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This stone is in great request for hearthstones , and the beds of ovens : and in
lining of limekilns it turns to good account ; for the workmen use sandy loam
instead of mortar ; the sand of which fluxes , and runs by the intense heat , and so
cases ...
This stone is in great request for hearthstones , and the beds of ovens : and in
lining of limekilns it turns to good account ; for the workmen use sandy loam
instead of mortar ; the sand of which fluxes , and runs by the intense heat , and so
cases ...
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Among the blue rags turn up some blocks tinged with a stain of yellow or rust
colour , which seem to be nearly as lasting as the blue ; and every now and then
balls of a friable substance , like rust of iron , called rust balls . t In Wolmer ...
Among the blue rags turn up some blocks tinged with a stain of yellow or rust
colour , which seem to be nearly as lasting as the blue ; and every now and then
balls of a friable substance , like rust of iron , called rust balls . t In Wolmer ...
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The manor farm of the parish of Greatham has an admitted claim , I see ( by an
old record taken from the Tower of London ) , of turning all live stock on the forest
, at proper seasons , bidentibus exceptis . *. * The Enclosure Act , under which so
...
The manor farm of the parish of Greatham has an admitted claim , I see ( by an
old record taken from the Tower of London ) , of turning all live stock on the forest
, at proper seasons , bidentibus exceptis . *. * The Enclosure Act , under which so
...
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But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that , when he was a great
boy , some workmen , in pulling down the battlements of a church tower early in
the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) * among the rubbish ...
But a clergyman , of an inquisitive turn , assures me , that , when he was a great
boy , some workmen , in pulling down the battlements of a church tower early in
the spring , found two or three swifts ( hirundines apodes ) * among the rubbish ...
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The Hoopoes are very shy birds . Montagu also knew of a pair in Hampshire ,
which abandoned their half - finished nest . They are never regular visitants with
us , but turn up unexpectedly in almost every county of England and Scotland .
The Hoopoes are very shy birds . Montagu also knew of a pair in Hampshire ,
which abandoned their half - finished nest . They are never regular visitants with
us , but turn up unexpectedly in almost every county of England and Scotland .
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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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