The Natural History of Selborne: With a Naturalist's Calendar and Additional ObservationsWalter Scott, 1887 - 366 Seiten |
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... seem so very simple , just as a boy might snatch a bloom of horse - chestnut and bring it home ; so very easy to do that . And what is there in a chestnut bough when you have got it ? In these times there is a certain amount of feeling ...
... seem so very simple , just as a boy might snatch a bloom of horse - chestnut and bring it home ; so very easy to do that . And what is there in a chestnut bough when you have got it ? In these times there is a certain amount of feeling ...
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... seem so incomprehensible to outsiders . It is curious that White should have had an artist's eye for landscape . He frequently , as he rides along the South Downs , checks his horse to admire those very scenes which Turner has made ...
... seem so incomprehensible to outsiders . It is curious that White should have had an artist's eye for landscape . He frequently , as he rides along the South Downs , checks his horse to admire those very scenes which Turner has made ...
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... seem to move from the dark depths do move and do come up in sight . Be very careful not to go too far ; keep round the skirts of home near the garden , or in the nearest field , else you will jump over the very best ; for it is a fact ...
... seem to move from the dark depths do move and do come up in sight . Be very careful not to go too far ; keep round the skirts of home near the garden , or in the nearest field , else you will jump over the very best ; for it is a fact ...
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... seems so far from being calcareous , that it endures extreme heat . Yet that the freestone still preserves somewhat that is analogous to chalk , is plain from the beeches which descend as low as those rocks extend , and no farther , and ...
... seems so far from being calcareous , that it endures extreme heat . Yet that the freestone still preserves somewhat that is analogous to chalk , is plain from the beeches which descend as low as those rocks extend , and no farther , and ...
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... in the chalky fields , near the side of the down , and given to me for the singularity of its appearance , which , to an incurious eye , seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long , the cardo 8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
... in the chalky fields , near the side of the down , and given to me for the singularity of its appearance , which , to an incurious eye , seems like a petrified fish of about four inches long , the cardo 8 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE .
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abound Alauda Andalusia animals appear April autumn beeches birds of prey blackcap breed brood called chaffinches colour cuckoo curious district Edited eggs feed feet female fern-owl field fieldfares flies flocks frequently frost garden grass ground Hanger haunt hedges hirundines Hirundo house-martins inches insects Joseph Skipsey July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner MARKWICK martins migration morning Motacilla natural history naturalist neighbouring nest never night observed owls perhaps plants ponds prey procure quadrupeds remarkable remiges retire ring-dove ring-ousels rooks season seems SELBORNE Sept sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew strange suppose Sussex swallow swarm swifts tail thrushes titmouse trees vast village weather wild wings winter wonder Woodlark woods wren young