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... in this forest , about March or April , according to the dryness of the season ,
such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head ,
and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the
underwoods ...
... in this forest , about March or April , according to the dryness of the season ,
such vast heath - fires are lighted up , that they often get to a masterless head ,
and , catching the hedges , have sometimes been communicated to the
underwoods ...
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These trees , which were very sound , and in high perfection , were winter - cut ,
viz . in February and March , before the bark would run . In old times the Holt was
estimated to be eighteen miles , computed measure , from water - carriage , viz ...
These trees , which were very sound , and in high perfection , were winter - cut ,
viz . in February and March , before the bark would run . In old times the Holt was
estimated to be eighteen miles , computed measure , from water - carriage , viz ...
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Writing twenty years later than the date of this letter , he tells us , in his
Observations on Nature , March 23 , 1788 , that a gentleman who was this week
on a visit at Waverly , took the opportunity of examining some of the holes in the
sand ...
Writing twenty years later than the date of this letter , he tells us , in his
Observations on Nature , March 23 , 1788 , that a gentleman who was this week
on a visit at Waverly , took the opportunity of examining some of the holes in the
sand ...
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... by the visit of a party of swallows to the ship Delaware , in which he was a
passenger , five hundred miles from the coast of Portugal , and four hun . dred
from the coast of Africa , after a gale from the eastward , on the 20th of March ,
1828 .
... by the visit of a party of swallows to the ship Delaware , in which he was a
passenger , five hundred miles from the coast of Portugal , and four hun . dred
from the coast of Africa , after a gale from the eastward , on the 20th of March ,
1828 .
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They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many times
in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and
persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . Three grosbeaks ...
They used to march about in a stately manner , feeding in the walks , many times
in the day ; and seemed disposed to breed in my outlet ; but were frighted and
persecuted by idle boys , who would never let them be at rest . Three grosbeaks ...
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able advance animals appear attention autumn become beginning birds breed build called colour common continued curious district doubt eggs fall feed feet female fields flocks forest former four frequently frost garden give ground half haunt head heard hill HONOURABLE DAINES BARRINGTON hundred inches insects kind known late leaves legs LETTER live manner March matter means mentioned middle migration month morning natural nest never night observed once pair perhaps person plants probably procured remarkable says season seems seen SELBORNE severe short side sing sometimes song soon sort species spring stone strange summer suppose swallow swifts tail taken THOMAS PENNANT till trees turn usually vast village weather week whole wild wings winter wonder woods young
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Seite 80 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Seite 406 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Seite 180 - No part of its behaviour ever struck me more than the extreme timidity it always expresses with regard to rain ; for though it has a shell that would secure it against the wheel of a loaded cart, yet does it discover as much solicitude about rain as a lady dressed in all her best attire, shuffling away on the first sprinklings, and running its head up in a corner.
Seite 197 - Thus careful workmen when they build mud walls (informed at first perhaps by this little bird) raise but a moderate layer at a time, and then desist ; lest the work should become top-heavy, and so be ruined by its own weight. By this method in about ten or twelve days is formed an hemispheric nest with a small aperture towards the top, strong, compact, and warm ; and perfectly fitted for all the purposes for which it was intended.
Seite 276 - ... it is supposed that a shrewmouse ia of so baneful and deleterious a nature, that wherever it creeps over a beast, be it horse, cow, or sheep, the suffering animal is afflicted with cruel anguish, and threatened with the loss of the use of the limb.
Seite 156 - MILTOK. but scout and hurry along in little detached parties of six or seven in a company ; and sweeping low, just over the surface of the land and water, direct their course to the opposite continent at the narrowest passage they can find.
Seite 182 - Zoology (the stoparola of Ray) builds every year in the vines that grow on the walls of my house. A pair of these little birds had one year inadvertently placed their nest on a naked bough, perhaps in a shady time, not being aware of the inconvenience that followed. But...
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| Titel | The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory Notes |
| Autor/in | Gilbert White |
| Verlag | Bell and Daldy, 1862 |
| Original von | Oxford University |
| Digitalisiert | 11. Sept. 2006 |
| Länge | 426 Seiten |
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