United States or Dominica ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
She flies away, throwing a jet of liquid excrement over her tormentors as she goes. But what cares the Ant for this expression of sovereign contempt? She is left in possession of the spring only too soon exhausted when the pump is removed that made it flow. There is little left, but that little is sweet.
We will race each other into the hole. If you jump in first, then I shall lose and you will win." And the Lion ran, and jumped into the hole. Then the Cat covered him with earth and stones until he was dead. That is why the Cat hides her excrement, because she is afraid the Lion will come. Now, the Lion is the dog of the Buso. How the Lizards got their Markings
Towards morning, the sound of their departure to their feeding-grounds resembled thunder. For nearly two hours there was one incessant roar, as flock after flock took its departure eastward. The ground under the trees was whitened with their excrement, and strewn with broken branches of trees. The Americans have a plan of capturing these birds, by means of a decoy, or stool-pigeon, and nets.
He showed further signs of a perverted mind by classifying the animals of the menagerie according to the form of their excrement, of which he had a collection. He died of indigestion following a meal of eight pounds of hot bread. Percy saw the famous Tarrare, who died at Versailles, at about twenty-six years of age. At seventeen he weighed 100 pounds. He ate a quarter of beef in twenty-four hours.
In the deserts of Arabia, where the heat is excessive, they never drink any, and commonly live on excrement. The camels will subsist four months without tasting a drop of water. The goats and sheep drink still less. Indeed, if it were not for the horses, the Arabs would never go in search of water; they would wait on that which falls from the sky.
If the Torah had not been revealed to us, we might have learnt regard for the decencies of life from the cat, who covers her excrement with earth; regard for the property of others from the ants, who never encroach upon one another's stores; and regard for decorous conduct from the cock, who, when he desires to unite with the hen, promises to buy her a cloak long enough to reach to the ground, and when the hen reminds him of his promise, he shakes his comb and says, "May I be deprived of my comb, if I do not buy it when I have the means."
In the first place, fecal matter containing the typhoid germ may adhere to the fly and be mechanically transported. In the second place, it is possible that the typhoid bacillus may be carried in the digestive organs of the fly and may be deposited with its excrement." In Dr.
He advised me to go "beg license" of the "senora" of the house farther on, a low adobe building with wooden doors. "There is nothing but the place opposite," she answered. This was a sort of mud cave, man-made and door-less, the uneven earth floor covered with excrement, human and otherwise.
Now there is a small Persian bird, in the inside of which no excrement is found, only a mass of fat, so that they suppose the little creature lives upon air and dew. It is called rhyntaces.
In short, they consider the sea to have been forced out of the earth by the power of fire, and therefore to lie out of nature's confines; and they regard it not as a part of the world, or one of the elements, but as a preternatural and corrupt and morbid excrement.
Word Of The Day