The Natural History of Selborne ... With Miscellaneous Observations and Explanatory NotesTicknor & Fields, 1866 - 430 Seiten |
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... strange it is that the swift , which seems to live exactly the same life with the swallow and house - martin , should leave us before the middle of August invariably ! while the latter stay often till the middle of October ; once I even ...
... strange it is that the swift , which seems to live exactly the same life with the swallow and house - martin , should leave us before the middle of August invariably ! while the latter stay often till the middle of October ; once I even ...
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... strange to me . " Though mutilated , such as you would say had formerly been , seeing that the remains are what they are , " " qualem dices antehac fuisse , tales cum sint reliquiæ ! " it It haunted a marshy piece of ground in quest of ...
... strange to me . " Though mutilated , such as you would say had formerly been , seeing that the remains are what they are , " " qualem dices antehac fuisse , tales cum sint reliquiæ ! " it It haunted a marshy piece of ground in quest of ...
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... ( strange as it is ) of their re- tiring under water . A Swedish naturalist is so much persuaded of that fact , that he talks , in his " Calendar of Flora , " as familiarly of the swallow's going under water in the beginning of September ...
... ( strange as it is ) of their re- tiring under water . A Swedish naturalist is so much persuaded of that fact , that he talks , in his " Calendar of Flora , " as familiarly of the swallow's going under water in the beginning of September ...
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... strange that the matter with regard to the venom of toads has not been yet settled . * That they are not noxious to some animals is plain : for ducks , buzzards , owls , stone curlews , and snakes , eat them , to my knowledge , with ...
... strange that the matter with regard to the venom of toads has not been yet settled . * That they are not noxious to some animals is plain : for ducks , buzzards , owls , stone curlews , and snakes , eat them , to my knowledge , with ...
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... strange clergyman ; who , after ex- pressing compassion for her situation , told her that if she would make such an application of living toads as is mentioned she would be well . " Now is it likely that this unknown gentleman should ...
... strange clergyman ; who , after ex- pressing compassion for her situation , told her that if she would make such an application of living toads as is mentioned she would be well . " Now is it likely that this unknown gentleman should ...
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