 The horse, snorting somewhat disdainfully, replied, " It is true you inhabit three elements, but you make no very distinguished figure in any one of them. You fly, indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself...  A French grammar, revised by A.E. Ragon - Page 207by Pierre François Merlet - 1880Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - Children - 1805 - 168 pages
...your food in that element, nor glide unoothly along the hottom of the waves. And when you walk, QJT rather waddle, upon the ground, with your broad feet and your long neck ilretched out, hiding at every one who pafles by, you bring upon yourfclf the derifion of all beholders.... | |
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children - 1819 - 504 pages
...indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface...long neck stretched out, hissing at .every one who passes by, you bring upon yourself the derision of.aUbebolders. I confess that I .am only foraaed to... | |
 | John Aikin - 1823 - 164 pages
...indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface...long neck stretched out, hissing at every one who passes by, you bring upon yourself the derision of all beholders. I confess that I am only formed to... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Readers - 1829 - 256 pages
...elements, but you do not appear well in any of them. You fly, but can you compare your flight with the lark or the swallow ? " You can swim on the surface...in them as fishes do ; you cannot find your food in them, nor glide smoothly along the bottom of the waves. " When you walk upon the ground wHh your broad... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's literature - 1840 - 290 pages
...indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface...long neck stretched out, hissing at every one who passes by, you bring upon yourself the derision of all beholders. I confess, that I am only formed... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's literature - 1840 - 276 pages
...indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface...walk, or rather waddle upon the ground, with your 3* broad feet, and your long neck stretched out, hissing at every one who passes by, you bring upon... | |
 | George Moir Bussey - Fables - 1842 - 608 pages
...indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface...cannot live in them as fishes do ; you cannot find vour food in that element, nor glide smoothly along the bottom of the waves. And when you walk, or... | |
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Children's stories, English - 1849 - 582 pages
...indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface...waddle upon the ground, with your broad feet, and yourlong neck stretched out, hissing at every one who passes by, you bring upon yourself the derision... | |
 | John Aikin, Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - Animals - 1852 - 500 pages
...indeed ; but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. You can swim on the surface...cannot live in them as fishes do ; you cannot find much of your food in that element, nor glide smoothly along the bottom of the waves. And when you walk,... | |
 | James Stuart Laurie - 1863 - 198 pages
...indeed, but your flight is so heavy and clumsy, that you have no right to put yourself on a level with the lark or the swallow. " You can swim on the surface...do ; you cannot find your food in that element, nor make your way under the surface. And when you walk, or rather waddle, upon the ground, with your broad... | |
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