circumference... | |
 | British birds - 1840 - 326 pages
...are irregular in form, perhaps from the sand crumbling more away than in other instances. The bird always uses its own body to determine the proportions of the gallery, perching on the circumference with L its claws, and labouring with its bill from the centre outwards.... | |
 | 1849 - 492 pages
...but this seems to depend more on the sand crumbling away than on any deficiency of skill. The bird always uses its own body to determine the proportions of the gallery; it perches on the circumference with its claws, and works with its bill from the centre outwards. It... | |
 | Henry Gardiner Adams - 1863 - 358 pages
...in form ; but this seems to depend more on the sand crumbling away than upon any deficiency in the original workmanship. The bird, in fact, always uses...its claws, and works with its bill from the centre outwards ; and hence it is that in the numerous excavations recently commenced, which we have examined,... | |
 | Anonymous - History - 1866 - 588 pages
...in form : but this seems to depend more on the sand crumbling away than upon any deficiency in the original workmanship. The bird, in fact, always uses...its claws, and works with its bill from the centre outwards ; aud hence it is that in the numerous excavations recently commenced, which wo have examined,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1866 - 750 pages
...in form : but this seems to depend more on the sand crumbling away than upon any deficiency in the original workmanship. The bird, in fact, always uses...trace this out as we should do by fixing a point for tho centre around which to draw the circumference ; on the contrary, it perches on the circumference... | |
 | English literature - 1866 - 586 pages
...irregular in form: but this seems to depend more on the sand crumbling away than upon any deficiency in the original workmanship. The bird, in fact, always uses...determine the proportions of the gallery, the part from tho thigh to the head forming the radius of the circle. It does not trace this out as we should do... | |
 | Animals - 1874 - 82 pages
...workmanship. The bird, in fact, always makes use of his own body to determine the proportions of his gallery, the part from the thigh to the head forming the radius of the circle. Now, he does not trace this out, as we learn to do at school, by choosing a pencil for a centre, around... | |
 | Animals - 1874 - 82 pages
...workmanship. The bird, in fact, always makes use of his own body to determine the proportions of his gallery, the part from the thigh to the head forming the radius of the circle. Now, he does not trace this out, as we learn1 to do at school, by choosing a pencil for a centre, around... | |
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... in the original workmanship. The bird, in fact, always uses its own body to determine the proportions of the gallery, — the part from the thigh to the head forming the radius of the circle. It does not trace this out, as we should do, by fixing... 