The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's CalendarG. Bell, 1890 - 416 Seiten |
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... feeding during the summer . Upon these occasions , I am placed on my pack in the scale , where I sprawl about , to the great diversion of the shopkeeper's children . These matters displease me ; but there THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . xiii.
... feeding during the summer . Upon these occasions , I am placed on my pack in the scale , where I sprawl about , to the great diversion of the shopkeeper's children . These matters displease me ; but there THE REV . GILBERT WHITE . xiii.
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... feeding . During this great proportion of the day , they drop much dung , in which insects nestle , and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted , but for this contingency . * Thus Nature , who is a great economist ...
... feeding . During this great proportion of the day , they drop much dung , in which insects nestle , and so supply food for the fish , which would be poorly subsisted , but for this contingency . * Thus Nature , who is a great economist ...
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... feed in the brooks and meadows : returning again with the dawn of the morming ! Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is per- fectly naked ) , it might make a valuable decoy . Yet ...
... feed in the brooks and meadows : returning again with the dawn of the morming ! Had this lake an arm or two more , and were it planted round with thick covert ( for now it is per- fectly naked ) , it might make a valuable decoy . Yet ...
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... feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . * in my Three grossbeaks ( loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some ...
... feeding in the walks , many times in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . * in my Three grossbeaks ( loxia coccothraustes ) appeared some ...
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... feed them with cooked meat : but this they rejected . Raw beef was , however , eaten with avidity ; and an evident preference was given to those pieces which had been moistened with water . The feeding with beef answered exceedingly ...
... feed them with cooked meat : but this they rejected . Raw beef was , however , eaten with avidity ; and an evident preference was given to those pieces which had been moistened with water . The feeding with beef answered exceedingly ...
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