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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... weeks , prevails the placid calm . At length some drops prelude a change : the sun With ray refracted , bursts the parting gloom , When all the chequer'd sky is one bright glare . Mutters the wind at eve ; th ' horizon round With angry ...
... weeks , prevails the placid calm . At length some drops prelude a change : the sun With ray refracted , bursts the parting gloom , When all the chequer'd sky is one bright glare . Mutters the wind at eve ; th ' horizon round With angry ...
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... weeks . They used to march about in a stately marner , 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 ...
... weeks . They used to march about in a stately marner , 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 ...
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... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which assemble in those parts . But ...
... weeks yearly at Sunbury , which is one of those pleasant villages lying on the Thames , near Hampton Court . In the autumn I could not help being much amused with those myriads of the swallow kind which assemble in those parts . But ...
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... weeks , should , at that late season of the year , and from so midlard a county , attempt a voyage to Goree or Senegal , almost as far as the equator ? * I acquiesce entirely in your opinion that , though most of the swallow kind may ...
... weeks , should , at that late season of the year , and from so midlard a county , attempt a voyage to Goree or Senegal , almost as far as the equator ? * I acquiesce entirely in your opinion that , though most of the swallow kind may ...
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... weeks together . A curious fact may here be related of them . A pair of pied wagtails built their nest last summer in a vacuum under a sleeper of the Brighton railway , near the terminus at that place . Trains at all times of the day ...
... weeks together . A curious fact may here be related of them . A pair of pied wagtails built their nest last summer in a vacuum under a sleeper of the Brighton railway , near the terminus at that place . Trains at all times of the day ...
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