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This rag is rugged and stubborn , and will not hew to a smooth face ; but is very
durable : yet , as these strata are shallow and lie deep , large quantities cannot
be procured but at considerable expense . Among the blue rags turn up some ...
This rag is rugged and stubborn , and will not hew to a smooth face ; but is very
durable : yet , as these strata are shallow and lie deep , large quantities cannot
be procured but at considerable expense . Among the blue rags turn up some ...
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But he was mistaken : for I myself have seen cottages on the verge of this wild
district , whose timbers consisted of a black hard wood , looking like oak , which
the owners assured me they procured from the bogs by probing the soil with spits
...
But he was mistaken : for I myself have seen cottages on the verge of this wild
district , whose timbers consisted of a black hard wood , looking like oak , which
the owners assured me they procured from the bogs by probing the soil with spits
...
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I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my former letters , a young one
and a female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the
colour , shape , size , and manner of nesting , I make no doubt but that the
species is ...
I have procured some of the mice mentioned in my former letters , a young one
and a female with young , both of which I have preserved in brandy . From the
colour , shape , size , and manner of nesting , I make no doubt but that the
species is ...
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One of these nests I procured this autumn , most artificially platted , and
composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket
- ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed , that there was no discovering to
what ...
One of these nests I procured this autumn , most artificially platted , and
composed of the blades of wheat ; perfectly round , and about the size of a cricket
- ball ; with the aperture so ingeniously closed , that there was no discovering to
what ...
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I procured one to be shot in the very fact ; it proved to be the nuthatch , ( sitta
europea . ) Mr. Ray says that the less spotted woodpecker does the same . * This
noise may be heard a furlong or more . Now is the only time to ascertain the short
...
I procured one to be shot in the very fact ; it proved to be the nuthatch , ( sitta
europea . ) Mr. Ray says that the less spotted woodpecker does the same . * This
noise may be heard a furlong or more . Now is the only time to ascertain the short
...
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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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