 ... hollow made), and all were filled with ducks. A windmill was infested, and so were all the outhouses, mounds, rocks, and crevices. The ducks were everywhere. Many of them were so tame that we could stroke them on their nests ; and the good lady told...  The Auk - Seite 171914Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | C. W. Shepherd - 1867 - 192 Seiten
...them on their nests ; and the good lady told us, that there was scarcely a duck on the island, which would not allow her to take its eggs without flight or fear. On entering the house, we were shown into a little room, whose furniture was very grand for Iceland.... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1869 - 500 Seiten
...them on their nests ; and the good lady told us that there was scarcely a duck on the island which would not allow her to take its eggs without flight or fear. When she first became possessor of the island, the produce of down from the ducks was not more than... | |
 | Georg Ludwig Hartwig - 1869 - 614 Seiten
...them on their nests ; and the good lady told us that there was scarcely a duck on the island which would not allow her to take its eggs without flight or fear. When she first became possessor of the island, the produce of down from the ducks was not more than... | |
 | Sara H. Browne - 1871 - 444 Seiten
...as to allow themselves to be stroked on their nests ; and the kind woman who had charge of them said that there was scarcely a duck on the island that would not allow her to take its eggs without fear or flight. Her careful guardianship has added largely to the amount of down annually obtained... | |
 | Georg Hartwig - 1871 - 776 Seiten
...them on their nests ; and the good lady told us that there was scarcely a duck on the island which Would not allow her to take its eggs without flight or fear. When she first became possessor of the island, the produce of down from the ducks was not more than... | |
 | John Russell Webb - 1876 - 514 Seiten
...tame as to allow themselves to be handled on their nests. 13. " The woman who had charge of them said that there was scarcely a duck on the island that would not allow her to take the eggs without fear or flight." These birds are about twice the size of the common ducks. The drake... | |
 | London readers - 1881 - 186 Seiten
...tame as to allow themselves to be handled on their nests. 12. "The woman who had charge of them said that there was scarcely a duck on the island that would not allow her to take the eggs without fear or flight." These birds are about twice the size of the common duck. The drake... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1881 - 234 Seiten
...them on their nests ; and the good lady told us that there was scarcely a duck on the island which would not allow her to take its eggs without flight or fear." But upon the back of the canvas, as it were, of this pleasant picture — on the back of the leaf,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1881 - 218 Seiten
...them on their nests ; and the good lady told us that there was scarcely a duck on the island which would not allow her to take its eggs without flight or fear." But upon the back of the canvas, as it were, of this pleasant picture — on the back of the leaf,... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 762 Seiten
...them on their nests ; and the good lady told us that there was scarcely a duck on the island which would not allow her to take its eggs without flight or fear." 128. But upon the back of the canvas, as it were, 1 ["Usury. A Reply and a Rejoinder," reprinted in... | |
| |
