"Ling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... think it is so generally known that some of the spiders carry their young on their backs for some time after they are hatched. I remember seeing an instance of this one day when on the Moors, grouse-shooting. I saw what seemed to be a very curious insect travelling on the ling (heather), and on stooping down to examine it I found it was a large spider, upon the back of which (in fact, all over it) were clustered some dozens of young ones, about the size of pins' heads; she also seemed to guard them ...
— Essays in Natural History and Agriculture • Thomas Garnett
... my husband and myself went in, and while we were sitting in the parlour, Mrs. Jones had occasion to call a servant. I noticed that, when she rung the bell, she did so with a quick jerk; and I could perceive a tone of authority in the ting-a-ling of the bell, the sound of which was distinctly heard. Nearly two minutes passed before the servant made her appearance, in which time the bell received a more vigorous jerk. At last she ...
— Home Scenes, and Home Influence - A Series of Tales and Sketches • T. S. Arthur
... upon this wild, is gorse and ling: The vegetation upon the road and the adjacent lands, seem equal: The pits are all covered with ...
— An History of Birmingham (1783) • William Hutton
... I mean to venture all my fortune, Which is no more than a poor ling'ring life, To the cardinal's worst of malice. I have got Private access to his chamber; and intend To visit him about the mid of night, As once his brother did our noble duchess. It may be that the sudden apprehension Of danger,—for I 'll go in mine own shape,— When he shall see it fraight with ...
— The Duchess of Malfi • John Webster
... Mountain ling, whose flower and fragrance Sorest longing to me bring To be ever on the mountains— Oh that I were like ...
— Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century • Edmund O. Jones
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