 | 740 sider
...tribute to these kindly properties :— " Few of us at home can recognise the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping dress of winter about this feeble flower-life. The first warm snows of August and September,... | |
 | 1867 - 738 sider
...tribute to these kindly properties : — " Few of us at home can recognise the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping dress of winter about this feeble flower-life. The first warm snows of August and September,... | |
 | 1867 - 746 sider
...tribute to these kindly properties : — " Few of us at home can recognise the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping dress of winter about this feeble flower-life. The first warm snows of August and September,... | |
 | Elisha Kent Kane - 1856 - 524 sider
...saxifrages, were already recognisable. " Few of us at home can realize the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle...more kindly than the sleeping-dress of winter about this feeble flower-life. The first warm snows of August and September falling on a thickly-pleached... | |
 | 1857 - 426 sider
...SNOW ON VEGETATION IN ARCTIC LATITUDES. Few of us at home can realize the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping dress of winter about this feeble flower life. The first warm snows of August and September... | |
 | 1857 - 424 sider
...SNOW ON VEGETATION IN ARCTIC LATITUDES. Few of us at home can realize the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping dress of winter about this feeble flower life. The first warm snows of August and September... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1858 - 466 sider
...external air * " Few can realize the protecting value of the warm coverlet of snow. No eider-do\rn in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly...flower-life of the Arctic regions. The first warm snowa of August and September, falling on a thickly-blended carpet of grasses, heaths and willows,... | |
 | 1858 - 592 sider
...recognizable." • • • "Few of us at home," he continues, " can realize the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping dress ol winter about thia feeble flower-life." When the snow falls early in winter, and remains... | |
 | William Elder - 1858 - 448 sider
...that runs down to 50° below zero warms his fancy into poetic sympathy with its delicate life : — " No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked...more kindly than the sleeping-dress of winter about this feeble flower-life." His logic was nothing akin to the legal method of reasoning. It was amusing... | |
 | Nelson Thomas and sons, ltd - 1862 - 392 sider
..." Few," says Dr. Kane, " can realize the protecting value of a warm coverlet of snow. No eider down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping dress of winter about the feeble flower life of the Arctic regions. The first snows of August... | |
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No eider-down In the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping-dress of winter about the feeble flower-life of the Arctic regions. 
