The Natural History of Selborne, with Its Antiquities: Naturalist's Calendar, EtcW.S. Orr and Company, 1850 - 418 Seiten |
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... sort of saddle , though the evening light , throwing a shadow upon Selborne Hill and a light immediately behind it , produces the same effect as if the one hill actually cut upon the other . Nore Hill is fine in its outline ; and there ...
... sort of saddle , though the evening light , throwing a shadow upon Selborne Hill and a light immediately behind it , produces the same effect as if the one hill actually cut upon the other . Nore Hill is fine in its outline ; and there ...
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... sort of foot - pavement com- posed of pieces of rag - stone set up on edge . The tough malmy clay at the bottom of the hill comes very nearly down to the right side of the road here ; and the black vegetable mould , so favourable both ...
... sort of foot - pavement com- posed of pieces of rag - stone set up on edge . The tough malmy clay at the bottom of the hill comes very nearly down to the right side of the road here ; and the black vegetable mould , so favourable both ...
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... sort of cinnamon - brown colour , very hard and compact , and have been marked with various rude devices in a sort of white enamel , let into hollows in the substance , but decayed in many places . No monument , nor any inscription of ...
... sort of cinnamon - brown colour , very hard and compact , and have been marked with various rude devices in a sort of white enamel , let into hollows in the substance , but decayed in many places . No monument , nor any inscription of ...
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... sort of half rustic and half Gothic style ; but nothing can harmonize better with its own situation than this cottage does , and whether it harmonizes with the other buildings of the village or not is a matter of small im- portance ...
... sort of half rustic and half Gothic style ; but nothing can harmonize better with its own situation than this cottage does , and whether it harmonizes with the other buildings of the village or not is a matter of small im- portance ...
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... sort of objection that White was not systematic ; but this would have been defeating his object , which was to describe his native district in its true colours ; and it would not be more absurd to twist a systematic geography of the ...
... sort of objection that White was not systematic ; but this would have been defeating his object , which was to describe his native district in its true colours ; and it would not be more absurd to twist a systematic geography of the ...
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abound animals appear April April 14 April 22 autumn birds bishop bishop of Winchester blackcap breed brood called canons chaffinches church colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR SIR district ecclesie eggs feed feet female fieldfares flocks forest frequent frost garden genus Gilbert White ground Hanger haunts hedges hill hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects Item July July 13 July 22 June June 12 June 9 known late legs LETTER Linnæus male manner March March 26 mentioned migration naturalist nest never night observed parish PENNANT perhaps plumage ponds probably rain remarkable season seems seen Selborne Seleburne Sept showers sings snow sometimes species spot spring stone curlews summer suppose Surrey swallow swift tail titmouse trees village vulgaris weather White wild wings winter woods young
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Seite 337 - Some trust in chariots, and some in horses : but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. . 8 They are brought down and fallen : but we are risen, and stand upright.
Seite 4 - In the midst of this spot stood, in old times, a vast oak, with a short squat body, and huge horizontal arms extending almost to the extremity of the area. This venerable tree, surrounded with stone steps, and seats above them, was the delight of old and young, and a place of much resort in summer evenings, where the former sat in grave debate, while the latter frolicked and danced before them.
Seite 79 - Till blended objects fail the swimming sight, And all the fading landscape sinks in night; To hear the drowsy dorr come brushing by With buzzing wing, or the shrill cricket cry...
Seite 157 - Though I have now travelled the Sussex Downs upwards of thirty years, yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year by year ; and think I see new beauties every time I traverse it.
Seite 140 - Part loosely wing the region, part more wise In common, ranged in figure wedge their way, Intelligent of seasons, and set forth Their airy caravan high over seas Flying, and over lands with mutual wing Easing their flight...
Seite 147 - Nothing can be more assiduous than this creature night and day in scooping the earth, and forcing its great body into the cavity; but as the noons of that season proved unusually warm and sunny, it was continually interrupted, and called forth by the heat in the middle of the day; and though I continued there till the thirteenth of November, yet the work remained unfinished.
Seite 186 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees ; for he would slide into their beegardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out.
Seite 186 - ... and at once disarm them of their weapons, and suck their bodies for the sake of their honey-bags. Sometimes he would fill his bosom between his shirt and his skin with a number of those captives; and sometimes would confine them in bottles.
Seite 228 - The rattle and hurry of the journey so perfectly roused it, that when I turned it out on a border, it walked twice down to the bottom of my garden: however, in the evening, the weather being cold, it buried itself in the loose mould, and continues still concealed.
Seite 271 - ... the other as on the land ; yet no one, as far as I am aware, has remarked that diving fowls, while under water, impel and row themselves forward by a motion of their wings, as well as by the impulse of their feet...