 | Lucy Barton - 1856 - 354 pages
...no part of it unsaluted." Finding him very tame, the Poet used to carry him after breakfast into the garden," where he hid himself, generally, under the...of a cucumber vine, sleeping, or chewing the cud, till evening." Puss enjoyed bis liberty so much, that he would invite his master to the garden "by... | |
 | William Cowper - 1859 - 324 pages
...occasion. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast. I had not long habituated... | |
 | 1862 - 582 pages
...remarkable statement: 'I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, when he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud until the evening.' "The learned JD Michaelis was it great pains to test the truth of the occasional re-mastication... | |
 | John Duns - 1863 - 720 pages
...poet Cowper mistook this for true cud-chewing in the case of his pet hares, one of which, he says, " hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening." The Jewish lawgiver was not describing peculiarities of internal structure, but characteristics... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - 1863 - 338 pages
...made it my custom to carry them always after breakfast into the garden, where they hid themselves, generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud, until the evening." Admitting, then, that " the hare " is the animal which the Jews were forbidden to eat,... | |
 | 1863 - 404 pages
...occasion. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into tho garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vino, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening ; in the leaves also of that vino he found a favourite... | |
 | Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 pages
...occasion. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening ; in the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast. I had not long habituated... | |
 | 1867 - 494 pages
...significantly expressed by licking niy hand, first the back of it, then the palm, then every finger separately. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom...himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine until the evening. I had not long habituated him to this state of liberty, before he began to be impatient... | |
 | John George Wood - 1869 - 758 pages
...Finding him exceedingly tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves...of a cucumber vine, sleeping, or chewing the cud, till evening." The real object of this continual grinding or mumbling movement is simple enough. The... | |
 | John Charles Curtis - 1869 - 150 pages
...occasion. Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening ; on the leaves also of that vine he found a favourite repast. I had not long habituated... | |
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Finding him extremely tractable, I made it my custom to carry him always after breakfast into the garden, where he hid himself generally under the leaves of a cucumber vine, sleeping or chewing the cud till evening; in the leaves also of that vine he... 
