Leaves from the Note Book of a NaturalistJ. W. Parker and son, 1852 - 413 Seiten |
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... round the back of my neck and rub his tiny head fondly against my face or ear , and , after a succession of fondlings and little gruntings , descend to my instep , as I sat cross- legged before the fire , when he would settle himself ...
... round the back of my neck and rub his tiny head fondly against my face or ear , and , after a succession of fondlings and little gruntings , descend to my instep , as I sat cross- legged before the fire , when he would settle himself ...
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... round like a ponderous waggon , and by the time he had brought his head where his tail was , Macky had bounded from the tables and chairs on and off him twenty times . Binny at last would slap his tail again and again against the floor ...
... round like a ponderous waggon , and by the time he had brought his head where his tail was , Macky had bounded from the tables and chairs on and off him twenty times . Binny at last would slap his tail again and again against the floor ...
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... round , keeping their telescopic eyes on the valleys , watching for the fall of some failing horse or COW . Then down come the condors to the feast . In their daintiness they generally begin with the tongue and the eyes , but the rage ...
... round , keeping their telescopic eyes on the valleys , watching for the fall of some failing horse or COW . Then down come the condors to the feast . In their daintiness they generally begin with the tongue and the eyes , but the rage ...
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... round it . A great shout , or rather cry of distress , called me to the place . I saw the eagle stand for a minute , as if to recollect himself , while the servants ran for their lances and shields . I walked up as near to him as I had ...
... round it . A great shout , or rather cry of distress , called me to the place . I saw the eagle stand for a minute , as if to recollect himself , while the servants ran for their lances and shields . I walked up as near to him as I had ...
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... round the nestling . Thus came into this best of all possible worlds the first condor hatched in England . It had an odd appearance , and seemed to wonder how it had got here . The head appeared to be misshapen , for on the top of it ...
... round the nestling . Thus came into this best of all possible worlds the first condor hatched in England . It had an odd appearance , and seemed to wonder how it had got here . The head appeared to be misshapen , for on the top of it ...
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Seite 25 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Seite 110 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
Seite 215 - Holds such an enmity with blood of man, That, swift as quicksilver, it courses through The natural gates and alleys of the body ; And, with a sudden vigour, it doth posset And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood...
Seite 265 - What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory : They knew not of his story...
Seite 191 - Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
Seite 359 - Sibila lambebant linguis vibrantibus ora. DIFFUGIMUS visu exsangues : illi agmine certo Laocoonta petunt; et primum parva duorum Corpora natorum serpens amplexus uterque Implicat , et miseros morsu depascitur artus. Post ipsum , auxilio subeuntem ac tela ferentem Corripiunt , spirisque ligant ingentibus : et jam Bis medium amplexi , bis collo squamea circum Terga dati , superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Seite 205 - And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded : and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.
Seite 160 - Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek. Or call up him that left half told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That owned the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Seite 110 - Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed : and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies ; and he said, If Esau come to the one company, and smite it, then the company which is left shall escape.
Seite 90 - Elevated on the high dead limb of some gigantic tree that commands a wide view of the neighbouring shore and ocean, he seems calmly to contemplate the motions of the various feathered tribes that pursue their busy avocations below, — the snow-white Gulls slowly winnowing the air; the busy...