The Natural History of Selborne: With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesBell and Daldy, 1862 - 426 Seiten |
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... sort of rotten or rubble stone , which , when turned up to the frost and rain , moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself . Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay ...
... sort of rotten or rubble stone , which , when turned up to the frost and rain , moulders to pieces , and becomes manure to itself . Still on to the north - east , and a step lower , is a kind of white land , neither chalk nor clay ...
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... sort of marl ; and are usually very small and soft : but in Clay's Pond , a little farther on , at the end of the pit , where the soil is dug out for manure , I have occasionally observed them of large dimensions perhaps fourteen or ...
... sort of marl ; and are usually very small and soft : but in Clay's Pond , a little farther on , at the end of the pit , where the soil is dug out for manure , I have occasionally observed them of large dimensions perhaps fourteen or ...
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... sort of stone , called by the workmen sand , or forest - stone . This is generally of the colour of rusty iron , and might probably be worked as iron ore ; is very hard and heavy , and of a firm , compact texture , and composed of a ...
... sort of stone , called by the workmen sand , or forest - stone . This is generally of the colour of rusty iron , and might probably be worked as iron ore ; is very hard and heavy , and of a firm , compact texture , and composed of a ...
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... sort which , rising into tall hassocks , is called by the foresters , torrets ; a corruption , I suppose , of turrets ; it affords such a safe and pleas- ing shelter to wild ducks , teals , and snipes , that they breed there . In the ...
... sort which , rising into tall hassocks , is called by the foresters , torrets ; a corruption , I suppose , of turrets ; it affords such a safe and pleas- ing shelter to wild ducks , teals , and snipes , that they breed there . In the ...
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... sort are rarely seen in England , and only in winter . * ] — OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE . * Montagu speaks of the Grosbeak visiting England in the autumn . Mr. Doubleday has satisfied himself that it remains the whole year , and breeds in ...
... sort are rarely seen in England , and only in winter . * ] — OBSERVATIONS ON NATURE . * Montagu speaks of the Grosbeak visiting England in the autumn . Mr. Doubleday has satisfied himself that it remains the whole year , and breeds in ...
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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 408 - 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 182 - 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 199 - 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 278 - ... 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 158 - 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 184 - 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...