 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 465 pagina’s
...endeavour to lay this with other materials, in the mode employed by the beaver when in a state of nature. The long and large materials were always taken first...the cross brushes and the wall he would fill up with boots, books, sticks, dried turf, or any thing portable. He would often, after laying on one of his... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 465 pagina’s
...endeavour to lay this with other materials, in the mode employed by the beaver when in a state of nature. The long and large materials were always taken first...the cross brushes and the wall he would fill up with boots, books, sticks, dried turf, or any thing portable. He would often, after laying on one of his... | |
 | 1850
...advancing with the load in an oblique direction, till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first,...projecting out into the room. The area formed by the crossed brushes and the wall he would fill up with hand-brushes, rush-baskets, books, boots, sticks,... | |
 | William John Broderip - 1852 - 413 pagina’s
...advancing with the load in an oblique direction, till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first,...projecting out into the room. The area formed by the crossed brushes and the wall he would fill up with handbrushes, rush-baskets, books, boots, sticks,... | |
 | Reading book - 1854
...so that the load came over its shoulder, and carrying it to the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first,...and the other ends projecting out into the room. The space between the crossed brushes and the wall he would fill up with hand-brushes, rush-baskets, books,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1854
...animal in a state of nature would the branch of a tree, and endeavour to lay them so as to form a dam. " The long and large materials were always taken first,...one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the others projecting out into the room," just the way the dam is formed from the side of a river. " The... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 487 pagina’s
...endeavor to lay this with other materials, in the mode employed by the beaver when in a state of nature. The long and large materials were always taken first...the cross brushes and the wall he would fill up with boots, books, sticks, dried turf, or any thing portable. He would often, after laying on one of his... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 487 pagina’s
...endeavor to lay this with other materials, in the mode employed by the beaver when in a state of nature. The long and large materials were always taken first...the cross brushes and the wall he would fill up with boots, books, sticks, dried turf, or any thing portable. He would often, after laying on. one of his... | |
 | John George Wood - 1855
...shoulder, and advancing in an oblique direction till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the largest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the other... | |
 | G. Garratt - 1856 - 248 pagina’s
...shoulder, and advancing in an oblique direction, till it arrived at the point where it wished to place it. The long and large materials were always taken first,...would fill up with hand-brushes, rush baskets, books, boots, sticks, cloths, dried turf, or anything portable. . . . After he had piled up his materials... | |
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The long and large materials were always taken first, and two of the longest were generally laid crosswise, with one of the ends of each touching the wall, and the other ends projecting out into the room. 
