Dobbins had ever administered; and also received with indifference the added cruelty of a command to remain two hours after school should be dismissed—for he knew who would wait for him outside till his captivity was done, and not count the tedious time as loss, either.
He generally began that day with wishing he had had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious.
Presently a vagrant poodle dog came idling along, sad at heart, lazy with the summer softness and the quiet, weary of captivity, sighing for change.
He got home pretty late that night, and when he climbed cautiously in at the window, he uncovered an ambuscade, in the person of his aunt; and when she saw the state his clothes were in her resolution to turn his Saturday holiday into captivity at hard labor became adamantine in its firmness.
The former emperor Hui-tsung, who had abdicated in 1125/26, together with his son, the emperor Ch'in-tsung (reigned 1125/26~27), was carried into captivity.
" The researchers studied the behaviour of domestic dogs, and grey wolves living in captivity.
— Do you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
Most pandas born in captivity will spend theirlives there, in China or on loan to zoos abroad.
In the story, a witch raises two children in captivity, allowing the boy to see only day and the girl only night.
With fewer than 2,000 of the animals living in the wild, and only 400 more in captivity, the giant panda is one of the world·s most vulnerable species.
Pandas normally live to around 20 years of age in the wild, and 25 in captivity.
Giant panda cubs are rare, as it is hard to get pandas to breed in captivity.
South America– wandering spider, scolopendra, poison dart frog, puffer fish - 、、、 Poison dart frogs get their poison from animals they eat on the forest floor and the amount in their system diminishes the longer they're kept in captivity.
Xiao Qihas been in captivity for six months after she was abandoned at birth by her mother.
In captivity, the giraffe sleeps intermittently around 4.
… Day 983 of my captivity.
Those beggars were a normal people before the bad people cut off their arms or legs and keep them in captivity for years.
Giant pandas, which are native to centralChina but are often kept in captivity to encourage the endangered species tobreed, eat between one and five stone of bamboo branches, stems and shootsevery day.
It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity.
Octopuses are well studied in captivity but because they are shy and often nocturnal , their natural wild behavior is less understood.