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Hussey's protection, but that a number of dogs were also kept on the premises, and it is, therefore, astonishing the care and caution which must have been resorted to in order to successfully lay and explode the destructive material.
In psychological laboratories it has been found by scientifically conducted experiments that under the influence of destructive mental and emotional conditions, the secretions and excretions of the body show an increase of morbid and poisonous elements.
In these excursions they exhibit a strength of wing and sustained power of flight, such as is possessed by no other class of beetles with which I am acquainted, but which is obviously indispensable for the due performance of the useful functions they discharge. The Coco-nut Beetle. In the luxuriant forests of Ceylon the extensive family of Longicorns and Passalidæ live in destructive abundance.
Along the upper seven hundred miles there are not a half-dozen ranches with twenty-five acres under cultivation. But if destructive power and untamed energy are terrible, the Colorado River, in flood, is a terrible stream.
I recall him most vividly against the background of faded brown book-backs in the old library in which we less destructive seniors were trusted to work, with the light from the stained-glass window falling in coloured patches on his face. It gave him the appearance of having no colour of his own.
If the floors were raised on piers of brick, about fifteen inches above the ground, so that dogs or cats might have a free passage beneath the building, it would prevent the vermin from harbouring there, and tend greatly to preserve the grain. Field mice are also very destructive in the fields and gardens, burrowing under the ground, and digging up the earth when newly sown.
If I were allowed to recite only those wishes of the nation, which may be in our power to attain; I think they might be summed up in these few following. First, That an end might be put to our apprehensions of Wood's halfpence, and to any danger of the like destructive scheme for the future. Secondly; That halfpence might be coined in this kingdom, by a public mint, with due limitations.
"By George! What a smasher!" said Dent. "The door's bound to go if they can get two or three of those straight on it." Jack glanced at the heavy shot, then turned to the window to watch for the gunners in order to check them in working their destructive piece. "I can't see them," he said. "There's no sign of them at all." Jim and Buck joined him at once.
The blood of the ancient English was not only tainted with the breath of that destructive age, but their lands also. The powerful blast destroyed their ancient freehold tenures, reducing them into wretched copyholds: and to the disgrace of succeeding ages, many of them retain this mark of Norman slavery to the present day.
There is less interest in the habits of these destructive wretches than in all other of the ant tribe; they build stupendous nests, it is true, but their interior economy is less active and thrifty than that of many other species of ants, among which there is a greater appearance of the display of reasoning powers than in most animals of a superior class.
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