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...no bird, like the fish kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as 1 have...

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...repeated itself continuously. — Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1959) The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...little is said, but much is meant and understood. — Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1778) Brave Buffalo said: "I have...

...and poet, arrived at this conclusion through personal observation, writing, "the language of birds is very ancient, and like other ancient modes of speech,...little is said, but much is meant and understood." A major goal of the scientist is to study ellipncal meaning and determine what is "meant and understood"...

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...no bird, like the fish-kind, is quite mute, though some are rather silent. The language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...but much is meant and understood. The notes of the eagle-kind are shrill and piercing ; and about the season of nidification much diversified, as I have...

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...pertinently ascribed to ordinary lovers. Thus, Gilbert White assures us that 'the language of birds is very ancient, and, like other ancient modes of speech,...Little is said, but much is meant and understood.' ' I will not ask Jean Jacques Rousseau If birds confabulate or no ;' but at least we have here a definition,...