| Neltje Blanchan - 1900 - 604 páginas
...This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps," he wrote, "just as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the...bathed her feet as the fresh water does the roots of this plant. ... As the distressed virgin cast down her blushing face through excessive affliction,... | |
| Harriet Louise Keeler - 1903 - 568 páginas
...celled, five - valved, manyseeded. This plant is always fixed in some turfy hillock in the midst of swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock...bathed her feet as the fresh water does the roots of this plant. — "Tour of Lapland." LINNAEUS. The lonely position of this little shrub in the midst... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1908 - 362 páginas
...represented by them as a virgin of most exquisite and unrivalled charms. . . . This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to the rock in the sea, which bathed her feet as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons... | |
| HENRY VAN DYKE - 1907 - 404 páginas
...represented by them as a virgin of most exquisite and unrivalled charms. . . . This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to the rock in the sea, which bathed her feet as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1897 - 364 páginas
...also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1897 - 364 páginas
...also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...roots of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles frequent the abode of her vegetable prototype, and, when... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1897 - 372 páginas
...also applicable to the plant, now preparing to celebrate its nuptials. This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps,...which bathed her feet, as the fresh water does the ronts of the plant. Dragons and venomous serpents surrounded her, as toads and other reptiles freqnent... | |
| Henry Van Dyke - 1920 - 316 páginas
...represented by them as a virgin of most exquisite and unrivalled charms. . . . "This plant is always fixed on some little turfy hillock in the midst of the swamps, as Andromeda herself was chained to the rock in the sea, which bathed her feet as the fresh water does the roots of the plant. Dragons... | |
| Harriet Louise Keeler - 1903 - 566 páginas
...celled, five - valved, manyseeded. This plant is always fixed in some turfy hillock in the midst of swamps as Andromeda herself was chained to a rock in the sea which bathed hei feet as the fresh water does the roots of this plant. — "Tour of Lapland." LINN.HUS. The lonely... | |
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