 On the day I speak of he looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the florets, decided that it had been in flower five days. He drew out of his...  Excursions - Seite 21von Henry David Thoreau - 1883 - 319 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 Seiten
...a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave shrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest. He waded into the...his strong legs were no insignificant part of his armour. On the day I speak of he looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and,... | |
 | 1862 - 796 Seiten
...wore straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave shrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest. He waded into the pool for the water-plants, and bis strong legs were no insignificant part of his armor. On the day I speak of he looked for the Menyanthes,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1874 - 810 Seiten
...half-animal sagacities. Mr. Emerson tells us that when once at Waiden he visited Thoreau ' The naturalist waded into the pool for the water-plants, and his....strong legs were no insignificant part of his armor. On this day lielookeil for the mcnyanthes and detected it across the wide pool ; and, on examination of... | |
 | Wisconsin State Horticultural Society - 1879 - 362 Seiten
...diary, spy glass, microscope, jackknife, and twine. * * He waded into the pool for the water plants, and his strong legs were no insignificant part of...it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the flowerets, decided that it had been in flower five days. He drew out of his vest pocket his diary,... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Sanborn - 1882 - 368 Seiten
...stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave shrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or squirrel's nest. He waded into the pool for the water-plants,...strong legs were no insignificant part of his armor. His intimacy with animals suggested what Thomas Fuller records of Butler the apiologist, 'that either... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 Seiten
...a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave scrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest. He waded into the...his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 472 Seiten
...a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave scrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest. He waded into the...his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 Seiten
...a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave scrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest. He waded into the...his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 Seiten
...a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave scrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest. He waded into the...his breast-pocket his diary, and read the names of all the plants that should bloom on this day, whereof he kept account as a banker when his notes fall... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 Seiten
...a straw hat, stout shoes, strong gray trousers, to brave scrub-oaks and smilax, and to climb a tree for a hawk's or a squirrel's nest. He waded into the...were no insignificant part of his armor. On the day I spealc of he looked for the Menyanthes, detected it across the wide pool, and, on examination of the... | |
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