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... but the other is a fine perennial spring , called Well - head , little influenced by
drought or wet seasons , inasmuch as it produced on the 14th September , 1781 ,
after a severe hot summer , and a preceding dry spring and winter , nine gallons
...
... but the other is a fine perennial spring , called Well - head , little influenced by
drought or wet seasons , inasmuch as it produced on the 14th September , 1781 ,
after a severe hot summer , and a preceding dry spring and winter , nine gallons
...
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On the Blackmoor estate there is a small wood called Losel ' s , of a few acres ,
that was lately furnished with a set of oaks of a peculiar growth and great value ;
they were tall and taper - like firs , but standing near together had very small
heads ...
On the Blackmoor estate there is a small wood called Losel ' s , of a few acres ,
that was lately furnished with a set of oaks of a peculiar growth and great value ;
they were tall and taper - like firs , but standing near together had very small
heads ...
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... ploughed up in the chalky fields , near the side of the Down , and given to me
for the singularity of its appearance ; to an incurious eye it seems like a petrified
fish of about four inches long , the cardo hinge passing for a head and mouth .
... ploughed up in the chalky fields , near the side of the Down , and given to me
for the singularity of its appearance ; to an incurious eye it seems like a petrified
fish of about four inches long , the cardo hinge passing for a head and mouth .
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From a notion of rendering their work the more elegant , and giving it a finish ,
masons chip this stone into small fragments about the size of the head of a large
nail ; and then stick the pieces into the wet mortar along the joints of their
freestone ...
From a notion of rendering their work the more elegant , and giving it a finish ,
masons chip this stone into small fragments about the size of the head of a large
nail ; and then stick the pieces into the wet mortar along the joints of their
freestone ...
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Some imported birds having been turned out about Chobham have strayed to
this wild district , and into the New Forest , and even as far as Dorset and
Devonshire . - Ed . this century amounted to about five hundred head , and OF
SELBORNE ...
Some imported birds having been turned out about Chobham have strayed to
this wild district , and into the New Forest , and even as far as Dorset and
Devonshire . - Ed . this century amounted to about five hundred head , and OF
SELBORNE ...
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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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