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For days , for 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
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For days , for 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
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walks , many ground , which joins to my garden , for some weeks . They used to
march about in a stately marner , feeding in the times in the day ; and seemed
disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys
...
walks , many ground , which joins to my garden , for some weeks . They used to
march about in a stately marner , feeding in the times in the day ; and seemed
disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frightened and persecuted by idle boys
...
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About ten years ago , I used to spend some 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 ...
About ten years ago , I used to spend some 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 ...
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Now , is it likely that these poor little birds , which perhape had not been hatched
but a few 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 2 * I
...
Now , is it likely that these poor little birds , which perhape had not been hatched
but a few 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 2 * I
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I lose sight of them in my neighbourhood for 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 .
I lose sight of them in my neighbourhood for 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 .
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| Titel | The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of Nature and the Naturalist's Calendar Bohn's illustrated library |
| Autor/in | Gilbert White |
| Verlag | G. Bell, 1890 |
| Original von | Northwestern University |
| Digitalisiert | 22. Dez. 2010 |
| Länge | 416 Seiten |
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