The Natural History of Selborne...Henry G. Bohn, 1851 - 40 Seiten |
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... snow ; Sunk with its weight the bending boughs are seen , And one bright deluge whelms the works of men . Amidst this savage landscape , bleak and bare , Hangs the chill hermitage in middle air ; Its haunts forsaken , and its feasts ...
... snow ; Sunk with its weight the bending boughs are seen , And one bright deluge whelms the works of men . Amidst this savage landscape , bleak and bare , Hangs the chill hermitage in middle air ; Its haunts forsaken , and its feasts ...
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... snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth , except in several places in Bushy Park , where there were drains dug and covered with earth , on which the snow ...
... snow having fallen in the night , it was , by eleven the next morning , mostly melted away on the surface of the earth , except in several places in Bushy Park , where there were drains dug and covered with earth , on which the snow ...
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... snow this month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point , within doors . The tender evergreens were injured pretty much . It was very providential that the air was still , and the ground well ...
... snow this month . My thermometer was one day fourteen degrees and a half below the freezing point , within doors . The tender evergreens were injured pretty much . It was very providential that the air was still , and the ground well ...
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... snow - flake of the Brit . Zool . ? No doubt they were . A few years ago , I saw a cock bullfinch in a cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . In about a year it began to look dingy , and black ...
... snow - flake of the Brit . Zool . ? No doubt they were . A few years ago , I saw a cock bullfinch in a cage , which had been caught in the fields after it was come to its full colours . In about a year it began to look dingy , and black ...
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... snow - fleck , is very amusing ; and strange it is that such a short - winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean ! Some country people in the winter time have every now and then told me that they have ...
... snow - fleck , is very amusing ; and strange it is that such a short - winged bird should delight in such perilous voyages over the northern ocean ! Some country people in the winter time have every now and then told me that they have ...
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abound animal appear April April 14 April 22 autumn beech bees breed brood called chaffinches cold colour common cuckoo curious DAINES BARRINGTON DEAR district dogs eggs feed feet female fieldfares fields flies flocks forest frequent garden Gilbert White grass ground hard frost haunt hirundines hirundo house-martins inches insects July July 13 July 22 June June 11 June 22 June 9 last seen late legs LETTER Linnæus LYON Biblioth male manner March March 26 MARKWICK migration mild naturalist nest never night observed Palais des Arts pheasant plants prey quadrupeds rain remarkable rooks says season seems SELBORNE Sept showers sings snow soon species spring stone-curlew summer suppose swallows swarm swifts THOMAS PENNANT titmouse torpid trees village warm weather WHITE wild wind wings winter woods wren young