 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 716 pages
...devour. They fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes into the dishes ; are very fond of ink and oil, into which they are apt to fall and perish. In this case they turn most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well set over the cadaverous body of a large animal,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 370 pages
...devour. They fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes into the dishes ; are very fond of ink and oil, into which they are apt to fall and perish. In this case they turn most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well sit over the cadaverous body of a large animal,... | |
 | J. Macloc - 1820 - 348 pages
...damage all sorts of clothing; every thing made of leather; books, paper, and various other articles : they fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes...are apt to fall and perish : in this case they soon turn it most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well sit over the putrid body of a large animal,... | |
 | Young lady - 1829 - 542 pages
...various other articles, which, if they do not destroy, at least they soil. He proceeds to state, that they fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes...are apt to fall and perish. In this case, they soon turn most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well sit over a cadaverous body of a large animal,... | |
 | Gill's scientific, technological and microscopic repository - 1829 - 424 pages
...these they destroy and soil by voiding their excrement on them. They are, as I have formely stated, very fond of ink, and of oil, into which they are apt to fall, and perish; in this case they soon turn most offensively putrid, so that a person might as well sit over the cadaverous body of a large... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 526 pages
...various other articles. They fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes into the dishes; and they are very fond of ink and of oil, into which they are apt to fall and perish. In this case they soon turn most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well sit over the putrid body of a large animal... | |
 | Georges baron Cuvier - 1832 - 998 pages
...depredations ; they plunder and erode all kinds of victuals, drest and undrest, and damage all sorts of clothing, especially those which are touched with...are apt to fall and perish. In this case they soon turn most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well sit over the cadaverous body of a large animal,... | |
 | James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood - 1835 - 332 pages
...they do not destroy, at least they soil, as they frequently deposite a drop of their excrement when they settle, and some way or other, by that means,...are apt to fall and perish. In this case they soon turn most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well sit over the cadaverous body of a large animal... | |
 | 1857 - 474 pages
...various other articles, which, if they 13 do not destroy, at least they soil. He proceeds to state, that they fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes...are apt to fall and perish. In this case, they soon turn most offensively putrid, 00 that a man might as well sit over a cadaverous body of a large animal,... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 pages
...what they cannot devour. They fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes into the dishes; are теry fond of ink and of oil, into which they are apt to fall and perish, in which case they soon turn most offensively putrid — so that a man might as well sit over the cadaverous... | |
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They fly into the flame of candles, and sometimes into the dishes ; are very fond of ink and of oil, into which they are apt to fall and perish. In this case they soon turn most offensively putrid, so that a man might as well sit over the cadaverous body... 
