 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 Seiten
...is a full lecherous beast in youth, swift, pliant, and merry, and leapeth and riseth on all things that is tofore him ; and is led by a straw, and playeth...limited by its hereditary habits of domestication. The ability of cats to seize upon their ordinary prey, mice or birds, does not appear to lose any thing... | |
 | 1882 - 202 Seiten
...to have transferred to the lion a habit ascribed to the cat by Bartholomicus, who says ot it : — " When he taketh a mouse, he playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play."* !.- -" Thus dost thou hear the Nemenn lion roar 'Gainst thee, thou lamb, that standest as his prey... | |
 | 1927 - 844 Seiten
...slyly in wait for mice: and is aware where they be more by smell than by sight, and hunteth and reseth on them in privy places: and when he taketh a mouse,...playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play. The time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with... | |
 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus) - 1893 - 228 Seiten
...slyly in wait for mice : and is aware where they be more by smell than by sight, and hunteth and reseth on them in privy places : and when he taketh a mouse,...playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play. In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with... | |
 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus) - 1893 - 212 Seiten
...slyly in wait for mice : and is aware where they be more by smell than by sight, and hunteth and reseth on them in privy places : and when he taketh a mouse, he playeth therewith, and eateth him after the 134 In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously... | |
 | Frederick Edward Hulme - 1895 - 368 Seiten
...slyly in wait for mice, and is aware where they be more by smell than by sight, and hunteth and reseth on them in privy places, and when he taketh a mouse...playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play. In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1901 - 358 Seiten
...sleepye, and lyeth slyly in waite for Mice ; and is ware where they bene more by smell than by sighte, and hunteth, and riseth on them in privy places. And...playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play. He is a cruell' beaste when he is wilde, and dwelleth in woods, and hunteth there small beastes as... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson - 1904 - 592 Seiten
...in wait for mice: and is aware where they be, more by smell than by sight, and hunteth and runneth on them in privy places ; and when he taketh a mouse,...playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play. In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with... | |
 | Bartholomaeus (Anglicus) - 1905 - 242 Seiten
...slyly in wait for mice : and is aware where they be more by smell than by sight, and huntcth and reseth on them in privy places : and when he taketh a mouse,...playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play. In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with... | |
 | Douglas Dewar - 1906 - 402 Seiten
...slyly in wait for mice, and is aware where they be more by smell than by sight, and hunteth and reseth on them in privy places, and when he taketh a mouse...playeth therewith, and eateth him after the play. In time of love is hard fighting for wives, and one scratcheth and rendeth the other grievously with... | |
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... him: and is led by a straw, and playeth therewith: and is a right heavy beast in age and full sleepy, and lieth slyly in wait for mice: and is aware where they be more by smell than by sight, and hunteth and reseth on them in privy places: and when... 
